Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz slams ‘hypocrisy’ of DNC for politicizing Sean Spicer gaffe

Washington Times ^ | 4/12 | Jessica Chasmar

[ErikJohnsky]

Alan Dershowitz, a prominent Harvard Law School professor and liberal author, slammed the Democratic National Committee as hypocritical for politicizing White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s Hitler gaffe while ignoring its own problem with anti-Semitism. Mr. Dershowitz said on “CNN Tonight” that he’s willing to give Mr. Spicer “a pass” after the press secretary initially suggested during a briefing Tuesday, which also marked Passover, that Adolf Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons during WWII.

“What happened here is the guy screwed up,” Mr. Dershowitz said, according to a clip published by Real Clear Politics. “He apologized, and he apologized from his heart, and I am prepared to give him a pass on this.

“I’ll tell you who I am not prepared to give a pass on this,” he continued, “the Democratic National Committee that has immediately decided to politicize this and send out immediate tweets saying, ‘We can’t tolerate anti-Semitism or even a whiff of anti-Semitism.’ This is the Democratic National Committee, who has as its co-chairman Keith Ellison, who didn’t recognize the fact that he was working for an anti-Semite, [Louis] Farrakhan. This is just hypocrisy, and I think we should not make politics out of this.”

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Spicer has been doing a good to excellent job. He made a mistake of not thinking his comment through. It’s a greater mistake to accede to the progs’ insistence that he grovel in apologies. His intent in no way was to deny the Holocaust!
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Everyone with a properly functioning brain knows that Spicer was talking about chemical WEAPONS which were NOT used by German forces in combat operations. The use of chemical agents in the holocaust is a totally different matter and one that Spicer was NOT addressing. AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. But of course Trumps haters at the NYT and everywhere else are always on the lookout for ways to attack the Trump administration. And Trump should state his full support for Spicer and advise all the fake whiners to STUFF IT!

[luvbach1]

Very good, your post #41.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Exactly. I’m glad I’m on the opposite coast from Wolf Blitzer, because if I ever saw him in the line at the grocery store, I’d probably punch him in the face and spend five years in jail. And I really don’t want to do that.
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That cur, Blitzer, in my view is the most despicable person in the mainstream news media, an industry that is literally crawling with despicable people.

[Chad N. Freud]

Great find.

The NYT here both parallels and echoes Spicer’s context, in his use of the term “chemical weapons” -— as opposed to, for example, “chemical execution,” which the U.S. itself has employed.

Excellent find.

[Organic Panic]

LIberals love calling everyone hitler and nazis. Didn’t Chris Matthews call Trump Hitleresque? How many times have democrats called nazis, brownshirts, and Hitler? Every day.

[politicianslie]

Everyone with a properly functioning brain knows that Spicer was talking about chemical WEAPONS which were NOT used by German forces in combat operations. The use of chemical agents in the holocaust is a totally different matter and one that Spicer was NOT addressing. AND EVERYONE KNOWS THAT. But of course Trumps haters at the NYT and everywhere else are always on the lookout for ways to attack the Trump administration. And Trump should state his full support for Spicer and advise all the fake whiners to STUFF IT!

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Fake Whiners: We know that liberalism is a mental disease. Instead of being so critical and condescending, I think that maybe we should reach out to the liberals and meet them a bit more than half way.

Let's let in the refugees that they want to. Those who profess allegiance to the religion of peace have sometimes been know to kill, rape, beat, enslave, harass and even behead those who are not Islamic, but let's not hold that against the rest who will live among us and try to overthrow the Constitution for their Sharia Law. To get along, let's try it their way. Sure, some Americans will be slaughtered, some of your children may be raped or even killed, but it's the price we have to pay for progress.

After all, we are progressing in our walk through life and the progressives like Hillary and Bernie will eventually win out. So quit fighting them and let's join them today! (/SARCISM)

[SJackson]

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Yes, and I'm sure Marie would say a French government run by their WWI hero bore no responsibility for allying with the Reich and fighting the Brits and later the US across Africa and in the middle east until the end of 1942.

[bboop]

I’ve got money on that Dershowitz becomes a rabid conservative at some point. Might take ten years, but he’s come out with Common Sense on a lot of issues, and Common Sense is sorely lacking in the frothing liberal spittle these days.

[agrace]

The media didn’t seem to have a problem with it when Chris Matthews said it, or when a NYT reporter wrote it, as Tucker Carlson pointed out last night.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmmm ..?? Alan might be a great new leader for the left .. maybe he can bring them back from the brink of destruction ..?? I said MAYBE.

[bboop]

Trump needs an across-the-board policy: NOBODY apologizes; NOBODY resigns; NEVER. NO HOW. Next thing will be Spicer: drinks from a plastic water bottle, or has a hang-nail, or hurt someone’s feelings.

It’s the Liberal Oobleck, imho. They are out to get any conservative any way they can.

[Eleutheria5]

Dems are hypocrites and in league with anti-Semites of the worst kind.

Monkey flings poo at spectators in zoo.

Bear craps in woods.

Pope is Catholic.