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By: meaningful wanker, painfully versed

meaningful wanker, painfully versed — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:44:03 +0000

Dear Dersh,
I owned an olive grove until the county plowed it under to make way for immigrant housing. Something about “advance settlements.” Man I hated those stupid olives. I’m really glad it happened, and just wanted to let you know.
And kudos, Bubke, on the “torture” call.

By: Jelperman

Jelperman — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:32:49 +0000

Follow my link above for a pretty good smackdown of Dershowitless.

Of course the best whistleblower on Dershowitz has been Norman Finkelstein, who exposed him as a plagiarist, liar and fraud. For video of the horsewhipping:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/24/1730205

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=109

Since Dershowitz knew he was busted, his response was to start a smear campaign against Finkelstein and Finkelstein’s late mother, a Holocaust survivor who testified against the Nazis in a war crimes trial. Where did Dershowitz go to get his garbage distributed? Frontpage, a Holocaust denier website. No wonder he’s in favor of Libby’s clemency. One lying snake supporting another.

By: Ed Marshall

Ed Marshall — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:21:00 +0000

Actually, being called a terrorist sympathizer on the fourth of july is an honor. It’s a dumb term, but the way the people who abuse it define terrorism everyone out there celebrating today is a terrorist sympathizer.

By: Retarded Donut

Retarded Donut — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:41:47 +0000

There’s no “or what?” about it.

They are retarded.

They do love something they call “America,” but it’s a very narrow vision that has nothing but scorn and derision and a necessary misinformation campaign for all that does not conform.

Very remniscient of that person the “Christians” call “Jesus.”

By: mikey

mikey — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:23:26 +0000

Ahh, yes. I love being branded as a “terrorist sympathizer” because it indicates such careful, thoughtful analysis. My greatest hope, nay, my impossible dream is to be crushed in a collapsing building after those great leaders of liberal intellectualism, terrorists, blew it up. Ahh, indeed, I could smile the peaceful smile of the life lived to completion as tons of concrete crushed the life slowly out of me, knowing that at long last my deepest secret wish has been fulfilled.

Are these people retarded or what?

mikey

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:46:28 +0000

That HNN link reminded me that I used to read that site a lot because it had some good stuff. The other side of the coin is this book review. From the very first paragraph: Bushites have had to endure five years of wishy-washy, nonsensical, morally-equivalencing pamphlets. From Noam Chomsky through Jimmy Carter—via John Pilger, Tariq Ali and Michael Moore—such dhimmi-like works offer-up little more scholarship than the language stamped across the T-shirts of placard-wielding terrorist-sympathizers (who regard it as their god-given right to hijack all events). Save for Fred Barnes and the magisterial work(s) of Niall Ferguson, Colin Gray, Rob Singh, Tim Lynch and Douglas Murray—all from across the pond mind you—few ripostes have been forthcoming.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:08:35 +0000

Shyster comes from Sheisser, which is German for “shitter” (literally), and a generic term like sonuvabitch.

I wonder if this has any relationship to the English “bull-shitter”….hmmmm

By: Anonymous Academic

Anonymous Academic — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:59:28 +0000

“Dear Mr Dershowitz,

I was up for tenure at a noted US university and then a torture loving rabble-rousing lawyer smeared me as an anti-semite and I didn’t get the job.

What should I do?”

By: Nullifidian

Nullifidian — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:51:14 +0000

Kudos for pointing out Dershowitz’s attempt at prior restraint. Apparently Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, doesn’t know what “prior restraint” is or is indifferent to the anti-civil libertarian act as long as he’s the one doing the restraining. Neither does him any credit at all.

By: moron

moron — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:48:33 +0000

wikipedia said it possibly was.

That has been corrected.

By: HTML Mencken

HTML Mencken — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:15:51 +0000

wikipedia said it possibly was. y’all are probably right but it’s a chance I don’t wanna take with this post.

By: R. Porrofatto

R. Porrofatto — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:54:33 +0000

Shyster comes from Sheisser, which is German for “shitter” (literally), and a generic term like sonuvabitch. As others point out above, any source claiming derivation from Shylock is full of schiess. (Also, Shylock is a moneylender, not a lawyer.)

Brilliant deconstruction of a truly deserving shithead.

By: moron

moron — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:06:39 +0000

It comes by way of Yiddish, ultimately from a German word meaning “poo-poo”.

By: moron

moron — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:04:30 +0000

Just looked it up; you’re right.

I don’t know where you looked it up, but your source is misleading you. This “etymology” is completely apocryphal.

By: Amplesand

Amplesand — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:02:29 +0000

Uh, “shyster” has a possible tie to Shakespeare’s “Shylock”– this is an ab Hugh sandwich of anti-semitism, jsyk.

No it doesn’t — it’s a Yiddish word of East/Central European origin, completely uninfluenced by the works of Shakespeare.

By: Tehanu

Tehanu — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:16:30 +0000

HTML: genius. Thank you.

mikey: always like your comments. You speak for me on this topic and lots of others.

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:58:37 +0000

Thanks so much to HTML Mencken for giving this story the acid treatment it so richly deserves. You did a much better demolition job on the Douche (er, Dersh) than I did in my original post. Thanks for linking to it above.

As for ‘shyster,’ the online dictionaries I’ve consulted say the word derives from medieval German. There’s no reference to Shylock that I’ve seen in any online definition I’ve reviewed. I’ve always used the term in connection with lawyers as in “shyster lawyer” i.e. someone liable to lie or cheat you.

But hey, that doesn’t mean that the Deb Schlussels of the world won’t squeal about you being a damn anti-SeMIT (the way our old Jewish bubbies used to pronounce the word).

Lesley–such a terrific image. Hope you don’t mind if I borrow it with attribution for my post.

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Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:50:00 +0000

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By: HTML Mencken

HTML Mencken — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 06:25:24 +0000

Fuck. I never knew that. Just looked it up; you’re right. it is possible. which was not at all my intent.

I mean that he’s a shithead of a lawyer/conman.