I think Alan Dershowitz is still angry at Jimmy Carter for refusing to debate him in 2006, and for referring to him as an unnamed "Harvard professor" in his speech at Brandeis in Jan. 2007. How else to explain his continuing anger toward the former president in asserting his claim that he got Obama not to invite Carter to the Democratic convention?
"I pushed him very hard to make that decision," Dershowitz said in an
interview with Shalom TV. "Barack Obama had to make a choice between
his Jewish supporters and his anti-Israel supporters like Jimmy Carter,
and he did not choose Jimmy Carter. And that was an embarrassment for
Jimmy Carter and a show of disrespect."
interview with Shalom TV. "Barack Obama had to make a choice between
his Jewish supporters and his anti-Israel supporters like Jimmy Carter,
and he did not choose Jimmy Carter. And that was an embarrassment for
Jimmy Carter and a show of disrespect."
Even assuming Dersh is putting on airs–did you actually talk to Obama?–you'd think the media might have done more to expose the mechanism of the Carter dis. Who did Dershowitz call? What pull did they have on Obama?
