Saturday, January 13, 2007

Carter, Dershowitz, Brandeis

Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semitic former president, has agreed to lecture at Brandeis, where he will not be sharing the podium with anyone. The event is tentaively scheduled for January 23rd and people not affiliated with Brandeis will be barred from attending it. Carter will lecture for fifteen minutes and field questions from the audience for forty-five minutes.

Alan Dershowitz has vowed to attend. Brandeis officials have said that an exception will be made on the ban of outsiders in Dershowitz's case and that he will he will be allowed in. "I will be the first person to have my hand up to ask him a question." he said.

Professor Dershowitz is especially eager to ask Carter why the former president has accepted money from Saudi Arabia and why the Carter Center has been critical of Israel while not looking into "... extensive human rights abuses" in Saudi Arabia.

Dershowitz said: "This will be the debate, whether he wants it or not. He will get the first word and the last word, but he will not get the only word. This will be the toughest encounter he has ever had in his professional career. This marks the end of his softball outings with the media."

I wish I could be there to personally see what ensues.

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