Couldn’t Help But Notice (100107)

This FrontPage column (HT PrairiePundit) by Alan Dershowitz is very important, and a hard-drive saver, as it debunks the false claim made by Ahmadinejad at Columbia last week that “the Palestinian people” had nothing to do with the Holocaust.

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John Murtha has been ordered to give a Haditha-related deposition (HT Hot Air). I suspect there will be a few appeals before he’s forced to do it.

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Meant to note this when it happened, because it’s important, and a major development in a matter yours truly has been following for quite a while (selected posts here, here, here, and here):

The co-founder of a prestigious New York law firm that made an estimated $250 million by filing class-action lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations was indicted Thursday on charges that he conspired to pay kickbacks to people who agreed to be plaintiffs.

Melvyn Weiss is accused of two counts of conspiracy and one count each of obstruction of justice and making false statements in relation to documents that were the subject of a grand jury subpoena, the U.S. attorney’s office said. If convicted of all counts, he could face up to 40 years in federal prison.

….. Prosecutors contend the firm secretly paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to get people to take part in more than 225 class-action and shareholder lawsuits, allowing its lawyers to be among the first to file litigation and secure the lucrative position as lead plaintiffs’ counsel.

The firm targeted some of the nation’s largest companies in litigation, including AT&T, Lucent, WorldCom, Sears, Roebuck, Microsoft, Prudential Insurance and Lincoln Savings & Loan.

This follows the indictment of other partners and the firm itself last year.

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“Somebody” isn’t willing to debate global warming globaloney. Consider how he did in the 2000 presidential debates, I don’t blame him:

But three different Al Gores showed up at the three debates. In the first debate there was Arrogant Al, sneering and huffing while Bush spoke. In the second there was Milquetoast Al, now so meek and mild that he appeared to have been drugged. In the final debate Normal Al showed up — but by then it was too late.

If “Normal” Al appeared, how would we know?

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John Edwards and Chelsea Clinton as subprime lender and heartless landord, respectively (HT Kaus; scroll down a bit).

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Media Matters for America tries to beef up its radical cred by attacking New Media stars like Rush Limbaugh (click here for the MMA smear if you think it’s worth reading; trust me, it’s not). In this case, some members of Old Media have repeated and extended the Big Lie. Friday, Rush struck back.

Limbaugh’s audience has a significant plurality of libs and moderates, and he reaches 13.5 million people a week. Every single one of those listeners trumps MMA, because (haha) Rush’s web site traffic alone beats the daylights out of MMA’s. This is why it’s so important for MMA to get Old Media to swallow their garbage, because otherwise their echo-chamber squeaks are drowned out by sense. But on the occasions when Old Media buys in, some liberal and moderate Limbaugh listeners clearly see through the Old Media Lies …. and end up not being libs or moderates any more. Old Media decline continues, and the country inches towards further conservatism.

Keep up the good work, MMA. And Old Media, trumpet that MMA rubbish every chance you can.