Jan. 6 committee flunks the liberal professor tests

 Bob Hoge:

Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz and George Washington University’s Jonathan Turley, both famous law professors and self-proclaimed liberals, slammed the Thursday night January 6 Committee 6 hearing for being “unethical“ and for failing to prove the charges.

Referring to the video of Trump’s speech that the committee aired, Dershowitz told  Newsmax’s “Spicer & Co.” Friday: “They doctored the tape!” for leaving out a key line.

The lawyers were both liberal darlings for years, DC cocktail circuit fixtures who could be relied on to appear on CNN and give an air of authority while commenting on the day’s topics.

But that all that changed with the arrival of Trump. Dershowitz notably started appearing on conservative media, suddenly popping up on Fox News instead of MSNBC, eventually even testifying at Trump’s second impeachment trial in defense of Trump.

Turley also testified on Trump’s side for that impeachment effort, and more recently has been vocal about his disdain for the current hearings.

It’s quite the turnaround for this pair. Poor Dershowitz has been shunned by his “tolerant” Martha’s Vineyard “friends” for daring to question liberal orthodoxy. Turley, meanwhile, was inundated with threats for daring to defend Trump.

They’ve been among the few voices of sanity among liberals since the arrival of Trump, and a source of hope among conservatives that not everyone has lost their minds.

Dershowitz continued:

I’m wearing my [Boston] Celtics shirt today. Not only in preparation for the great match-up tonight, but to make an analogy. It’s as if the [Golden State] Warriors came out yesterday [in the NBA Finals] and started shooting toward the basket, but the Celtics were kept off the court, and all we saw was one team scoring one after the other, missing a few layups, missing a few jump-shots, but no defense, no stealing of the mall, no rebounds. That’s what we saw last night.

He’s referring to the fact that, unlike in the impeachment trials, there are not two sides to this story. There’s only one because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to have serious Republican opposition on the committee. Instead, she included Trump hater Liz Cheney and always-bawling Adam Kinzinger.

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 What both of these professors have in common is integrity.  That is something absent from the Jan. 6 proceedings where they ignore facts that contradict their narrative and pretend they did not happen.  I have thought all along that this was a Democrat show trial operation in an attempt to exaggerate a mostly peaceful riot.

See, also:

Jim Jordan blasts Jan. 6 committee: Investigators 'altered evidence and lied'

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