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Professor Alan Dershowitz's Dec. 9 op-ed ("Barr's Real Americans") contains serious factual inaccuracies and damaging accusations about the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) as well as about Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.). While Rep. Barr may speak for himself, it is important that Mr. Dershowitz's irresponsible statements about the CofCC be corrected...
...freedom of associations and freedom of speech." But that freedom cannot extend to the deliberate spreading of lies and smears calculated to harm an organization and an office-holder Dershowitz opposes politically. The fact that Dershowitz believes he must resort to falsehoods suggests that the truth--about both Rep. Barr and the CofCC--is on our side, not his. GORDON LEE BAUM Bridgeton...
...reasons he remains so popular. At the same time--and it's part of the same truth--those who hate Clinton the most seem to have more than the average share of him inside them, which may be one reason that spittle forms at the corners of Representative Bob Barr's mouth when he talks about the President. Hear his Clintonian combination of self-pity and feigned ignorance after he was called a racist for addressing the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group that proudly calls itself white supremacist. "It is a sad day in our country when a member...
There were pure meta-television moments. Early on, Clinton spear carrier, Representative Robert Wexler, said he had a rebuttal to impeachment gonzo Representative Bob Barr--but was saving it for an appearance that evening on Crossfire. Blurting it out at the hearing, he said, "wouldn't be fair to the program." The Minority Counsel prepared an America's Funniest Home Videos clip consisting of Ken Starr saying over and over that he couldn't recall, remember or recollect...
Every American, including Barr, has full and complete freedom of associations and freedom of speech. But every American, including Judge Higginbotham, myself, and the other members of the Judiciary Committee, also has the right--indeed, the obligation--to condemn those who associate with and support racist and anti-Semitic organizations and who deem the members of these organizations "real Americans" while considering some of us less than real Americans. Barr especially is to be condemned because he willingly aided the CCC in its efforts to achieve legitimization by boasting that a member of Congress is willing to speak before...