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...speech yesterday, veteran Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz said that his longtime rival, retired MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, was “a Holocaust denier, a denier of history, a denier of reality and the truth...
While the remarks are among the more vitriolic uttered by professors around Harvard, they are reflective of harsh words that the two have been exchanging for decades. (While Chomsky largely avoided Dershowitz in his speech last night, he did take a swipe at Dershowitz’s book, “The Case for Israel...
...David Domke is Professor of Communication and head of the journalism program at the University of Washington. Kevin Coe is a doctoral candidate in Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. They are authors of The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America. /www.thegodstrategy.com...
...weeks ago, after his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, first drew headlines for his fiery sermons, Barack Obama responded with a graceful speech on race in America. But Rev. Wright has decided he isn't about to shut up and launched a series of provocative remarks over the weekend and on Monday. On Tuesday afternoon, Obama denounced Wright, saying "His comments were not only divisive... but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate." The candidate added, "Whatever relationship I had with Reverend Wright...
...himself saddened, angered and even outraged by the antics of his former pastor at the National Press Club a day earlier. "I find these comments appalling," he said. "It contradicts everything that I'm about and who I am." It was a far different tone from the finely tuned speech on race that he had given in Philadelphia in March, shortly after some of Jeremiah Wright's most inflammatory comments had first come to light. And it reflected the new political reality that Obama has confronted in what have been the rockiest weeks yet for his presidential campaign...