DERSHOWITZ said Ted Carnival CRUZ was his student and very smart, very principled *BUT*

[UTUSN]

This was him talking to Geraldo last night, presumably while Geraldo was in the pre-lonely-drink-&-torso-selfie phase.

DERSHOWITZ said without *any* irony, with a straight face although he was smiling, the smart-principled thing, BUT he went on to say that Carney is wrong about everything he has been doing, wrong about interpreting the Constitution, wrong in tactics and methods.

He said Carney would "walk into my classroom with his right hand raised and kept it there all the time" --- HUH?!1

[FarPoint]

1. Dershowitz has gone off the cliff.

So very sad.....

[Orrex]

8. He went off the cliff years ago when he endorsed torture as a legitmate tool of interrogation

The Dersh has left the building.

[FarPoint]

12. Yes...I agree...

I wash hoping he would recover....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. There is a name for students like that - the ones who always have their hands up.

"Springbutts." When I was in law school in the late '70s we had a game called "Springbutt Bingo." The required classes were pretty large, but before long we (the "normal" students) figured out who all the Ted Cruzes, the "Call on me, Professor, I know, I know!" characters were. So some of us devised Bingo cards with the names of a random selection of these guys (they were all guys), and every time the prof called on one of them we'd check off their name. Just like with regular Bingo, you won when all the names on your card were checked, and the winner would say "Bingo!" in a loud stage whisper. I didn't go to Harvard, but if they played Springbutt Bingo there I bet Ted's name was on all of the cards.

We hated those guys, but interestingly, they didn't always get the best grades. One of them would routinely hide or move certain important reference books just before exams so nobody else could find them (this was in pre-computer days, when all we had was books. Made of paper.). He actually bragged about this. I wonder if Ted did shit like that?

[magical thyme]

3. Ted has already admitted to doing shit like that...deliberately spreading misinformation ahead

of exams, so fellow students would focus on studying the wrong stuff.

[handmade34]

16. that

was Rand Paul... different name, same principles

[magical thyme]

20. oopsie, you're right.

they're all starting to sound alike to me.

[NYC_SKP]

4. *Chortle*

I know this behavior, so happy that you described it so well.

Indeed, they aren't the brightest, not by a long shot, but they are "first in class" in some regard.

Cheers!

[geek tragedy]

5. We called them 'gunners' nt

[GoCubsGo]

7. We called them "pre-meds"

Where I went to college, the pre-med student were like that, too. We even had some who broke into a prof's office and stole the final exam.

[handmade34]

18. I call them insecure...

[LuvNewcastle]

9. What awful people!

I always wanted my friends to do well; I didn't care either way about the other people. I've never really understood ultra-competitive people. I don't like being around them at all.

[madaboutharry]

15. I went to law school with people like this.

Even the professors couldn't stand them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. I think all law schools attract a certain number of these

insanely competitive characters. They were the guys (probably some women by this time, too) who you knew had worn suits and carried briefcases to class in college (maybe even high school), probably were poli-sci majors, thought they were smarter than everybody else and made sure you knew that. No doubt most of them either went into politics or became hedge fund managers.

[Shrike47]

23. We had book/resource hiders, too. One is still around and stilled loathed by fellow attorneys.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Dershowitz is wrong about everything.

I never agree with anything he says.

[TeamPooka]

11. Thatr means you like Ted Cruz and what he stands for because Dershowitz doesn't.

[LuvNewcastle]

19. Yes, everyone around here knows about my unwavering support for Cruz.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Did he actully say that about Carney or are you mistyping?

nt

[LittleBlue]

13. Dershowitz is an awful human being

A racist and torture supporter. Sick old man whose views shouldn't be publicized outside of right-wing media.

[Tikki]

14. Fear of failure colors everything else. Usually parents instill this in their children by..

constantly comparing them to others and/or criticizing even a child's best efforts.

Daddy issues.


Tikki

[LaydeeBug]

17. Who is "Carney" in the OP? Does the OP maintain that the Press Secretary is wrong, per Dersh,

or is "Carney" supposed to be a nick name for Ted "Carnival" Cruz?

[Bluenorthwest]

22. I aske the same thing, I did not come up with Carney Cruz ie Carnival....

that's some good thinking.