- Alan
Dershowitz is 87-year-old former lawyer. - He
was friend of Jeffrey Epstein. - CBS
News’ new editor praises Dershowitz.
Journalists and commenters have ridiculed the strange
statement made by Bari Weiss, the heterodox creator of the anti-woke online
publication The Free Press and current head of the Tiffany Network’s news
division.
“The kids demand Alan Dershowitz,”
one columnist
noted, while others snarked that it was “funny” that Weiss felt that the way to
reach the common American news consumer was to give more airtime to the
celebrity defense attorney.
Weiss, a self-described “radical centrist” and
“Zionist fanatic,” claimed during an appearance at the Jewish
Leadership Conference earlier this month that the recent gun control debate
that Free Press hosted between Dershowitz and former NRA spokeswoman Dana
Loesch was representative of her future vision for CBS News.
Weiss, who was seated next to right-wing journalist Ben
Shapiro, claimed that Dershowitz and Loesch not only appeared to represent the
“center left and center right” of the political spectrum, but that
their viewpoints are “where the vast majority of Americans actually
are.”
She stated
that her objective at CBS News was to
“get back to that normalcy”
rather than establish a “centrist news” organization, claiming that
“they have all failed”
since it was like
“trying to force feed
spinach down someone’s throat.”
Weiss discussed how she believed the
mainstream media could regain the confidence of the American people, pointing
out that “we’re not going back” to Walter Cronkite’s tens of millions
of viewers.
Weiss cited the Free Press debate between Dershowitz and
Loesch, the host of a right-wing radio program, as evidence that “people
that have wildly different opinions on the Second Amendment” can have
“good-faith, very passionate, very charismatic disagreements and still
like each other at the end of the day.”
Grim, on the other hand, said that Weiss’s argument at the
conference persuaded Paramount boss David Ellison, the CEO of CBS News’ parent
company, to recruit Weiss and buy her media venture.
The voices that Weiss believes are
“mainstream enough
to be included in The Conversation always [have] one thing in common: love of
Israel,”
according to contrarian podcaster Glenn Greenwald, who has been a
vocal critic of Weiss in recent months. He also made fun of the paucity of viewers
for Dershowitz and Loesch’s debate in The Free Press.
“The example Bari Weiss gave of the ‘charismatic’
mainstream debates she believes will revitalize CBS — namely, the gun control
debate she arranged between Alan Dershowitz and Dana Loesch — has so far been
watched by a grand total of 860 people in the 5 hours since posting,”
Greenwald
tweeted.
“Her alternative isn’t moderation. It’s transparency,”
Mediaite’s Colby Hall argued.
“Put people with genuinely different
worldviews in the same studio and let them argue with full force, in good
faith, on air, where viewers can see how the arguments are made. Actual
pluralism, not neutrality theater.”
What evidence links Dershowitz to Epstein beyond legal
representation?
Beyond legal representation, Alan Dershowitz has been linked
to Jeffrey Epstein through allegations made by Epstein’s appellants, most
specially Virginia Giuffre. In grounds, Giuffre alleges that she was traded by
Epstein as a teenager and that she engaged in sexual hassles with Dershowitz on
at least six occasions, including in Epstein’s places, on his islet, in a auto,
and on his aeroplane.
She also alleges that Epstein encouraged sexual contact with
Dershowitz during these times. These allegations have been vehemently denied by
Dershowitz, who provides trip records and affidavits asserting he was n’t
present at the locales or times described.
Other appellants like Sarah Ransome have made analogous
allegations that Epstein directed them to have sexual hassles with Dershowitz.
Court documents and police reports include flight logs and testaments that link
Dershowitz to Epstein’s social and trafficking conditioning.
