Name: Alan Dershowitz Defended Jeffrey Epstein | Norman Finkelstein on The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Alan Dershowitz Defended Jeffrey Epstein | Norman Finkelstein on The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-04-03. Transcript available.

I taught up until 2007, and then when I was denied tenure, because the case was
so high
profile, I was effectively blacklisted for the next 15 years.
And this is, of course, a result of your public spat feud with Alan Dershowitz?
I would say that was an element, a component.
Well, I found out about you because of the debate between you and Dershowitz,
which is a pretty famous YouTube video.
It actually had two parts.
There was one formerly part of the show, and then there was a second part, and
I think both parts now were online.
But then about five years ago, maybe a little more now, I met Professor Dershowitz
in an Indian restaurant.
How was the food?
I forgot the food.
A little biryani?
No idea.
What was he eating?
No idea.
Probably something sick.
Something real gross.
I can't tell you that.
And so he was sitting there with O.J. Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein.
Yeah.
Have you ever said that to him?
Actually, no.
Like, why are you on that plane, bro?
I have, I can't say I know all the details now.
You saw his name on that list.
You were probably like, nice.
No.
What are you talking, come on, let's be real.
You saw that he went to a pedophile island.
You weren't like that.
I don't like to personalize this thing with Dershowitz.
But it is personal, it was your career.
But, I think there's a lot of this fake shock about him, because if you look at
his actual
career, okay, there was this impresario named Sal Hirok.
And Sal Hirok had cultural exchanges between the Soviet Union and the United
States.
The JDL, the Jewish Defense League, this right-wing Jewish organization, they
planted a bomb
in Sal Hirok's office.
Didn't kill Sal Hirok.
Hirok killed his secretary.
And Dershowitz was the lawyer for the three JDL members who killed the
secretary, and he
got them off, okay?
And he was very proud about that fact.
His next cases were mostly pornography cases.
He was the lawyer for I Am Curious Yellow.
It was the first-
What is that?
It was the first foreign pornographic film from France.
What is the yellow about?
I don't remember.
Well, you can imagine.
No, actually, I couldn't, but maybe not.
Was it a pee-pee movie?
Well, yellow, if you haven't had a lot to drink.
Okay.
But he defended that?
Yes.
That's kind of cool.
And then, when the star of Deep Throat said that she had been raped on the
production
by Harry Reams, Harry Reams was the star of Deep Throat.
He was Harry Reams' lawyer.
Then he was O.J. Simpson's lawyer.
Hell of a running back.
Yeah.
RB1.
And then he was Mike Tyson's lawyer, who was accused of rape.
You do see a pattern here.
Bad boys.
Everybody is so shocked about the Epstein episode, but why?
Well, it's not fucking a kid to-
Excuse me?
Sorry.
Pardon me.
We'll run that again.
Well, it's not like-
I think rape is a pretty serious-
There's a principle in the American justice system.
I'm not defending Dershowitz, that everyone's entitled to a really expensive
defense.
If it were one case or two cases, then you could say, okay, he's just acting in
conformity with
his profession, a lawyer, supplying the best defense.
But when you see a pattern, then it seems to me it raises a separate issue.
Well, the pattern is he did a good job of getting bad boys out of trouble.
Alan Dershowitz defended Epstein the first time and got him effectively off,
okay?
He said, my only regret, my only regret is that he had to serve even one day in
jail.
How stoked were you when you saw his name on that list?
How what?
No, you're a dignified man.
I'm not going to make you-
You're not a muckraker.
I-
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
He-
You don't have to say you're excited, but-
No-
Maybe just to pull an earlobe.
No, because frankly, if he's going to come down, I would rather have to have
come down,
not other things, personally.
Sure.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.
I'm not going to make you play in the mud.