http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/10/looking-back-spitzers-harvard-roots/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/10/looking-back-spitzers-harvard-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-57128 Tom Elliott Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:48:11 +0000 http://cnnac360.wordpress.com/?p=345#comment-57128 I watched your panel segment last night with Alan Dershowitz, Lisa Bloom, and Jeffrey Toobin and then later I read on the web that Eliot Spitzer was a research assistant to Dershowitz. In the interest of full disclosure I believe that information should have been made available to all viewers during the panel discussions in order to lend some balance to Dershowitz's strident defense of Spitzer. Jeffrey Toobin made clear his basis for commenting on Spitzer. When Dershowitz was asked how he would defend Spitzer that was a fair question to ask him as a defense attorney but it should have been caveated with "as a former student and research assistant" how would you defend him? It certainly would have cast his response in a different light. I watched your panel segment last night with Alan Dershowitz, Lisa Bloom, and Jeffrey Toobin and then later I read on the web that Eliot Spitzer was a research assistant to Dershowitz. In the interest of full disclosure I believe that information should have been made available to all viewers during the panel discussions in order to lend some balance to Dershowitz's strident defense of Spitzer. Jeffrey Toobin made clear his basis for commenting on Spitzer. When Dershowitz was asked how he would defend Spitzer that was a fair question to ask him as a defense attorney but it should have been caveated with "as a former student and research assistant" how would you defend him? It certainly would have cast his response in a different light.

]]> http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/10/looking-back-spitzers-harvard-roots/comment-page-1/#comment-56866 john kushmaul Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:46:28 +0000 http://cnnac360.wordpress.com/?p=345#comment-56866 In the movie 'Reversal of Fortune' was the character of 'Ellen Spitzer' based on the real life Elliot Spitzer? I haven't seen the movie in a while... remember liking it. The Von Bulow- Spitzer-Hollywood gender change-Dershowitz connection is mildly interesting... In the movie 'Reversal of Fortune' was the character of 'Ellen Spitzer' based on the real life Elliot Spitzer? I haven't seen the movie in a while... remember liking it.
The Von Bulow- Spitzer-Hollywood gender change-Dershowitz connection is mildly interesting...

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