Harvard's Alan Dershowitz on Dershowitz

Within a few hours of Chief Justice Rehnquist's death, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz was on Fox's Hannity and Colmes making a series of ill-informed, partisan, and down-right mean remarks about Rehnquist.

Example: Dershowitz told viewers Rehnquist "started his career by being a kind of Republican thug who pushed and shoved to keep African-American and Hispanic voters from voting."

Dershowitz's remarks have been ably refuted by James Taranto at Opinion Journal and Betsy at Betsy's Page. Their posts are well worth reading if for no other reason than as examples of how intelligent people with class respond to someone speaking as Dershowitz did.

For me, Dershowitz's remarks served one useful purpose. They reminded me to keep in mind what the great social psychologist and Harvard Professor Gordon Allport said: When we speak of others, we may or may not be revealing something about them, but we're always revealing something about ourselves.