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[font size=5]US Senator Ted Cruz claims that the faculty of Harvard Law School "believed in the overthrow of the U.S. Government."
(by) Max Rivlin-Nadler[/font]
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/02/ted-cruz-responds-harvard-law-was-full-of-communists.html#ixzz2LqkQ832B
February 23, 2013
[font size=5]Ted Cruz Responds And Still Sees Red at Harvard Law[/font]
Posted by Jane Mayer
Senator Ted Cruz has responded to The New Yorkers report that he accused Harvard Law School of having had twelve Communists who believed in the overthrow of the U.S. Government on its faculty when he attended in the early nineties. Cruz doesnt deny that he said this; instead, through his spokesman, he says he was right: Harvard Law was full of Communists.
His spokeswoman Catherine Frazier told The Blaze website that the substantive point in Cruzs charge, made in a speech in 2010, was was absolutely correct.
She went on to explain that the Harvard Law School faculty included numerous self-described proponents of critical legal studiesa school of thought explicitly derived from Marxismand they far outnumbered Republicans. As my story noted, the Critical Legal Studies group consisted of left-leaning professors like Duncan Kennedy, who is a social democrat, not a Communist, and has never believed in the overthrow of the U.S. Government.
Among those who have taken issue with Cruzs castigation of the Harvard Law School faculty are his former law professor, Charles Fried, who is a well-known Republican and former Solicitor General to Ronald Reagan. In his 2010 speech, Cruz had said there was only one Republican on the faculty, but his former professor, Fried, told The New Yorker there were at least four, including himself. A spokesman for Harvard Law School, Robb London, also described the school as puzzled by Cruzs allegations.
Cruzs spokesman called it curious that The New Yorker would cover Cruzs speech three years after he gave it. But Cruzs hostile questioning of Obamas nominee for Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, and insinuations about Hagels loyalties had provided a fresh context for looking more closely at the nature of the accusations he has leveled at political opponents. Observers like Senator Barbara Boxer wondered if they were seeing a revival of McCarthyism. Cruzs speechand, now, his acknowledgement of itwill only add to the discussion. His spokeswoman didnt address that question.
UTUSN
(70,725 posts)when the universities keep spitting out alumni such as: Shrub, Ruben NAVARRETTE, Clarence THOMAS, CRUZ himself, and who knows how many other mindLESS ones?!1
Five years and eleven months to go on the IMPLOSION Watch on Carnival Ted!1
louis-t
(23,297 posts)as McCarthy did in the '50s. Woo-hooo! 40 more years of repug minority!
Andy823
(11,495 posts)The more idiots like Cruz speak out, the more the people of this country will see just how dumb ass crazy the tea party really is, and how the whole republican party is simply incapable of doing what needs to be done to run this country! When a party is scared to death of a bunch of insane morons like the tea party, or the NRA, it shows the people that when it comes to doing serious things like "real" gun control, fixing the economy, immigration, etc., the crazies on the right continue to come up with BS like this instead of fixing all the problems we face thanks to the insanity of the Bush administration, and the republican congress that helped the country fall into the mess it is in now, but refuse to do anything that might fix it because they can't stand doing things that would make president Obama look good!
The republican party "war" between the establishment do noting republicans and the crazy right wind do nothing republicans will continue, and if we are lucky it will destroy the GOP, or at least split it up into two or more infighting groups that will pretty much make the party a circus act instead of an actual political party.
Initech
(100,100 posts)In this country it's pretty easy to do - finance enough divisive candidates and create a Congress where nothing gets done.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)pampango
(24,692 posts)tblue37
(65,483 posts)convince their base that McCarthy was a great patriot-- and that his accusations were correct.