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Speaking of Ignorant…

Carter Wood at Point of Law is calling out the Center for Justice and Democracy for a flyer in which they point out how much money the Chamber spends on attacking the civil justice system.  Can you spot the flaw?

The Center for Justice and Democracy, a trial-laywer-supported group that publishes the Tortdeform website, has a new flyer out attacking the U.S. Chamber. You can see the flyer here.

The Chamber is depicted as an octopus strangling America’s institutions and people with its tentacles.

Either the staff at CJD is woefully ignorant of the past or someone there has on purpose selected imagery with an ugly, ugly history. It’s hard to believe someone would consciously choose to use symbolism that so obviously evokes anti-Semitic propaganda from the Nazi era.

So we’ll say "ignorant."

Source:PointofLaw.com | PointOfLaw Forum: Reaching back for historical slur

No, I don’t mean misspelling lawyer.  (Attacking people for typos is cheap - we all make them, and I lose respect for people who make a big deal about them.)  I mean the fact that the CJ&D doesn’t publish TortDeform.  There’s even a big ad at the top of TortDeform that clarifies who does publish the site: the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy.

Whoops!

Posted at 11:52 AM, Jun 24, 2008 in Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)