Glenn Beck Bitch-Slaps Connecticut Attorney General

It’s no secret that I’m a big Genn Beck fan. In fact, Glenn was the inspiration for this website, as explained here. Last night’s interview of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal was Glenn at his finest. Here is the whole thing:

What I like the most about this clip is that Glenn, a college dropout and former Top 40 disc jockey, clearly out-lawyered the lawyer. Most laypeople who try to cross-examine someone think that you have to be obnoxious and only ask leading questions. The problem is, as every litigator knows, a leading question only works if the witness has to give you the answer you want (usually because you already have them saying what you want in prior sworn testimony). If there is an honest disagreement—in fact, even a dishonest disagreement—either the witness will break free of the leading question or the questioner will look like a bully for not letting the witness answer. Frankly, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly both do this all the time, and it annoys the hell out of me. Glenn, on the other hand, obviously realizes that sometimes the best strategy is to give the witness enough rope to hang themself—ask a simple open-ended question that the the witness has no good answer for. If they duck the question, ask it again, and again, and again. Glenn did this beautifully with the simple and direct question: “What law did the AIG executives break?”

After being asked this question many times over, the best response General Dick can muster is: “The law that they broke is the law that requires that they serve the public interest.” Really? What’s the citation for that law? Is that in the U.S. Code or the Connecticut General Statutes? Funny, but in all my years as a litigator, I’ve never run across that law—but I’d love to read it.

General Dick is a cheap rip-off of Elliot Spitzer. (Insert your own hooker joke here). They value their political careers more than the law, and value the rights of individuals least of all. They are also lousy lawyers. They can’t win a fair fight in a courtroom, so they extort their prey in the court of public opinion instead.