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#LesleeDart touts Richard Cohen’s display of willful ignorance in The Washington Post
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'Fact check that escaped NY Times'
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The Elkan Abramowitz Fantasy Special:
#WoodyAllen’s true Oscar contender
The Elkan Abramowitz Fantasy Special – as told to CNN’s Erin Burnett and Nightline’s Juju Chang among many others – has driven much of the false and misleading coverage about Dylan Farrow’s open letter accusing her adoptive father Woody Allen of sexual assault.
Abramowitz is Allen’s long-time lawyer and public voice.
In the lawyer role in this case, Abramowitz has a zero batting average.
Abramowitz lost two ethics complaints against the Connecticut prosecutor who found probable cause to arrest Allen. Abramowitz lost the custody battle with Mia Farrow.
Why, then, is this clown taken seriously? Why is he paid in the range of $1,000 per hour and considered one of the top lawyers in Manhattan?
A couple lawyers asked me those questions.
The short answer: Abramowitz is extremely clever at confusing issues, parsing words and changing the course of a conversation in a nanosecond. Just watch his recent performances on CNN, Nightline and in other forums. It helps, of course, if his spiels go on without substantive challenge. One striking exception is Maureen Orth’s Feb. 7 post of 10 bullet points at Vanity Fair ...
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