An old televised debate gets new life from even older footage from a Bruce Lee. Combines my twin loves of Kung-fu movies and a good ol’e smack down of a rabid right-wingnut. Norman Finkelstein scores knock-out roundhouse kicks in both rounds against Alan Dershowitz in this Democracy Now bout. Both The following clips, remixed by a Finkelstein fan, can be found at Norman Finkelstein’s own fun and informative website.

Round 1

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Round 2

[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2662524596099220183&hl=en[/googlevideo]

Wow. So I think it’s clear who has the Fu after that one.

Someone send Alan Dershowitz a copy of his friend Christopher Hitchens’ Why Orwell Matters before he uses “turnspeak” again.

Geek note: So I created this post to try out the Viper’s Video Quicktags plugin. I don’t mind it, but am looking for a plugin that renders video from YouTube, Google, iFilm, The Onion and so forth in the post editing panal so as to allow text-wrapping, alignment, etc. and doesn’t conflict with WordPress 2.3. Still, if you’re looking for a simple embedding tool, this one could work. Get more on it here.

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