I found it a bit odd that Alan Dershowitz decided to come out from seeming anonymity and defend Spitzer. In Dershowitz, here we have a guy who was an extremely outspoken liberal advocate, one who used to be seen on TV all the time, strongly voicing his opinions about the issues of the day. Then Bush was installed in office and for whatever reason Alan just disappeared from the air waves. If he was an angry liberal prior to 2000, I would have to think he was red-faced pissed post-2000 -- and yet where's he been? And of all things, he decides to come out of hiding to defend a cheating hypocrite? Again, odd.