Greenwald’s post (or perhaps the original Times letter) encouraged some hate-mail, and I politely responded to each e-mail sent from a real e-mail address, but no one had a response to the data I presented about Edwards’s verdicts. Jay Diamond himself wrote me, but was rendered speechless.

“This same warped principle is also expressed in how our establishment scorns the work John Edwards did in representing maimed or dead individuals against the corporations which, through recklessness or negligence, destroyed their lives. From a letter from Theodore Frank of the American Enterprise Institute to the New York Times today (h/t Jay Diamond):”

Greenwald is a trained lawyer, very articulate, and usually thoughtful. His bar-stool analysis of Ted Frank’s letter knocked me off my feet.

To me the problem with Mr. Edwards wins is not in the transfer of wealth, rather it is that the fact that the verdicts were just plain irrational. “Corporations maim children ” is real hate speech.

Grenwald also has a screwball view on telecom amnesty. It makes no sense at all, and he feels very strongly about the matter.