When David Boies destroyed Tony Perkins on 'FTN" - "We put fear and prejudice on trial..." (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

When David Boies destroyed Tony Perkins on 'Face the Nation'
Posted by Joe Sudbay (DC) at 8/08/2010 01:52:00 PM

Tony Perkins from the Family Research Council debated Prop. 8 lawyer David Boies this morning on "Face the Nation." Boies didn't let Perkins get away with spewing falsehoods and lies. After Perkins spewed the usual right-wing anti-gay rhetoric, Boies let him have it:

"In a court of law you've got to come in and you've got to support those opinions, you've got to stand up under oath and cross-examination," Boies said. "And what we saw at trial is that it's very easy for the people who want to deprive gay and lesbian citizens of the right to vote to make all sorts of statements and campaign literature, or in debates where they can't be cross-examined.

"But when they come into court and they have to support those opinions and they have to defend those opinions under oath and cross-examination, those opinions just melt away. And that's what happened here. There simply wasn't any evidence, there weren't any of those studies. There weren't any empirical studies. That's just made up. That's junk science. It's easy to say that on television. But a witness stand is a lonely place to lie. And when you come into court you can't do that.

"That's what we proved: We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost," Boies said.

Seriously, anyone who is going to debate any of the right-wing homophobes should watch this interview and learn from Boies.

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[flpoljunkie]

1. Saw it. Boies was great. Perkins was left speechless--and, thankfully, out of time.

[Inuca]

2. Did not see it, but I saw Ted Olson

on Fox. Impressive. Hats off! Chris Wallace kept pushing him, old quotes of his about judicial activism, etc. and all his answers were calm, informative, extremely intelligent.

[Tempest]

3. Wallace had his ass handed to him

At least Wallace had the grace to admit he was bested by a better man.