ABA drops Gonzales’s ‘Lawyer of the Year’ title.

[ProSense]

ABA drops Gonzales’s ‘Lawyer of the Year’ title.

Recently, the American Bar Association named former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as “Lawyer of the Year” for being the major newsmaker of 2007. Today, the ABA issued a clarification, giving Gonzales a new title: “Newsmaker of the Year“:

The article defined that term as the year’s biggest legal newsmaker, identifying former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as the major newsmaker of 2007. The Journal regrets that we did not make this theme clear.

We appreciate the feedback we’ve received, and we’re acting on it. So that there can be no confusion, the term “Lawyers of the Year” has been changed in the headline and story to “Newsmakers of the Year.” The story is otherwise unchanged from its original version.

[Snarkoleptic]

1. Calling Gonzo 'Lawyer of the year' would be like calling a fundie hack doctor physician of the year.

[TwilightZone]

6. Bill Frist, for example.

[Mz Pip]

2. That's better

"Lawyer of the Year" somehow implies he was good at something, like law.

Mz Pip

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. So true. Lawyer's don't need any more bad press.

I was thinking it was a stupid business move to even acknowledge him as a lawyer. I'm surprise the Daily Show didn't pick up on the irony.

[AndyTiedye]

3. "Liar of the Year" Would Be Just About Right

[laureloak]

4. 1st Runner Up was Nifong.

[Benhurst]

5. I can only hope they will include him in "Felons of the Year" in the

not too distant future.

[Selatius]

7. The NLG would never have nominated him as Lawyer of the Year.

The National Lawyers' Guild:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lawyers_Guild

Last month, the NLG passed a resolution making it a position of the NLG that Bush and Cheney should be impeached.

[tech3149]

8. More like asshat of the year

The ABA screwed the pooch on this one. The NLG has my respect for calling for impeachment. They remember that the law is meaningless unless it applies to all equally.

[Octafish]

9. I love good news.

What the ABA should be giving Gonzo is a disbarment.

[garybeck]

10. I thought ABA stopped playing when disco went out of style

[EFerrari]

11. LOL!

[Golden Raisin]

12. Disgrace and Shame to

his profession and office would be more like it.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. K&R

[annabanana]

15. delicious!!

That's got to be a slap in the face that even ol' hyper insulated Abu Gonzales can feel.

[madokie]

16. Ah yes now the clarifier

a double whammy instead of a leg up.

[cboy4]

17. I'd rather see him "drop"(ped) on his head.

Maybe it would cut down on his lying.