Posted on 02/04/2007 4:53:56 AM PST by abb
Last week, far left-wing blogger Amanda Marcotte began her stint as Democrat presidential candidate John Edwards' "blogmaster:"
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The question is: How long will the Edwards campaign want the "insightful" and "issues-oriented" Marcotte to be a part of them?
Seems that everyone but the Edwards campaign has tracked Marcotte's foul-mouthed nutroots diatribes. Or perhaps the Edwards team is well aware of her lunatic blogging and can't wait for her to unleash her unbridled anger on their spiffy website to give him a gritty, "progressive" edge.
Whatever the case, Walter Olson, K.C. Johnson, LieStoppers, and Jon Ham all caught Marcotte trying to cover the unhinged tracks at her old blog. At some point before she started her new job, she deleted a screed about the Duke lacrosse players that she had posted at Pandagon on Jan. 21. Jon Ham captured the cached screenshot:
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(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
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http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-816034.cfm
A march in support of accused former Duke University lacrosse players will begin at 11 a.m. today in front of the Durham County Courthouse, 201 E. Main St.
Sunday morning's "Walk of Support" will move from the courthouse downtown to Koskinen Stadium, home of the Duke lacrosse team, near Wallace Wade Stadium and Cameron Indoor Stadium on Duke's West Campus.
The groups "Concerned Duke Mothers" and "Ethical Durham" hope to show their support and demand "fair treatment" for the former Duke players -- David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann -- who face first-degree kidnapping and sexual offense charges stemming from the allegations of a Durham woman who originally claimed the men raped her at an off-campus lacrosse party in March.
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/
Hold them accountable
Could someone please tell me why our city officials are not being held accountable for their incompetence? The City of Durham is a joke. You have officials lying about the lead test results. We had a landfill burn out of control for two weeks. And last but not least, we have a district attorney who knowingly withheld evidence in a case that has no merit.
My biggest concern is that no one is being held accountable for these idiotic events that keep occurring in Durham. Why are people not being fired for these things? There's always an excuse.
Maybe if someone was actually held accountable and fired, it would have a positive result and other officials would be less likely to lie or cover up the mistakes that have been made. Just an idea, it works with kids most of the time and since some officials act like kids, let's treat them like kids.
Greg Merritt
Durham
February 4, 2007
http://www.newsobserver.com/559/story/539400.html
Published: Feb 04, 2007 12:30 AM
Modified: Feb 04, 2007 02:24 AM
Name the accuser? Here's your verdict
Ted Vaden, Staff Writer
Most readers don't want The N&O to name complainants in sex crime cases. But most do want the paper to name the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case.
That's the somewhat anomalous reading I got from an informal, unscientific survey of News & Observer readers last week. A number of you responded to my column in which I said the paper should not identify the accuser, unless she herself is charged (That's my opinion; N&O editors have not decided what to do.)
I asked members of the Reader Advisory Panel two questions:
1) Should The N&O identify the accuser if the case is resolved in favor of the Duke lacrosse players accused of sexual offense and kidnapping?
2) Do you agree or disagree with the paper's general policy of not naming complainants in sex crimes?
Of the 177 who answered the first question, two thirds (113) said The N&O should name the accuser. One third (59) said don't name her, and five weren't sure.
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http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/2007...00318-6438r.htm
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
Forum: Wronged and Nifonged
Published February 4, 2007
We now know of the gross abuse of prosecutorial power in the Duke rape case. Durham District Attorney Michael B. Nifong indicted three Duke University lacrosse players last April without any corroborative evidence. The only "evidence" was the conflicted testimony of the accuser, an escort service "stripper" who performed at a team party. Her testimony has been challenged by the other black female stripper performing that night. DNA from five men was found on specimens from the accuser's underpants, vagina and rectum -- but none of it belonged to the three defendants.
Mr. Nifong knew this before he indicted the trio and conspired with the director of the testing laboratory to conceal this exculpatory evidence from both the defense attorneys and the judge.
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http://www.hendersondispatch.com/articles/...tters/let01.txt
Self-inflicted wounds black community's biggest threat
To the editor:
“Black on black crime is the No. 1 threat to the black community. Black on black crime is racist!” There I said it. The use of the words racism and racist appears to be the only way to light a fire under our civil rights organizations and community activists to move them into action.
We all saw how quickly they mobilized their forces in response to allegations by a black woman (of questionable credibility) of a rape by white lacrosse players who attended Duke University. I always wondered if the response and subsequent “demands for justice” would have been the same if the rape allegations were against Black men from, let's say, North Carolina Central University? Why? Because, those civil rights organizations habitually don't respond to situations involving black-on-black crime. We saw their lack of response to the murder of a retired school teacher by a black male in Raleigh. He successfully avoided his rightful death sentence for life in prison. What about our concern for the rights of his victim? She wasn't born into this world to die in such a horrific way.
Why are black victims more valuable when attacked by whites? Are black victims attacked by other blacks less traumatized? Are they “less dead” when murdered by other blacks? Yes, those are ridiculous questions, but not as ridiculous as the perceived lack of self-respect when our community leaders fail to pursue and hold those people accountable inside our communities who are preying upon us. According to research, blacks are more than seven times more likely to be assaulted by other blacks.
So, our primary threats are no longer white men/women dressed in white hoods or unprofessional law enforcement officers. That primary threat now looks a lot like me (us) and is at times wearing another “hoodie.”
I attended Tuesday's NAACP meeting, and I didn't hear anything about black-on-black crime and its impacts on our community's quality of life. Maybe Rev. Dr. Barber, president, NC-NAACP, will address this topic during the February dinner ... but I doubt it.
Let me re-emphasize my point: back-on-black crime is a lack of self-respect. Why should others respect us when we don't respect ourselves?
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Elwood K. Johnson,
Henderson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/st...2005669,00.html
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'It's deeply embedded in our culture,' added Lucy Dalglish from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. 'When the state takes someone into custody, the press must be able to ask questions.' When I said it wasn't deeply embedded in our culture and asked what practical benefits removing reporting restrictions brought, she cited the sensational Duke University case. You might remember that a district attorney accused three rich and white members of the university's lacrosse team of the bestial rape of a black stripper they had hired to perform for them. The DA said that he had 'no doubt' that the charge was true. If DNA evidence didn't confirm that the suspects were guilty, that didn't matter. They may have used condoms, he speculated, because 'probably an exotic dancer would not be your first choice for unprotected sex'.
The grubby god who watches over journalists couldn't have come up with a better story for the American hacks. It hit all the tensions in American society about class, race, a pornographic culture and violence and, best of all, a crusading DA was going to put them right. Except that the accused and their families stopped him by doing what they could never do in Britain. They went to the media and showed that the DA's case was tendentious and sloppy. It now looks like the one punishment that will result is the swift execution of his career.
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http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/...unday-news.html
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Sunday News
With the legislative session in full swing, here’s hoping that at least a few legislators read the Wilmington Star. Looking back on the case, the paper from Mike Nifong’s hometown detected an inexcusable condition: that even with the State Bar filing ethics charges against Nifong, “nobody could take the case away from him. State law says only a DA can ask for a special prosecutor.”
Nifong, of course, eventually bowed to the inevitable and asked off the case—which, the Star correctly argued, “has made North Carolina an object of international dismay.”
Nifong’s misconduct, however, leaves a question: whether legislators “will give the AG (or possibly the Chief Justice?) authority to take over cases that district attorneys cannot be trusted to handle. They could call it ‘Mike's Law.’” No move, the Star concluded, “could be more important than starting to restore North Carolinians' trust in the fairness, competence and honesty of criminal prosecutions.”
WRAL reports that Governor Easley could be called as a witness in the State Bar's proceedings against Nifong. Why? Former prosecutor Dan Boyce explained that Easley's statements could confirm a financial motive for Nifong's misconduct.
The pension for a D.A., Boyce noted, is much higher than the pension Nifong otherwise would have received as a longtime assistant. If, in fact, maximizing his pension was one of Nifong's motives for ignoring his ethical obligations, the Bar would be justified in imposing a harsher penalty on the disgraced district attorney.
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Scary stuff from this chick's blog, thanks to Liestoppers:
From a poster named Harkonnandog. Who knows, this could be Danny Glover.
"Rape is a crime unlike others. In any rape case, but especially in a rape case where a black woman accuses a white man, the rapist should be considered guilty until he proves his innocence. And he must prove his innocence not beyond a reasonable doubt, but beyond any possible doubt. The Durham rapists have not done so, by any means.
People claim this is unfair, but 400 years of slavery and countless millenium of male on female rape make this not only fair, but necessary. Let’s just say the accusation of rape IS false, that doesn’t take away the rapists (yes, they’re still rapists even if these particular men didn’t rape this particular women) genealogical guilt. How many slaves have their forefathers raped? Nobody asks that question.
And I”ve no doubt these men would be raping slaves if they could get away with it. They are white and rich, they are jocks, they attend an expensive university, (no doubt with money saved from when their families owned plantations) and they hired black strippers. Even worse, they requested white strippers first, which proves they are bigots.
People who talk about the details of guilt in this particular case are missing the forest for the trees. The narrative is bigger than 3 white boys whose lives are inconsequential compared to the sweep of history- of the descendants of slaves getting just recompense on the descendants of slave owners."
Wow. Ask me again why I keep guns.
http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=1967
Hiring a campaign blogger is now necessary for each campaign. But this episode shows how treacherous the waters can be when a candidate just dives in and picks someone. For now Edwards and his campaign will be in the position of having to defend what this woman has written in the past and explaining why he found her particular writing style so suitable for his campaign. Other blogs covering the story include Brainster, Hit & Run, Outside the Beltway, Overlawyered and South of Heaven. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit also has called attention to Marcotte's woes.
He ain't speakin "truth to power"; he's written the plain truth. God Bless him!
Why are black victims more valuable when attacked by whites? Are black victims attacked by other blacks less traumatized? Are they “less dead” when murdered by other blacks? Yes, those are ridiculous questions, but not as ridiculous as the perceived lack of self-respect when our community leaders fail to pursue and hold those people accountable inside our communities who are preying upon us. According to research, blacks are more than seven times more likely to be assaulted by other blacks
I wanted to see if the article explained this clip, further on:
Except that the accused and their families stopped him by doing what they could never do in Britain.
Why couldn't this also be done in Britain?
Could be any uber-leftist, moonbat Dhimmi... or even an Indonesian-educated, Dhimmicrat Senator from Illinois.
"Rape is a crime unlike others. In any rape case, but especially in a rape case where a black woman accuses a white man, the rapist should be considered guilty until he proves his innocence. And he must prove his innocence not beyond a reasonable doubt, but beyond any possible doubt. The Durham rapists have not done so, by any means.
Double B.S.
Mr. Elwood: Why are black victims more valuable when attacked by whites? Are black victims attacked by other blacks less traumatized? Are they “less dead” when murdered by other blacks? Yes, those are ridiculous questions, but not as ridiculous as the perceived lack of self-respect when our community leaders fail to pursue and hold those people accountable inside our communities who are preying upon us. According to research, blacks are more than seven times more likely to be assaulted by other blacks
My imagined Mr. Glover's response: These black thugs preying on other Blacks are only acting out the evil white patriarchy they've been enslaved under. It's pouring out of them, they are acting as zombies under 200 years of white man's rule; it's in the blood now. It's not their fault. It's the legacy of slavery. For $100,000 which I will give to Hugo Chavez, invite me to Durham to clean up the mess left by the whitey named Nifong. Blacks in Durham only voted him into office because they too are down-to-the-bone infected with the results of slavery, and just can't say no the the white man."
This is an EXCELLENT article.
But maybe Britain's problem is not that there's too much prejudicial coverage but too little. Perhaps there would be fewer miscarriages of justice if we put a little more trust in freedom of speech.
Don't know if you watch TVLand, but yesterday was that kind of stuff all day on a show called, "That's what I'm talking about". Glover, Spike Lee, Sharpton, and the like were on almost all day.
What angry, racist black men have to do with classic TV shows, I have no idea.
Looks like I might be liable for a few thefts, murders and late library book fines too.
Yikes!
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