This snip: "Not so, according to Capt. Terry Mangum of Durham's 5th District, who credited the protest to a group called "Bikerowdies" out of California. "I think some of the individuals came there with the intent to be arrested," Mangum said, referring to papers found in the police transport vehicle afterward with numbers for protesters to call and instructions for them to follow after being arrested. "
Lots on North Carolina -- from the socialist perspective.
I didn't know Duke U had hired a PR firm:
"A group of relatives and supporters of lacrosse players calling themselves the Committee for Fairness to Duke Families hired Bob Bennett, President Clinton's former lawyer, because "they felt their positions were not getting out there," Bennett told The News & Observer.
And Duke stepped up its game, retaining Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations firm that has helped polish the reputations of some of America's largest corporations.
"They brought in a bunch of people who have been essentially training groups of 10 to 12 administrators, faculty and students to talk to the media. They've been pre-positioning these people to latch on to the TV crews coming through," one source says.
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And The Democrats want to shut down bloggers, eh?