[maggief]

'Rodeo cowboy'

After the last round of indictments, Nifong stopped commenting publicly about the case, while defense lawyers stepped up their attack through court filings. Nifong's silence is occasionally broken by an off-the-cuff remark.

Before the hearings Thursday, Nifong walked up to Susan Filan, a legal analyst for MSNBC who was sitting in the courtroom gallery. Filan, a former prosecutor, once characterized Nifong as a "rodeo cowboy" on the air, but Thursday she had asked for an interview with him.

Nifong told her this: "Two words: rodeo cowboy."

"When he came out and said, 'Two words,' I stood up. I thought he was going to grant me an interview," Filan said.



I have two words for him ...

[bjc]

It appears that Nifong is carefully monitoring and remembering the major media outlets. There is something very nasty about how he handled this situation.