[JLS]

Cash Michaels moves a step further away from rape and towards a commercial dispute. He is certainly undermining Nifong with the black community. Still he wants to hang on something went down at that party.

[darbymcgill]

Still he wants to hang on something went down at that party.

That's right, still pandering...

This article it just a prelude to some other indefensible charge... Michaels now wants the guys to prove they didn't push the AV down the steps and rape her in the 5 minutes she was out of Kim's sight at 12:36.... Where does that leave him on Reade?

He has gone to making up statements... Bissey said she went back to get her shoe... We can see that she has her other stuff on the porch... Why doesn't CM tell us that in their voluntary 8 hours statements the unindicted players told the police they found the AV's stuff in the back yard where she dropped it after falling down the steps

Unless he is privy to more of Bissey's statement than I've seen reported, Bissey didn't say they yelled B!tch..

Also, why didn't he mention that the players with something to actually tell the DA were denied access. Remember the "I know more about this case then they will ever know" comment.

And ultimately are we to believe from CM that his community is really so shallow as to believe all they needed to hear to prove guilt was.....

For the Black community, allegations that the alleged victim and Kim Roberts Pittman were taunted with racial epithets, a broom handle, called “niggers,” and the target of one player’s quip, “Bitch, thank you granddaddy for my cotton shirt,” cemented the stark picture drawn by D.A. Nifong that race was an essential catalyst to the alleged crime.

There was little doubt that the players knew something they weren’t talking about.

I don't for a second think CM has turned. He's just trying to avoid the koolaid drinker label by dancing around the edges...

[Jezebelle]

As usual, he concludes his article with something he probably considers to be a zinger but is really just stupid.

[Fido969]

I think you are right. I think it is also possible that Cash has spoken to Ed Bradley or people who have been involved in the 60 minutes production, and expects that Ed will ask the patented 60 minutes open ended questions to kids who attended the party, complete with raised eyebrows, and make the drinking and vulgar language seem like the worst thing that has happened since the night riders of the KKK.

60 minutes will acknowledge that the DAs case is "weak" (pandering understatement) but leave the vague impression that the boys are out of control thugs that if they were falsely accused, it is largely their own fault, and probably what they deserved for acting they way they did.