I'm still trying to come up with a good reason why Brodhead was SO willing to trash these boys. Owed Nifong? There is money involved? Where? Philosophical reasons? Tonight I may decide it's just because he's a pathetic wuss.
He is a pathetic wuss.
And PC culture gone insane, of course.
I think he was desperately trying to be "loved" by the city of Durham and the university -- at least the part he thought was important.
He was perfectly willing to destroy these boys to try to keep it from hurting Duke's reputation as he saw it.
I wonder how that's working out for him?
The reason the N&O, Brohead etal were so willing to trash the lacrosse team in general is Nifong lied to them. He told them a crime most certainly happened and the lacrosse team was covering up. I am not very sympathetic to any of them, but face it when the local DA says a crime was committed, most people tend to believe there was one. If a crime had been committed here, then the lacrosse team would have been the perps.
All DAs should hate Nifong because our tendency to believe them when they say a crime has been committed has been undermined. But it is a good lesson to all that innocent until proven guilty means that.
On a lighter side, the CourtTV Duke board is not taking new posts tonight. I guess closed waiting for news?
Broadhead is a guilt ridden liberal. He saw the bad publicity Duke was receiving and he had to stop that at any cost. Those young men were the bones he tossed to placate the marchers and activists as well as his own sense of liberal guilt.
Broadhead was totally pathetic. It's time for their board, or their alumni, whoever, to encourage him to step down. If he doesn't go willingly, they need to help him. And hire someone who supports the university and the students!