This thing won't stop because the wussified media smells blood where it cuts them the most. They hate the lacrosse players for the same reason they hate Bush: "privileged" white athletes who are probably conservative... what do you think the types who become mainstream journalists are going to do? Of COURSE it's become a national story...it's part of the Oprahfication of America, in this case the product of a corrupt local politician working in tandem with the collective personal derangements of the media classes. The piece of dirt Paula Zahn together with the unmanned Cole on Fox? This is a dream story for them, they get to air out their teenage grievances in a national forum.
This is one more tendril of the homosexual agenda. It's funny how Tom Wolfe predicted almost every essential element of this story in Simmons.
Um... except for the fact that on March 13/14 there was no sex never mind a rape.