Posted on 09/01/2006 10:19:41 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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Lacrosse players' defense: Documents being withheld |
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By William F. West : The Herald-Sun |
Never mind the timeline. You don't get raped, three different ways, by three different men and wind up with none of their DNA on "the mom of the year".
Saw an interesting show about her. She was played by Lauren Bacall. What a mess all that money made of her.
Thanks! Have you seen the Shakespeare Insulter?
I thought there was something about her either on TV or a movie. Wish I could find it.
I have not. But... I should! And I will!!
http://johninnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2006/09/duke-lacrosse-disturbing-chronicle.html
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We are getting near the point in the play where the audience starts pelting the pretentious overblown windbags with rotten vegetables. So in preparation, here are a few bushel basketfuls.
"Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee. I scorn you, scurvy companion."
"What, you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen mate! Away, you moldy rogue, away!"
... and those are the nice ones!
http:/www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html?
Get ready Dick "belief of it oppresses me already" Brodhead.
7:15 PM
And he is off the case and can't do anything about it now. ;)
Correct link to Shakespeare Insulter-- http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html?
"Have received more advance notice that the 60 Minutes 2006 premier expose will rock Nifong and his cronies in the currupt Durham administration to their knees. Hopefully, Linwood (er... PJ) will be swept out with the rest."
Posted: 9/03/06 5:01 PM [roper FWIW]
http://forums.go.com/abclocal/WTVD/message?messageID=746169
Maybe CBS could give the Judge et al. an advance peek at the Sept. 22 hearing.
Duke trustee chairman nominated for federal position
BY CAROLYN NORTON : The Herald-Sun, Sep 6, 2006 : 7:45 pm ET
DURHAM -- President Bush has nominated the chairman of Duke University's Board of Trustees to an administrative position.
But nominee Robert Steel has told Duke he plans to remain chairman of the board even if he receives and accepts the post of Undersecretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, according to Duke. He was among 23 people appointed, nominated or designated this week to serve in the Bush administration.
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-767494.html
Family of man who died in jail wants investigation
BY DAN E. WAY : The Herald-Sun, Sep 6, 2006 : 11:01 pm ET
DURHAM -- Relatives of a man who died in the Durham County Jail are demanding an investigation into why he was held 17 days on a suicide watch under psychiatric care and prescribed anti-psychotic medication even though he had no history of mental illness and there was no indication on his arrest report that he was anything other than drunk and disorderly.
"relatives reported him missing to police and went to the jail looking for him, ironically, about the same time he was dying in his cell. "
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-767507.html
Titus may be off the case, but his order still holds until or unless Judge Smith has modified or reversed it.
Posted on TalkLeft (T. Soprano):
The Raleigh News and Observer, as much as a media organization can - made this happen! They spread hysteria and worked the National Press into a lather over the wild bands of roving white rapists in and around the Duke campus. To be accurate, I should have said ... the wild bands of roving, privileged, white, racist, rapists in and around the Elite Duke University campus.
Sure, the National media piled on, but the the N&O started the fire. We are talking first class arson too. I believe the N&O ignored evidence and some major inconsistencies because of the Political leanings of their staff. It appears that the staff is overloaded with ardent feminists and more liberals than a Vermont Marijauna festival. Diversity has yet to hit the News and Observer staff - diversity of thought, anyway.
Most of us are aware of many of the egregious articles printed in the N&O on the Duke Lacrosse case, so I'll skip some of the well-known examples that have already been discussed. Appropriately, on April fool's day, 2006, the N&O printed a piece by Elizabeth Weiss. She says,"as a woman, I cannot imagine making those accusations unless they were true." I imagine, that many months into this investigation, most of the N&O staff was amazed to learn of the case of Tawana Brawley. Can't you just imagine them shaking their heads and thinking, can this be right? This doesn't make any sense? Weiss continues, "and some of the details resonate too strongly for them to be conjured." Resonate too strongly for them to be conjured? Webster's defines RESONATE as, "to evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief." Truer words were never spoken! The alleged victim's story of being beaten and kicked to near death, strangled by her attackers to near expiration, and purposefully humilated by evil men of caucasian persuasion - to say it struck a chord among the media is like saying that Albert Einstein took a physics class.
Mrs. Weiss, in her N&O piece, goes further and removes all doubt of her belief system. Weiss, apparently, was unhappy with the turnout of white non-liberals at the Candlelight vigils and pot-banging marathons where white men were excoriated and posters with pictures of many of the players on the team were handed out to the angry crowd, when she states, "many of the details of this situation are incredibly charged. Race, class, gender, all of those hot issues swirl together in this story and are possibly clouding the judgment of some..... What if it was a white exotic dancer making these allegations against a men's sports team at NCCU?" No one was indicted - in fact, not one individual had been identified at this point, yet Weiss is questioning the judgement of those not willing to spend their hard earned money on rope and gas to drive to Durham.
In May, I received an e-mail response from the Editor of the News and Observer, Melanie Sill, in that response, Ms. Sill informed me that the N&O reported the facts and their coverage was not sympathic to the accuser in this case, and she denied that her paper had used persuasive writing. According to Sill, they just reported the cold, hard facts and there was absolutely no attempt to persuade, convince, or emote on the pages of her paper. Yet, in the aforementioned article, Mrs. Weiss writes, "I felt connected to her because I somehow understood, based on pure instinct and imagination, how hard it must have been to talk to the Durham police that night." This woman shouldn't be writing for a Newspaper - she should have a lifetime supply of Kleenex and a good spot in front of a TV that can only tune in the Lifetime Channel. Not knowing when to stop, she continues, "It is odd how strongly I winced internally when I heard the details, having never experienced anything like that." Winced internally? You have to wonder if Elizabeth Weiss isn't Mark Gottlieb's pen name. Evidently, the outpouring by this reporter could not be stopped, "when I heard the details, .... I felt pain and sadness -- and ANGER."
Weiss must not be big on personal responsibility, because she continues, "The moment I heard the circumstances, that she was there as an exotic dancer, I became even MORE empathetic, not because rape is any more or less tragic depending on one's profession, but because she was put in that situation out of necessity, as a worker." And she really feels for the sex worker too, " I hope I will never be in the same situation she was, walking into a house, to perform for a group of men. And yet I can't stop thinking, what if that were me? What did that feel like? How will she feel safe again?" At this point, I'm sorry, I think it's safe to say Calgon has taken this woman away!
If you recall, the N&O was the first paper to interview the AV, and, IIRC, the only interview to date. The reporter to interview her was Samiha Khanna. In the articles based on the interview that launched a thousand tears, Samiha writes that the players were "barking racial slurs." The article could have been titled, "Who let the dogs out?" Samiha goes on to report that the AV "found herself surrounded by more than 40 men," and that the dancers simultaneously broke down crying and she quotes the AV as saying, "we were so scared." She tells readers that "authorities vowed to crack the team's wall of solidarity." Samiha claims "this was the first time she (the AV) had been hired to dance provocatively for a group." Evidently, she means that the AV had previously danced provocatively - but was not hired to do so - OR - she was hired in the past to dance like Ginger and Fred Astaire? I'm going to guess the Feminist handbook says woman don't dance provocatively for groups more than once in their lifetime. Can't you just hear them saying, "Women don't do things like that." This most reluctant of victims "hesitated to tell police what happened," but "She realized she had to, for her young daughter and her father." In a few short days, the AV went from the Salt of the Earth to a Saint. Ms. Samiha writes that "the petite, soft-spoken woman is described by friends as a caring mother and a hard worker," and "she also is a serious student." And quotes are adeptly used to hammer home the point, "I couldn't fault a woman for taking care of her family and trying to pay the bills."
After landing the only interview of the AV, Samiha took to the airwaves and, more than once, appeared on shows with Mike Nifong. Samiha makes an odd statement in one of her TV appearances, and it seems to echo the sentiments of her colleague - Weiss, "Upon starting her PERFORMANCE OBLIGATION, she did recall hearing epitaphs, terms that were derogatory towards her as a woman and an African American. She said she was very scared. She started to cry and that she wanted to leave." Now it's clear - the woman still hasn't danced provocatively for a group - now it's a "PERFORMANCE OBLIGATION." You gotta hand it to his woman - the accuser - she will work her fingers to the bone. She never met an obligation she didn't fulfill - apparently. It's so humbling to read of the character this woman possesses.
Samiha provides readers with a quote from a member of the Duke Academic Council, "There was a sense of, 'This is SAD, and it's TERRIBLE," and the same can be said of the N&O coverage of this case!
Sources:
http://www.newsobserver.com/978/story/424079.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/421799.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/429338.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12065692/
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http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/09/times-peculiar-corrections-policy.html
But the errors do matter, beyond a stickler's point for journalistic accuracy. The Times, the supposed paper of record, went out of its way to inaccurately frame the case against Seligmann, and then either left the record uncorrected or printed a correction that was misleading in and of itself. As Abrams would say, "shameful" behavior.
POSTED BY KC JOHNSON AT 12:12 AM
2 COMMENTS:
Anonymous said...
Perhaps, after all this is over and done, the Seligmann family should sue New York Times. That may teach NYT how to handle similar inaccuracies in the future. I would certainly do it, if it was my son who was being framed by these NYT clowns.
1:33 AM
Anonymous said...
Once this horror show ends, there are going to be all kinds of payback. Wilson and Glater should realize the internet never forgets.
2:15 AM
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They 'ol "computer glitch" story again ... Chalmer's daughter, Elmo ...
Just the beginning ...
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-767493.html
NCCU faculty to fill vacant Southern High positions
BY KELLY HINCHCLIFFE : The Herald-Sun
khinchcliffe@heraldsun.com
Sep 6, 2006 : 7:43 pm ET
DURHAM -- Durham Public Schools officials were unable to recruit enough math and science teachers for Southern High School this year, so they've called in the cavalry from N.C. Central University.
DPS failed to land the required number of teachers despite offering special financial incentives and even recruiting a trio of qualified math teachers from the Philippines.
Three teachers reportedly en route from the Philippines were sidelined by visa problems, and their arrival has been postponed indefinitely.
(snip)
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/09/defense-strikes-back.html
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
The Defense Strikes Back
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