Posted on 10/11/2006 1:52:56 AM PDT by abb
LOL! Luvvit! I can't stand that woman - makes me gag.
That kind of news definitely comforts him, and I would not be surprised if he and his mates might lurk here from now on. I also told him the story about a friend of our family who is a bit older than him but played HS lax in the Catholic schools in Jersey and played against him for one year. He told me that Reade was a great kid and had a great reputation (even though he was a big stud lax player). When I told him that he said "awesome" and smiled. He's doing well and appreciates all the support.
I hope at some point she rats him out for giving her a deal in exchange for her "cooperation" on the Duke case. Probably won't happen until after he loses the election - IF he loses the election.
To your #1: You're absolutely correct in your interpretation of that segment, up to and including the fact that Kim is going to throw Nifong under the bus. (Look for her to be attacked by the black community in Durham.)
As to #2, my husband said the exact same thing! He doesn't watch much TV and only agrees to it being "on" so I'll eat dinner with him at night.......LOL. He was FLOORED!
I'm going to put up a separate LIVE THREAD for that one!
Maybe she kept asking it because she knew the boys wanted their money back - some of them did, anyway - and since Mangum was falling apart and didn't have all of her stuff and she (Kim) was mad at the boys, she wanted to know that they didn't take Mangum's money back.
Or she ripped Mangum off. But I don't see where advancing a complaint call against the boys that she wasn't going to show up for - maybe watched from down the street - would give her cover for ripping Mangum off. The only person she would have to worry about is Mangum's pimp, and he isn't going to be privy to the 911 call. I think the 911 call was unrelated and just done for spite because she was mad.
The one thing that I cannot figure out is that first phone call.
You would have thought a call like that would have been make by the fake accuser.
Why would they want to talk to him AFTER the fact when they didn't care to talk to him BEFORE the fact?
Please ping me to that thread.
Glad to!
Well, Mangum wasn't raped, so Kim didn't help with a rape. If someone said I helped with a rape, it would piss me off big time. I'd be ballistic, in fact.
The simple fact that Mangum said this and Kim wasn't indicted for aiding the felonies the boys have been charged with says a lot about what Nifong really believes - which is that he, too, knows there was no rape.
Me too!! Thanks in advance.
You're added!
Oh absolutely!
Kim has some street smarts, but in any sophisticated sort of way. If she did, she'd never have sent that email and she'd never have wavered on the truth. The truth puts her in a better light than her lies and manipulations have. A calm woman quietly telling the truth with her head held high would have been a better image than that which she has presented thus far.
If you've read Kim's letter to the public relations group in NY, you can see that she is not an uneducated guttersnipe. Her grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structure are quite good. She didn't need to go down the road of acting and looking like trash. That was a mistake and it wasn't "smart." She's obviously trying to rehabilitate that image. That IS smart.
The scary thing is that the guys could have been less clean cut - with a few more black marks in their backgrounds and a few less connected parents - and it would have been easier for Nifong to get them railroaded. The real issue here is how easy it is for a DA to corrupt our entire LE process for his/her own nefarious purposes. Let's hope some good will come of exposing the fragility of the system. It is episodes like this that makes me anxious about my support for capital punishment.
Then why did CBS promote her?
"Roberts, who danced at the same party as the accuser where the alleged incident took place, told "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley in an interview that she didn't help the accuser get dressed after the alleged incident, nor was she physically separated from the accuser by the Duke lacrosse players at any time. The accuser said in her police statement that both occurred."
Huh? I don't remember anything about Kim telling the cops she helped Mangum get dressed after the alleged incident. Kim told the cops nothing happened to Mangum and that the story was a crock. As for being separated, she said they were never separated except once for less than 5 minutes.
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