Posted on 11/08/2006 2:41:16 PM PST by CondorFlight
Now that the election is over and this can't be considered just an election ploy :
Rumors are said to have been circulating in Durham to the effect that Nifong might consider (legally) going after a couple of bloggers; that if he deals with a couple of them the rest will be intimidated and fade away.
This is just a heads up; so that if anything untoward happens, everyone will know about it in advance and be able to make the connection. The rumors are well-sourced.
This is just the kind of inquisitive open mind I have come to expect in our academic leaders.
Ed Bradley of '60 Minutes' Dies
Posted by AUJenn
On 11/09/2006 9:21:12 AM PST · 65 replies · 1,354+ views
drudgereport.com ^
Ed Bradley, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent and one of the pioneering black journalists of his generation, died today. He was 65. Bradley, who had won 19 Emmy awards, covered an incredible array of stories after joining the CBS newsmagazine in 1981, from brain cancer to sexual abuse in the Catholic Church to the high school shootings at Columbine. He also reported a number of award-winning documentaries, covered political conventions and filled in on the "CBS Evening News" and other programs. Bradley remained active on "60 Minutes," but he had been ill for some time and underwent heart surgery about...
It's a wonder he can see over the lectern with his head so far up his butt.
Dang! No wonder there was no 60 minutes follow-up. Sheesh!
I had the same thought. May the Good Lord honor his courage.
I hope somebody at '60 Minutes' has the guts to follow-up on this story.
Condolences to the Bradley family.
I was asking about Liefong wanting to shake Harris's hand Wednesday that you were talking about. How did that come about and, what, exactly, happened?
The consensus seems to be that Nifong was trying to get a televised photo op of himself shaking a well known Duke man's hand. Bob was wearing a Duke jacket and Nifong spotted him as he drove up. Bob was not fooled by Nifong's attempted use of him in a political sense, and would not shake his hand, or have anything to do with him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1734329/posts#comment?q=1
There's a thread about it.
I agree with Monks about Cheek, but the Cheek movement had the momentum. Monks is a Republican and knew he couldn't get elected except in a race where the rat incumbent is completely reviled, which is why the GOP didn't even have a candidate in the primary. Thinking he could step in and get elected because of the revulsion for Liefong was a calculated error of self-promotion and nothing more. Neither should have entered the race, which would have left the field open to a VIABLE candidate who could and would serve, but I still hold Monks more responsible for Liefong winning because he knew he didn't have a snowball's chance of winning as a Republican in such a heavy rat county but went ahead and deluded others into thinking he could, thus handing the win to a psycho. People who felt strongly enough to get rid of Liefong at all costs would have voted for Cheek and the unknown quantity that held in store rather than for Liefong. In either case, the good people of Durham who struggled to get rid of Liefong were left with the arduous task of trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear with Cheek, and those who tried to do it through Monks were just plain stupid.
Good!
Thanks.
I agree. Before this case, I might have dismissed Bradley as just another liberal reporter. He showed himself to be thoughtful on this one. I was saddened to hear that he had passed away.
Man, he sure looked older than 65, didn't he? Now we know why.
He is someone I hardly ever agreed with, but I liked him because he was not Dan Rather. I have not watched 60 minutes in so long (except for the Duke peice), he never really pissed me off.
May he rest in peace.
abc11tv.com forum link
"PLEASE help me! My name is Rhonda, and my brother was found executed in Durham NC, on May 05, 2005. His name is Allen Jackson Croft Jr. The sheriff there refuses to send us the reports, tests, and information we requested via the FOIA. This is the same department that handled the Duke rape, and the most recent fiasco of being caught on tape, plotting murder for hire, trafficking in drugs, and women for forced slavery as prostitutes, and counterfeiting. I have been threatened to be charged if I did not stop calling them to ask about the GSR results, and what they was doing about his case...
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More on the story at websleuths:
Bradley is one of the good guys. He lost some dinner and party invitations and lost a lot of his luster in the Black community with his Duke Story.
I have to give it to him, he didn't bury it, and move on when he found the evidence to be pointing towards a hoax.
I put him in a video celebrating the small club of those in the media willing to speak the truth about the Duke case, and reach for Justice - nothing has changed my mind in regard to his inclusion. He definitely didn't take the easy way out.
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From Liestoppers :
"This goes to show that justice can't be bought by a bunch of rich white boys from New York," said Harris Johnson, a former state Democratic party official and Durham resident for 56 years' (about the re-election of Durham DA Mike Nifong)
Two Rich White Boys From New York Who Bought Justice...With Their Lives
"The slain civil rights workers - Mr. Chaney, 21, a black man from Meridian, Miss., and two white New Yorkers, Mr. Schwerner, 24, a Cornell graduate, and Mr. Goodman, 20, who had attended Queens College - were participating in what became known as Freedom Summer, the climax of an intensive voter-registration drive in the South.
"On June 21, 1964, the three men set out together in a Ford station wagon to inspect the ruins of a black church near Philadelphia, Miss., that had been firebombed by the Klan. Mr. Chaney was driving. In the afternoon, they were arrested for "speeding" by a Neshoba County deputy sheriff, Cecil Price. They were held at the sheriff's office in Philadelphia for several hours.
"During those hours, according to testimony at the federal trial, Deputy Price sent out word that the three in custody included a man who had been designated Goatee - the Klan's code for Mr. Schwerner, who had a goatee and had been marked for death by Mr. Bowers. Mr. Schwerner had infuriated the Klan by organizing a boycott of a white-owned variety store until it hired a black, and by his intensive work to register black voters.
"According to testimony in the federal trial, Deputy Price held the men long enough for Mr. Killen to round up a group of Klansmen. The civil rights workers were released from jail and were never seen again, although their subsequent movements were later established.
"Leaving the jail that night, they drove down Route 19, tailed by Deputy Price and two carloads of Klansmen. After a frantic chase, they were caught and taken to an isolated spot on Rock Cut Road, where they were killed: Mr. Schwerner on Mr. Bowers's orders, and Mr. Chaney and Mr. Goodman because they were witnesses.
"Mr. Chaney was beaten to death, while Mr. Schwerner and Mr. Goodman were each shot once in the chest. Their station wagon was set ablaze, and the bodies were buried under an earthen dam on the farm of a prominent Philadelphian, Olen Burrage.
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