Posted on 01/07/2007 10:45:17 AM PST by Winged Hussar
Then, just last month, the director of a DNA laboratory that tested samples taken from the woman testified that he and the prosecutor had agreed in May to withhold some of the findings. The exculpatory nature of the results - specifically, that the swabs included traces of semen from several men, none of them the Duke defendants - offer the strongest evidence yet that the prosecutor himself should be the subject of an investigation, and that he should have no further connection with this case.
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Jezebelle, what makes you think Vanderbilt cares? I'm convinced that none of these so-called elite schools cares what the un-PC crowd thinks. As Locomotive Breath has pointed out so many times, Duke is not unique when it comes to hiring these left-wing radical professors who have no business in the classroom.
That is why I relish the Dowd suit. That is also why I am so glad that my degree seeking days are long over. It must be hell to be in a liberal arts program at one of the top universities these days.
The community service requirements really get me.
I comprehend it, don't you?
I read Brodhead's letter with some interest in what his over riding message would be. I got from it this -- "The WORST THING to come out of this whole mess is that some of our faculty have been criticized--including, worst of all, a number of African-Americans!!!"
Give it a rest, Thread Nanny.
HAHAHA.....aren't you the funny one, you dreamer, you!
That ain't EVER gonna happen.
Wow, lots of A$$ covering going on at the N&O lately, huh?
Great work, you must feel great being a keeper of the MSM deathwatch ping list and getting the Nashville paper to change a story and maybe issue a correctiong. But do you have time to be the unpaid osbudman for all the dying MSS? :-)
Under the circumstances, I would think that the V students and their parents would feel some solidarity with the Duke lax boys. Most Duke students are on the side of the players, so my assumption is that V students would relate to them in this respect. Since Baker's words and attitude are racially biased against the boys, the V students and their parents should know about him. They're paying the bills, after all, as are V alum.
OT: Do you remember this? It was written as a spoof but was published in all seriousness by a journal called "Social Text". Note the colon ":".
So Mel thinks their reporting is comprehensive. How can that be when she won't publish the full interview of Mangum.
Gee Mel it doesn't quite become exhaustive reporting until you publish it. Reporting means disseminating to others, not just gathering the information.
Reade speaks.
Coming up on FOX.
Susannah Meadows.
Glad it's getting some airtime though.
Both Prof Johnson and Prof Bill Anderson said over at Johnson's blog that each has the e-mail from Baker with the headers and are sure it is from him. Prof. Johnson even said it was pretty typical of a response from Baker and included another example with [sic] after several words.
Just a caveat, I am not a great speller, I consider this and much communication on the internet more like conversation than writing and publishing. So I am not so concerned about typos or spelling errors, if the meaning is clear in context.
I am even of the mind that Prof. Baker stepped in it at Duke and maybe left to get a fresh start and wonder if we should not bug him at his new job. But I keep reading racists e-mails from him that makes me wonder if he learned a thing from his errors of last spring?
It's the "farm animal" statement that wins the prize.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/BothSidesAllSides/story?id=2778452&page=1
Are No Lessons Being Learned in Durham?
The Real 'Social Disaster' at Duke
OPINION By MARY KATHARINE HAM
Jan. 8, 2007— - It's official. "Nifong" is now a verb. The journey from mere person to Urban Dictionary verb is always an ignominious one, and Durham D.A. Mike Nifong's lexical fall from grace was shameful indeed.
Nifonged is a verb that describes the railroading or harming of a person with no justifiable cause to do so, except for one's own gain. It can be used as a substitute for "screwed" and many other similar words.
The Duke lacrosse case fiasco was an unsurprising one. Disappointing, but unsurprising. I was unsurprised when the facts of the Duke lacrosse rape case began to point to the players' innocence. I was unsurprised that the case moved so far based on so little evidence. I am unsurprised that local faculty and students, activists, and media are learning all the wrong lessons from their mistakes.
You see, I'm from Durham. I know Duke's magnolia-carpeted campus and gray, gothic towers. I know the sound of the fireworks at a Durham Bulls game floating over the city on a wind thick and sweet with the smell of pipe tobacco. I know where you can get great sushi and great barbecue on the same city block. I know many good things about Durham.
I also know that Durham is full of liberal white people who love to get yelled at by minorities and liberal minorities who are happy to oblige them. It's an activist town that couldn't be happier than when it has something for which to flagellate itself. When you go to a dinner party in Durham, you bring your moral outrage instead of wine.
The Duke lacrosse story -- hardworking, black, single mother and student allegedly raped by a group of privileged, white rich Duke boys -- provided enough outrage to last the dinner party crowd until the next millennium. As a result, many lives, seasons, careers and a successful sports program have been forever tainted by a district attorney who declined to back off the narrative lest he feel the wrath at the ballot box from those whom he denied their white guilt orgy.
Even now that Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann have been invited back to campus as students in "good standing," and rape charges against the all three players have been dropped, the narrative lives on.
Mary Katharine Ham blogs at http://www.townhall.com/blog
This spring, 88 Duke faculty members published an ad in the Duke campus paper, which made reference to "what happened to this young woman" without qualification, and thanked students and protestors for "not waiting" to make their voices heard. Not waiting, presumably, for something as silly as due process.
This week, one of the 88 wrote a column for the Raleigh News and Observer, in which she referred to the accuser as simply "a single mother who takes off her clothes for hire partly to pay for tuition at a distinguished, historically black college." She charged that the real "social disaster" is that "we do not have national health care or affordable child-care," and "a group of white athletes at a prominent university can get drunk and call out for a stripper the way they would a pizza."
Local columnist Ruth Sheehan wrote in March, before any charges had been filed, "We know you know. Whatever happened in the bathroom at the stripper party gone terribly, terribly bad, you know who was involved. Every one of you does."
In a back-off column published this week, Sheehan wrote, "like others, I was outraged. And I wrote about it. I make no apology for that. It is not my job to wait for cases to be resolved and then walk through the aftermath and shoot the dead."
I'm sure the Duke lacrosse players are comforted by that.
The Durham activists who banged pots and pans and hung wanted posters of the Duke lacrosse team have put up their own "wall of silence," refusing to talk to press as Nifong's case has fallen apart and their sympathetic victim has become a liar.
Mike Nifong himself, who publicly condemned the team in what may amount to an ethics violation, and may have withheld exculpatory evidence, now wants to be part of the "healing process."
And the accuser will likely get tuition money from Jesse Jackson, who promised it to her whether or not her story proved true.
In Durham, it seems, it's possible to learn exactly nothing in 10 months -- that's a trick a lot of people pick up in college towns, but it's not encouraging in this case.
Mary Katharine Ham blogs at http://www.townhall.com/blog
Want to know the real "social disaster" at Duke? It's not that the "larger truths" this non-crime revealed trumped the presumption of innocence. It's not that a bunch of ostensibly intelligent, socially conscious grown-ups let their liberal guilt-fest overtake the facts of a case, convicting 46 innocent young men in the court of public opinion as a ticket to the hippest candlelight vigil of the decade.
It's that, even now, they're not ashamed of it. And, until they are, I'm afraid Durham, Duke, future athletes, future rape victims, the local justice system and race relations are all -- what's the word? -- "Nifonged."
Mary Katharine Ham blogs at http://www.townhall.com/blog
PING!
DukeLax player to be on H & C tonight, Monday, Jan. 8, 2007
http://www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes/index.html
Thanks.
I may have to sneak to the bedroom to watch. Mr. RR will have the TV on for the BCS Game.
I'll try to find a TV not tuned to the game.
Will Colmes follow the pot-banger "plan of action" talking points? /dumbquestion
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