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Fantastic Lies - ESPN Films 30 for 30
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| 3/13/16
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Posted on 03/14/2016 9:03:49 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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A must-watch documentary on the 10-year anniversary of this shameful chapter of American jurisprudence. I have to hand it to ESPN for taking a clear position on this - Nifong, Mangum, and the mainstream media were all villains in this farce. A few of the subjects this documentary interviewed infuriated me for their refusal to accept reality; however, for the most part the director got it right.
To: NohSpinZone
Wow I’m surprised...this is ABC/Disney after all...
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:05:14 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
To: NohSpinZone
Yes, excellent documentary. The 85 Bears one was also excellent.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:05:45 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(Fear is the mind killer.)
To: NohSpinZone
Cruz!
Trump!
Kasich!
Rubio!
(*ducks*)
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:05:57 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Cruz or Trump will defeat the uniparty!)
To: NohSpinZone
watched it last night...
1) i was amazed nifong got a single day in jail...
2) I wish the 3 Duke lax kid had sued everybody...
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:05:58 AM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
To: NohSpinZone
These young men were railroaded by an incompetent prosecutor. The accuser should have never been believed in the first place.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:06:12 AM PDT
by
MadIsh32
(In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
To: God luvs America
Nifong deserved more than one day in jail.
To: NohSpinZone
I saw this last night. It was tragic what Nifong did to those kids. I never saw anything about apologies from the liberal faculty or administration who went off half-cocked when the allegations surfaced.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:08:50 AM PDT
by
stratboy
To: NohSpinZone
...most important of all, how a media-obsessed country so much wanted this story to be true. I'd have phrased it, 'a Media obsessed with pushing racial division and strife, so much wanted this story to be true.'
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:11:40 AM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: stratboy
The questioning of Nifong’s DNA expert and his stunning admission under oath was as close to a Perry Mason moment as it gets.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:11:54 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: NohSpinZone
Taped it to watch tonight.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:12:45 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: headstamp 2
So was the one on the Big East and the Pony Express. The one on the Eagles owner was unwatchable.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:15:46 AM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: MadIsh32
While the kids were railroaded by a corrupt and unethical prosecutor, the tracks were laid by the university they attended and the coal tender filled by a racist left wing media pushing an agenda.
The faculty who signed that letter should all have been personally sued and made to pay huge damages. Same with every media outlet that pushed the narrative.
Tell those kids about their “white privilege.”
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:19:01 AM PDT
by
henkster
To: LS
The Big East documentary was indeed so excellent. I grew to admire Dave Gavitt very much after watching it. RIP.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:19:46 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: NohSpinZone
became a nightmare
changed lives
ruined careers
tarnished a school’s reputation
jeopardized the future of the sport at Duke
Yep, that’s the liberal world alright.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:23:28 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
To: MadIsh32
the prosecutor wasn’t incompetent, just evil.
Although he did fail to get re-elected or to cover his tracks, so perhaps “incompetent” is te word to use, after all.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:23:30 AM PDT
by
chesley
(Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
To: NohSpinZone
The stripper/whore who lied about the gang rape is doing 14+ years for stabbing her boyfriend to death. So, she has that going for her.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:26:46 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: chesley
No, he got re-elected. That was a crucial point in this story and at least one plausible explanation of this rogue prosecutor’s motives. Apparently, though, his miscarriages of justice did not start and end with the Duke case. That was also illuminating.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:29:14 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: dainbramaged
Apparently she “wrote” a book about this? I’d bet it’s up there with OJ’s “If I Did It” book in terms of un-readability.
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posted on
03/14/2016 9:31:07 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: dainbramaged
I wonder if this story hurt the stripper exotic dancer business.
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