Ann Coulter: The stripper has no clothes

Human Events ^ | Jan 17, 2007 | Ann Coulter

[ml/nj]

Anna rocks

Ann's nice too.

ML/NJ

[Alberta's Child]

The university may have exposed itself to a defamation suit when it suspended those students over what has turned out to be a completely fabricated criminal case.

The public statements against the accused by the school's president and various faculty members sure didn't help, either.

If I were one of those students I would sue the school for defamation, and list the total dollar value of the school's endowment (which is about $5 billion, if my memory serves me correctly) as the civil damages. I'd then offer to settle out of court to recover just my legal expenses -- but only if the university agrees to sell off its facilities and move the school more than 100 miles away from Durham, North Carolina.

That ought to throw the whole thing into political, economic, and social chaos for at least a decade or so.

[Joe Boucher]

good job. Thanks

[ArmyTeach]

Why would the university be sued? Because the school, which should have been a bastion of deliberation and reason, was part and parcel of the rush to judgment. The administration never counseled that the accused must be considered innocent until proven guilty. They pulled all their support, fired the coach, while the evidence was still in question. The ad placed in the school paper by the faculty, as well as the loud and virulent demonstrations on campus,indirectly or directly assumed the accused to be guilty. Hopefully this case will be closed, but that won't end the damage to these young men's lives.

[teledude]

[derllak]

Yeah, let's give the classy girls equal time.....I get sick of hearing about the tramps lately.

[perfect stranger]

Ping to the weekly Coulter!

[Safetgiver]

I think 68 professors taking a stand against the students in a publication answers your query.

[ardara]

I would say that Coach K's silence IS still deafening.His athletic director has been reported as one of the administrators,who leaned on the lacross players from the very beginning of the case.

[Fairview]

"(w)orse, perhaps, than the other recent Times embarrassments." For a newspaper that carries Maureen Dowd's column, that's saying something.

Oh, Ann, my dear girl, I do love your writing.

[Revolting cat!]

The stripper has no clothes

Photographic evidence?

[SauronOfMordor]

If I were one of those students I would sue the school for defamation, and list the total dollar value of the school's endowment (which is about $5 billion, if my memory serves me correctly) as the civil damages

I'm thinking that Duke is hoping that the jury pool for such a case would be composed of mostly minorities

[basil]

bump for later

[Citizen Soldier]

If I am not mistaken, Duke is a methodist university. The chucrch supports it too.

[Crolis]

I hope they are reduced to community college stature.

That would be an insult to community colleges. :)

[Rummyfan]

Programming Alert:

Ann will be on H&C tonight at 9 PM.

[maggief]

Dukelax ping!

[chesty_puller]

Happiness is reading Ann Coulter in Free Republic

I think that alone is worth $10.00 a month.

[mathluv]

The coach was fired. Some students were suspended. Faculty wrote letters supporting the 'victim'. -- Those was the first things that come to mind.

[cgk]

Beginning with the strongest invented evidence from Gottlieb's "case notes," the Times reported that the nurse who examined the alleged rape victim told Gottlieb that the "blunt force trauma" seen in the examination "was consistent with the sexual assault that was alleged by the victim." Or at least that's what Gottlieb wrote four months after talking to the nurse. It's not what the nurse wrote the night she examined the accuser. To the contrary, the only sign of physical trauma the nurse noted in her written report immediately after examining the accuser were some superficial scratches on the woman's knee and heel. Indeed, in all 24 pages of the report prepared by doctors and nurses who examined the accuser the night of the alleged rape, there is no mention of any "blunt force trauma" or any injuries other than the scratches. Also contradicting Gottlieb's hindsight memo were the notes taken by another policeman during their interview with the accuser -- not four months later -- saying she described her assailants as "chubby," with a "chubby face" and weighing "260-270" pounds. That description fit none of the eventual defendants -- whom >u>she repeatedly failed to pick out of photo lineups until Gottlieb finally gave up and presented her with a photo lineup of only Duke lacrosse players, to ensure that she couldn't guess wrong. But according to Gottlieb's hindsight memo, the accuser described one of her rapists as "baby-faced, tall, lean" -- just like one of the actual defendants!

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Holey moley!