Posted on 04/13/2007 2:14:47 PM PDT by CedarDave
Terry Moran of ABC News has written a blog item entitled "Don't Feel Too Sorry for the Dukies." As a compendium of fashionable attitudes toward the Duke case, it is incomparable. It's instructive to go through it to examine those attitudes and why they are so noxious.
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... America should be grateful their families had the resources to pursue their exoneration, as the process revealed that a the criminal-justice system in a city of 275,000 people was being run by a conscienceless sociopath. [Nifong's] certain prosecution and [removal] from office [will] spare untold numbers of others who might be subject to his prosecutorial whim.
Including poor people. Including African-Americans.
Finally, Moran offers one of those cutesy, let's-roll-the-news-events-of-the-moment-into-a-neat-package sentence when he says dismissively that the three men are "are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women's basketball team."
Yes, they are. They spent a year in torment, as did their families. They and their families incurred huge legal fees (and it says something about Terry Moran, awash in a multi-million-dollar network contract, that he might think "well-heeled people" can afford $1 million plus in legal fees without suffering hundreds of sleepless nights over them and the possibility of having to, say, go into hock for the rest of their lives).
The Rutgers women's basketball team was insulted by a shock jock, and in about 12 minutes became America's darlings. I'd say the Duke three were "differently situated." With the exception of Don Imus, America has greeted the Rutgers team as heroes. Most of elite America was certain for months that these three men were guilty of rape.
Maybe Terry Moran should get someone to plagiarize his blog items, the way Katie Couric did. They'd be a whole lot better.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
Adding to the Kafkaesque aspects of the nightmare for the boys and their families (to me, anyway) was that as the story broke, The Sopranos was airing the awful episodes where Tony was stuck in some sort of coma/dream sequence limbo between life and hell. Except that he wasn't Tony Soprano in the dream, he was "Kevin Finnerty", which just happened to be the name of the father of Colin Finnerty.
If his father watched The Sopranos, I think it would have been a very weird additional oddity.
“very differently situated”
You bet.
Let me tell you how differently situated they are. The media instantly knocked them to the ground and continually bet them to a pulp for months with no dissenting voice even wondering whether they might be innocent of the charges.
When is the last time the media did that to a person of color? Any color?
Don’t ask me. I can’t remember “never”.
Terry Moran is one of the people contributing to the toxic environment in this country. I wish he’d just shut up. No matter if your completely exonerated, you’re still guilty in the eyes of this fatuous liberal. Why? Because you’re white and affluent.
I’m not watching anything on ABC.
...and Terry Moran calls himself a reporter. Sad. Very sad.
One day I can only hope he finds himself in dire straights and someone of is ilk writes this kind of trash about him, being the well-heeled individual that he is.
So much for moral clarity, Moron... Oops! I mean Moran.
He will go in the next round of layoffs. Let him have his last hurrah.
Any color? Right off the top of my head, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld.
Not that I don't take your point.
Terry Moran (Moron) is gay according to a cached copy of wikipedia:
“Since 1998, Terry has lived with his partner, Steven Klopin..”
No surprise about him being the gayleft mafia.
The entry was taken away, but it was once there.
If you google Terry Moran and gay, there are people here at FR who think he’s gay as well. Not that there are straight idiots too, but the gayleft mafia is endemic in journalism.
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