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That Night At Duke
Newsweek by MSNBC ^ | April 15, 2007

Posted on 04/14/2007 10:00:44 PM PDT by Howlin

April 23, 2007 issue - The room went dead silent as the North Carolina attorney general, Roy Cooper, began to speak. The three Duke lacrosse players and their families were gathered in front of a TV at the Raleigh Sheraton Hotel to learn how the state would proceed in a criminal investigation that had appalled and titillated the nation for more than a year. Reade Seligmann was praying, and so was Collin Finnerty, heads bent down, bobbing slightly as the attorney general spoke slowly. The families were pretty sure, based on signals from the attorney general's office, that the case would be dropped. But when the families heard the word "innocent," they erupted. "I was hysterically crying," recalls Seligmann, a strapping 21-year-old. "Everybody was hysterically crying. People were swarmed. It was like a pile-on."

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The night didn't go well from the start. After an afternoon and evening of desultory drinking games such as Beer Pong, about 30 players were sprawled on the floor or sitting on a ring of couches arranged around the stage—a ratty, tan carpet. Evans explained to his teammates that he and the other captains had requested white dancers, but that a black woman and a Hispanic woman had shown up. No one seemed to care, according to the statement given to police by Zash. One of the strippers appeared to be intoxicated and had trouble standing up, much less dancing. Halfheartedly, she began kissing the other dancer, Kim Roberts.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: JillValentine
I replied, “Sodomy is what Nifong did to the Duke lacrosse players.”

I heard someone commenting about this the other day and he said, "I rather have a Lewinsky any day, than be Nifonged."

61 posted on 04/15/2007 6:30:39 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Many people are being held as slaves by the democrats through government assistance.)
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To: Shery

Dave Evans evidently says just that on 60 Minutes tonight, something like, “The day I die, they will say ‘One of the three Duke Lacrosse players accused of rape died today.’”

No amount of money can make up for that.


62 posted on 04/15/2007 6:51:57 AM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: woofie
Where have we seen this kind of thing before?

Ah, lemme think. That's a hard one. LOL.

I wonder if we'll ever know ALL the facts in this case, starting with that phone call?

63 posted on 04/15/2007 6:54:04 AM PDT by Howlin (Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
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To: Howlin
Roberts called the players "short d—k white boys," according to several defense attorneys. ("She did admit to saying that," says Simeon.) One player shouted back, "We asked for whites, not n——-s." Roberts yelled, "That's a racial slur, a hate crime," as she drove off with the other dancer slumped inside.

So Roberts shouts a racial statement at the boys. They reply in kind. And now SHE cries racism?

64 posted on 04/15/2007 7:22:16 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: billhilly
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Would that be you Bouchart?

So someone can not possibly have never watched strippers or gotten drunk, eh ?
Your bible forbids judging behaviors does it?
Must be an entirely different one than mine. Perhapses you use the Unitarian Universalists of Berkley translation - like the congregation over at Our Lady of the Benthanger Abortion.

65 posted on 04/15/2007 8:16:55 AM PDT by MrEdd (Always look on the bright side of life.)
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To: Bouchart

We have discussed this aspect of the Duke case into the ground. They were not degenerates. They were normal college boys.


66 posted on 04/15/2007 9:44:37 AM PDT by sissyjane (Fred!!)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Bump! Male rite of passage. We all did it.


67 posted on 04/15/2007 10:51:03 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: Howlin

That just breaks my heart. It’s true.


68 posted on 04/15/2007 10:57:23 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I never did it.


69 posted on 04/15/2007 11:04:20 AM PDT by Bouchart ("I was saying boo-urns...")
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To: Bouchart

Well, you didn’t really miss much.


70 posted on 04/15/2007 11:05:58 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: Howlin

Sadly true.


71 posted on 04/15/2007 3:37:25 PM PDT by Guenevere (Duncan Hunter for President, 2008!!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Any DA with any judgment would have investigated, discovered that the stripper’s story was a lie and dropped the case. This isn’t the first or last time that a woman has lied about this sort of thing.

The difference is that a prosecutor went so far in vilifying and victimizing the accused in the face of flimsy and contradictory evidence.


72 posted on 04/15/2007 3:42:39 PM PDT by MediaMole (9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
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To: Bouchart

[”I never did it.”]

Congratulations. I did, when I was in the Navy, and once or twice when I was still single. And I’ve been drunk more times than that. Way more.

I’m not bragging about it, just telling it like it is. So how did you avoid it when you did your military service? Most of the guys in my BEQ could be pretty persuasive about going out to paint the town.

Don’t put yourself on too high of a pedestal, or you’ll find yourself committing a worse sin than lust, or getting drunk.


73 posted on 04/15/2007 4:40:01 PM PDT by jim35 ("...when the lion and the lamb lie down together, ...we'd better damn sure be the lion")
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To: Bouchart
I’m a college student myself. I’ve never done any of these “college antics” and I expect better from others.

LOL, prepare to be disappointed.

74 posted on 04/15/2007 5:14:32 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: Bouchart
I certainly do not believe they are criminals, or that they were "deserving of a year of hell."

You go to Duke, right? Did you do anything to help them, or did you just toss sniping comments their way?

75 posted on 04/15/2007 5:33:06 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: stephenjohnbanker

...and some of us are in the thick of it 8^)


76 posted on 04/15/2007 6:13:58 PM PDT by rzeznikj at stout (Boldly Going Nowhere...)
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To: rzeznikj at stout

Keep up the tradition, lil bro!


77 posted on 04/15/2007 6:42:49 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! Or Rudy/Hillary if you want to murder conservatism)
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To: toldyou

Thanks. I think they remind us of when we were 9th graders...which brings us to:


78 posted on 04/15/2007 7:46:31 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Bouchart
Nonsense. They are degenerates.

Well then I guess I'm a degenerate too. So is every other guy on FR who has ever been to a bachelor party with strippers and booze.

Just out of curiousity, are you male or female?

79 posted on 04/15/2007 7:49:07 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Male.


80 posted on 04/15/2007 8:00:01 PM PDT by Bouchart ("I was saying boo-urns...")
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