Until Proven Innocent (Thomas Sowell)

GOPUSA ^ | October 11, 2007 | Thomas Sowell

[Lizavetta]

Don’t forget Walter Williams.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Excellent piece!

[jazusamo]

I was thinking that very thing about ten minutes ago, he really outdid himself this week.

[jazusamo]

Correct, Walter Williams is right in there with them.

[ArmyTeach]

Bravo, Dr. Sowell. One of my heroes, a patriot in thought and deed.
The fact is that for the last several decades I have seen the emergence of what I think of as and ever increasing and more virulent ‘witch hunt’ mentality. Political correctness, used against the Duke Lax team as well as our Marines in Haditha, is just a modern version of the witch hunt in a world where the dogma of multi-culti reigns and American is always evil.
Oh well, just spinnin’ my wheels.

[syriacus]

Great column! Thanks for posting it.

[facedown]

The "rule of law" is not just a pat phrase. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

And therin lies the problem.

We no longer have the rule of law.

All we have now is the rules of lawyers.

[cpdiii]

Jackson is one of the most repulsive people in the country, IMO. He’s both a racist and race baiter and does the black communities no favors.

:You are wrong sir. Jesse Jackson is not a racist. He is a con man. Today the best con in town is racial division. His business is the hate business and he is very successful at it.

[quikdrw]

Mr. Sowell writes his columns so that there can be no argument. I always learn something when I read whatever he has written.

[Hostage]

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ping.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Until Proven Innocent:
Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices
of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor, KC Johnson

Awesome reviews at Amazon . . . I think the press coverage of Nifong's rampage ranks right up there with that of the fraudulent "Texas Air National Guard memos" case, and the Florida 2000 At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election by Bill Sammon (2002)
as examples of the fact that the Associated Press should be hit with a RICO suit.

And yes, you could add in the hearing coverage which Clarence Thomas styled "a hi-tech lynching" to that list.

[slowhandluke]

Nor was that the only place where the guilt of the players was virtually taken for granted, on either the sports pages of the Times or in other places there or in other newspapers. However, let me correct a misstatement that I made recently in this column to the effect that the Times' editorial page gave the same impression as its news coverage that the accused students were guilty.

There's another point to be made here on how the news and sports pages were used to deliver the "They are guilty!" opinion, yet it did not show up on the opinion page.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the link to that excellent review, cIc. I agree that the AP should be held accountable for their atrocious reporting, they’ve had it their way too long.

[jazusamo]

I agree and I’ll bet there were many editors and opinion writers just itching to get in the fray but were smart enough to realize they better not.

[Old Professer]

I’m afraid it comes to us by way of an apology to the New York Times editor who e-mailed him; by reiterating his earlier criticisms of the media at large and the Times specifically he did his best here to not allow the deeper issue of the Times’ lack of editorial caution on all its departments to go unmentioned.