Posted on 05/30/2010 10:42:12 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
What will it take for the MSM to stop smearing the falsely-accused Duke lacrosse players? Judging by the performance of ESPN's Steve Weissman this morning, legal exoneration is not enough.
Introducing an ESPNNEWS item on a lacrosse game between Duke and the University of Virginia, Weissman claimed that three years ago, the Duke team had been involved in "a devastating scandal," and that while the accused players had been exonerated, "the questions remain."
View video here.
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Sorry, here’s a better direct link to the video.
And no ads or flash crap.
Thank me later.
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=XdqG2GqGpr
Sue the ahole for libel. What a turd.
So they deserved what they got, you’re saying?
No one deserves to be lied about. The guilt is one Crystal, the DA,and the corrupt cops. why have they never been called to account?
While the crime they were charged with was false, what they did was also a crime, and if not currently on the books it should be.
You know what? That's true.You know what else? You are a hypocrite.It serves less than no purpose to discuss the sins of some individual in the context of their having been - and still being - gratuitously harassed. It is nothing more than additional gratuitous harassment.
Because no one has had been sufficiently POed enough to take em out.
no kidding. their lawyers need to fire off letters demanding on air apologies
to duke players. players have won some settlements already.
that should scare weisman.
If its not currently on the books, then it is not a crime.
Even the one of the three who left immediately when the strippers arrived, and wasn’t even present when the whole “locked in the bathroom scene” went down?
Wow, I won’t say what I really think of that. Other than that you’re probably too ignorant about these events to be posting about them.
I don't think there's any question whatsoever about their ethics and bias.
Nope, the two girls were hired for erotic dancing at a private party, not prostitution. No crime for dancing, so the boys were legit.
There were 122 claims of rape in the Durham area in 2006.
One of them generated over 100,000 print articles.
You never heard about the other 121.
Ask the media why.
You did not succeed. In being ‘civil’.
Hiring strippers and pole dancers should be a misdemeanor anywhere near a college campus. What do YOU want *kids* to learn, by insisting that their morals be broken at ease?
btw, in 2007 a white Duke student was raped in a bathroom at an off-campus party thrown by a black Duke frat, at which black Duke athletes had been present. A gun and bags of drugs were found at the house.
The rapist (confessed), while out on bail, raped another woman.
You probably never heard about that one, either.
Ask the media why.
(There were no demonstrations, either.
No coaches were fired, no seasons cancelled.
Ask the Duke faculty and Admin. why.)
“Hiring strippers and pole dancers should be a misdemeanor anywhere near a college campus.”
OK by me. Some 20 groups at Duke hired strippers that year, including a sorority who put pictures of the (male) dancers
up on the NET.
The lacrosse party was to compensate for the players have to remain behind to practice and miss Spring Break. (What were other college students doing nationwide during Spring Break?)
The law can and has been in tames and places, wrong.
The same immoral, amoral, ‘what’s wrong with that’ atmosphere of the Duke community — as most US college campuses today — has spawned many socially destructive behaviors and also is the breeding ground for idiotic morality-system substitutes such as Marxism, feminism, wacko environmentalism and other wacko cults.
That’s just a boring and inane rehash of the old ‘everybody does it’ defense. Worked for Bill Clinton, too. Is that what you *really* want to have in our culture?
Hey jake-the-hall-monitor, pull my posting license then ...
What I’m saying is they went and chased after trouble to invite it in. And Trouble invited friends.
The only question that remains is if ESPN’s Steve Weissman has come out of the closet yet.
“That’s just a boring and inane rehash of the old ‘everybody does it’ defense. Worked for Bill Clinton, too. Is that what you *really* want to have in our culture?”
No. But I do notice when the first time society at large complains about these issues is when Duke lacrosse players do what “everybody does”.
As well, the specific accused students didn’t hire the strippers; left almost immediately (after the four-minute “non-show”); and then were accused of hanging around afterward for a half-hour struggle and gang-rape.
And after that, nothing—not even being cleared by DNA tests—could get society—the media, their school, the prosecutor—to admit that they were innocent.
And some in society—as evidenced by the ESPN story—still won’t admit it.
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