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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That is one weird lookin’ dude. But not nearly as weird looking as weird thinking. The only question remaining is why Crystal isn’t in the slammer.
We should all write to ESPN and demand that Weissman explain his comments or forever hold his peace (while employed elsewhere).
Questions remain why the media jumped all over this fake story and completely ignored the Frank Lombard story.
What would Joe Paterno have done had there been no accusation of rape, if the girls had just come in, danced and stripped, redressed, got paid and left and he had heard about the party? Just wondering ....
Let me guess. Basketball and Coach K were somehow involved?
How is this not libelous? Is ESPN open to litigation for continuing this attack on the Duke lacrosse players?
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So even when you are corrected, you persist in arrogant ignorance. Lovely.
Not for the likes of such as you to ‘correct’ me, I guess.
“What I’m saying is they went and chased after trouble to invite it in. And Trouble invited friends.”
Right. They’re college kids. They were also accused in an official report of “suspicion” of throwing water during a water fight. (Horrors.)
But because it suited so many people with agendas, they were pilloried in the media as “bad actors” with a long history of bad behavior, which simply wasn’t true. But no one wanted to give pu the storyline (or the agendas).
Do me a favor, tell your wife that being in a water fight with your pals is the same hiring a stripper for poker night at your house.
On the other hand, in these morally insane times, maybe that’s just fine with her, eh?
In any case, the parallel you gave ain’t a parallel.
“Do me a favor, tell your wife that being in a water fight with your pals is the same hiring a stripper for poker night at your house.
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“In any case, the parallel you gave ain’t a parallel.”
My point was that if that’s the worst that could be found to say against the players, then the concocted media narrative that they were bad actors was simply convenient fiction.
(as well, many of the players did not even know there were going to be strippers until they were asked to contribute to their fees)
No one put a hand (or anything else) on them the entire time they were there. Take your narrative somewhere else.
Those who left when they heard of it did well, but still, why did they have to leave?
Because the company of fellows on that team was dominated by fellows that needed a harsh lesson. In other words, it was bad company. Hang out with bad company and risk this kind of spiraling out of control cascade of events.
Those who though it was just honky dory to hire ‘adult dancers’ — why were they the opinion leaders of the team?
What exactly is YOUR reading level? Third grade? Grow up.
“Those who though it was just honky dory to hire ‘adult dancers’ — why were they the opinion leaders of the team?”
They were the seniors. Freshmen hardly even talk to seniors, and vice-versa; but they go to a team event when the team schedules an event.
And if we punished everyone who ever attended an event at which there were ‘adult dancers’, we’d have to punish everyone who ever went to a bachelor party, a frat party, etc.—IOW, about half the population of male America.
Another QFE!
I’m just saying have higher MORAL expectations. Espcially of kids and young adults in school. If we don’t fiercely protect the morality in the social fabric, the whole fabric of society frays, unwinds, and shreds to garbage. Cheap morality substitutes like fundy Islam, Marxism and the heartless bullying and sexually exploiting libertine selfish ethos of Sodom take over.
Just some markers of social decay:
“You show me another business in Cumberland County that has created 30 jobs for people.”
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2010/4/8/yakima-may-get-strip-club
“It’s a moneymaker for the city!”
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/24/legal-loophole-allows-rhode-island-minors-to-strip/
“A 16-year-old young girl from Boston who was found stripping in a club. They couldn’t charge the perpetrators because there’s no law banning minors from working in adult entertainment zones.”
Let’s not forget that he may be a sexual predator as well.
#6,,,Free gerbils???
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