Posted on 04/11/2007 6:27:06 AM PDT by tsmith130
Damn! Will be on Fox today with Neil Cavuto.
I guess Cavuto has been preempted by Duke LAX families.
I revised my comments, as you would have seen had you looked at the many, many replies.
Thanks for kind words.
Speaking of which- I hope THIS gets some circulation-...from FRED on the Duke LAX situation...in January:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmZlOWUwOWQyNzFhN2E2MGNmNmY3MDJmNGM0NjU5Yjk=
You know, I not only play a prosecutor on TV, I used to actually be one. So when I see something like the farce that’s playing out in North Carolina it makes my blood boil.
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, who brought the Duke Lacrosse players rape case, has violated just about every rule in the prosecutor’s book. He sat on evidence that indicated the defendant’s innocence. The alleged victim’s statements were inconsistent and he had never even talked to her when he brought the rape charges, which he has now had to dismiss. The attorney for one of the Duke students tried to show Nifong physical evidence which would have demonstrated that the student was not even present when the alleged incident took place but Nifong refused to meet with him. The whole the time he was making public statements alleging the defendant’s guilt.
Now Nifong’s case is crumbling and the North Carolina Bar Association, as well as the North Carolina DA’s Association, is on his case. He’s facing much-deserved calls for his resignation. Maybe this will remind us just how important and powerful these prosecutor’s jobs are. People’s freedom, reputations, and very lives are in their hands. And, as one wag so aptly put it: A prosecutor could, indeed, get a ham sandwich indicted if he wanted to. My experience is that the large majority of them are dedicated public servants But when one of them gives in to self interest and public pressure no greater injustice can be imagined.
In the North Carolina case, 88 Duke professors (civil libertarians, I’m sure), praised the DA and many in the black community pressured him as he rushed to judgment against these accused students in the midst of his reelection campaign. And for the media the story had everything — sex, rich vs. poor, the racial element — everything but proof of guilt. These accused young men are forever tarnished, but at least they can afford to defend themselves. What about the less fortunate who cannot? There is a lot at stake when we go to the polls to vote for a local prosecutor. We should never forget that. They, like judges they sometime have to stand against the howling mob, not become a part of it.
Fred Thompson- 12 January, 2007
Interview on Cavuto now!
YESSSSSSSSS!!!
I absoulutely love this man.
I absoulutely love this man.
Worth saying twice!
and a 4 month old child. Way to go Fred.
ROFL...It wasn’t on purpose- but you’re right!
Listening to him on FOX...Neil does an excellent job of nailing him on Tsongas and all the other hard questions the media will ask him...
Ah Neil their will be a ground swell of money, once he announces. I am not donating to anyone yet.
The Republican party seems to be cursed.
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After reading this quote I firmly believe Fred is running, he’s simply getting this information out for public consumption before he formally announces. Fred wants to avoid any public backlash that would result if he tried to couch the info. I’ll bet President Bush wishes he had done the same thing before the launch of his 2000 campaign when he should have revealed his DUI arrest in Maine when he was a young man. That leak from the Gore/Lieberman campaign on the weekend before election Tuesday almost swung the election to Al. Fred, you’re a smart man, you’ve got my vote.
I viewed the replies.
Bad news. I wish him well, but I don’t think he can run a vigorous campaign now.
Fred, I pray for you to stay well. But in all selfishness PLEASE RUN!!!!! Your COUNTRY needs you in the White House!!!!!!!
Ooooooooooooooo
Poor Fred
Yes, but he will be OK. The Lord must have received a trillion prayers today AT THE SAME TIME when this news broke, lol! He will be our next President!!!
Why not?
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