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One Step Too Far - At the heart of both the Imus and Duke scandals is arrogance.
National Review Online ^ | April 19, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/19/2007 10:29:22 AM PDT by neverdem

Edited on 04/19/2007 10:35:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

In the past week, Don Imus was fired, all charges against the Duke University lacrosse players were dropped, and almost everyone has offered a sermon about the racial and class issues involved in both cases. But we need look only to the Ancient Greeks for the best insight.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arrogance; duke; imus; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 04/19/2007 10:29:24 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: Tolik

VDH: Nemesis As Comeuppance Ping!


2 posted on 04/19/2007 10:33:48 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

I’ll feel better when it is finally apparent that something is going to be done to Nifong, Mangum, and the lying 88.


3 posted on 04/19/2007 10:35:31 AM PDT by chesley ("Socialism" - The devil made them do it..)
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To: neverdem

Imus wouldn’t dare call Don Ho’s wife and give his concodlences.


4 posted on 04/19/2007 10:41:02 AM PDT by Lokibob (Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
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To: chesley
I’ll feel better when it is finally apparent that something is going to be done to Nifong, Mangum, and the lying 88.

I wouldn't bet on Mangum and the lying 88. The former seems to be a certifiable loon that consistently confabulates different stories. Nothing can happen to the lying 88 while there is political correctness and jury nullification.

5 posted on 04/19/2007 10:50:12 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

If anyone ought to be resigning it ought to be Brian Williams of NBC, and whomever made the decision to go for ratings first and aired that damned demented video by Cho.


6 posted on 04/19/2007 10:55:59 AM PDT by OldFriend
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To: neverdem

So Nemesis is still asleep. But we knew that.

Although taking Nifong down should send an appropriate chill down the spines of the Fitzgeralds of the world. I hope.


7 posted on 04/19/2007 10:56:40 AM PDT by chesley ("Socialism" - The devil made them do it..)
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To: OldFriend
If anyone ought to be resigning it ought to be Brian Williams of NBC, and whomever made the decision to go for ratings first and aired that damned demented video by Cho.

I disagree. I think the left should embrace the nut job, Cho Seung-Hui, as their hero. The left have been saying the same stuff as his incoherent rant for decades.

8 posted on 04/19/2007 11:08:21 AM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

Same too at Virginia Tech. The school administration felt ‘empowered’ to strip naked the students. The anointed, with supposedly superior knowledge, the administrators. Too bad Chu didn’t go to the administrators.


9 posted on 04/19/2007 12:24:57 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: neverdem


While Imus stumbled over his words at MSNBC as he tried to say he was praising the fiercely
competitive Rutgers women basketball players by singing "happy-headed hosannas"
(note the alliteration if only he had been properly quoted), we must ask "Where do
white hos and the victims of blond, Polish, German and Jewish American Princess jokes
go to get back their reputations back or, alternatively, their reparations compensation?"

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10 posted on 04/19/2007 4:42:02 PM PDT by OESY
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To: neverdem; Lando Lincoln; quidnunc; .cnI redruM; SJackson; dennisw; monkeyshine; Alouette; ...


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Links:    FR Index of his articles:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
                His website: http://victorhanson.com/
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11 posted on 04/20/2007 11:50:49 AM PDT by Tolik (If you don't agree with me 102% of the time, you're a RINO)
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