Posted on 12/13/2016 5:27:54 AM PST by LRoggy
One way to look at the election of Donald Trump is that it is a repudiation of the cult of political correctness that thrives — metastasizes might be a better word — on college and university campuses. One particularly egregious example, the bogus prosecution of Duke University lacrosse players in 2006 and 2007, seems to have had particular reverberations in producing election results this year, a decade later. For a definitive account of the disgraceful behavior of Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, Duke President Richard Brodhead and dozens of members of the Duke faculty, see KC Johnson and Stuart Taylor's book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.
One of the few Duke undergraduates to protest this injustice was Stephen Miller of the class of 2007. Miller grew up in trendy liberal Santa Monica, Calif., and, at least according to Wikipedia, became a conservative after reading Wayne LaPierre's Guns, Crime and Freedom. Miller wrote multiple articles in the Duke Chronicle and spoke in multiple cable news programs criticizing the prosecutor and Duke administrators. After graduating from Duke, Miller worked for Republicans on Capitol Hill, from 2009 to 2015 for Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions. I met Miller when he accompanied Sessions to one of David Horowitz's November gatherings at the Breakers in Palm Beach; he struck me as bright, dedicated and determined. In 2015 he left Sessions's staff with Session's hearty approval (as the senator told me on the floor of the Republican National Convention) to work for Trump's campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3c8z9eku6I
Being active in the Lacrosse community and friendly with two members of that team (who were not charged) I find this analysis pretty good. Cooper, as a Democrat, did do the right thing late in the case when he picked it up and by outperforming the Dem party in NC certainly benefited from the his actions in the case.
Interesting. It should have reverberations in every election. Fake news/lifes affected ALERT!
Perps and amplifiers remain free to lie again.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal.
The Rolling Stone lie about the “gang rape” at a UVA fraternity likely figured into the mix, as well.
Inside Baseball - Mrs. Bears is a UVA grad, and each time she gets a request for money from them she responds with the question: Has President Sullivan apologized to the brothers of Phi Kappa Psi yet? So far, she hasn’t received a response and, so far, she hasn’t sent them any money.
Political Correctness is #fakenews writ large. How many times have we seen “hate crime” hoaxes headlined and yammered about endless only to find out that it was a hoax all along. The Lacrosse case fits in with that as well, and so does the Tawana Brawley case. But, before they are exposed as hoaxes, there comes the inevitable self-flagellating demonstrations and handwringing by self-hating white people, and hate-filled invective hurled at the “white oppressors and victimizers” by a host of bitter hate-filled minorities.
The ESPN 30 for 30 on the Duke Lacrosse case was outstanding.
I have been very impressed by Stephen Miller’s warm-up speeches at Trump rallies. I did not know about his relationship to the Duke Lacrosse horror show. Writing against their treatment certainly was early prep for working with Sessions and then Trump. S M is terrific.
“the disgraceful behavior of Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, Duke President Richard Brodhead and dozens of members of the Duke faculty”
Just so no one forgets, the number of Duke faculty that declared these Lacrosse Players guilty was 88. Every one of these libs should have been fired and sued individually for defamation of character and libel.
That video, from the night that the charges were dropped, reminds us that Jane Velez-Mitchell is guest-hosting here because Nancy Disgrace suddenly had a “scheduling conflict” and couldn’t host her own show.
DukeLAX Ping to you, sirrah
The greater issue is colleges across the nation per Obama’s Title 9 redefinition handing young men to rape tribunals that don’t follow due process, don’t have presumption of innocence, don’t let men cross-examine witnesses or have multiple witnesses, sometimes don’t let them have full information about the seriousness of the charges against them and what could happen if found guilty.
Then you get the insanity of catering to “victims” where a woman was investigated for sexual assault for what she said was consensual sex (someone reported her hicky as assault), the guy who was investigated because he looked like a woman’s rapist who lived on the other side of the country, the female professor investigated under title 9 for writing a paper with a sentence challenging feminist dogma.
Ping!
PFL
Very interesting. I think Gov. McCrory blew it on other state/local issues, though, such as the Duke Power coal-ash disaster and the toll road fiasco (coming through my front yard, practically, as we type). I voted for him, but I’m not sorry he’s out, the turkey.
I hope he spends eternity on toll roads to nowhere.
Ex-Sessions aide to be Trump senior policy aide
By Ben Kamisar - 12/13/16 05:01 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed top aide Stephen Miller to be assistant to the president and senior adviser for policy.
The appointment marks the latest step in the rapid ascent of Miller, a trusted advisor of immigration hardliner Sen. Jeff Sessions. The Alabama Republican was one of the earliest lawmakers to embrace Trump, and is the president-elect’s pick for attorney general.
Miller moved to the campaign as a senior policy adviser in late January, before a single vote had been cast in the GOP primary.
Nooo kidding, wow! Thx, abb.
Stephen Miller, DukeLAX hero, one of the few on the Duke side.
What was the name of the girl reported who also did a great job?
Kristin Butler
http://ethicalduke.blogspot.com/
Friday, May 2, 2008
Kristin Butler Wins National Award
Kristin Butler recently became the top winner of The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Educational Foundation Scholarship contest, announced on April 24th. Editor and Publisher published an article about it. Surprisingly, the Chronicle opted not to report it in Monday’s paper, though they were notified, but we are posting it here nonetheless.
For later.
Is Lynn Kasper a/k/a Joan Foster of Liestopper fame still firing her lethal verbal weapons or has she successfully destroyed all that was left of the site?
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