Duke Rape Case: Skanks, Greed, and Shattered Lives
The Bear on Oct 18 2006 at 8:24 am | Filed under: Need to Know
“60 Minutes” — the show that tried to pass off obviously phony documents critical of President George Bush’s service in the National Guard as authentic, perpetrating a fraud on national television in order to help John Kerry’s political aspiration to become president of the United States — slightly redeemed itself last night.
Rather than playing hard left politics, the old dudes actually did what journalists are supposed to do: present facts to the American people. Host Ed Bradley said “60 Minutes” examined the case file, and it raised concerns about the police who investigated the alleged gang-rape and Mike Nifong, the district attorney in charge of the flimsy case.
There wasn’t much new information in last night’s “60 Minutes” segment, which featured “second stripper” and embezzler Kim Roberts and indicted-for-rape Duke lacrosse players David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty. For instance, the “big” news is that Roberts contradicted the stripper-accuser’s story, but we’ve known for months there were multiple versions floating around.
1) Two weeks after she supposedly was raped and sodomized, the stripper-accuser was taking off her clothes again for money. But I guess she had to eat and feed her children. Poor, oppressed stripper!
2) A Duke law professor named James Coleman (where has he been???) said the same thing about DA Mike Nifong that I’ve been saying since April. Confident that the stripper-accuser’s gang-rape fantasy was real and certain that DNA would prove it, Nifong had to indict somebody, although the DNA results connected ZERO white lacrosse players to the stripper-accuser. Instead, the DNA found inside her belonged to her black “boyfriend.” Oops!
Coleman, who I wished had spoken up sooner, said what people of average intelligence already knew: the photo identification process violated standard police procedure, local, state, and federal guidelines. The photo array was comprised of Duke lacrosse players and no fillers (non-lacrosse players). All the stripper-accuser had to do was point to three white faces.
And ruin three lives.
Here’s what was new to me:
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