Saturday, May 13: Lo and behold, there’s a DNA connection between the stripper and her “boyfriend” and none between her and the three men who supposedly brutally raped, sodomized, and beat her. What a stunning feat! This post is closed. Discuss the new evidence here.
Update V (5/11): So we waited patiently for the second round of DNA testing, and all we get is a possible or “partial match” between the stripper and a phantom “third suspect”? OK. We’ll play along. Is there still no DNA link between the stripper and the two men who were indicted for the crime? What about the broom? Is this new evidence his strongest?
The hearing on May 18, my friends, is the main event. Nifong will have to show his hand. Any poker players in the audience?
Consider this: The DNA was found on one of the stripper’s fake nails, which was found in the bathroom trashcan. With a bunch of young, unattached, partying, testosterone-filled men sharing a bathroom, I won’t even try to guess what else was in the garbage. So male DNA “possibly” matching one of the 46 players was found on the discarded nail, and this is why Nifong is going forward with the case? My seven-year-old nephew could figure this out. 
Update IV (5/10 @ 8:39 p.m.): So the Duke stripper identified four men? I can’t wait to see how all this plays out. I predict that most of Nifong’s “evidence” will be suppressed.
Update III (5/10): May 18 hearing set in Duke rape case.
Update II: Durham City Manager Patrick Baker valiantly defends his city’s police force and sets the record straight.
I just hope he realizes that race baiters and opportunists who write waste-of-time-and-money grievance-hunting reports, disgruntled liberals, radical feminists, covetous types, and other flame-throwers aren’t interested in what’s true or false. All that matters now is how to get the most mileage (shakedowns, skin color preferences, media coverage, book deals, etc.) out of this nasty mess.
Paul at Power Line writes:
A report commissioned by the president of Duke University concluded that the university “underestimated” the rape allegations against members of the lacrosse team in part because the Durham police intially said that the accuser “kept changing her story and was not credible.” … To say that Duke underestimated the rape allegations is one way of putting it. However, given the statements by the police about the accuser’s conflicting stories, one might just as easily say that Duke is overestimating them now.
Indeed. By the way, the Power Line guys improved their news site. It loads faster and includes video feeds.
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Everybody has an agenda. Some agendas are objectively good; others reek.
The more we learn about the alleged rape in Durham, North Carolina, the more implausible it seems to everyone but politically invested DA Mike Nifong. Get this. The Duke stripper initially claimed she was raped by 20 white men, then changed it to three. That’s important. It tends to cast doubt on her veracity, and the police were right to disbelieve her.
This info was gleaned from a report commissioned by Duke University’s effete, politically correct (that may be redundant), and scared president. The authors of the report are Julius Chambers (pictured right), a “civil rights” attorney and former chancellor at the black college attended by the stripper, and William Bowen (pictured below left), co-author of Shape of the River, a book singing the praises of skin color privileges for black people. No biases and presuppositions there, right?
Instead of headlining the 20-men-raped-me claim, newspapers and their web sites prefer these nuggets: “Duke University response to rape allegations was too slow,” “Durham police downplayed allegations,” “Duke faulted in rape case.”
The point of the initial 20-men allegation, given that we now know DNA testing failed to connect any of the 46 white players to the accuser, is the complete and total outrageousness of the claim, not the police officers’ response to it. If the stripper exaggerated about how many men raped her, what else was she exaggerating or lying about? It was perfectly reasonable for the police to have doubted her claim, especially if they routinely deal with rape claims that turn out to be false.
But forget that. There’s something else particularly vomit-inducing and irrelevant in the report:
Brodhead [Duke's scared president] and others did not learn about the racial aspects of the case until March 24 “a gap in communications that is extraordinary,” the report concluded…The report said Duke’s response was also limited by its lack of diversity in senior management; Brodhead and his core advisers are almost all white men.
The case may have been handled better “if a wide array of life histories and perspectives had been brought to bear on what were sensitive and highly charges issues,” the report said.
Why, I ask in a most humble manner, is it significant that the president and his cronies didn’t learn of the “racial aspects” of the case right away? How would it have changed how they conducted the investigation?
And where, I ask while diligently suppressing rage, is the evidence that skin color diversity is somehow correlated with or connected to how well “senior management” handles such cases? I need to get a copy of that report. There’s always the possibility that the left-leaning mainstream media are misreporting the findings. It’s also possible that the New York Knicks will win another championship in my lifetime.
[Update @ 2:36 p.m.: I found the report in the last place I looked: Duke's web site. I just realized a commenter linked to it yesterday, too. Yeah, I'm a little slow. Anyway, Let us read it together (PDF)]
As you ponder those questions, I’ll wrap it up. Knowing that I’ll probably get more hate mail for this, I’ll say it anyway. That stripper is one twisted sister. She needs a less destructive outlet for her gang-rape fantasies. Perhaps she should write romance novels or ask her publicist to get her a spot on one of those brain cell-killing reality shows.
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More Duke rape posts than you can stand (from earliest to most recent):
- Is Duke Stripper Channeling Tawana Brawley?
- Fake Rape at Duke: Next Steps
- The ‘Black’ Helen of Troy?
- No (Public) Indictment in Duke Rape Case…
- Duke Rape Case: Vulgarity, Hypocrisy, Double Standards, Myths, Money, Etc
- Duke Lacrosse Lawyer Demands Evidence
- Rape Shield Law and the Duke Rape Case
