Monday, October 23: This post is closed to commenting, but you may continue the discussion at Duke Rape Case: The Bloggers.
Update II (10/17): Crack of dawn shout-up from Lucianne. Thanks!
Update: Justice 4 Two Sisters, (former?) defender of the strippers, writes:
“First, by this point I’ve given up hope the child’s [Kim Roberts] attorney, Mark Simeon, has any control of her wardrobe choices, with that skirt she was sporting slit up to her pelvic bone…Secondly, the glibness of her responses sounded more like she was being grilled by a boyfriend about her whereabouts that night, rather than the facts in a felony sexual assault case… Even though I’ve defended her here, based on her actions, clearly the almighty dollar is what drives Ms. Kim to do anything.”
————————————————————————————————
“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.
Here’s what was new to me:
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.
As Nifong’s case collapsed, he came up with alternative theories about condom use. The stripper-accuser said no one used a condom during the alleged gang-rape and that somebody ejaculated inside her. Yet, to account for the embarrassing DNA results, Nifong continued to contradict his own witness!
What an utter doofus.
The stripper-accuser’s luck is as rotten as it can get. Not only did she make up a gang-rape story, she happened to blame it on the three people least likely to have done it! Seligmann has an alibi supported by a paper trail. He says he tried to tell the police and Nifong about it, but they refused to talk to him. Finnerty says he also has a provable alibi. Evans and the other two say they did nothing wrong. They weren’t even among the group that called Roberts a “nigger.” Seligmann says he didn’t say it and won’t accept responsibility for others saying it.
By the way, Roberts started the whole verbal exchange by calling one or more players “small dick white boy(s).” She whined, “They could have said anything else. They could have said ‘black’ but they said ‘nigger.’”
That’s a lot of nerve. Hitting below the belt and questioning a man’s physical endowments, a very sensitive area to begin with, and Roberts is surprised the “white boys” retaliated and called her a nigger?
All in all, I’m glad the indicted men decided to go on national TV. I have problems with the left-leaning legacy media show, but they came down squarely on the side of fairness. Best of all, “60 Minutes” acknowledged that Nifong played up the race angle and pandered to blacks. I gagged once or twice as Bradley kept referring to the strippers as “dancers,” but I got it under control eventually.
Wherever the false accuser is, I hope her conscience is eating her alive. Until she rectifies this mess, which means coming forward and confessing she made up the whole thing, and apologizing to Evans, Seligmann, and Finnerty, I hope she never has a moment’s peace. I hope her lies are taking a toll on her health. I hope the damage she’s doing to innocent lives causes tenfold damage to her own.
If anyone out there still believes David Evans, Reade Seligmann, or Collin Finnerty raped a black stripper on March 13, 2006, you’re willfully deaf and blind.
And stupid.
—————————————————————————————————————-
Previous posts: I’ve been blogging about this case since April. If you’re a new reader, browse at least a few of the 25 posts in the Duke Rape Case category before you comment.
Quick links: Nifong regrets early statements to the media; echos of Scottsboro; Nifong goes after bloggers; one damning motion after another; journalist calls lacrosse women ignorant for supporting the men; 1,300-discovery bolsters the defense; Duke president Richard Brodhead commissions a biased panel to issue a report; and Tawana Brawley redux.
Duke bloggers: John in Carolina, The Johnsville News, Lie Stoppers, Durham-in-Wonderland, Crystal Mess…
Other sources:
- Duke and the Death of Academe — commentary
- Duke Three End Silence
- Duke players say lives ruined over rape case
- Duke case’s new claims
- Suspects, dancer contradict accuser
