The REAL Criminals In The Duke Case

So they've dismissed the charges in the Duke rape case. Video of the press conference here. Now the little bimbo who leveled the charges should have charges brought against HER, along with that weasel Nifong. This whole thing smells a lot like the Tawana Brawley incident, doesn't it? Wonder if "Rev." Al is lurking in the shadows somewhere? We might find out later on that this NHH is his niece or something.

But seriously now, shouldn't she be responsible for the millions of dollars this case has cost the state, and the unbelievable anguish and trauma it has caused the players and their families? Want to bet you won't hear much outrage on the Left about THIS? However, we'll be hearing about Don Imus for weeks to come. Talk about your screwed up priorities.

Imagine if the accuser had been white and the accused black. Think the Al and Jesse Show would be all over it? Like white on rice.

JASmius adds: As you might have expected, El Rushbo drew the necessary parallel:

[T]he character of the city of Durham, the character of the DA, Michael Nifong, the character of the police in Durham, the character of Duke University, and the newspapers in Durham and Raleigh, as well as the newspapers like the New York Times. The Drive-By Media in total, their character was also revealed. Today, all the words that they all hid behind were thrown away, and we see them for what they are. The New York Times, the local media in North Carolina, the Duke University faculty and the administration there, are a bunch of racists, a bunch of liberal [e.g. anti-white] racists who simply saw a template that their little closed-world belief system has adopted, and when they had all the elements in that template plugged in, man, they just jumped on it and embarrassed themselves to no end.

I see also, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, that Oprah Winfrey, the Oprah, is having the Rutgers ladies basketball team on her show as guests. So I went to the Oprah.com website. I wanted to see when she was having the Duke lacrosse team on her show. There must be a scheduling problem there, because I don't see it there yet. I don't see the Duke lacrosse team scheduled on the Oprah show, but we'll keep a sharp eye on that website and when we find out that the Oprah has scheduled the Duke lacrosse team, we will let you know....

You'll be waiting a loooooong time for that appearance, folks. The next Limbaugh quote segues into the reason why:

I want to point this out. If you look at the differences in the behavior and the character of two American universities, what happened when these baseless charges were filed by Mike Nifong down at Duke and then the whole faculty picked up on the mantra and they fired the coach, Duke immediately condemned the entire lacrosse team, canceled the season, fired the coach on an accusation of wrongdoing. Rutgers? What did Rutgers do? Rutgers immediately held a press conference to support the basketball players who are not what they were called. If you are a parent and you're thinking of sending your kid away to school, where would you rather send your kid, to Duke University or to Rutgers, after what you have seen here today? All of these comparisons that are out there are stark.

C'mon, gentles, you don't really think that there's a dime's worth of difference between Rutgers and Duke, do you? That if it had been the Rutgers lacrosse team and the Duke lady Blue Devils, the respective controversies wouldn't have played out exactly the same way? Of course they would, and for the exact same reason: the left-wing racist presumption of inherent white racism.

You can make a powerful argument that the acquitted Duke lacrosse players deserve an Oprah gig a helluva lot more than the Rutgers lady cagers. After all, the latter were merely the butt of an ill-considered, repugnant radio bit; it is highly unlikely that any of Don Imus' handful of listeners actually believed that any of the Rutgers players sell sexual favors for extra folding money. Gapingly contrast that with the year-plus legal and media war against the Duke lacrossers; it's a mark of the enormous magnitude of the injustice done to them that the attorney-f'ing-general of the state of North Carolina had to hold this press conference to not only declare them "innocent," but bluntly condemn the "rogue" DA, Michale Nifong, for his persecutorial excesses.

I'll guaran-damn-tee you that Roy Cooper didn't do this solely out of the goodness of his own heart, either, given the defamation lawsuits that have to be warming up on the legal launching pad. It's just like what Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Labor, Raymond Donovan, said after the Democrat attempt to destroy his life ended with an obscure exoneration after a prosecution (for "corruption") that drowned in media obsession: "Where do I go to get my reputation back?"

Consider that the three accused young men are - were - lacrosse players. Last I checked, there wasn't any such entity as the National Lacrosse League. These guys aren't going to be professional athletes with multi-million dollar contracts waiting for them no matter what stains they carry on their personal resumes. They have to get real jobs in the real world. And everywhere they interview, everywhere they go, everything they do or say for the rest of their natural lives, they're going to lug along with them the reputation that at one time they were Klan rapists. Do you think they're ever going to be treated fairly, reasonably, or objectively other than randomly and occasionally? Where do THEY go to get THEIR reputations back?

Think I'm exaggerating? Get a load of this quote from the Sinister Minister:

Last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper 360 talked to the Reverend Jackson, and Cooper said, "In looking back about how you spoke about the Duke lacrosse players, do you have any regrets?"

JACKSON: No. There were past misdemeanor charges. There was a case of these athletes obviously feel entitled, paying money to watch women dance nekkid before them. Now, did they go as far as molesting her? Apparently not.

"Apparently" not? I suppose it's a wonder that Double-J conceded even that much. Notice, though, how he simply transfers the offense to one of judging public morality, something I thought libs considered to be an absolute no-no. This is the same Sinister Minister, if you'll recall, that did his own little torrid dance on the ragged edge of "domestic violence" not too many years ago.

Meanwhile, Sharpy was making J-Jack look like a fount of contrition:

SHARPTON: I did not attack the[Duke lacrosse players] or did I -

REPORTER: You said some very nasty things about them.

SHARPTON: What did I say?

REPORTER: I don't know exactly.

SHARPTON: Well, then don't ask the question.

VOICE: That's right. Not here.

REPORTER: Reverend, I'm saying you haven't spoken out about that.

SHARPTON: First of all, you told one distortion. You said I said some nasty things. When I challenge you - this is the kind of stuff we're talking about. You guys go unaddressed. That's got to stop. What did I say? I said, "We need to investigate and we need to see what..." That's nasty?

REPORTER: But you haven't spoken out.

SHARPTON: You said that about Michael Jackson. Did you speak nasty things about Michael? Did you speak nasty things about O.J. Simpson? This is the kind of distortion you guys have to stop.

REPORTER: How do you feel about what happened yesterday?

SHARPTON: Next question.

The conversational equivalent of an out-of-body experience. With his ability to incoherently filibuster and always get away with it, Sharpy has a job waiting for him in Congress if Charlie Rangel ever decides to hang it up.

Maybe he'll go on his radio program tomorrow and call the Duke lacrosse team a gang of "white-hooded crackers". But you can bet your nat cream that Revrund Al won't be hounded off the air for it. After all, Duke doesn't have a lacrosse team, anymore than three of its former members have their good reputations, or the American Left has a collective soul.