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Ken Burns: Duke Lacrosse Team 'Mildly Inconvenienced' by False Rape Charges
Breitbart's Big Hollywood ^ | December 12, 2012

Posted on 12/13/2012 4:28:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns understands the horrors faced by five New York City teens unfairly charged with rape back in 1989.

"The Central Park Five," the new documentary co-directed by Burns on the subject, lets the five victims recall that tumultuous time in their lives and documents just how much the false charges crushed their youth.

Yet Burns seems indifferent to another case in which three young men were unfairly accused of rape and waited 15 months to have their names cleared.

Burns brought up the 2006 Duke Lacrosse case, in which three students were accused of sexually assaulting a stripper, during an interview with The Phoenix in Boston...

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: dukelacrosse; hollywood; northcarolina; scandal
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1 posted on 12/13/2012 4:28:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not optimal!


2 posted on 12/13/2012 4:33:11 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fruitcup Kenny would probably love getting raped by a male lacrosse team


3 posted on 12/13/2012 4:37:02 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too bad such a previously-respected historian has fallen prey to his own press clippings.

To be a film produce must = being a stupid libtard.

His quals have gone down the toilet, as they should.

I wouldn’t believe burns if he was reading the Bible.


4 posted on 12/13/2012 4:37:46 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Here comes bama claus here comes bama claus left down bama claus lane!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Burns is a prog tool.


5 posted on 12/13/2012 4:38:00 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ken Burns - still dining out on a 25 year old documentary.


6 posted on 12/13/2012 4:38:47 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yeah, it's not about justice.

It's about social justice. I always figured Burns for a nitwit-liberal. Disappointed to have it confirmed.

7 posted on 12/13/2012 4:38:47 PM PST by BfloGuy (Workers and consumers are, of course, identical.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My son went to high school with one of the Duke lacrosse players who was falsely accused.

His life was nearly destroyed by this Democratic Party persecution.

Think also of Zimmerman who the prosecution issued a fake doctored photograph to hide the severe injuries to the defendant.


8 posted on 12/13/2012 4:46:00 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: skeeter

I’ve got an old newspaper and a video camera. Will you watch my 2 hours of footage as I zoom out on the photos?


9 posted on 12/13/2012 4:46:51 PM PST by relictele
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Mr. Burns,

You really are an asshole.

Now go away.

Quite sincerely,

‘Pod.


10 posted on 12/13/2012 4:47:54 PM PST by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: relictele

Yeah, that format has gotten a little stale.


11 posted on 12/13/2012 4:48:02 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Living with the whole Libtard movement attacking them for over a year is a “mild inconvenience”? The press crucifying them day after day, 80 some-odd prof’s signing a letter convicting them?, the prosecutor doing his damnedest to fraudulently convict them. No apology, from any of those groups. Nothing. And these guys plus their families had to endure all that? Not mentioning how much it cost them to defend against the false accusation.


12 posted on 12/13/2012 4:48:12 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have always known most of the liberals were sort of jackasses but since Obama has been elected it seems they all think they can say things which once would have gotten you in trouble.

Now that I think about it they can say those things with pretty much no consequences. Even totally insane stuff, stuff that would have gotten you laughed at now is treated seriously.


13 posted on 12/13/2012 4:48:29 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somebody should drop a dime on Ken with Child Protective Services falsely charging him with child abuse so he can get a first-hand taste of being “mildly inconvenienced.”


14 posted on 12/13/2012 4:48:29 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Senator)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

+1


15 posted on 12/13/2012 4:49:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I read a book which I think the Coach wrote.

A lot of those kids nearly had their lives destroyed. I think the Coach *did* have his destroyed.

If I recall correctly, he is now coaching somewhere else.

This episode is to Duke’s everlasting shame.


16 posted on 12/13/2012 4:50:08 PM PST by sauropod (I will not comply)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ken Burns can’t seem to keep his left-wing trap shut lately and keeps making one gaffe after another.


17 posted on 12/13/2012 4:54:23 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does Ken feel “mildly inconvenienced” by his two digit IQ?


18 posted on 12/13/2012 4:58:02 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No one is coming close on this one. Ken is still trapped in the past ~ for him, punishment for rape, or the accusation of rape, was a quick hanging back in the historical period he docents ~ and although we only hear about it for blacks, it happened to whites too.

That was one of the reasons capital crimes were moved up to state courts and out of county courts.

150 years ago the fellows at Duke would have been in some really serious trouble.

19 posted on 12/13/2012 4:59:03 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Vaquero

Morgan Freeman could do the narration.


20 posted on 12/13/2012 4:59:40 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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