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Posted on 07/11/2007 3:33:19 PM PDT by goldstategop
The New York Times alone has mentioned the Scottsboro Boys case from the 1930s nearly 20 times since 2002 (expanding the "news" part of "newspaper" just a bit), so I think I'm entitled to spend at least one more week luxuriating in the Duke lacrosse players' total vindication and the exposure of a Southern liberal prosecutor as a corrupt hack.
Twenty years ago, disbarred Duke prosecutor Mike Nifong would have been Time magazine's Man of the Year. Vanity Fair would have photographed him sitting in a Porsche under the headline: "Speaking Truth to Power."
One hundred years ago, he would have been lynching innocent black men. Southern liberals have stayed the same; only their victims have changed.
To watch the complete destruction of this foolish and evil man, Michael Nifong – despite the mainstream media's best efforts to portray him as a modern-day Atticus Finch – is as great a moment as the annihilation of Dan Rather. Katie Couric's self-immolation is just a bonus – when it rains, it pours!
It is as great as Clinton's impeachment (which the New York Times is already claiming never happened in a front-page Week in Review article by Sam Tanenhaus on May 20).
The fact that we keep catching liberals in such blatant falsehoods shows you what they used to be able to get away with.
When the falsely accused Duke lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were indicted, Newsweek put their mug shots on its cover.
Months after the story first broke and most of the exculpatory evidence was known, an opinion piece – I assume it was an opinion piece – in the Washington Post began: "She was black, they were white, and race and sex were in the air." No, that's not the tagline for a new reality show – it's the first line of a legitimate story in a U.S. paper. It was downhill from there. The Duke case was "reminiscent of a black woman's vulnerability to a white man during the days of slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow."
In fact, the case was reminiscent of the Scottsboro Boys case, but this time the falsely accused rape defendants were white. If only the press had dubbed them the "Durham Boys," that would be a great title for the Lifetime TV movie about this case that will never be made.
The accuser's history of making false accusations of gang rape, the players' alibis and the prosecutor's lies were all known to the New York Times when it reported on Aug. 25, 2006, that "while there are big weaknesses in Mr. Nifong's case, there is also a body of evidence to support his decision to take the matter to a jury." By "body of evidence," the Times was apparently referring to a smattering of racial and sexual stereotypes earnestly believed in Hollywood and in newsrooms across America in defiance of the facts.
The Times article also noted, "In several important areas, the full files, reviewed by the New York Times, contain evidence stronger than that highlighted by the defense." The "stronger" evidence consisted of obvious lies told by the prosecution and lustily repeated by the Times.
Shockingly, even when the jig was up, and the attorney general of North Carolina announced that the accused were innocent, much of the mainstream media continued to withhold the accuser's name.
According to various postings on the Internet, Fox News Channel was the only national television station to show the false accuser's photo, and CNN never even revealed her name.
From my research, it appears that CBS News named Crystal Gail Mangum and showed her picture. (Of course, this being CBS, the picture may have been forged.) But the only time her name came out on CNN was by non-CNN employees during live press conferences and one time when a guest slipped it in – you should pardon the expression – during a discussion of Nifong's disbarment hearing, unaware of CNN's policy of protecting the names of women who make false accusations of rape.
The New York Times has yet to name the woman who falsely accused three men of committing a brutal gang rape.
The Times "public editor" described the paper's delusional coverage of the Duke case after the first several weeks as "basically fair." The Times Sports editor, Tom Jolly, said he was "very comfortable" with the coverage, saying the case had two main elements: "One was the allegation of rape; the other was the general behavior of a high-level sports team at a prestigious university." That's when you know your newspaper might have a wee hint of a liberal bias: when even the sportswriters are left-wing crackpots.
Apparently, the Times editor did not see this possibility as an "element" of the case: A liberal prosecutor incites a racial conflagration weeks before an election in a heavily black voting district by using the incredible claims of a stripper to falsely accuse three innocent white men of gang rape.
After the dust clears, perhaps we can expect a Mary Mapes-type book from Nifong explaining how the rape really did happen after all, or a book from Joe Conason on how the people who brought Nifong down were a conspiracy of "Nifong-haters."
You can't win a victory like this without some liberals being affected. Bush may be an ineffective communicator, but that doesn't mean all thought stops in the rest of the country. Well-educated liberals, who have wealth and homes and children, begin to freak out as they get to know their apparent allies. They have something to lose from allowing insane people to run the country.
Even now, in conservatism's darkest hour, we continue to see the transformation of responsible liberals. It happened with Clinton, with Gore's election tantrum, with 9/11, with the Swift Boat Veterans, with Dan Rather and now with Michael Nifong. The rolling reconfiguration of the country can't help but to proceed in a molecular way.
A few more victories like this, and some day the phrase "sensible liberal" may make sense again.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Works for me! I’ve had it with Republicans playing nice and refusing to fight back. We’ve been doing it for thirty years, and it’s gotten us jack sh!t.
Great minds think alike!
Why oh why do I suspect a great hue and cry will be made, not over Ann’s OpEd piece and its substance - but its title?
“She used the words “nappy headed”!
Let the fireworks commence. And perhaps this phrase will be in next year’s NAACP word burial ceremony.
Come again? They ignored it or they actually claimed it didn't happen?
The excesses of prosecutors are not just limited to liberal prosecutors. There’s no shortage of factually innocent men being exonerated from convictions by DNA evidence over the protestations of conservative prosecutors. I think some of this is due to the political nature of prosecutors. Perhaps if they were handled more as a civil service they might be more interested in the pursuit of truth as opposed to the pursuit of courtroom victories.
Anybody know what the current status of Nifong perjury claims are?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOL!! I couldn’t make sense out of the add-on title until I “verbed” Nifong! :-)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Nah..
BUMP!
god, she just keeps getting BETTER AND BETTER!
GO YOU ANNIE!-
” Well-educated liberals, who have wealth and homes and children, begin to freak out as they get to know their apparent allies.’
Not so’s you’d notice, Ann.
There are more muslims street-protesting terrorism than liberal mea culpas over supporting Nifong’s perfidy.
And that’s exactly none.
put me on!
Why oh why do I suspect a great hue and cry will be made, not over Ann’s OpEd piece and its substance - but its title?
LIKE who with any brains cares?
One corrupt democrat politician down, 100,000 to go. Hooker Crystal Magnum also had a track record of making unfounded rape allegations against 3 PREVIOUS males, years before the Duke lads.
One of Ann’s best. And that is saying a lot.
I believe the next of his encounters with a real justice system begins on July 25.
Sorry Finn, misdirection won’t hack it here. Nifong was about ballot victory, not courtroom victory. Sadly, he was re-elected because he played the race card his way and blacks voted the dweeb back into office.
Coulter bump!
She’s no fool, she knows where the money is.
One hundred years ago, he would have been lynching innocent black men. Southern liberals have stayed the same; only their victims have changed.
_____________________________________________
Yes ma’am.
Vintage, wonderful Annie. Every word a shiv in the side of Liberals.
If Stevie Wonder can use the term, so can Ann!
Looking back on when I
Was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry
Was for christmas what would be my toy
Even though we sometimes
Would not get a thing
We were happy with the
Joy the day would bring
Sneaking out the back door
To hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine
Greeted at the back door
With “boy thought I told you not to go outside”,
Tryin your best to bring the
Water to your eyes
Thinkin it might stop her
From woopin your behind
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
Cause I love them so
Brother says hes tellin
bout you playin doctor with that girl
Just dont tell I’ll give you
Anything you want in this whole wide world
Mama gives you money for sunday school
You trade yours for candy after church is through
Smokin cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall (you nasty boy)
Teacher sends you to the principals office down the hall
You grow up and learn that kinda thing ain’t right
But while you were doin’ it, it sure felt outta sight
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
I wish those days could come back once more
Why did those days ev-er have to go
LIBERAL???? They are ALL that way! Well, most of them.
Everything Nifong did was straight out of the Giuliani playbook. And that punk, Sneddon, was every bit as thuggish as Nifong when he went after Michael Jackson with zero evidence. Remember?
<< In the message boards of AOL, I called the Duke case a Scottsboro case in reverse. Now Ann Coulter has said the same thing. >>
Here on FR we were discussing the similarities to the Scottsboro Boys case 15 months ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1614901/posts?page=34#34
Your poster photo has Ann in a US Navy uniform, I realize this is photoshop, but is there some basis of fact in this? Was she actually in the Navy? Just curious.
The parallels between NcIsFONG are unique.
The New York Times has yet to name the woman who falsely accused three men of committing a brutal gang rape.
The Times “public editor” described the paper’s delusional coverage of the Duke case after the first several weeks as “basically fair.” The Times Sports editor, Tom Jolly, said he was “very comfortable” with the coverage, saying the case had two main elements: “One was the allegation of rape; the other was the general behavior of a high-level sports team at a prestigious university.” That’s when you know your newspaper might have a wee hint of a liberal bias: when even the sportswriters are left-wing crackpots.
Apparently, the Times editor did not see this possibility as an “element” of the case: A liberal prosecutor incites a racial conflagration weeks before an election in a heavily black voting district by using the incredible claims of a stripper to falsely accuse three innocent white men of gang rape.
After the dust clears, perhaps we can expect a Mary Mapes-type book from Nifong explaining how the rape really did happen after all, or a book from Joe Conason on how the people who brought Nifong down were a conspiracy of “Nifong-haters.”
You can’t win a victory like this without some liberals being affected. Bush may be an ineffective communicator, but that doesn’t mean all thought stops in the rest of the country. Well-educated liberals, who have wealth and homes and children, begin to freak out as they get to know their apparent allies. They have something to lose from allowing insane people to run the country.
Even now, in conservatism’s darkest hour, we continue to see the transformation of responsible liberals. It happened with Clinton, with Gore’s election tantrum, with 9/11, with the Swift Boat Veterans, with Dan Rather and now with Michael Nifong. The rolling reconfiguration of the country can’t help but to proceed in a molecular way.
A few more victories like this, and some day the phrase “sensible liberal” may make sense again.
____________________
Oh my. Ann has scorched the earth under the NYT for years to come with this one...
I heard virtually the same thing on one of the talk shows, I think it was H&C, one of the moon bats said that since it was voted down in the senate, it wasn't actually an impeachment.
Liberals live in a dream world where they can never do anything wrong. If they do something, then by definition it's alright.
Let's give that thought a little definition.
The Left's Eight Commandments
I
Thou shalt create an illusion of invulnerability shared by most members to foster excessive optimism and encourage extreme risks taking
II
Thou shall not allow any member to question the group's inherent morality, instead members shall be encouraged to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions
III
Thou shalt promote collective efforts to rationalize in order to discount warnings, or other information that might lead members to reconsider their assumptions before they recommit themselves to their assumptions
IV
Thou shalt reinforce stereotyped views of enemy leaders as too evil to warrant genuine attempts to negotiate, or as too weak and stupid to counter whatever risky attempts are made to defeat their purpose
V
Thou shalt self-censor any deviation from the apparent group consensus, inclining each member to minimize the importance of their doubts and counterarguments
VI
Thou shalt create and maintain a shared illusion of unanimity concerning judgement conforming to the majority view
VII
Thou shalt apply direct pressure on any member who expresses strong arguments against any of the group's stereotypes, illusions, or commitments, making clear that this type of dissent is contrary to what is expected of all loyal members
VIII
Thou shalt appoint mindguards to protect the group from adverse information that might shatter their shared complacency about the effectiveness and morality of their decisions
-Eddie01 2006 (adapted from Janis '82)
Ann is wasting time with this article.
The NYT is the marketing arm of the DNC. fact.
No bias can exist where pretense of objectivity is absent.
Therefore calling out a marketing firm as unfair towards its competitors is meaningless.
Please forgive me for being dead nuts on correct.
Edward The Great 01
Ann nicely presents the so-called democrats as the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow and lynchings.
So, the only hook in this matter is race.
As far as liberal angst goes, race trumps all.
The House does the impeaching — the Senate has nothing to do with the impeachment process.
Somebody had better look up what impeachment is.
I liked the picture because it hard Sen. McCarthy, too. Ann Coulter restored Sen. McCarthy to his rightful place in history.
How sweet it is -
Compare these two tidbits....
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=245417
PLOT DESCRIPTION
This documentary, part of the 20th Century With Mike Wallace series from CBS News and the History Channel, heads inside the White House to closely examine the near impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Narrated by series host and CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace, this episode discusses how this event in 1998 marked the first time in over 100 years that a sitting president was nearly impeached by the House of Representatives.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40E13F73A550C738EDDAC0894DF404482
Correction: May 27, 2007, Sunday Because of an editing error, an article last Sunday about the conservative movement misstated the outcome of impeachment proceedings in 1998 against President Clinton, whose character conservatives made the focus of the 2000 election. The House of Representatives did indeed impeach him. (The Senate did not convict him of the impeachment charges.)
Additional direct from the mouth of the NYT on the above point -
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/981221monday.html
December 20, 1998
President Is Impeached and Faces Senate Trial
By ALISON MITCHELL
WASHINGTON — William Jefferson Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice Saturday by a divided House of Representatives, which recommended virtually along party lines that the Senate remove the nation’s 42d President from office.
Somebody had better look up what impeachment is.
Liberals can and do reinterpret the constitution to suit thier agenda. Ann C. says in this article that the NYT says there was no impeachment. I didn't read the NYT article but I don't doubt her in the least. Nothing is too outrageous for liberals or their media to claim.
will some body PLEASE market this poster?
““nappy headed”!”
There are probably headline writers all over the country who are wishing they had the sense and the balls to write such a heading as Nappy headed Hoax. Kudos to Ann for her never ending finger in the eyes of the Former Mainstream Media.
Some freeper or someone made this cartoon when evil, Commie cartoonist, Ted Rall, was threatening to sue our heroine for making a joke about him. I'm sorry, but I really love this cartoon:
You are confusing our legal system with a justice system. In our system, you only get the justice you choose to afford.
>>>>>One hundred years ago, he would have been lynching innocent black men. Southern liberals have stayed the same; only their victims have changed.<<<<<<
lol!
i lean my chair against the wall, and i almost fell off!
that’s too much, too true!
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