JULY
18, 2007 --
Last
August 25, the New York Times published a long article by Duff
Wilson and Jonathan D. Glater that perhaps sought to revive the
failing case brought by Durham County (N.C.) district attorney
Michael B. Nifong against three Duke University lacrosse players,
charging them with rape, sexual assault and kidnapping.
(Yes,
a grand jury approved these charges, but please note what a New
York jurist once said about a grand jury indictment -- it can
be brought against a ham sandwich.)
Attorney-writer
Michael Gaynor instantly critiqued the long Wilson-Glater (trying
to emulate Woodward-Bernstein?) into
smithereens -- see
his demolition work at the Renew America website.
LPR likes this quote from the now-discredited and dismissed and
disbarred Mr. Nifong that "Wilter" (yes, shamelessly
evoking the Washington Post's "Woodstein" of Watergate
days) included in their bolster-up piece. "'… I've been
doing this for a long time …'"
("Wilter" attributes
the comment to a statement from Nifong "at a forum on the
case at North Carolina Central, where the accuser attended college.")
|
Reporter
Wilson and Glater would have been advised by their editors, we
can now appreciate, to have informed their readers just what
Nifong had been doing "'for a long time.'" as district
attorney.
Herewith -- "The Don Imus You Can't Make This Up, department: "Nifong" acronymizes,
into "gonnif." The name of one of the officers mentioned by Wilson-Glater
is "Himan."
The
accuser was reported in the article to having brought rape charges
against other men in Creedmoor, North Carolina, 10 years earlier.
Creedmoor is also the name of a psychiatric facility in Queens,
New York.)
And now: LPR Proposes:
Henceforth: August 25 shall be celebrated as "All the Print That's News
to Fit" Day. (Alternatively called Mainstream Agenda Day -- yup: MAD.)
LPR acknowledges that many elected Republicans in Congress -- the people who
would much prefer glorious mention in The New York Times or The Washington Post
than plaudits from the GOP base for abiding by, and honoring, our Founding legacy
--- are not likely to join AtPTNtF Day festivities. |
|