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red states rule
11-30-2013, 01:32 PM
While the liberal media is all over the recent activities of George Zimmerman - they have rather silent on the second degree murder conviction of Crystal Mangum

Crystal who?

She is the black stripper who said she was raped by a bunch of rich white boys who played on the Duke Lacrosse team.

After that, Rev Al, Jesse, the liberal media, some of the facility of Duke, and most lefties tried and convicted the Duke Lacrosse team. After the truth came out that is was all a lie I do not recall a single apogee from any of those race baiters and far left loons

Now once again, when the story does not fit the lefts template of racist America they ignore this story and possible life sentence of Ms Mangum





On November 22, with the national media focused on the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death, few noticed the story of a jury in North Carolina convicting Crystal Mangum of murder in the 2011 kitchen stabbing death of her boyfriend Reginald Daye. Why should that fact fixate the national media?

On its own, it shouldn’t. But in 2006 and 2007, Mangum’s false charges of rape against three lacrosse players at Duke University caused a national tsunami of media sensation, an angry wave of prejudiced coverage that presumed the guilt of rich white college boys when accused by an African-American stripper.

More than any other media outlet, the New York Times trumpeted Mangum’s rape accusations, even after they fell apart. As other liberal media outlets were backing away, the Times published a notorious, error-riddled 5,700-word lead story by Duff Wilson on August 25, 2006, arguing there was enough evidence against the players for Michael Nifong, the atrocious local prosecutor (who would be jailed and disbarred) to bring the case to trial.

Within the Times, perhaps the most aggressive accuser was then-sports columnist Selena Roberts, who made a habit of comparing the accused Duke lacrosse players to drug dealers and gang members.

Roberts continued to lob charges of white privilege in her last column on the subject in 2007: “Don't mess with Duke, though. To shine a light on its integrity has been treated by the irrational mighty as a threat to white privilege. Feel free to excoriate the African-American basketball stars and football behemoths for the misdeeds of all athletes, but lay off the lacrosse pipeline to Wall Street, excuse the khaki-pants crowd of SAT wonder kids.” She lamented “some news media jackknifed as they moved from victim's advocate to angel-tinting the lacrosse team.”

To Roberts, the false accuser never stopped being the victim. Roberts never wrote a retraction for the columns that relentlessly championed a false narrative. She is the Al Sharpton of sports columnists.

The coverage ended. Well, there was one small trickle of news. In December 2010, The New York Times ran a tiny wire item in the sports section, that the Duke lacrosse “victim” was found guilty of “misdemeanor child abuse and damaging property. A Durham County jury convicted Crystal Mangum, 32, of contributing to child abuse or neglect, injury to personal property,and resisting a public officer after a February confrontation with her live-in boyfriend.”

Then Mangum was indicted for murdering her boyfriend in 2011. Again, it was a tiny item in the Times -- a brief at the bottom of page B-14 of the sports section, under Lacrosse: “Crystal Mangum, who falsely accused three Duke players of raping her in 2006, was charged with murder in the death of her boyfriend.”

So when Mangum was convicted of murder on November 22, now would it garner serious attention? The Times ran a tiny 98-word AP story. There were no burning columns from the successors of Selena Roberts.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2013/11/30/bozell-column-ugly-end-duke-lacrosse-story#ixzz2m9gM4h2c

red states rule
12-01-2013, 07:20 AM
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So far total silence from those who defended her BS story about being raped