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MKH really nails the whole situation:

Betsy says, if charges are dropped, the refrain will be “fake but accurate” once again. Sure, the lacrosse players didn’t actually rape anyone, but the storyline revealed a larger truth about racism at Duke. Or, something like that.

She’s right, of course. Finnerty and Seligmann will only be truly forgiven in Durham if they hop into the white guilt drum circle for aggressive self-flagellation with the rest of the city. They’ll be asked not to sue anyone and to, instead, join in the healing process, which consists of talking ad nauseum about the “larger truths” their non-crime revealed– none of which, by the way, will have anything to do with the fact that Durham is a little race-obsessed P.C. haven where the white and privileged and innocent were sold out instantly just for the community feelgood effect.

They’ll be asked to look in the mirror and say, “Sure, you didn’t rape that woman, and were dragged through the mud by everyone in town, but let’s think about what the idea of your raping a black woman told us about race and gender in Durham.”

Indeed, because what MKH is pointing out is this PC postmodernist mindlessness that permeates the minds of these identity politics obsessed liberals. The facts aren’t really important; the “deeper truth” is important, and the “deeper truth” is that fantasy these leftists have cooked up in their heads. “We’re all victims! Oppressed! Disenfranchised! Disempowered! Marginalized! Oppressed, I tell you, OPPRESSED!”

But enough with the snarking. The Group of 88 probably isn’t embarrassed, no more than Sharpton was embarrassed when Brawley turned out to be yet one more “hate crime victim” who faked the whole thing. They’re not embarrassed because of the “deeper truth” in the situation — or as the Group of 88 would say, the “narrative.”

What is it about Democrats (and journalists — redundant, I know) and Obama? Why is it they keep calling him Osama?

First, it was Ted (video), though he was probably drunk. Then, it was CNN. And now, it’s yahoo.

Repeat after me, Democrats — slow-ly:

O-BA-ma
O-SA-ma

Hear the difference? Need to do it again? Fine. Slow-ly:

O-BA-ma
O-SA-ma

Now, let’s do the whole thing:

Barak O-BA-ma
O-SA-ma bin Laden

Do you think you can keep the two straight now?

Mitt Romney’s website is up and running. Check it out.

Hat tip to Don Surber for this. Duke, as you probably know, has reversed their position, now that it’s become apparent even to the dimbulbs what’s been apparent almost since the beginning, that this was nothing more than Nifong kissing up to get re-elected by the ultra-leftist college crowd and the race whores. Glenn Reynolds commented on it, but one of his commenters said it all about Duke’s suddenly emerging conscience:

Wow. The school canceled their sports season, the faculty publicly condemned them, and they had to leave the university. But a year later, Duke has decided these young men are entitled to the presumption of innocence. That’s mighty white of them.

I’m no law prof, but isn’t the presumption of innocence most useful before a pile of facts come out indicating that the accused are, in fact, innocent?

Professor Reynolds, by the way, responds in his characteristically terse style: “Yes.”

Our frère de blogue from France skewers the NYT for its buttlicking, Euro-worshipping fiction about “eliminating poverty and homelessness in France”:

The New York Times looks with glassy eyed idealism at France the way a Dachshund adores it’s master. At the same time, France looks at Americans the way a cat looks at it’s “human companion”: as a gullible meal ticket.

In 2004, an NYT writer went so far as to say that the French state eliminated homelessness, and that if you did see panhandlers and people living under bridges, that they were Polish. Not from anywhere else, not the benighted French, but Polish. As statistically impossible as that is, the reality of street life disproved that insane assertion. There are (and were) street people all over the place. They are more aggressive and carry themselves with a more miserable air than any crazy person that New York City’s Social Workers can talk in from the cold. Quite simply, they lied.

No! Not liberal journalists at the NYT, the newspaper of record! Lied? How can starry-eyed writers lie? I’m crushed!

Read the whole thing. It’s well worth it.

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