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Shut Up, He Explained: Duke Provost Claims Karla Holloway Is The True Victim[quoting Provost Lange:] "As we all are aware blogs and email have "democratized" communication; anyone with access to a computer can get in the game as writer or spectator. In many ways this is a very good thing, for it reduces the elitism of "publication" and the control of opinion by opinion "sellers". Nonetheless, this "democracy" is also permissive of saying almost anything, about almost anyone or anything, using any language, no matter how distasteful, disrespectful or dismissive. We can spread our ideas faster, and without the mediation of others, but we can also control neither their dispersion nor the nature and distribution of reactions to them. In fact, if those reactions distort the account of what we have said, there is likely no way to correct the record for the large number of people who may have secondarily received those distorted interpretations. I respect Karla Holloway's right to eat my balls. It's all about the "meta-narrative" anyhow, right? So what does specific harm to specific people matter anyway? K.C. Johnson and Stuart Taylor sum up the facts of the case: It has been clear for many months that the rape claim is almost surely a lie. But not until the DA's dramatic dismissal last Friday of the rape (but not the sexual assault and kidnapping) charges did Mr. Nifong enablers such as the New York Times and Duke President Richard Brodhead begin distancing themselves from his oppression of three innocent young men. I'll say one thing for the "victim:" She made it as clear as possible that she was just using the rape charge to get out of the mental health/criminal system. She really, really could not have made it more clear to anyone that she was concocting the most transparent of lies to buy herself a little leeway. Having "danced," or stumbled, for the Duke lacrosse players, certainly she could have given ballpark-accurate descriptions of "her rapists" which matched them. Instead she offered up descriptions of 270 pound redheads with moustaches (of the handlebar variety, I'd guess). I'm only mildly surprised she didn't claim all three "rapists" wore eye-patches. I've called her a shakedown artist before. I don't think that's correct, now that I think more about it. After all, if she had really pre-planned a false-rape shakedown, she could have, um, done a better job of it, no? A stripper who can't manage to coax some DNA from a single one of 40 beer-chugging college athletes really isn't trying terribly hard, is she? Good Lord, I probably could have managed to get some DNA at that party, at least if I were wearing my cutest shoes. So her heart plainly wasn't in this lie. So whose heart was in the lie? And why? This is an avenue of inquiry that Provost Peter Lange -- academic defender of one's right to seek the truth at all costs -- seems to think is unworthy for discussion.
K.C. Johnson notes that one of Nifong's more ubiquitous, and stupid, defenders is someone claiming to have been a former federal prosecutor, now a lawyer in a single-woman firm who is also (I'm not kidding) a fitness trainer. The world's only Pilades & Personal Injury practitioner, I guess. Anyway, this observation of hers is a real gem: There was evidence of DNA of Seligmann [sic] who lived in that house [sic].* Really? The guy's DNA was found in his own home? Well. Case closed, I guess. The smoking gun. Meanwhile, in Ace of Spades HQ, some of my wayward DNA has actually accumulated into IKEA-style "casual furniture." Be careful -- that only looks like an ottoman. * PS, it turns out this wasn't even true. But how stupid do you have to be to even allege it as "evidence"?
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