Weekly Standard Blows Whistle on Duke University

Washington, DC (TLS). Charlotte Allen, writing in The Weekly Standard, has blown the whistle on Duke University as a co-conspirator in the scheme to accuse, try, and convict the three Duke lacrosse players falsely accused of rape.

As Allen's carefully detailed article shows, Duke University was aided and abetted by a most willing accomplice--the mainstream media.

'Mike Nifong's handling of the case was clearly outrageous. But he would probably not have gone so far, indeed would not have dared to go so far, had he not been egged on by two other groups that rushed just as quickly to judge the three accused young men guilty of gross and racially motivated carnal violence. Despite the repeated attempts by the three to clear themselves, a substantial and vocal percentage--about one-fifth--of the Duke University arts and sciences faculty and nearly all of the mainstream print media in America quickly organized themselves into a hanging party. Throughout the spring of 2006 and indeed well into the late summer, Nifong had the nearly unanimous backing of this country's (and especially Duke's) intellectual elite as he explored his lurid theories of sexual predation and racist stonewalling.'

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