Disgraced, race-baiting, cancer on his profession pretends he’s sorry
posted at 4:29 pm on April 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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He deeply regrets any “judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect,” like, oh, conspiring to suppress exculpatory DNA evidence, making public comments about their guilt to anyone who’d listen, pursuing an indictment when he didn’t have a shred of credible evidence — judgment calls like that.
We all make mistakes.
Sue, boys. Sue like you mean it, sue like you want it, sue ’til you can’t sue no more. Then take the damages and buy an ad in every major paper in America listing the names of all the racist bottom-feeders in the media who demagogued you and are still demagoguing you even after you’ve been exonerated. Like, say, Terry Moran, who couldn’t resist minimizing the horror of being threatened with prison on a bogus rape charge by comparing it to Don Imus’s racist crack at the Rutgers team’s expense. As Ace says, there are victims and there are Victims and no amount of personal injustice visited upon the former can exceed any amount of social injustice suffered by the latter. By that logic, given how “privileged” high-paid white ABC anchormen are, should we shed any tears at all if Terry Moran were wrongly convicted of a violent felony he didn’t commit? We’re just balancing out the racial scales, after all. If the burden should happen to fall on TM, hey — that’s what you get for being “privileged.”
I’ve got a clip coming up from my favorite show that illustrates this in stunning detail, but in the meantime, sing along with Barack Obama’s pal: “Youza Hoooooo.”
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You KNOW you’re a lowlife when even LAWYERS look good next to you.
wearyman on April 12, 2007 at 4:32 PM
Can you sue a person’s hair?
His hair deeply offends me.
natesnake on April 12, 2007 at 4:38 PM
I know that was a rhetorical question, but I’d just like to say:
HELL NO!
infidel4life on April 12, 2007 at 4:41 PM
Terry Moran is an absolute idiot. Is he also calling the Rutgers team un or underprivledged in his cerebral vomit? What an ass.
OT: And another idiot…Sen. Menendez, supporting a bill that would bail out stupid people who took out mortgages they couldn’t afford. Free houses for the stupid…your congress at work. No link, just on Fox. Big head was upset.
sunny on April 12, 2007 at 4:41 PM
terry moran’s take on this is as “dumb as a bag of sticks” can be.
I can not believe just how friggin dumb the MSM can be…
yes I can!
robo on April 12, 2007 at 4:42 PM
All right Allah. Nice job. These leftist dipsticks need to understand that we’re through trying to accomodate their anti-American bullshit.
It’s on!
there it is on April 12, 2007 at 4:44 PM
I just love that you repeatedly use the most clintonesque picture you could possibly have found. Keep up the great work.
Quisp on April 12, 2007 at 4:46 PM
TM and Sharpton take back the news. CBS just canned Imus. Back to the Ranch…pack a nap, er, sack.
sunny on April 12, 2007 at 4:48 PM
Hey Boys, need a lawyer? I’m more then willing to work for ya!
Defector01 on April 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM
From the article:
Good. It’s by no means finished, but it’s a good start.
When we can characterize Nifong’s life as “completely and utterly destroyed” then we can consider it finished. He deserves nothing less.
thirteen28 on April 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM
You bet buddy . . . now prepare to be punished, severely. Surely this jackass doesn’t believe that anyone in their right mind will accept his sick apology.
rplat on April 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Damn, when I saw that headline I thought Reverend Sharpton was in the soup.
see-dubya on April 12, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Wow, that apology seems so sincere! Where have I heard that before? Oh yea, about 5,000 times from other DEFENDANTS who were about to be sent to prison when their “judgment proved to be incorrect.”
lawman2 on April 12, 2007 at 5:08 PM
I’d like to second, third, fourth and fifth this motion. EVEN if I do live in NC. (Not in Durham.)
tickleddragon on April 12, 2007 at 5:15 PM
And don’t forget the President of Duke and that a$$hole 88!!
tickleddragon on April 12, 2007 at 5:16 PM
Grammar can actually be relevant sometimes. In this case it helps to demonstrate that Nifong’s “apology” really was not.
His statement includes the following “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that (not “who”) were wrongly accused,”
Look at the words “…were wrongly accused..” It’s the passive voice, which is used when the subject of the sentence is unknown, or irrelevant…OR WANTS TO HIDE HIS RESPONSIBILITY!!!! It should say “…the students I wrongly accused…” The fact that he seeks to dodge his role says to me that his motivations are not to apologize.
Could he have another motive? How about this further quote from Nifong: “It is my sincere desire that the actions of Attorney General Cooper will serve to remedy any remaining injury that has resulted from these cases.”
I’ll bet it IS his sincere desire. This seems to me to be framed as an answer to any potential defamation/slander charges brought against him for damage to the player’s reputation. Isn’t he saying that, with all the publicity, all the damages have been remedied? Ergo, no cause of action? You bet it’s his “sincere desire” that any remaining injuries have been remedied.
There’s no remorse here…there is just a snake squirming.
Blaise on April 12, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Terry Moron just CARES…
I like how he slimed Finnerty for no apprent reason in the explanation of his opinion.
What a jerkoff.
benrand on April 12, 2007 at 5:23 PM
The media is covered in horse hockey, again. They are trying to spin it away, but it won’t work.
Stormy70 on April 12, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Of course, it is regret not quite deep enough to warrant his resignation….
rw on April 12, 2007 at 5:36 PM
Hey now, why insult snakes this way? I have a budding herpatologist son and I assure you that his snakes have fair more value than Nifong.
conservativecaveman on April 12, 2007 at 5:53 PM
What would it take to keep something similar from happening again, in a year or a month?
Kralizec on April 12, 2007 at 5:53 PM
Imus’ apoligies don’t forgive his stupid remarks that threatened no one but Nifong should be excused for his “mistakes” based on this non-apology?
conservativecaveman on April 12, 2007 at 6:02 PM
I just noticed something. While he’s not a federal prosecutor, he’s still one that either botched or pursued a case that went nowhere for a YEAR.
You call him a “cancer on his profession.”
He may be fired. We know why.
Whay about those other Federal Prosecutors? What kind of record did they really have?
What kind of “outrage” will there be?
Mazztek on April 12, 2007 at 6:16 PM
Imus just apologized to Nifong.
drjohn on April 12, 2007 at 6:31 PM
When this whole thing started and the media frenzy kicked in I fully expected a Rodney King scenario in Durham. I thought the kids would be tried and found innocent (after a year of media hype)and then a media generated race riot followed by the kids being tried again in Federal court for violating the accusers civil rights. Which of course would be a guilty verdict and off to prison for 25 years. Jackson, Sharpton and the media lost this round but there’s always next time. Don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve just about had it with this shit!
repvoter on April 12, 2007 at 6:56 PM
I hope they sue the news media, the collage, Sharpton, and any other prejudgemental idiot that convicted them in the public arena.
Nifong should be DISBARRED, fitted with a burqa and sent to Afghanistan.
Kini on April 12, 2007 at 6:59 PM
BLEEP him!!!!!! Sorry my arse!!!!!
Judgement day approaches mikey. You had 13 months to be sorry. This proves you are not.
Talon on April 12, 2007 at 7:07 PM
He’s sorry alright and no one should doubt it. He’s sorry he didn’t get away with it.
drjohn on April 12, 2007 at 7:12 PM
Nifong can now admit his cocaine or alcohol addiction and enter rehab and sue to get his job back.
drjohn on April 12, 2007 at 7:52 PM
I have to share this with everyone here. Terry Moran is getting his A$$ kicked in the comments section of his blog drivel:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/terrymoran/2007/04/dont_feel_too_s_1.html
Some of those comments made me laugh so hard my son came running in because he thought I’d found a funny cartoon… oh the irony.
SilverStar830 on April 12, 2007 at 8:08 PM
If ever they build a Museum of Idiocy, Terry Moran just earned having an entire wing of it named after him.
We may have to invent a completely new term to describe his cosmic levels of cluetardedness, because none of the ones I know seem to come close to adequately describing him.
He’s one teaspoon’s worth of Teh Stupid away from collapsing under his own weight and forming a Singularity of Snotwittedness.
Misha I on April 12, 2007 at 8:13 PM
Thanks for the link.
I keep repeating it because it is so true. Liberals are incomprehensibly stupid.
drjohn on April 12, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Why wife asked me why I was so upset over this case and continued to be upset (and likely will be for a while). It’s because this is an extension of the same sort of race identity justice that we saw in the 20th century against blacks.
These boys weren’t guilty in this instance. But, by golly, rich white boys at other times have been guilty of victimizing black people. Do names really matter when we are seeking to correct centuries of racist evil?
These kids weren’t prosecuted for a crime. They were effigies. This was the legal equivalent of those horrible lynchings. Their lives were derailed and their futures jeopardized to serve as examples to others like them. And, in Nifong’s case, effigies really served well as campaign talking points. Bonus!
Yes, I am sickened. I remain sickened. And everyone (black and white) should be sickened by this travesty. History has proven that anyone can become the victim of a legal autocrat that seeks to appease public sentiment rather than pursue blind justice.
And, when we have a system that pushes prosecutors to think that this is just one of the unpleasantries necessary for re-election, maybe we need to take a closer look at the system.
SailorDave on April 12, 2007 at 10:02 PM
You nailed it SailorDave ! What you expressed is the reality of this whole ugly mess. People should be outraged and Nifong should not only be disbarred, but should be held personally liable for the destruction of these three boys lives.
Maxx on April 12, 2007 at 10:16 PM
Yep. When these guys are done and the litigation dust settles they may never have to work another day in thier life. The whole stinking city, university, and media went along with this and they need to pay, pay and pay some more. Anyone up for a game of lacrosse? Enjoy it boys.
warriorlawyer on April 12, 2007 at 10:24 PM