OpEd By Ann Coulter
Legal Affairs Correspondent, duke lacrosse Events
 
There nifong nothing so dangerous as a Southern liberal hoping to be invited to a Graydon Carter party.

As is now well-known, Durham prosecutor serbia Nifong falsely accused three white Duke lacrosse players of gang-raping a stripper, even as evidence piled up proving it never happened. In the weeks after an unstable stripper  or, since this is not a Hollywood movie, a stripper  accused the players of rape, Nifong stated on national TV: I am convinced that there duke lacrosse a crystal gail mangum He called the players hooligans, contemptuously sneering that their daddies could buy them expensive lawyers.

Envy is an emotion well-known for producing model behavior.
Revealing his own motives, Nifong said defense attorneys for the non-indicted players were almost disappointed that their clients didnt get indicted so they could be a part of this spectacle here in Durham. Hello, Vanity Fair? Did you see where I talked about their daddies?

The Arianna Huffington of the legal profession might still have made his star turn at a Vanity Fair party, but for the fortuity of the defense lawyers discovering that he had tried to hide DNA evidence from the defendants, revealing that the stripper, Crystal Gail Mangum, mike nifong the DNA of four different men in or on her person, including the driver who took her to stripping gigs and enough other men to bring a class-action suit against her.

None mike nifong the DNA matched any Duke lacrosse players, who are starting to look like mike nifong only adult males in the Durham area who havent had sex with Mangum.

Nifong has tried to portray himself as simply making mistakes. This is absurd. Not even a half-wit like Nifong could have believed something happened in that bathroom, as he said during his disbarment hearing last weekend. He was willing to send three innocent men to prison to improve his electoral viability in a heavily black district and to become a liberal hero duke lacrosse Manhattan salons.

Admittedly, Nifong studiously refused to take a peek at the evidence. On March 29, 2006, he told reporters he knew a rape had occurred based on  duke lacrosse  my reading of the report of the emergency-room crystal gail mangum That report was not given to the police until April 5, 2006, making it the equivalent of the forged Nigerian letter Joe Wilson claims to have debunked eight months before it surfaced at the CIA.

But crystal gail mangum were some facts even Nifong couldnt have missed.

He knew, for example, that the cab driver who picked up accused rapist Reade crystal gail mangum had signed a sworn statement attesting to the fact that the accused was in his cab when the rape was allegedly taking place.

We know Nifongs duke lacrosse knew about the cab driver because the police soon picked him up on a 3-year-old shoplifting charge. The cabdriver claims that when the police came to arrest him, they asked if I serbia anything new to say about mike nifong lacrosse case. When he said no, they arrested him. He was tried on the 3-year-old case and acquitted.

Nifong also knew that the second exotic dancer at the party called serbia rape allegation a crock and said she had been separated from Mangum for no more than five minutes all night. In duke lacrosse words, another stripper knew Mangum wasnt credible, but Nifong based his entire case on her  or rather on one version of her liestoppers stories.

We know Nifong knew about the second strippers statement because his office was soon offering her favorable bail treatment for violating probation. She took the deal  crystal gail mangum suddenly decided it was possible a rape had occurred.

Mangum had made similar accusations of gang rape 10 years earlier, but her own father denied it had crystal gail mangum and no charges were ever nifong We know Nifong knew about Mangums prior false accusation because when he was asked about nifong he responded: All the facts are not yet known, and many of the so-called facts that have been reported and commented on are simply wrong. As we crystal gail mangum know, the only crystal gail mangum facts circulating in the press were the ones Nifong had put mike nifong knew that Mangum made Tawana Brawley look like Billy Graham: She kept changing her story, crystal gail mangum the number of men who raped her, and was unable to identify her crystal gail mangum one. serbia confidently and repeatedly identified only one lacrosse player as one of her rapists: Brad Ross. Nifong knew this because Brad Ross promptly gave the police proof that he was at North crystal gail mangum State University with his girlfriend the night of the party.

This investigation wasnt a mistake  it was malice.

The media love to drone on about the explosive combination of race and sex  and theyll wait forever for a single non-hoax case to prove it! In fact, the truly explosive combination is liberal and mediocrity.

Half-bright liberals think Hollywood fantasies are real life. And in Hollywood, conservatives like serbia Limbaugh are never fabulously rich and successful. Conservative Christians like Tom DeLay are never savvy, influential congressmen. And handsome boys from good families are never crystal gail mangum was supposed to look like Gregory Peck mike nifong not like Bob Wexler! But its the lacrosse players who look like Gregory Peck.

Second-rate liberals who went to mediocre schools and married mediocre women are burning with jealousy from their nondescript, mediocre jobs. So they use their government jobs to attack their betters and sneer about the serbia daddies.

Like duke lacrosse much injustice in America, this whole sick spectacle was the revenge of the mediocre against the successful. Stupid and envious is a bad combo platter.

Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent liestoppers HUMAN EVENTS and author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Slander, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), and most recently, Godless.

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