Day in Court.

or, It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid.
The elitist New York Times simply can't see the forest from the trees.

If the rich are given a pass, why bother? Better to fight for what's right and lose, than simply accept their money will "correct" any injustice; that rich always trumps poor, white trumps black, and rich Jew trumps Muslim immigrant (even before the blindfolded lady who offers the hope of refuge from a money-tainted Manhattan).

Even when this country is financially bankrupt (in one month, who will be paying our bills?), we at least had intact moral compasses to find our way home again. We might have conveniently closed our eyes to how other countries do it to grow (ie/ Israel), but as of yet, we've never had an official policy of preferred presumption based on ethnicity, religion, or caste. (Please, don't stoop to defend our slavery days either.)

We all should be howling -- and I certainly think this thing will have much bigger political implications in this country outside "Jew" York -- for the case to advance, for the man to defend himself in court and at the very least, tell us this was a sex-for-pay criminal act gone wrong.

Rich American men who screw around on the job -- Bill Clinton, Ahnold Schwarzenegger -- it's not ok for them to assault women either. But if celebrity journalists want to issue passes to keep their connections intact, oh well. Heck their wives might even play along to advance their own careers (still, can't help but thinking we got burned letting the Hil go after Gaddafy the way Bush Jr. went after Saddam. Why would the president take military advice from her, tell me?)

This one though... This one is like a preview of what routinely happens, it seems, when financial bankruptcy is accompanied by selling one's soul, in going along to get along, so to speak, in corrupting an honest system to advance oneself -- or expand one's holdings -- and pretending we still uphold democratic ideals.

There's still time, America. Demographically, we aren't an Israel yet, outflanked and outnumbered, destined to lose when they are called to account for their own internal actions, if they play by their own rules and don't cheat the game. (ie/ obtain and use nuclear weapons underhandedly) Let's stick to our own judicial traditions and make "both sides" play by the usual rules instead of meekly acquiescing to the to the false temptations of collective justice.

Then the rest of us innocents won't have to suffer so much when the backlash comes and the reparations are to be made making up for significant acts of injustice.

Oh, and Happy Independence Day, to those of us who can still celebrate it.

As he left the downtown courtroom, he gave his first public smile and put his arm around Anne Sinclair, his attractive wife, who has financed the high-powered legal team and high-priced TriBeCa detention.
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When a habitual predator faces off against a habitual liar, the liar will most likely lose, even if it is the rare case when she is telling the truth.
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Law enforcement officials say privately that they still think DSK sexually assaulted the maid. But the case relied on her credibility, and that’s gone.
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“Until today, it was white versus black, rich versus poor, man versus woman, Jew versus Muslim,” said Elaine Sciolino, a Times correspondent in France and the author of “La Seduction,” assessing the French reaction and the fraying of the Gallic Anita Hill moment. “Now it’s going to be this man who would have been president taken down by this nogoodnik who has a druggie boyfriend in prison and who lied from the moment she tried to get into the United States.”

It seems America needs a clean-cut Osmond to lead us, now more than ever. Injustice rarely disappears quietly and contritely back into the woodwork you see, only in the Hollywood movies and those marriages with ... "understandings", it seems. Luckily, the rest of us aren't so cynical in accepting that's now the status quo.

Not like that. No thanks.
Bring on Romney/Backmann 2012 -- Re-winning America Back. (We should never sell out the American Way, or surrender our freedoms to the richest, no matter how many shekels of gold are promised.)

DDED: Derrick Bell, Candorville. Timely today.
Does the NYT run comics in their Sunday paper edition?

Speaking of paper, I was so glad to see online they fixed the punctuation error in my paper copy (St. Paul Pioneer Press) that had a semi-colon, not a comma, after the word video and before the where in the second box...