The Herald-Sun, called The Hurled-Scum on many blogs and forums that support the indicted Duke lacrosse players, showed why they have earned that moniker with a story this morning. In a story headlined “AG office denies lacrosse case is dead” the paper tries to counteract rumors of the past 48 hourse that the case against the lacrosse players is about to be dismissed. That’s par for the course, though, The Herald-Sun carrying water for the prosecution. What outraged many was this characterization of the accuser’s father’s view (emphasis added):
While he still believes wholeheartedly his daughter was brutally raped and assaulted on the night of March 13, 2006 — he recalls in vivid detail his daughter’s swollen eyes and cut arms — he said his daughter has at least once mentioned regrets about having ever made the accusations in the first place.
Avid case follower Bill Anderson was especially upset that Herald-Sun reporter BriAnne Dopart would act as a stenographer for proven lies:
The accuser had NONE of these injuries, none. No medical personnel who examined her saw anything like those injuries, and no one else did, either.
Yet, here is the Durham Hurled-Scum repeating a Big Lie and expecting the rest of us to swallow it. Think of the lies and slanted stories that the H-S has given us this past year, and despite this paper having access to the facts, Bob Ashley and Company continue not only to promote a lie, but to make up stuff from whole cloth.
