Durham DA Mike Nifong doesn’t know when to shut up. Here’s what AP reported this morning:
Nifong had a brief run-in at the polling place with Bob Harris, the play-by-play voice of the Blue Devils, when the prosecutor attempted to shake his hand. The radio announcer jumped into his car and was visibly upset when he noticed a television cameraman filming the exchange. He called county sheriff’s deputies, who took no action after they arrived.
“The majority have been very friendly. There have been a few people who have not,” a cheerful Nifong said later as he greeted voters in the parking lot of Temple Baptist Church. “There was one guy who came by with a lacrosse T-shirt. I didn’t talk to him. I might have prejudged him _ I’m not sure.”
As he waved at a passing car, he noted with a grin: “That guy just looked at me and shook his head.”
Har, har, har. Jokes about botched due process and prosecutorial misconduct are just so funny. And, hey, I have much more respect now for Bob Harris, not for calling the cops but for refusing to shake Nifong’s hand.
UPDATE: A colleague didn’t read the mention of Bob Harris as I did. He read it to mean that Harris shook Nifong’s hand but became upset when a camera caught him doing it. If that’s so is Harris a Nifong supporter then? Beats me.