News & Observer columnist Ruth Sheehan just couldn’t resist a snarky dig today when she had to admit that bloggers may have been right about something. Her column was about the acquittal of cab driver Moezeldin Elmostafa,
who was suspiciously arrested on a years-old warrant in Durham. This is
the same cabbie who provided Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann with
a seemingly iron-clad alibi. Local bloggers smelled a rat and they thought its name was Nifong. Here’s Sheehan’s “apology” to bloggers:
A few weeks ago, I used speculation about Elmo’s treatment (he’s
being harassed! his reputation tarnished!) to poke a little fun at the
bloggers in the black-helicopter-infested skies of cyberspace.But
darn if this isn’t another case where the bloggers, with all their
paranoid conspiracy theories, just might be right, however hysterical
their tone.
Black-helicopter-infested skies of cyberspace? Paranoid conspiracy
theories? Hysterical? How many cliches and stereotypes can you fit in
two paragraphs? Perhaps Sheehan is still smarting from the blog flog she experienced after a couple of columns, one of them on March 27 that seemingly convicted the entire team (“Team’s silence is sickening“):
Members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team: You know.
We know you know.
Whatever
happened in the bathroom at the stripper party gone terribly terribly
bad, you know who was involved. Every one of you does.
Talk about hysterical tones.
