The N&O‘s Ruth Sheehan apologizes today for two early columns on the Duke lacrosse case, one that convicted all 46 players of rape before any facts were in and the other that called for Duke lacrosse coach Mike Pressler to be fired. This is more than many pundits, who wrote the same or worse, have done, so give her credit for that. She says she would have done this sooner if it weren’t for her husband’s quadruple bypass surgery. This explanation didn’t set well with this commenter on lucianne.com:
I got to the part about her husbands triple [sic] bypass surgery and figured that this was all about her, anyway…it is not about apologizing but about HER. Not about forgiveness, but about HER…not about how sorry she is that she is just another liberal useful idiot seeking that Edward R. Murrow ‘thing’.. NO…it is ALL ABOUT HER.
She also says:
But, lest my reporting on Duke lacrosse over the course of a year be reduced to two early columns, let me remind you that I did not just throw those two Molotov cocktails and remain mute for nine months before declaring myself “naive.” My lacrosse columns numbered 14.
That’s a little like Lee Harvey Oswald complaining that his life is being judged on that little Texas School Book Depository incident.
