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Topic Started: Nov 7 2010, 09:36 PM (452 Views)
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RICHARD BRODHEAD



according to a news broadcast I heard (although I haven't seen mention of it on the NET).

It makes sense, though, since Duke has a large footprint in India...
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I saw this this afternoon:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/11/obamas-party-down-in-mumbai-while-america-suffers-video/

Obamas Party Down in Mumbai While America Suffers (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, November 7, 2010, 12:48 PM
It’s nice to know they’re enjoying themselves blowing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in India while America suffers.

The Obamas are having a grand time in India.
NDTV reported:

US first couple Barack and Michelle Obama hit the dance floor to a foot-tapping Marathi folk number, joining a group of students at the Holy Name school to participate in symbolic Diwali festivities.

The US President and the First Lady’s engagement for the day started at the Holy Name High School in upmarket Colaba locality in south Mumbai where a group of students entertained them with a cultural extravaganza.

The Obamas, who lit a lamp to mark the celebrations, were greeted by the students in traditional Indian attire as they interacted with the children, shaking hands and posing for pictures. The students were seen gleefully clicking the couple’s photos using cellphone cameras.

The Obamas are bringing 250 U.S. executives including GE chief Jeffrey Immelt and Honeywell’s David Cote, which the U.S. India Business Council says is the largest such delegation to ever accompany a president on a foreign visit. The presidents of six universities, including Georgetown and Duke, are also set to come.


Meanwhile, back in the real world, Americans are suffering…
Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression and possibly is the worst jobs president in US History.

(Source: US Misery Index)

They wanted to fundamentally change America. They did.
The US unemployment rate has not fallen below 9.0% for over a year now. This is unprecedented.

But, Michelle and Barack are having fun in India.
That’s important.

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I wonder if we'll ever get the entire list.

Funny, Obama thought Outsourcing was a terrible thing while campaigning for 18 months or more, now he thinks it's a TV show.

I remember the campaign stops where Obama called out people in the crowd that were living in their car and others that couldn't afford $10 bucks for Gas to go to a job interview.

Now, he's flying and hobnobbing with the likes of Richard Broadhead?

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How seats did they charge John Burness for?



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Quasimodo
Nov 7 2010, 09:36 PM

RICHARD BRODHEAD



according to a news broadcast I heard (although I haven't seen mention of it on the NET).

It makes sense, though, since Duke has a large footprint in India...
And, General Electric's (read that NBC/MSNBC) Jeffrey Immelt was sitting at his right hand during the first meeting/news conference!

Louis IX and Marie Antoinette had nothing on President Obama and his cohort.

Apres moi, le deluge!
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http://www.thefire.org/article/8666.html
This seems like a good time to remember this article from 3 years ago.


The ‘Group of 88’ and Richard Brodhead
November 20, 2007

by Luke Sheahan

I’ve posted a few times on Stuart Taylor Jr.’s and KC Johnson’s wonderful and frightening book Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case. FIRE friends need no introduction to the disregard for due process and common decency permeating the academy, but let the following serve as yet more anecdotal evidence.
Eighty-eight Duke professors released an advertisement on April 6 calling the lacrosse party and alleged rape a “social disaster” and remarked that, no matter what the “results of the police investigation” were, something “happened to this young woman.” Duke President Richard Brodhead would lend the credibility of his position to this absurd claim at a meeting before the Durham Chamber of Commerce, stating, “If our students did what is alleged, it is appalling to the worst degree. If they didn’t do it, whatever they did is bad enough.”

Except that the students did nothing—at least, nothing that would deserve a thirty-year prison sentence and nothing that should deserve the public condemnation of their university president. They did, of course, hold a stripper party. The basketball team had also held a stripper party two weeks before the lacrosse party. In fact, there had been over twenty stripper parties that year at Duke.

Of course, the right to free expression protected the Group of 88’s advertisement. Even denouncements of legal fairness and due process are protected. But whatever such professors might say, Brodhead had an institutional and moral obligation to offer his students institutional protection. He failed to do so.

Lacrosse player John Walsh was given a bad grade for a make-up assignment by Professor Claire Ashton-James. When Walsh met with her about it she said, “If you guys really were innocent, I would feel sorry for you.” Visiting Professor Kim Curtis flunked one of the lacrosse players. He sued and Duke changed his grade to a pass. Other faculty members took class time to publicly demonize the students and discuss their presumed guilt, even with some of them present in the class. Professor William Chafe compared the students to the murderers of Emmett Till. Professor Sally Deutsch, now a dean, still believes that the rape occurred, the overwhelming evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper has taken the extraordinary step of declaring the young men innocent, an unnecessary measure in the American judicial system that demonstrated the absurdity of the claims against them. But the Duke faculty never seemed to care about the facts.

The administration never took any measures to protect Duke’s lacrosse players from hostile faculty members other than a single e-mail sent on April 3 by Dean Robert Thompson to the faculty urging caution, a warning the faculty failed to heed because they knew Brodhead would never challenge them. Johnson and Taylor appropriately quote Richard Bernstein’s 1994 book, Dictatorship of Virtue: “n the era of political correctness and craven university administrations, the charge of racism, unsubstantiated but accompanied by a few demonstrations and angry rhetorical perorations, suffices to paralyze a campus, to destroy a reputation, and to compel an administration into submission.”

One Duke professor called the Duke lacrosse players “farm animals.” Following that theme, I think an apt designation for Brodhead is “chicken.”
Edited by Payback, Nov 8 2010, 03:02 PM.
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Can they leave him there?
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Just wondering here how nice it would be for brodhead to stop in and see the Mahato family while visiting India. Somehow I doubt his concern about one of his former students.
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Nov 8 2010, 04:59 PM
Just wondering here how nice it would be for brodhead to stop in and see the Mahato family while visiting India. Somehow I doubt his concern about one of his former students.
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Excellent Point!

Abhijit Mahato.

His cell phone was being used after his Death and no one was even tracking it (or checking) until another Murder occurred and they checked on that suspect and his known associates.

Abhijit is the forgotten man. In fact, North Carolina commission of bleeding hearts in Gov't has recommended upping (increasing) the amount of time young men stay under the Juvie system for punishment, parole, and supervision - and absolve them of real life adult punishment. Even in the face of the undeniable evidence of the Juvie system letting them have virtually free reign until they're 16 - and they want to increase it until 18 in the face of the murders and crime sprees?

Something is wrong.

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