Duke lacrosse: Suppose you’re an employment counselor

and William King walks into your office.

Before sending him out on a job interview, you want to know a little about him.

So he says, “Fine. Here’s a comment I posted at the blog, Signifying Nothing, on Tuesday morning, April 4, when the Duke lacrosse witch hunt was in full throttle. I think it tells you a lot about me."

King hands you his comment:

William King wrote @ Tue, 4 Apr 2006, 10:33 am EDT:

Since DA Nifong has gone out there and made the statements that he would charge these kids without DNA, and throngs of journalists and cable shows have parroted him in that decision –

to believe them, this is what you’d have to believe.

The boys on the team were smart enough and organized enough to
pass themselves off as another sport’s team before the incident even occurred (and score 1600 on their SATs.)

They were disciplined and sober enough to attack the victim without leaving any skin cells, microscopic hair, salvia, semen, or blood
(remember the claim is she was orally assaulted also).

They used fake names, and then remembered under duress to use the fake names.

Decisive and unified enough for all 46 to leave the house and surrounding area in 120 seconds after a 911 call was placed reporting their behavior.

Calm enough to subdue a woman fighting for her life while successfully applying a condom.

Precise enough to organize a sexual assault position and position(s) where the victim could not see that they were wearing or applying condoms (orally too – would be difficult).

Committed enough for 43 players to lie for 3. To put their future on the line for 3 other boys.

Disciplined and reasoned enough at 18 & 19 to not confide in their girlfriends, families, buddies, and fellow students, about a major traumatic event that has been leading the National news.

AND DUMB and Careless enough to leave the victim’s Four Fake fingernails, her cell phone, a roll of bills totaling $400.00, and her pocketbook lying on the floor right where the incident occurred for 60 hours after the event!

Nifong and the media talk show hosts lost me when they said if there is NO DNA the girl was still gang-raped. You’d have to be an imbecile to believe these things could all coexist simultaneously.

Respectfully,

W. K.

So now what do you do?

I bet you’d start by saying to yourself something like: “I won’t waste King’s time by sending him over to the Raleigh N&O. And he’s certainly not the kind of guy President Brodhead’s looking for. The Duke faculty "Group of 88" and all the departments and program’s that signed that exploitive listening statement? The only person I’d send them is Osama.”

You might start scratching your head and wondering. Then all of a sudden, you have an “I got it!” moment and say:

“Mr. King, if you don’t need a job immediately, there may be some staff openings in the Durham DA’s office after the election. Can you wait that long? You seem like the kind of person who belongs there.”