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  • #19370
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    http://espn.go.com/nfl/draft2015/story/_/id/12410779/jameis-winston-files-trademark-famous-jameis

    ….the 2nd Video that comes up is about the film “The Hunting Ground”
    about the rape allegations…

    I notice the media folks and celebrity-pundits dont even touch on the rape allegations.
    They dont ‘go there.’ Complex issue. The powers-that-be didnt believe the woman,
    apparently, and they didnt charge Winston. So he was “cleared” of the charge.
    If you are a media celebrity-pundit its hard to know what to say about that.
    How to think about that, while being fair to all involved.

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    #19373
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    Is it that they didn’t believe her or was it that there wasn’t enough corroborating evidence?

    BTW, according to the FBI rape accusations are only fraudulent 2 – 8 % of the time.

    #19375
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    Is it that they didn’t believe her or was it that there wasn’t enough corroborating evidence?

    BTW, according to the FBI rape accusations are only fraudulent 2 – 8 % of the time.

    I dunno.

    But the media folks are visibly uncomfortable with the subject. I mean
    they literally do not know ‘how’ to talk about it. If you watch the vid
    on that link i posted — the one that starts with Skip Bayless — there is a moment
    where one of the celebrity=pundits sez “shoving aside the rape allegation,
    Winston’s character-issue incidents have been small” (paraphrasing).

    I mean, he literally “shoved it aside” cause he didnt know
    how to talk about it.

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    #19376
    Dak
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    Is it that they didn’t believe her or was it that there wasn’t enough corroborating evidence?

    BTW, according to the FBI rape accusations are only fraudulent 2 – 8 % of the time.

    If you read all of the facts on that case, it’s obvious that local law enforcement just dropped the ball on the investigation. If they checked into all possible evidence immediately after the rape was reported, perhaps the authorities would have had a case. But, they didn’t do that, and therefore no case could be built. It sure looked like local police just didn’t want to dig into what might have happened that night. There was video at the bar that was never reviewed. There was video on Winston’s buddy that was erased without police asking for it. The case was allowed to go cold.

    #19379
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    <div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>nittany ram wrote:</div>
    Is it that they didn’t believe her or was it that there wasn’t enough corroborating evidence?

    BTW, according to the FBI rape accusations are only fraudulent 2 – 8 % of the time.

    If you read all of the facts on that case, it’s obvious that local law enforcement just dropped the ball on the investigation. If they checked into all possible evidence immediately after the rape was reported, perhaps the authorities would have had a case. But, they didn’t do that, and therefore no case could be built. It sure looked like local police just didn’t want to dig into what might have happened that night. There was video at the bar that was never reviewed. There was video on Winston’s buddy that was erased without police asking for it. The case was allowed to go cold.

    So if you are a celebrity-espn-pundit, and your job
    is to hype sports stars, and get ratings,
    how to you handle that?
    I mean what do you say about Mr Winston every time his
    draft status comes up?

    You cant say ‘he’s a rapist,’
    but you cant say’s “he’s not guilty”
    either. There’s this big, dark “Unknown”
    that shadows him. And the pundits
    have no idea what to say about it — so,
    they “shove it aside.”

    Its just a weird dynamic, to me. A
    surreal mix of Corporate-capitalism,
    Celebrity-culture, Sports-Biz, Criminal-Justice-System,
    Advertising-dollars, a football player, and a young woman.

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    #19385
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    I just don’t want him in horns. At all.

    Lovie has a chance to do the Rams a great favor by drafting the guy.

    By virtue of the absurd ...

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