This story from the Hartford Courant caught my attention:

Woman Who Lied About Rapist Faces Arrest January 19 2007

A Superior Court judge gave Hartford police the go-ahead Thursday to arrest a woman who sparked outrage in the city's black community when she admitted she made up a story about being raped by a heavyset black man in Bushnell Park, police and court officials said.

The woman filed the rapes charges in November.

Meanwhile, the woman at the center of the Duke case made her rape allegations in March. Even after changing her story a number of times, the charge wasn't dropped until late December when the woman admitted she was "no longer certain" that a rape had occurred. (We also learned that exculpatory evidence was withheld by the prosecutor). Yet the boys in the Duke case still remain on trial for serious offenses related to the woman's initial accusation.

Yet instead of outrage, if you look around all you see is revisionism. Take 88 members of the Duke faculty who had the gall to sign a letter earlier this week that blithely skipped over the outrageous particulars of the railroading of these three boys to defiantly reaffirm their view of the case as symptomatic of deep and ongoing problems with racism and sexual violence. (The estimable KC Johnson thoroughly debunks the letter here).

And the North Carolina NAACP is doing some revisionism of its own:

Despite being the author of a list of 82 "Crimes and Torts committed by Duke Lacrosse Team Players" on the state NAACP's news Web site, [NAACP Counsel Al] McSurely said he and the organization he represents have always advocated for the fair treatment of "both sides. "

Again, KC Johnson does the honors in pointing out the rank hypocrisy of that claim.

If you were searching for one infinitesimal silver lining in this entire God awful mess, it would be that the folks who were so eager to pass judgment in this case and so hopeful of exploiting the tragedy to advance their own narrow agendas have seen their credibility evaporate along with Mr. Nifong's.