This afternoon, I watched an ABC News video of the latest development in the Duke non-rape case. What was startling to me was just how much the mainstream press has invested in the accused actually being guilty of rape.

Chris Cuomo, son of former Democratic New York Governor Mario Cuomo (and ABC’s “legal expert” for this story), when asked about the DNA on the woman’s body being from her boyfriend (with whom she had sex, which was picked up in the exam) declared that one hoped that the new information would not discredit the accuser, because that would be “victimizing the victim” and might result in other rapes not being reported.

This truly is stunning. Here are reporters who have been fed lie after lie by the prosecution referring to the latest news conference from the defense team as simply being “spin.” No matter how big the whopper, Chris Cuomo and the others of his ilk WANT to believe that a rape occurred, and if the prosecution tells even more lies — which obviously is going to happen — Cuomo and company will gladly soak in the latest garbage and tell the rest of us they have been fed steak.It is obvious that the politics of race and feminism are the driving forces of this malicious prosecution, as the media figures have been salivating at the prospects. You see, most athletes accused of rape are black, and in the majority of those accusations, it turns out that the woman is lying or is trying to settle a score.

For example, last fall six black football players for the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga were accused of rape by a white female student. Of course, the players were booted from the team (and from school) and there were the obligatory candlelight vigils and “take back the night” marches. However, when the whole thing came to a preliminary hearing, the judge saw the evidence and dismissed the charges, noting that it appeared, judging from the woman’s previous sexual encounters with athletes, there did not exist enough evidence to charge the men with rape, as the sex appeared to be consensual.

In that case, as well as many other cases when black athletes are accused of rape, the black community and feminists are pitted against one another. Moreover, when most white athletes are accused of rape, the accusers usually are white women.

In the Duke case, however, we have white males charged with raping a black female. Therefore, both blacks and feminists can join in a “common cause” and because the accused are white and often unpopular athletes, they really have no strong political constituency to represent them.

Most LRC readers are accustomed to justice being an issue of facts and of standards of right and wrong. However, the Chris Cuomos of the world (and most journalists) see things solely in a political light, so the “resolution” of this case which creates a favorable political outcome is the “correct” outcome.

One one side, defense lawyers are trying to deal in facts, since it is clear — transparently clear, I might add — that these athletes did not rape the accuser. On the other side, however, we have the media and its ilk which could not give a damn about the facts and simply wants a conviction in order to satisfy a certain political view of the world.