Fitzpatrick All Over the Map, Syracuse Clown College Takes Winter Break
D.A. | Dec 07, 2011 | Comments 9
So William Fitzpatrick is now attempting to play down the severity of the Bernie Fine scandal, while reasserting his own role in the dispensing of justice, huh? Onondaga Clown College, if you ask me.
Look, I think we all know the Fine household was totally FUBAR. Bernie Fine has some ugly skeletons in his closet, Laurie Fine is a raging lunatic, and Bobby Davis clearly got caught in the middle of it. How that should be defined is several layers of gray. We know Jim Boeheim, despite his loyalty being in the right place, should not have lashed out at the accusers so demonstratively, out of respect for other victims.
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But Fitzpatrick’s statements today simply reinforced what a disaster this entire situation became. Let’s just take the opening sentence from the AP story today.
“A county district attorney who at first sharply criticized police and Syracuse University for their handling of sex-abuse allegations against an assistant basketball coach said Wednesday that he cannot bring charges.”
Fitzpatrick was guilty of the same thing Boeheim was. Speaking too soon, and with ill-advised conviction, before knowing the facts. If The Per’fesser apologized, shouldn’t Fitzy as well? Out of the gate, Will I. Am blasted the university for a lackluster investigation and shamed the police for their incompetence. Just a few weeks later. he came to the same conclusion. No charges. Hit a bunch of dead ends.
“Fitzpatrick said people should stop calling for the resignation of Syracuse Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Boeheim.”
“He said, ‘Hasn’t Bernie Fine caused enough pain in this community?’”
Classic. Well, we don’t really have any evidence that Fine did cause pain within the community. Remember? That’s what you just told us three minutes ago. “Hey lay off Boeheim and Cantor! I know I ripped them both a few weeks ago, but I looked into it. Nothing there! This is all that demon Bernie Fine’s fault. Then again, I can’t find any evidence on that either, so I couldn’t really say.”
Fitzy is playing Rodney King, if Rodney had helped inflame the L.A. riots by setting 150 fires across SoCal and stabbing 15 people. “Can’t we all just get along? I mean, I know I ripped the community apart, but let the healing begin!”
“It is not my place to pronounce Bernie Fine guilty of anything.”
Oh, right. Even though last month you were shouting from the mountaintop how you wouldn’t sleep until you brought justice to CNY. Remember that time you declared war against the local police because you were positive Fine was guilty of something? I thought that went well.
“On almost every single criteria, Bobby Davis came out as a credible person. Mike Lang also comes across as a credible person.”
These guys are credible! Credible, I tell ya! I mean, I can’t levy any charges. And the third accuser seems like a total fraud. And the first time around Lang denied any abuse, so he’s totally changed his story. But I’m thinking these guys are spot on! I mean, we dug up Fine’s backyard and couldn’t find anything. And the only evidence we have is what ESPN and the Post-Standard had eight years ago. But I would let these guys date my daughter!
Whatever Fitzy. I’m not convinced there’s still not a few twists and turns in this story. And Fine needed to be removed from the program for at very least hiding a bizarre (and ugly) personal life. And Boeheim needed to act with more decorum. But Fitz, you hit the same brick wall everyone else did, even though you insisted you were gonna solve the case like the Scooby Doo team. You got your name in lights, headlines across the nation, and your 15 minutes of fame. Now please go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Posted: D.A.
In America, You are always Innocent..until proven guilty. Why are we apt to convict people ..before they are even charged..and no trial has taken place. None of us know if Bernie is guilty of anything other than being strange…
Is Fitz more like shaggy or Sccoby? Regardless, in the end Fine may have a civil option against ESPN and PS etc.. Fitz and others have shown a distinctly poor level of profesionalism. In the end the truth may not be known.
So By finding Davis and Lang “credible” he convicts Bernie, again, in the court of public opinion. So let me get this straight:
1. Potential 4th accuser is serving life sentence.
2. 3rd accuser pleeds guilty to child molestation and is found to be lying about Pittsburg.
3. 2nd accuser (Lang) denied any Fine molestation when 1st asked.
4. Davis is believed to be telling the truth because of a taped phone call with Laurie Fine, who he was banging, in which she said Bernie was “in denial”.
If I was innocent of these type of accusations, I, too, would be “in denial”.
You’re saying Boeheim should have acted with more decorum and then you lash out at Davis and Lang as not credible? How hypocritical is that? It appears, at least, that there is truth to what happened to these guys so you ought to be more careful about attacking their credibility.
Wow. You have shockingly little perspective on the story, the people involved, and the impact on the community.
“You got your name in lights, headlines across the nation, and your 15 minutes of fame.”
Really?? Your calling out a guy who could have been attorney general of NYS had he wanted it, mind you, that’s a position that produces Governors and Presidents (Cuomo, Spitzer, etc.) of being attention whore???
ugh
DCuse – I actually wrote right off the bat weeks ago, we needed to take all the accusations seriously. So not trying to discredit them personally – trying to make a point of how Fitz sounds hypocritical.
Gerry – When you “declare war” on the local police and publicly question all the investigations you weren’t a part of, yes I consider you an attention whore.
Gerry its funny you used spitzer an whore in the same post….hmmmmmm….
A bad day for all LaFayette residents, again!
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