Harris to Nifong: "It's about honesty. You're not honest."

An election-day takedown of Mike* Nifong, the Durham district attorney running the most public disgrace of a trial since the McMartin Preschool child-molestation fiasco and other related preying-teacher frauds perpetuated from New Jersey to San Diego in the mid-80s.

(It is always worth noting that the great Child Molestation Epidemic Hoax was smashed due in large part to the efforts of three eclectically mixed periodicals: The Village Voice, The National Review, and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. To which news Desert Rose remarked, "There's no subsitute for intelligence applied correctly."

Forty years from now, books will be written about Ray Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct, which has verged on the Kafka-esque since the DNA samples of the accuseds' turned out negative. For now, those of us who have followed the case will have to gain satisfaction from this exchange, between Bob Harris, the voice of Duke sports, and Nifong, when Harris refused to shake hands with Nifong outside a polling place:

You've got to be nicer than that," Nifong said.

"Get out of here," Harris said. "Don't pull this crap."

"This isn't about Duke," Nifong said. "This isn't about Duke at all."

"No," Harris said. "It's about honesty. You're not honest."

More on this in future weeks. For now, back to the mid-terms.

*Correction: Anonymous wrote me to point out that DA's first name was Mike, not Ray, as I originally wrote. I've corrected the text.