Topic: Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy

[rickl]

Drudge has a big red headline about this.

He has a link to a NYT story.

There was a Market Ticker thread about it last night.


Verrry interesting...

[trapeze]

I don't know what to say about this.

Except for his brief stay on Rikers Island, DSK has been imprisoned in luxury.

Sure, he lost his job and his presidential election chances have all but vanished but guys like this always seem to land on their feet.

He appears to have been accused of rape by a serial criminal and liar. Which doesn't mean that he didn't rape her. They say that the physical evidence of sexual contact still stands.

We may never know exactly what transpired between these two but one thing is certain: If he had kept it in his pants he would be in France right now planning his election. Rape or no rape, this is what sometimes happens when you will literally have sex with anyone.

[ToddF]

I don't get it?  Are they saying he didn't rape her, and that it was consentual?  Or that she's a low life, and it's OK to rape low lifes. 

Kind of like Democrat women are down with proposition that it's OK for Democrat men to rape women, as long as the Democrat women seem to think the rapees are of a lower class.

[Libertas]

Latest update, her credibility is crumbling...of it's own weight apparently...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-sources-alleged-victim-lied-in-case-against-former-imf-head-strauss-kahn/

Dang, got suckered on this one eh?!

[charlesoakwood]

Market Watch seems to have a good theory.  DSK will not be president of France. 
The Partisan Alliance stopping socialists, communists, marxists, and collectivists of all stripes.

[Libertas]

Good for France.

Wish our partisan alliance was more energetic.

I am hearing on Rush that despite the veracity issues surrounding the maid, the charges have not been dropped.  Rush thinks this may have been a set up for DSK, but for a set up to work, the target must have exhibited proclivities conducive toward achieving a successful sting.  That's a long-winded way of saying he's an old perv and an easy mark.

[John Florida]

 

[charlesoakwood]

Digressing a tad.  Rush is ripping Carlita Rove for saying we should not criticize Obama's motives.    I love Carlita 

[Janny]

Latest update, her credibility is crumbling...of it's own weight apparently...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-sources-alleged-victim-lied-in-case-against-former-imf-head-strauss-kahn/

Dang, got suckered on this one eh?!

I am not so sure about all this.

The official is familiar with the case but spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss matters not yet made public in court.

A report I read yesterday stated that the alleged victim was very convincing to the law enforcement authorities, and that is what caused them to rush to the airport and drag this pig off the plane. Add that in to DSK's ever evolving story, and it looks more to me like the fix is in.

As trapeze said, thety have all the physical evidence of the sexual encounter and it conflicts with DSK's original     claims. I am with you, trapeze, I suspect we will never find out what really happened. It's certainly possible that it was a set-up, but the facts as reported up to now just don't seem to mesh properly.
 

[charlesoakwood]

Good for France.

Wish our partisan alliance was more energetic.

I am hearing on Rush that despite the veracity issues surrounding the maid, the charges have not been dropped.  Rush thinks this may have been a set up for DSK, but for a set up to work, the target must have exhibited proclivities conducive toward achieving a successful sting.  That's a long-winded way of saying he's an old perv and an easy mark.

Yeah, that's my read.  She did the deed (opportunity offered, accepted, and completed), called the foul, passed go, and collected the money.

She should move that money before they freeze it.

[John Florida]

Good for France.

Wish our partisan alliance was more energetic.

I am hearing on Rush that despite the veracity issues surrounding the maid, the charges have not been dropped.  Rush thinks this may have been a set up for DSK, but for a set up to work, the target must have exhibited proclivities conducive toward achieving a successful sting.  That's a long-winded way of saying he's an old perv and an easy mark.

Yeah, that's my read.  She did the deed (opportunity offered, accepted, and completed), called the foul, passed go, and collected the money.

She should move that money before they freeze it.

 If she's granted asylum you can bet the deal was made.

[rickl]

This is probably just a coincidence:

First female IMF chief receives praise from former hometown of Chicago

CHICAGO, June 28 (Xinhua) -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde made history Tuesday by becoming the first female managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and her appointment received wide praise in Chicago, where she once served as chairman of one of the world's largest law firms.

"Imbalance is what we deal with very much, and this balance between genders, this balance between men and women in society wherever we are, either at the top, in the middle or at the bottom is something that we need to improve," Lagarde told her audience in Chicago, where she worked from 1981 until she became France's trade minister in 2005.

She also touted her role in coordinating the global bailout package, the re-initiation of the financial systems and the prevention of protectionism and raising of tariffs by countries spooked by the economic crisis that started in 2007.

[Libertas]

A veteran Chicago socialist thug, great, just what we don't need more of!

 

 

[Libertas]

Update - DSK goes after the Hotel maid...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/ok-you-better-be-sitting-down-one

...could be considered a second assault!