You may remember the rape case brought in 2006 against Duke University lacrosse players. As usual, Grace backed the prosecution and led the nation in condemning these pampered, over-privileged elitist jerks for viciously abusing young women. Soon the boys, their families, their teammates and their university were all humiliated. Before Duke panicked and suspended the lacrosse season, Grace fed public outrage, pouring on her patented sarcasm: “I’m so glad they didn’t miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape!”
As it turned out, there was no gang, no rape and no case, just a corrupt prosecutor ready to sacrifice anything to be a hero in court. In the end, the DA was disbarred, and all three lacrosse players declared not guilty of anything. When this result had to be announced on Grace’s show, she took the day off. She doesn’t like to apologize. She doesn’t like even to admit she could have been wrong.