There is nothing we humans enjoy more than having our deeply entrenched biases and presuppositions validated by events. Even when those presuppositions are false and the events never happened.

That’s why so many on the left jumped on the allegations of rape against the Duke lacrosse team. And it may be why the mainstream media unquestioningly accepts allegations of misconduct by U.S. soldiers.

 Mac Owens makes this comparison in a powerful way in this piece over on National Review online.

Check it out.