I certainly wasn't, and it's doubtful that anyone else with a thimbleful of knowledge of the Duke lacrosse rape case was, either, after watching the hugely hyped "60 Minutes" episode about the case Sunday.

Correspondent Ed Bradley, forever immortalized by some -- OK, maybe just me -- as the journalist who in 1998 asked Kathleen Willey if President Clinton was "aroused" when he allegedly placed her hand where it didn't belong, broke no new ground and, except for showing what was allegedly the alleged victim gyrating onstage after the alleged incident, shed no new light on any aspect of the Duke case.

When a pack of reporters cornered Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong on Monday afternoon at Durham police headquarters and asked whether he had watched the show that portrayed his prosecution of the case as politically motivated, Nifong said, "No."

He then scolded us for even asking about it at a news conference at which an arrest was announced in a 2005 Durham quadruple homicide case.

Perhaps we should, as Nifong said, be ashamed, but the DA's public comments have been rare since his initial expansiveness about the case.

Standing beside Durham's top cop Steve Chalmers at the news conference, Nifong said he'll prosecute the murder case.

"I think this is the kind of case people expect their district attorney to prosecute personally," he said.

What was unsaid is that the arrest is a godsend for Nifong: It might take some of the attention from the lacrosse case, especially with an election in three weeks that could become a referendum on him.

Of course, it's hard to imagine the likely drug-related deaths of four young black men rivaling in the public consciousness a story containing all of the elements of a made-for-TV movie: money and power, allegations of interracial rape and possible prosecutorial overzealousness -- plus the Duke University name and prestige.

No doubt "60 Minutes" sold a lot of cars and soap for CBS on Sunday. People from across the country called me to ask whether I was watching it. With Bradley's kid-gloves treatment of Kim Roberts, the show might have solidified in some people's minds the belief that the charges are without merit.

No line of questioning would have pleased everyone, but Bradley's failure to follow up on Reade Seligmann's statement that he left the party at which the alleged assault occurred early because he didn't like its tone -- what that tone was, Ed never asked -- was glaring, as was his failure to mention that Collin Finnerty was convicted of attacking a man he thought was gay.

Roberts, who unless she discovers the cure for some disease will forevermore be known as "the other dancer," contradicted or failed to affirm much of what the alleged victim said.

She was also much more defense-friendly than she previously had been. That, along with her attempt to capitalize financially off the case in its early stages, makes it hard to imagine her as a credible witness for either side.

While watching the exotic dancer being interviewed, her legs crossed, skirt hiked, I wondered "You reckon Bill Clinton is watching this?"