Yesterday I wrote about a report on FoxNews.com that was remarkably unfair to the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case, claiming that “[d]efense attorneys have refuted most points made by the accuser” while providing almost no evidence to substantiate the claim.

Today a reader points me to a transcript from last night’s “Special Report with Brit Hume” on Fox in which correspondent Megyn Kendall promotes an outlandish theory that the accuser researched the players online and identified the ones with the wealthiest parents:

KENDALL: We know originally the police said that the alleged victim gave three names as her attackers, Matt, Adam and Brett.

HUME: None of these are named that?

KENDALL: No. Now we have —

HUME: At least two of them —

KENDALL: The two charged are Collin and Reade, so what happened to Matt, Adam and Brett, well we don’ know. But, one of the theories that is being spun at this point suggests that the two guys who have now been arrested are the two most affluent players on the team and their families — names and addresses and phone numbers were listed on a Web site called justice for her, a blogspot.com Web site that supports the alleged victim in this case.

HUME: So the theory being that somebody could have looked up on the Web site, found out where they lived, had somebody check it out, find out who had money, it seems a little bit of a stretch but interesting.

KENDALL: It is.

A bit of a stretch? It’s absurd. For one thing, Kendall is promoting sheer speculation — she has no idea whether the accuser even knows the blog exists. And this is a criminal investigation, not a civil lawsuit; the accuser has no monetary incentive to pursue the case, though she could file a civil lawsuit later (as in the OJ case).