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Rule 5 Monday: Elizabeth Pipko

Posted on | January 29, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Regardless of her politics, I don’t think Miss Pipko is going to have much problem finding modeling work. Abbreviated Rule 5 post this week for a number of reasons; back to the usual next Sunday.

Pretty in pink.

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #510, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns.

Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Dinobirds Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: The Upside, Cheese Lovers Day, Elle McPherson, Sarah Beattie, Bikini Hiker Dies Of Hypothermia, Amber Rose Revah, Deborah Ann Woll, and Alexa Davalos & Giorgia Whigham.

A View From The Beach: Brande Nicole Roderick, Science Says Tattooed People Sluttier, Taiwan’s Bikini Hiker Dies of Exposure, SNL Second Strigner Offers BJs for Beatings, Commuters Celebrate Ride by Removing Pants, A Cold Serving of Russiagate, Well, I Suppose That’s One Way to Keep the Weight Off, Sunday Morning Russiagate Coming Down and “Delusions Made of Wax”

Proof Positive: Jenny Scordamaglia, Marie Osmond, and Jenifer Aniston.

Dustbury: Piper Laurie and Emily Mortimer.

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious linkagery!


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Category: Rule 5

In The Mailbox: 01.28.19

Posted on | January 29, 2019 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

It was a bad weekend. Rule 5 Monday will follow this post, and the FMJRA if I have the energy;
if not, then I’ll post it Tuesday.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Lack Of Care & Overcrowding – The Joys Of Socialized Medicine
EBL: Daisy Appreciation Day
Twitchy: Adam Schiff NOT Buying The AG’s Mueller Investigation Update – Includes Bonus Reality Check Buzzkill
Louder With Crowder: Model Elizabeth Pipko Just Outed Herself As A Trump Supporter

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Learn To Code Edition, also, Greasy Pole Podcast #10 – The English Humor Episode
American Power: Fixing Facebook, also, A Stinging Defeat For President Trump
American Thinker: The FBI Drops In
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
BattleSwarm: Westboro Baptist Church For Thee, But Not For Me, also, Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update
CDR Salamander: The Fort Report On The Fitzgerald
Da Tech Guy: More On Nathan Phillips, also, Do We Owe Our Bishops Anything?
Don Surber: No, Trump Did Not Cave, also, Trump Wins Because He Isn’t Screwing Anyone Over
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, Orange You Glad
First Street Journal: Bishop Who Doesn’t Follow Catholic Teachings Condemns Covington Kids For Not Folllowing Catholic Teaching
The Geller Report: Israeli Scientists Find Cure For Cancer, also, Lawyers Say Google May Face RICO & Defamation Lawsuits Due To SPLC Partnership
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, An Improved Marxist Model
Hollywood In Toto: Audiences Cheer Racial Harmony, Reject Vice
Joe For America: Midwest To Be Blasted By Polar Vortex, Life-Threatening Wind Chills
JustOneMinute: Still Stuck In Covington
Legal Insurrection: Kamala Harris Officially Launches White House Run Before Adoring Media, also, Thousands show Up To Give Deceased Air Force Vet Proper Sendoff
The PanAm Post: Russian Mercenaries In Venezuela? Nothing We Can’t Handle
Power Line: “They Need To Start With Themselves”, also, What Has Happened To The Left?
Shark Tank: Gillum’s Political Future Takes Big Hit
Shot In The Dark: Not To Indulge In Schadenfreude…
STUMP: Saying Goodbye To Pickwick
The Political Hat: Banning Unwoke Pronouns In California
This Ain’t Hell: Why Are Some People Afraid Of The Red Hat? also, Attitudes On The Left And The Politics Of Inclusion
Victory Girls: Ilhan Omar – Evil In The House
Volokh Conspiracy: “The Myth Of Substantive Due Process”
Weasel Zippers: Court Hides Reason For FBI Raid On Clinton Whistleblower, also, NY State Legislation Permits College Financial Aid For Illegal Aliens
Megan McArdle: Is Journalism’s “Pivot To Dust” Arriving?
Mark Steyn: Muriel’s Wedding, also, Waltzing Matilda


Category: Linkagery

Prejudice and Error

Posted on | January 28, 2019 | 2 Comments

If the basis of your investigation is a belief that witchcraft is the source of social problems, you’ll probably find some witches soon:

Mistaken identity is always a risk when a witch-hunt hysteria takes hold, and the hunt for “hate” in the Trump era has produced a mob mentality that rivals 17th-century Salem. Just ask Michelle Grissom, a Colorado middle-school teacher who may lose her job because she mistakenly identified the wrong Covington Catholic School student in a viral video — and called him a “Hitler Youth”!
Ms. Grissom has been placed on leave from her position as a social studies teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch after deleting her Twitter account and apologizing for her error. The Kentucky student she meant to defame as a Nazi — Nick Sandmann — is now arguably the most famous Catholic in America, thanks to video of his Jan. 18 confrontation with activist Nathan Phillips in D.C., but Ms. Grissom instead “doxed” Covington Catholic junior Jay Jackson. Unfortunately for her, Jackson did not accompany his classmates on the trip to Washington for the annual March for Life. Instead, he was 500 miles from the nation’s capital, playing basketball in a tournament in Middletown, Ohio. Adding to Ms. Grissom’s misfortunes was the fact that Jay’s father is a successful obstetrician who, to say the least, did not take kindly to having his son labeled a Hitler Youth. After the gravity of her error became apparent, Ms. Grissom issued an abject apology and also resigned her post as local teachers union official.
To paraphrase Britney Spears: Oops, they did it again. . . .

Read the rest of my column at The American Spectator.



 

Category: American Spectator

How Anti-Christian Bias in #FakeNews Media Is Encouraging Anti-Semitism

Posted on | January 27, 2019 | 1 Comment

 

This is a topic I am reluctant to write about, but in the wake of the Covington Catholic school story, the elephant in the room is now so large that it is more dangerous to ignore it than to mention it:

It’s rare to see a major media outlet be so honest about its ideological bias. But yet there was New York Times reporter Dan Levin on Twitter the other day, openly soliciting negative stories about Christian schools. “I’m a New York Times reporter writing about #exposechristianschools,” Levin tweeted, “Are you in your 20s or younger who went to a Christian school? I’d like to hear about your experience and its impact on your life. Please DM me.” . . .
You probably won’t be surprised to learn . . . that the #exposechristianschools hashtag Levin used did not initially go viral because Twitter users were anxious to share their enriching experiences in Christian-based educational institutions. The tag was predominately used to dox and smear the Covington Catholic School kids. . . .
The New York Times’ long history of prejudicial coverage of religious Christians should cement your skepticism about its intentions. Even while the newspaper was rifling through Twitter looking for people who had been damaged by a traditional Christian education, it was running a fawning profile on the overtly racist and anti-Semitic “Black Hebrew Israelites.” The piece opens with the line: “They are sidewalk ministers who use confrontation as their gospel.”
Christian schools, of course, irritate the sensibilities of contemporary Democrats for a number of reasons. It’s not only that students who attend them are often saved from the leftist cultural and political indoctrination, but also that the very existence of parochial schools, private schools and home schooling undermines their institutional political monopoly.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit via Hogewash.)

Wow. That’s what they call a “bad look,” Dan Levin.

Or perhaps as some would say, it’s a shanda fur die goyim.

As David Harsanyi says, the anti-Christian bias of the New York Times has long been notorious, and this bias is transparently partisan: The Times has always been a propaganda organ of the Democrat Party and, ever since the 1980s, when the so-called “religious Right” was identified as a core constituency of the Reagan coalition, attacking Christianity has become a more or less regular “beat” in Times coverage.

Understanding this as a partisan bias is important. Whenever religion can be used as an issue in favor of Democrats, we find the liberal media singing from the same hymnal, so to speak. When John F. Kennedy’s Catholic faith became an issue in the 1960 campaign, the New York Times became more ardently Catholic than the Pope. When the Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter was the Democrat presidential candidate, the New York Times coverage was almost evangelical in its endorsement. Over and over, we can see it is the partisan political value of religion that dictates how the topic is covered in the New York Times — anything that helps Democrats is good, anything that helps Republicans is bad.

This partisan explanation of why the New York Times hates Christians is important to understand, because otherwise people might notice a name like Dan Levin and then point at the paper’s masthead — nudge, nudge, wink, wink — and you had better believe that this has been happening since the Covington Catholic fiasco. How is it, as David Harsanyi points out, that a New York Times reporter is seeking to “expose” Christian schools while at the same time his newspaper is giving softball coverage to a bizarre racialist cult like the Black Hebrew Israelites? Doesn’t such obvious bias lend credence to hateful stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jewish influence? As a conservative Christian who is the exact opposite of an anti-Semite, I get tired of dealing with the anti-Semitic comments that crop up online whenever one of (((those names))) features prominently in a story about media bias.

Why Are Jews Liberals? the late Norman Podhoretz asked in a 2010 book that ought to be required reading in political science classes. Anyone can look at the exit poll numbers. In 2004, for example, Democrat John Kerry got 74% of the Jewish vote, which was more than his percentage of union members (61%) or Latino voters (53%).

That Jews voted 3-to-1 against Bush, who had invaded Iraq to crush the Jew-hating dictator Saddam Hussein, should have aroused critical scrutiny from the media, but for (((some reason))) it didn’t. Instead, the media were so blatant in their partisan loyalty to the Democrats that their negative coverage of the Bush administration lent credence to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about “Zionist” neoconservatives.

Am I the only one who sees the feedback loop at work here?

  1. A majority of Jews are Democrats;
  2. Many Jews have prominent positions in the news media;
  3. The allegedly “objective” media are in fact dishonest partisans, consistently promoting pro-Democrat messages;
  4. Republican voters express resentment of the media’s dishonest propaganda;
    and
  5. The media then cite these complaints about bias as proof of Republican anti-Semitism.

Isn’t it obvious, in such a situation, that assigning (((Dan Levin))) to “expose” Christian schools was a very bad idea? And what I fear most is that this feedback-loop effect could create a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. The media uses accusations of anti-Semitism to justify their blind fanatical hatred of Trump, and this might actually (a) increase the partisan skew toward Democrats among Jewish voters while at the same time (b) encouraging avowed anti-Semites to support Trump, and then (c) lather, rinse, repeat with potentially dangerous consequences.

Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) seem to believe that there is no downside to their divisive identity-politics game, so that even if there is some kind of backlash, they’ll be able to exploit this to their advantage, and never mind if innocent people actually get hurt. The media have recently tried to play victim — “Orange Man Bad!” — with CNN’s Jim Acosta actually getting a contract to write a book about how that evil bully Donald Trump is mean to famous millionaire TV reporters. So it can be expected that this media victimhood narrative will be merged with the “Republicans hate Jews” theme to create a new message: Criticism of liberal media bias is an anti-Semitic “dog whistle.”

Meanwhile, of course, Dan Levin will “expose” Christian schools and if you dare mention the hateful bias involved, you’re literally Hitler.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Media Bias, New York Times, Religion

‘An Important Discussion’

Posted on | January 27, 2019 | Comments Off on ‘An Important Discussion’

 

Three weeks ago, the shooting death of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes in Houston was all over CNN, but the story disappeared once police arrested two black suspects in the drive-by shooting (see “Media’s Anti-White Bias Makes Houston Drive-By Shooting National News,” Jan. 7).

However, Ashe Schow offers this thoughtful update on the case:

The family of 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes regrets calling her tragic murder a hate crime, a claim which led to a white male being falsely accused of the attack.
Young Barnes was killed in a drive-by shooting on the morning of December 30, 2018. Her mother was driving her and her four sisters in Houston, Texas, when a man opened fire on their vehicle. In the confusion, Laporsha Washington, Barnes’ mother, saw a white man in a red truck speeding away, and believed he was the shooter.
The shooting became a viral news story, and suddenly Washington’s description of a white male suspect became a “hate crime,” according to KPRC2 in Houston.
“Buffin said once word about the shooting became news, it went viral. From there, activists swarmed her family — listening to Washington and her daughters’ description of a white gunman. They told them the shooting likely was a hate crime,” KPRC2 reported.
Activist Shaun King amplified the sketch of the man and emphasized that it was a “hate crime.” King then started asking about a man who had been arrested for purse snatching after Barnes’ murder, strongly implying this man may be connected to the case. This led to the identified man and his family receiving death threats.
A week after Barnes’ murder, two black men were arrested for the crime.
Now Barnes’ family regrets the role they played in misidentifying an innocent man.
“We apologize. We apologize,” Mary Buffin, Barnes’ great aunt, told KPRC2. “The thing that’s bothering me is that someone was falsely accused.” . . .
Eric Black, 20, and Larry Woodruffe, 24, were arrested for Barnes’ murder. Both are African American men. Police believe the white man in the red truck sped off just after the shooting to protect himself.
Law enforcement officers also believe the two men mistook the car Barnes and her family was in for another vehicle belonging to rival gang members when they opened fire.
Even though a man was falsely accused of a horrific and racist crime, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez didn’t seem concerned, suggesting it had launched an “important discussion” on racism.
“This death has sparked a lot of discussion on many different levels,” the sheriff said at a press conference earlier this month. “We know that there is an important discussion that does need to take place about race, about the real fear and concerns that hate crimes are in an uptick across this county. We also need to talk about gun violence.”
This is a common defense when a claim of racism or sexism turns out to be bogus. Activists have been using some iteration of the “important discussion” line for years. It is especially prevalent on college campuses after a hate-crime hoax has been perpetrated.

You know what we need to have an “important discussion” about? The irresponsible way that CNN and other national news organization jump on any claim of racism as an excuse to portray America as a country defined by hatred — for which, they suggest, Republicans are to blame. It’s not just racism, either. As I recently pointed out (“The Media’s ‘Climate of Hate’ Myth,” American Spectator, Jan. 18), transgender activists and the media have falsely claimed that Donald Trump’s election is to blame for an alleged “epidemic” of anti-transgender violence. In 2016, Ashe Schow described how the media excuses these hoaxes:

Falsely accusing someone of a crime is never okay and society should never excuse it. Sadly, today’s culture allows anyone to accuse someone of rape or racism and seek forgiveness by claiming the false accuser just wanted to “start a dialogue.”
In the recent race hoax at State University of New York at Albany, where three black women started a fight on a bus and accused a dozen white people of attacking them for being black, a professor at the school claimed they were justified because they started a conversation on race.
“My white students have said this has opened up conversations,” said Sami Schalk, an assistant professor in SUNY Albany’s English department. “Things that are inadvertent, small, but that these white students have no experience with, not being a person of color on this campus.”
The three women who claimed to be the victims of a racial attack are currently being charged with assault (as videos show one of them threw the first punch) and filing a false report.
Another recent hoax, this one involving a lesbian professor at Central Michigan University who claimed she was attacked for her sexuality by a man at a Tony Keith concert, also included the “starting a dialogue” excuse. Professor Mari Poindexter said she made up the story (and punched herself in the eye to fake evidence) “because she wanted to raise awareness about the social hardships of people in the LGBTQ+ community.”
After Rolling Stone’s article about an alleged gang-rape at the University of Virginia was proven to be a hoax, media outlets — including MTV — rushed to suggest that the article “may have unintentionally started a conversation that’s bigger than the controversy itself.”

Here’s a suggestion: Let’s “raise awareness” that the reason activists are always willing to perpetrate hoaxes to “start a conversation” is because they know the media are willing to act as their accomplices.

It’s almost as if fake news is the enemy of the people, or something.




 

 

Category: Media Bias, Racism

Kendall Jenner and Other Supermodels Face Subpoenas in Fyre Festival Probe

Posted on | January 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Kendall Jenner and Other Supermodels Face Subpoenas in Fyre Festival Probe

Kendall Jenner.

Did you know Kendall Jenner has over 100 million followers on her Instagram account? Do you know what that kind of influence is worth? Jenner was paid $250,000 to promote the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival (see “‘Fyre Fraud’: A Millennial Woodstock,” Jan. 23) and now investigators are asking questions about that money:

Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and other models, Instagram influencers and artists who helped promote Fyre Festival could be forced to disclose information about payments they received from organizer Billy McFarland.
The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of Fyre Media on Friday asked a judge for a new round of subpoenas for the celebrities who helped build hype around the ill-fated festival in the Bahamas, according to Billboard.
Among them are Jenner, Hadid, Hailey Bieber, Emily Ratajkowski and other beautiful people who frolicked in the crystal-clear blue waters of the Caribbean in a promotional video that induced serious ‘fear of missing out’ among social media enthusiasts and drove thousands to purchase tickets for the event spanning two decadent weekends in spring 2017.
Nearly two years later, the subpoenas are part of an investigation into what happened to the estimated $26million McFarland raised from investors and doled out in the weeks and months before Fyre Festival went up in [metaphorical] flames, leaving thousands of attendees and workers broke and abandoned, investors swindled out of millions and, ultimately, landing McFarland behind bars.
Trustee Gregory Messer’s latest filing is seeking answers on $5.3million-worth of payments, Billboard reported.
One of the requested subpoenas is for IMG Models, the agency that represents supermodels like including Hadid, Bieber and Elsa Hosk, who appeared in a widely-seen promotional video for Fyre Festival.
Messer said IMG received payments of $1.2million from McFarland between November 2016 and February 2017, according to Billboard.
Another subpoena is for Jenner, who received a $250,000-payment in January 2017.
Jenner didn’t indicate whether she was being paid for the now-deleted post . . . which prompted a Federal Trade Commission warning about disclosure rules for sponsored social media posts.
An additional subpoena is slated for DNA Model Management, which represents Emily Ratajkowski and was paid $299,000 by McFarland in March 2017.

Emily Ratajkowski.

Whenever international supermodels are being investigated, readers trust The Other McCain to keep them informed of the latest updates. It’s sort of a public service. Also, hit the freaking tip jar. I may not have a hundred million Instagram followers, but I’m worth something, right?




 

 

Category: Celebrities, Rule 5

Violence Against Women Update: Her Roommate Stabbed Her Over and Over

Posted on | January 26, 2019 | Comments Off on Violence Against Women Update: Her Roommate Stabbed Her Over and Over

Police say Luisa Cutting (left) stabbed Alexa Cannon (right) more than 30 times.

Radford University is a state school in southwestern Virginia, about 45 miles down I-81 from Roanoke, and the campus was shocked this week when a senior student was stabbed to death by her roommate:

A Radford University student was accused of stabbing a fellow student to death Thursday, police announced.
Luisa Ines Tudela Harris Cutting, 21, of Jeffersonton, Virginia, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. A search warrant said officers responded to an apartment near the school and were met by a woman covered in blood. The warrant said the woman told officers to arrest her and admitted to the slaying.
“I killed her,” the woman said, according to the warrant.
The woman was on the floor with a butcher knife “sticking out of her mouth,” the Roanoke Times reported, citing the search warrant. . . .
The arrest warrant listed the victim as Alexis Cannon, who was a student at the Virginia school, the Roanoke Times reported.

Police say Cannon was stabbed more than 30 times and, while they have not said what the motive might have been, the New York Post rather artfully understates one obvious aspect of the case: “Posts on Cannon’s social media pages indicate that the girls had a close relationship.”

“I met this girl two years ago online and somehow we ended up living across from each other for a year, this summer she was equivalent to my mom in Cancun. And unimaginably she still puts up with me and now we’re living together next year. Love you more Lu and everyone pray that we don’t kill each other this year,” Cannon said on Instagram in March.
A post on Cannon’s Facebook page from July read: “So incredibly proud of my best friend, Luisa Cutting for becoming Latinos Student Alliance’s President! I know you’re going to be amazing with everything you do! Love you more!!”
“Love you so so much,” Cutting wrote in response to Cannon’s Facebook post.

Yes, “the girls had a close relationship,” so to speak. Here are a few photos of the couple from the deceased girl’s Instagram page:

 

 

 

 

 

Just a “close relationship” between two college girls, one of whom stabbed the other more than 30 times, according to police. It would be wrong to engage in speculation about the motive. WFIR reports that police “seized pills, smoking devices and grinders from Cutting’s bedroom along with a brown chalk-like substance from the kitchen,” according to the arrest warrant, and it’s possible the accused killer just had a bad drug experience. To suggest that perhaps this was a lover’s quarrel would be mere guesswork, which is not responsible journalism. And of course, the Women and Gender Studies faculty at Radford University will probably find a way to blame the patriarchy.

(Hat-tip: Kirby McCain on Twitter.)




 

 

Category: Violence Against Women

Would You Hire @ChloeAngyal? (With Extra Special Bonus Schadenfreude)

Posted on | January 26, 2019 | Comments Off on Would You Hire @ChloeAngyal? (With Extra Special Bonus Schadenfreude)

 

Following up on Friday’s post (“‘Learn to Code’ and the Collapse of the Millennial SJW Clickbait Bubble”), we come to the case of now-unemployed Huffington Post deputy opinion editor Chloe Angyal. Professor Reynolds reminds us of the fact that after Dr. Angyal undertook this job, she focused on increasing “diversity” in HuffPo’s opinion columns by the most obvious means: Quotas.

In March 2018, Dr. Angyal boasted of her success in reducing the number of white males writing for Huffington Post:

The Huffington Post deputy opinion editor shared her publication’s policy for promoting minority writers, yet creating a quota-like system based on race or gender could violate U.S. discrimination laws.
In a series of tweets [March 14], HuffPost editor Chloe Angyal discussed the racial makeup of the news website’s opinion columnists for the month.

“Month two of @HuffPost Opinion is almost done. This month we published: 63% women, inc. trans women; 53% writers of colour.”

One tweet seems to disclose a kind of quota system at the opinion section, with Angyal discussing her “goals” for the racial and gender composition of contributors.

“Our goals for this month were: less than 50% white authors (check!), Asian representation that matches or exceeds the US population (check!), more trans and non-binary authors (check, but I want to do better).” . . .

As Angyal admits, she tracks the race and gender identity of contributors at the beginning of each week so she “doesn’t lose track” of meeting the diversity goals.

“I check our numbers at the end of every week, because it’s easy to lose track or imagine you’re doing better than you really are, and the numbers don’t lie.”

As the Daily Caller’s Joe Simonson noted at the time, this kind of “diversity” policy — a focus on “numbers” as “goals,” which could be interpreted as systematic discrimination — actually violates Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act, as well as the state law in New York, which is where Huffington Post is officially headquartered.

Of course, Dr. Angyal’s “diversity” policy, while achieving its goal of eliminating opportunities for white male writers, did nothing to increase the diversity of ideas at HuffPo — quite the opposite. During her tenure, Huffington Post became even more of a monolith of left-wing opinion than it had previously been. Did she have “goals” for, say, pro-life Christians? Or libertarian writers? Did she check the “numbers” to ensure an adequate “representation” of pro-Trump opinions? Don’t be absurd! No libertarians or Trump supporters were ever published under Dr. Angyal’s tenure, and the opinion columns at Huffington Post remained fanatically pro-abortion, anti-Christian and, frankly, anti-American.

Oh, did I forget to mention that Chloe Angyal is a foreigner?

She’s from Sydney, Australia, and in 2014 got a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales with a dissertation entitled “Gender, Sex, and Power in the Postfeminist Romantic Comedy.” So here we have an immigrant intellectual obsessed with “Gender, Sex, and Power” who has, by her own admission, enforced discriminatory policies that violate U.S. civil rights laws and, while I’m not saying President Trump should send ICE agents to arrest Chloe Angyal and ship her back to Australia, I’m not surprised that she’s unemployed. And I’m pretty sure foreigners don’t qualify for unemployment checks, food stamps, or other benefits.

* EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS SCHADENFREUDE *

On Dec. 5, 2014, when Chloe Angyal was a columnist at Feministing, she appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show to discuss Rolling Stone’s recently published article “A Rape on Campus.” As everyone would eventually learn, Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s account of a teenage girl being violently gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity was a complete hoax, perpetrated by an emotionally disturbed student named Jackie Coakley who had invented a make-believe boyfriend (“Haven Monahan”) and then cast him as the villain in her imaginary rape in an apparent effort to gain sympathy from Ryan Duffin, a classmate on whom Coakley had a secret crush. Eventually, Rolling Stone was forced to pay millions of dollars to settle lawsuits filed by those they had defamed by publishing this false story, but on Dec. 5, 2014, when Chloe Angyal appeared as a panelist on MSNBC, the problems with this story were only beginning to become apparent. And guess who else was on the MSNBC panel that day? C’mon, guess.

 

Sabrina Rubin Erdely was the guest of honor on that program, and Chloe Angyal went out of her way to heap praise on Ms. Erdely:

“I have to thank you, Sabrina, for writing this. I think you’ve done a tremendous act of public service, and I’m genuinely very, very grateful. It is hard to read an article like this and avoid the conclusion that we live in a culture that hates women, just hates us. It’s hard to read an article like this and conclude that the men in this culture, the boys and men in this culture, are raised to see women as not just less than them but in some cases as less than human. But one thing really stood out to me, which is the statistic about how boys and men in frats are three times more likely to commit sexual violence. . . . This is not just about party schools. And it would be at our peril to pretend that this is just a frat problem. Yes, it at frats and football teams, but it also happens on the chess team and in dance companies. This is not just a frat problem. This is an American problem.”

THE ARTICLE WAS FALSE! YOU PRAISED ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS HOAXES IN THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM!

So, yeah, I’m really sorry you lost your job, and I hope when the ICE agents show up, they treat you with the kindness you deserve.

UPDATE: James Woods is kind of harsh:

(Hat-tip: Evi L. Bloggerlady.)




 

 

Category: Intellectuals, Media Bias, Sex Trouble
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