{"id":109179,"date":"2016-10-29T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T02:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109179"},"modified":"2016-10-29T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T02:33:58","slug":"sabrina-rubin-erdelys-malice-in-blunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109179","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Rubin Erdely\u2019s Malice in Blunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Although merely a modest staffer, Eramo has a difficult legal hurdle to overcome in winning justice from Rolling Stone because the judge declared her to be a \u201climited purpose public figure.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Bizarrely, the judge also ruled that hoax artist Jackie Coakley is only to be identified by her first name, and he merely required her to give a deposition on tape\u2014on which she repeatedly claimed memory loss due to post-traumatic stress disorder.)<\/p>\n

…The bigger picture is that we live in a culture where a liberal Jewish feminist journalist like Erdely is paid well to vilify as haters those she hates, and is seldom asked to recognize that she\u2019s projecting her own racist animus upon the victims of her bigotry such as Eramo and Phi Kappa Psi.<\/p>\n

Because of how much insight it offers into Hillary Clinton\u2019s America, here\u2019s the key thing to remember about the Haven Monahan hoax: Virtually every single professional journalist in the country believed (or at least submitted to) the Erdely-Coakley bad craziness. The New York Times, for instance, treated it as gospel….<\/p>\n

The larger question of why the mainstream media were so credulous about this palpable fraud has, of course, been of negligible interest to the mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Why did they acquiesce to such conspiracy-theory insanity?<\/p>\n

First, Erdely\u2019s article was part of the well-organized push by the Obama Administration over the purported \u201crape culture on campus\u201d crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes: Although merely a modest staffer, Eramo has a difficult legal hurdle to overcome in winning justice from Rolling Stone because the judge declared her to be a \u201climited purpose public figure.\u201d (Bizarrely, the judge also ruled that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t