{"id":453,"date":"2007-07-12T07:06:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2007-07-12T07:06:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T13:54:21","slug":"the-case-of-the-diamond-dildo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"The Case Of The Diamond Dildo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus writes on Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s just like porn-centric lone L..A. blogger Luke Ford<\/a>, writing about new arrival David Beckham, to recklessly report:<\/p>\n

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On another occasion, while Victoria was expecting their third child, Beckham spent $1.8 million for a diamond-encrusted sex toy <\/strong>with matching 16-carat diamond necklace. [E.A.]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too good to check–and bloggers don’t have to check, do they? It turns out Mrs. Beckham has now denied the tidbit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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"It isn’t true," Victoria said, her voice calm and measured. "We do buy each other nice things," she admitted, but some things get exaggerated. "I don’t have a diamond-encrusted vibrator."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, a quick NEXIS search brings up a lot of stories citing a man who was selling $1.8 million diamond-encrusted vibrators speculating that Beckham was thinking<\/em> about buying one. Anyone with any professional journalistic experience would view with suspicion subsequent reports that might have Beckham actually purchasing the thing.<\/p>\n

Maybe pompous L.A.Times<\/em> media critic Tim Rutten had a point<\/a> about those "gossip sheets, whether online or on slick paper, that continue to proliferate like informational vermin." The Pulitzer-winning Times<\/em> would never . … Hello? What? Really? The bogus Becks vibrator story didn’t appear in Luke Ford’s blog at all?<\/strong> It appeared …well, here<\/a>. … P.S.: <\/strong>And it hasn’t been corrected. … [via Steve Smith<\/a><\/em>] 1:15 A.M.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mickey Kaus writes on Slate: It’s just like porn-centric lone L..A. blogger Luke Ford, writing about new arrival David Beckham, to recklessly report: On another occasion, while Victoria was expecting their third child, Beckham spent $1.8 million for a diamond-encrusted … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-times"],"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