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Rolling Stone's Rape Article Failed Because It Used Rightwing Tactics to Make a Leftist Point (barf)
New Republic ^ | 4/6/15 | Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig

Posted on 04/07/2015 8:39:53 AM PDT by jeannineinsd

If you type in the original page for Rolling Stone’s December 2014 story “A Rape on Campus: The Struggle for Justice at UVA,” you’ll be redirected to "What Went Wrong?,” a report about the article published Sunday by the Columbia Journalism Review. Rolling Stone officially retracted its blockbuster story, which had garnered more than 2.7 million views. The retraction comes on the heels of the Charlottesville Police Department’s announcement that there was not enough evidence to pursue an investigation of the story’s titular rape, which now appears to have been something between a delusion and a hoax. . . snip . . .

In balancing a systematic critique on a single person’s story, Erdely essentially used a rightwing strategy to make a leftist point. The trouble is only that the right is skilled at this game, and correctly deduced that undoing Jackie’s story would go a long way to endangering Erdely’s larger structural point. It’s an opportunity they never should have been given, both for Jackie’s sake, and for the sake of the victims who really do find themselves struggling for protection within a hostile justice system.

(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: billcosby; jackie; liberallnucay; loony; loonylefty; newrepublic; rape; raperape; rollingstone; sabrinarubinerdely; uofvirginia; uva; virginia; whoopigoldberg
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To: jeannineinsd
Over the decades the left has propagated many false stories similar to the fake UVA rape case. And scoundrelettes like Mizz Bruenig call them "right-wing tactics." Unbelievable.

Leftists simply can't face the fact that most of them are liars. Like the UVA tale they're quite ready to concoct outrages out of whole cloth.

21 posted on 04/07/2015 9:04:47 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: TexasCajun

I see a long line of dudes dumping Ms. Crazy in the future. Then I see a long line of cats taking their place.


22 posted on 04/07/2015 9:06:10 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: jeannineinsd

She has a PhD in Critical Thinking at Brown University.

You just can’t make this stuff up...


23 posted on 04/07/2015 9:14:56 AM PDT by JusPasenThru (Posting here = IRS audit.)
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To: jeannineinsd

A rambling non-sensical article. At some point, people are not going to listen to lame excuses. And one of them might be a judge who is going to award the damaged millions of dollars.


24 posted on 04/07/2015 9:16:07 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: jeannineinsd
In the sense that "Rightwing tactics" have become the 21st Century equivalent of a Chinese fire drill, she's correct.
25 posted on 04/07/2015 9:19:00 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: jeannineinsd
Right wing tactics? What? You mean "presenting facts"?

I could see how that would trip up leftists. They don't know how to do that. Tha whole gathering/checking/sourcing procedure.

26 posted on 04/07/2015 9:22:40 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: JusPasenThru

She’s a PhD student in Religion and Critical Thought at Brown University. She’s apparently a pro-life (Catholic?) too. Confused girl.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/02/8561403/60-second-interview-elizabeth-stoker-bruenig-staff-writer-emthe-new-re


27 posted on 04/07/2015 9:26:26 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: jeannineinsd

Make everything the Republicans fault. It’s getting old.


28 posted on 04/07/2015 9:30:43 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: Snickering Hound

LOL!


29 posted on 04/07/2015 9:31:45 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: TexasCajun

This is precisely why liberals want to make it painless to vote, and have floated moving the voting age to 16.

Not all, but many of those young people are ripe for the liberal picking.

As Rush says, Brains Full Of Mush.


30 posted on 04/07/2015 9:34:22 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: jeannineinsd

Bump


31 posted on 04/07/2015 9:37:42 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: JusPasenThru
"...You just can’t make this stuff up..."

LOL, yes...you CAN!

Hahahahahaha...this is what passes for Critical Thinking in higher education these days, so...I am not in the least surprised that she has a PhD.

What it should be called is "Critical Thinking Studies", same as the other "studies" you see at colleges these days.

32 posted on 04/07/2015 9:38:48 AM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: eyeamok

” Journalist’s”

You used the possessive form where the plural would have been correct.

Just put an “s’ on the end to make a noun plural.

You’re Welcome.
Love,
The Grammar Police


33 posted on 04/07/2015 9:40:58 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: jeannineinsd
Yes yes, "Tactics".....

Tell me about "Tactics" again...

A book with a foreward thanking Satan....

34 posted on 04/07/2015 9:41:19 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: jeannineinsd
Rolling Store uses the same format as the NY Times. Make it up. Lie like hell. Plant crap because with the help of Hollywood types and the MSM it will stick long enough that the deranged idiots we call liberal Americans will always believe.
35 posted on 04/07/2015 9:47:17 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Sherman Logan
If you can’t find actual incidents of racial oppression, you’re perfectly justified in inventing some to illustrate the “deeper truth” you are sure exists.

She is the classic example of an ideologue.

36 posted on 04/07/2015 9:54:13 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Sherman Logan

Excellent analysis. Thanks!


37 posted on 04/07/2015 10:00:59 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: jeannineinsd

>This is an unbelievable piece. “Rightwing tactics” are at fault for the Rolling Stone’s failed rape article.
This is an unnerving view into the mindset of leftwing journalism. Everything is politics. Politics equals the rightwing is always wrong.<

What a perfect case of liberal projection. It’s textbook. Sadly, their true believers will lap it right up.


38 posted on 04/07/2015 10:13:12 AM PDT by Darnright (No, We Love Yeshua (Jesus).)
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To: jeannineinsd

They’re desperate.


39 posted on 04/07/2015 10:28:07 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: jeannineinsd

Somehow, this will lead to blaming Bush.


40 posted on 04/07/2015 10:32:35 AM PDT by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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