[Antoninus]

This kind of stuff happens all the time, and only rarely gets exposed. Left wingers by and large are all lying, deranged fabulists.

Exactly. My first contact with it was in college. One of my friends was interested in a girl who worked on the school newspaper--a doctrinaire "liberated" woman type who was politically correct to a fault. She once wrote a column about a girl who was raped on campus but was too afraid to come out and file a police report because of how she would be treated. The column then went on to decry the anti-women atmosphere on campus and the column received a lot of attention.

My friend was a bit shaken by the column so he bugged the young lady about it incessantly until she finally admitted that there was no girl--she had made the whole thing up.

For all I know, that girl is working for AP or the NY Times today.

[boop]

"My friend was a bit shaken by the column so he bugged the young lady about it incessantly until she finally admitted that there was no girl--she had made the whole thing up"

Yet another hoax by the left. But it "raises important issues" so it's OK. Don't the liberal activists who get burned by this ever turn on the reporters for playing with their emotions?