Posted on 12/11/2014 2:17:14 AM PST by servo1969
Remember the truth? Not the truth, but truththose irrefutable realities that were backed up by facts. The old 2 + 2 = 4 sort of truth about which there was no debate. Its now dead.
Truth, facts, honesty these were all, individually and collectively, important aspects of human life and society. Now theyre inconveniences, brushed aside in favor of whatever narrative someone is seeking to push.
Want to pass a major government seizure of one-sixth of the U.S. economy? Cook the books, lie to the people and tell them if theyre happy with what they have now this new law wont affect them at all. Call them stupid, and gleefully admit how you fooled them. Maybe you have to do a public mea culpa at some point, but who cares? The damage is done, youve won, and the voters cant touch you again or your tenure will protect you.
That politicians and the parasitic class who service them for exorbitant fees lie is as shocking as the wind blowing or water being wet. Its the fact that this casual attitude toward the truth has metastasized into other aspects of life, areas where its completely unnecessary from any practical standpoint that is the problem.
Hollywood darling Lena Dunham is a ratings disaster. Were her show Girls on a network dependent upon ratings rather than subscribers, it wouldnt have made it past episode 3. But this child of privilege, born into old money, isnt burdened by such things as results. Her only concern is the execution. And an execution is what she did in her memoir, the word for autobiography when it comes from pampered elitists.
In her book, Dunham wrote how she was raped by a man named Barry. Only she didnt use the quotation marks. Nor did she, as she had elsewhere in the book, say she was using a pseudonym.
National Reviews Kevin Williamson spoke to the a man named Barry who fit Dunhams description a conservative at liberal Oberlin College who worked in a library, etc. and wrote of how his life had become hell. Barry, it turns out, was the only person named Barry at the school during that time, so not only was he the natural suspect, he was actually THE named suspect, for all intents and purposes.
Dunham tweeted in response to the Williamson piece but never mentioned the man under siege by her reckless allegations. Six weeks later. Six full weeks.
Breitbarts John Nolte, doing the Lords work, conducted a month-long investigation into the story. He looked into just how much of Lenas accusations point to this real-life Barry, whose only crime seems to have been being a conservative she knew of, and shes no fan of conservatives.
After Noltes work, Dunhams publisher released a statement saying Barry was a pseudonym and offered to pay legal bills the real Barry incurred while trying to clear his name (his name was easily discoverable through an Internet search). Barrys lawyer said a press release wasnt nearly good enough, so Dunham herself, who couldve cleared this man with a simple tweet 42 days prior, had to write a post for Buzzfeed to apologize.
O.K., it wasnt an apology; it was a nailing herself to the cross as the real victim in all this piece.
In the 1,259 words she, her publicist, her publisher and her lawyers wrote, only 40 pertained to her siccing her sycophantic lynch mob on an innocent man. They are: To be very clear, Barry is a pseudonym, not the name of the man who assaulted me, and any resemblance to a person with this name is an unfortunate and surreal coincidence. I am sorry about all he has experienced.
Never again is he mentioned, nor is any explanation proffered as to why she refused, like a child throwing a tantrum, to clear this innocent man whose life she knew shed turned upside-down. That was it40 words out of 1,259.
The rest of her piece is a self-serving victimization gambit. She refers to herself as a survivor and says But I dont believe I am to blame. Well, whether she was sexually assaulted (her words) or not is irrelevant (thats now why she wrote the piece), she became the aggressor against an innocent man and knowingly did nothing to alleviate the pain she was fully aware she was causing.
The real, innocent Barry has a hell of a lawsuit waiting for him, if he wants it, and I hope he does.
The truth in the Dunham case is long since lost and irrelevant considering her acknowledgement that the truth she wrote about wasnt true at all. James Frey had his autobiography recalled when it was discovered he wasnt exactly telling the truth in it. Now Dunham has a team and a publishing house standing by her side to say the truth is relative.
Dunhams problems with the truth arent unique to her. Rolling Stone saw its blockbuster story about the prevalence of rape on college campuses collapse under the weight of the most basic scrutiny. Seriously, entry-level blogger fact-checking scrutiny. The magazine since has apologized for smearing an entire fraternity with an awful and depraved story of gang rape, but feminists were outraged.
Feminists, it seems, dont need facts when it comes to rape allegations against more than a half-dozen men the allegation is enough.
Jackie, the woman alleged to have lied to Rolling Stone, told a tale too good to verify. It hit all the narratives progressives want to believe rape is rampant, victims are victimized again by society, schools and friends, and fraternities are evil (kinda agree with that one) so making sure she was, you know, telling the truth, seemed immaterial.
Its the same mentality that finds thousands of uninformed people chanting Hands up, dont shoot when a simple Google search could educate them to the fact that Michael Brown never made that gesture.
The lie, the known anti-truth, has become the chosen currency of a growing number of people in the United States. From the White House to Main Street, lying to advance a cause or narrative is now an acceptable tool to achieve a goal. And seeking the truth, no matter how unpleasant or unfortunate, is the new enemy.
In the meantime, real victims of sexual assault and racism will be made to suffer. Real victims will be hesitant because others cried wolf and a tone-deaf nation sick of being lied to will dismiss them as just another whatever.
In trying to advance a cause, or sell a product, or stir civil unrest and division, real, honest-to-God liars are harming real honest-to-God victims of the causes they claim, above all, to care about.
>> From the White House to Main Street, lying to advance a cause or narrative is now an acceptable tool
Oh God... it took forever to get to that point. Is the guy getting paid for each extraneous word hitherto?
Nevertheless, the author is absolutely correct! But... I think this brand of hyperbole has soured and will soon be egurgitated.
What I’d the truth?/s
The idiots say...... that we have unconscious racial bias? Really?
I thought that would only follow losing a knock out game.
Just the sort of bare-faced lies that have become a hallmark of the last six years, and which are destroying America at its very roots.
OJ walked, Clinton too, now everybody’s doing it, the country swirls down the tube.
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