Posted on 12/06/2014 6:40:24 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
The University of Virginia rape story may be unraveling, but that's not stopping ABC News, or campus forces with a vested interest in the issue, from forging ahead. On today's Good Morning America, host Dan Harris said that the "one big fear . . . is that this will scare other victims" from coming forward.
But just who are the "victims" here: "Jackie" the pseudononymous accuser, or the UVA fraternity and the seven men she accused? Harris spoke at the end of a segment in which UVA President Teresa Sullivan said that despite doubts about the story, the university is "first and foremost" concerned with sexual assault survivors, and a campus advocate claimed "Jackie still has a truth in many ways."
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Who are the victims here? Ping to Today show list.
Apparently, it did not stop Lena Dunham from lying her ass off.
Rather Rule: “Fake but accurate”
Bingo!
Bob, I’ve added your “fake but accurate” observation to the original NewsBusters story, acknowledging you as the source.
It made men look bad. So what’s the problem? Probably white men at that. A twofer.
"The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it's the seriousness of the charge that matters.”
-- Tom Foley, Democrat, Former Speaker of the House
Precisely.
Just the A-holes that believe they can make up rape stories and think because they are female, that no one would question if it was true.
Is that a picture of Jackie?!?!?!?
It’s Teresa Sullivan, the President of UVA, a former professor of sociology.
To the radical man-hating feminazis, it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. What matters is blaming males for all the crimes of the world.
Yes, their are a lot of sexual assaults on campuses all over the country and probably the world, but you have to look at the root causes, not target a group you think other people will hate. Fraternities make up a small portion of the campus population. To target them selectively over widespread problem is stupid. If the university president really wanted to do something about sexual assaults then she would crack down on under age drinking and drug use on campus. The whole movement towards coed dorms and no curfew hours needs to be reversed, as well. Additionally she would institute non-fraternization policies between faculty and students. Attack the disease, not an individual symptom.
You'd think Rolling Stone--after knowing about those debacles that ruined several mass media outlets--would carefully vet the story of the rape victim to make sure what she said was accurate before publishing the long-form article. But instead, the blatant political agenda of Rolling Stone overruled common sense, and in their rush to judgement to promote the magazine's hard-Left views, it ended up smearing a fraternity on the University of Virginia campus for all the wrong reasons.
In short, that UVa fraternity may now sue Rolling Stone for libel and slander, and that could end up costing the magazine its very existence.
Serves them and their fat homosexual publisher right.
GMA is actually correct, just not in the way they meant it. False allegations that later unravel WILL discourage other victims from coming forward. They have no interest in the truth; none. This story and Lena Dunham’s idiocy are perfect opportunities to shove it into the faces of every liberal you know. Be ugly with it, be mean with it, ask them how they would like it if their own son-brother-husband was accused. Bludgeon them with the truth. To do so is an act of love.
And they SHOULD sue RS out of its existence.
Fake but accurate. It’s the praetorian press way.
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