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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

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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.

It never seemed to occur to the article's author that the Rolling Stone's article failed because it was not factually based.

1 posted on 04/07/2015 8:39:53 AM PDT by jeannineinsd
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An example of using Alinsky tactics.


2 posted on 04/07/2015 8:41:40 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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and for the sake of the victims who really do find themselves struggling for protection within a hostile justice system.

Yeah, like the fraternity brothers.

3 posted on 04/07/2015 8:41:54 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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Apparently the author doesn’t know the history of a certain revoked Pulitzer Prize.


4 posted on 04/07/2015 8:42:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Elisabeth Stoker Banning will someday likely file for divorce from a ‘husband’ or “substitute lover” who was ‘never there’ and who didn’t understand her. Who cares about her.


5 posted on 04/07/2015 8:42:22 AM PDT by Gaffer
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And who really cares what her hyphenated name is or how it is spelled.


6 posted on 04/07/2015 8:43:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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WOW!, We need to start having mandatory drug tests and background checks for Professional Journalist’s.


7 posted on 04/07/2015 8:45:09 AM PDT by eyeamok
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The only failure to them was they got caught

So... find a way to blame the republicans


8 posted on 04/07/2015 8:45:56 AM PDT by Mr. K (“Imma go out like muthafking Tupac muh n-word yeah bleeved dat”)
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I’m pretty sure that lying and making up stuff is a leftwing tactic ...


9 posted on 04/07/2015 8:46:09 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Victim" -- some people eagerly take on the label because of the many advantages that come with it.)
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It's time to take an entirely new approach with these idiots. How about we PUSH BACK and say that these people lie when they tell lies.
10 posted on 04/07/2015 8:47:11 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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Erdely essentially used a rightwing strategy to make a leftist point

No she used a leftwing strategy to make a leftist point. Happens all the time. If fact this author herself is using a leftwing strategy to make a leftist point.

11 posted on 04/07/2015 8:49:06 AM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarca only ones we can gesm or criticism...or do.)
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Thankfully, the comments at the bottom destroy the author of this tripe.


12 posted on 04/07/2015 8:49:47 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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How many times, and in how many ways, can we say, “The described series of incidents NEVER HAPPENED the way it was related in the screed,”

Other incidents, at other times, may have happened. And when they actually did, it would be incumbent to tell the tale, so far as the facts could be discovered and verified. But this was a complete fabrication, made to “illustrate” a point, but in fact, spreading lies and misconceptions, that in the real world, impacted persons innocent of this particular mischief. As a result, there will be those who were legitimately a victim, who shall now fail to step forward, because the whole tale will be dismissed as a “distraction” and a “fabrication”.


13 posted on 04/07/2015 8:50:08 AM PDT by alloysteel (It isn't science, it's law. Rational thought does not apply.)
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14 posted on 04/07/2015 8:52:45 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Yeah. If it weren't for George Bush, this never would have happened! And Rush Limbaugh. And the Christians. And rich people. Yeah, it's all THEIR fault.
15 posted on 04/07/2015 8:54:20 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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How old is the author? 17?


16 posted on 04/07/2015 8:55:17 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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The right, on the other hand, tends to understand politics on the individual level, which fits in neatly with a general obsession with the capital-i Individual.

That is because in a free and rational society,each man is an end in himself, and the moral corollary of this principle is that the individual is the unit of value.The opposite of this is the altruism and collectivism of libtards, which leads to statism and socialism.

17 posted on 04/07/2015 8:55:34 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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The author does make somewhat of a point. Though not the one she intended to.

She claims that leftwing methods see oppression as systemic. Presumably meaning that no actual cases of oppression need be cited to prove it exists. This allows them to create “solutions” for problems without first demonstrating their existence.

If you get down into the dirt with actual cases, like UVA, Zimerman and Ferguson, your claims can be disproven with facts.

Much better to stick with, often false, statistics and anonymous anecdotes. Those can’t be disproven.

The astonishing history of recent hoax racist incidents ties into this, of course. 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.

IOW, what she’s saying is that the Left presumes a problem exists. Actual evidence of individual cases is and should be irrelevant.

The Right works from actual evidence in individual cases to deduce whether a problem is real or not.


18 posted on 04/07/2015 8:56:03 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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With all do respect they did feature a RAPIST on their cover. Right bj?


19 posted on 04/07/2015 8:58:31 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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Maybe they can do an issue on the girl raped in england on campus by bj klinton. Isn’t that why he was kicked out of College?


20 posted on 04/07/2015 9:00:07 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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