Rolling Stone Editor, 2006: "I Want to Do Stuff That's Biased;" "We'll Write What We Believe"

He was speaking about the hard left's idea -- now standard in the leftwing Democrat-partisan media -- that to offer "objective" journalism is a betrayal of the truth, as only one side (the leftist side) has any truth in it.

His intent was to make Rolling Stone as "biased" as he could.

Mission accomplished.

Editors should never let go of their first-impression skepticism -- it's often dead-on. But [Rolling Stone editor in chief Will] Dana and others decided to move forward with the story and its allegation that a University of Virginia freshman named Jackie was gang-raped in September 2012 at the prestigious Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. The piece has collapsed under a debunking from the Washington Post' local staff and Rolling Stone has apologized for the many unsupported claims that it peddles.
How did this happen?
...
Whatever Rolling Stone finds, "A Rape on Campus" clearly aligns with Dana's vision for high-impact magazine journalism. In a 2006 appearance at Middlebury College, Dana gave a speech titled, "The Myth of Fair and Balanced: A Defense of Biased Reporting." According to a writeup in the Middlebury Campus, Dana put forth a common and compelling critique of contemporary standards under which journalists "worship the grail of objectivity" and "play twister to hide their bias," said Dana, a 1985 graduate of Middlebury.
"I want to do stuff that's biased." He merely meant journalism driven by a worldview, as with Eric Schlosser's 1998 Rolling Stone expose, "Fast-Food Nation" -- a series that upended thinking on the worl'’s McDonald’s and the like. "We can become the seed pod for great things,"said Dana of such work.
Though the editor said his publication would endeavor to give both sides of a story, he said, "we'll write what we believe," according to the Middlebury Campus.

Maybe Will Dana is waking up to the possibility that "twisting oneself to hide one's bias" isn't something that's done to be gentle to Republicans, but rather something done in order to find the truth.

Their piece dripped with "worldview," as Wemple terms it.

And how did that turn out?

Perhaps a little bit of that old-fogey skepticism and balance might have served them, and their readers, and the truth, a little better that partisan sloganeering, eh?

Meanwhile, Dana is now apologizing for his original apology, which had been criticized for putting almost all blame on "Jackie." The new apology only puts 90% of the blame on "Jackie."

Posted by: Ace at 02:44 PM

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1 So....sounds like Rolling Stone may reach an out of court settlement with the UVA fraternity?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2014 02:46 PM (ABcz/)

2 Yup.

If you have to lie about your side in order to win, maybe you should consider that you aren't on the winning side.

Posted by: alexthechick - RTFBYMFMF at December 08, 2014 02:46 PM (mf5HN)

3 A rolling stone gathers no moss that's all I got.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2014 02:46 PM (Ae7K+)

4 What I can't understand is why they are not bankrupt yet.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 02:46 PM (u9gzs)

5 If you have to lie about your side in order to win, maybe you should consider that you aren't on the winning side.

Or on the side that should win.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2014 02:47 PM (Ae7K+)

6 @1 The best comment (and it may have been here at the HQ) I've seen was "The only question now is how many zeroes will be on the check."

Posted by: LibertarianJim at December 08, 2014 02:47 PM (XMDuf)

7 Here's a thought: label these stories "opinion" like newspapers do with items appearing in the Editorial pages. Is that really so hard?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2014 02:47 PM (ABcz/)

8 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:48 PM (M1uf/)

9 No, he'll just keep believing it's a great idea, but that Sabrina screwed up.

Posted by: Mama AJ at December 08, 2014 02:48 PM (0xTsz)

10 Maybe they are shooting Heroin.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 02:48 PM (ZfUN7)

11 They wrote what they believed.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2014 02:48 PM (Ae7K+)

12 Today: Rolling Stone

Tomorrow: Blood From a Turnip.

Any settlement should involve 3/4 of the front cover of a mutually-agreed-upon issue dedicated to an apology and a defined sum spent on an advertising campaign for the issue.

Posted by: JEM at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (o+SC1)

13 Sort of odd that the Rolling Stone considers it to be progressive to hope that a rape occurred.

Posted by: Lauren at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (BPMYx)

14 It's not a lie if you believe it.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (ZwDtG)

15 Called Rolling Stone. The recording said "There is no Dana, only Zuul!"

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (VndSC)

16 I wasn't a real fan of the song either.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 08, 2014 02:50 PM (08Znv)

17 I leave town to go to NYC and all I hear about is hobo killing and a hairy guy chasing them.

Ha Ha.

Damn it Ace, you need a mobile app for Apple and Android.

I feel I have missed so much spending $16 for a glass of bad wine in NYC.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 02:50 PM (0FSuD)

18 I have to defend what at deposition? He bragged about what, where and to whom?

Posted by: Screwed, Hard and Deepe Attorneys at Law representing the Pothead Press at December 08, 2014 02:50 PM (Spluw)

19 Rolling Stone has been raping its subscribers for years.

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2014 02:50 PM (ZwDtG)

20 UVA fratboys should be on the cover next issue

Posted by: Pac Man at December 08, 2014 02:50 PM (4IQaR)

21 Okay, but gosh darn it, just because something isn't true, doesn't mean it isn't Truth. Truth is beyond petty concerns of fact.

Posted by: nnptcgrad at December 08, 2014 02:50 PM (Gct2a)

22 "we'll write what we believe,"

Facts be damned - it's only our beliefs that matter in reporting.

Posted by: DamnCat at December 08, 2014 02:51 PM (JSdom)

23 Rolling Stone will find out that the truth hurts, but not nearly as much as that lawsuit does.

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (VndSC)

24

shouldn't we be calling it Parody Magazine Rolling Stone??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (t5pEO)

25 I'm actually a bit surprised by one thing in this affair: that Rolling Stone is still a print publication.

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (rwI+c)

26 Rolling Stone is biased against rape. If you wingnuts want journalism that tells both pro and anti sides of rape you can just watch Fox news.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (+lsX1)

27 Any settlement should involve 3/4 of the front cover of a mutually-agreed-upon issue dedicated to an apology and a defined sum spent on an advertising campaign for the issue.
Posted by: JEM
Item #666 of settlement: After a rousing rendition of "I'm a Little TeaPartier, Short and Stout", the editorial staff will enliven the annual Greek festival at UVa by streaking, with guest commentary (and judging) by their dates.

Posted by: Screwed, Hard and Deepe Attorneys at Law representing the Pothead Press at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (Spluw)

28 Serious question -- is this new "Narrative Journalism" ever a good idea?

Might be effective propaganda, but it's just straight propaganda, right?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (ZPrif)

29 See... I have no problem with "bias" when it comes to political reporting or opinion pieces. Whether the party in question is "being obstructionist" or "holding the line on X" is largely a matter of on which side of X you fall.

What RS did here was not "biased" reporting. Bias is saying things like "It's clear to everyone on campus that Z, but opponents claim Y."

This was a failure to fact-check, pure and simple. Yes, they did it *because* of their bias, but the bias (to me) is secondary. Forget "biased." It was *false* (and easily provably so).

And that's the unforgivable sin, here.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM (M1uf/)

30 At least when we make shit up, people laugh about it.

Posted by: The Onion at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (VndSC)

31 Does Mad Magazine still exist?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (ZfUN7)

32
Their piece dripped with "worldview," as Wemple terms it.

I dripped some worldview in a girl last night. She swallowed.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (JtwS4)

33
Facts be damned - it's only our beliefs that matter in reporting.

Worked for us........... Pravda

Posted by: tbodie at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (Z2OIC)

34
We were raped by a girl named Jackie! We believe.

Posted by: Rolling Stone at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (NtzGn)

35 John Schindler @20committee
Next Rolling Stone scoop: Jews are grinding up Gentile children for matzo. Hey, some college student told them it's true. It's cool, right?

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (ZPrif)

36 Rolling Stone assumed nobody would say anything because, like Gruber, they think everyone's an idiot that can't put 2 and 2 together.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (0LHZx)

37 Okay, but gosh darn it, just because something isn't true, doesn't mean it isn't Truth. Truth is beyond petty concerns of fact.

Anyone have that Vorbis/Brutha exchange from Small Gods handy?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (M1uf/)

38
Agenda-Driven Rolling Stone magazine..

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (t5pEO)

39 Good news! Rolling Stone is considering changes to their editorial staff.

Iffy news: the choice is between Jon Gruber and the Ebola Czar.

Posted by: Screwed, Hard and Deepe Attorneys at Law representing the Pothead Press at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (Spluw)

40 As far as serving their readers goes, I think Rolling Stoned should euthanize them. That is, pull the plug, because they are clearly already brain dead.

Posted by: maddogg at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (xWW96)

41 Rolling Stone Editor, 2006: "I Want to Do Stuff That's Biased;" "We'll Write What We Believe"

So there's no difference between them and the MFM

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (1Jaio)

42 @13 Sort of odd that the Rolling Stone considers it to be progressive to hope that a rape occurred.
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Everything in service of the cause.

Remember when the masseuse reported that when she told her friends she'd been propositioned by Al Gore while doing her job, her friends told her to keep it quiet because going public would damage the cause?

Posted by: junior at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (UWFpX)

43 *nibbles chocolate mint brownie*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (FsuaD)

44 Rolling Stone assumed nobody would say anything because, like Gruber, they think everyone's an idiot that can't put 2 and 2 together.

Actually, assuming it was active (rather than passive) malfeasance, I think they believed they could intimidate anyone into silence with cries of "victim shaming!"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (M1uf/)

45 Accidentally posted to dead thread:

The Left's sudden 'come-to-Jesus' moment w rape is a bit disingenuous, imo. When your presidential front-runner is a women who urges an interviewer to discuss her favorite legal case, where she lied to prosecutor to ensure the release of a child rapist, something tells me it's all for show and to hell with the real victims.

Speaking of real victims: when is the gofundme account going to appear for all the women and men (who were victims of rape), anxious to swift boat the candidate who thinks the "nuts and sluts" argument fits with the "kinder, gentler" Hill?

Posted by: ever at December 08, 2014 02:56 PM (kjKrW)

46 14
It's not a lie if you believe it.

Posted by: George Costanza at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (ZwDtG)

I believe my dick is 12 inches. Wife doesn't believe. RACIST bitch.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 02:56 PM (0FSuD)

47 I think they believed they could intimidate anyone into silence with cries of "victim shaming!"
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (M1uf/)

__________

That too.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 08, 2014 02:56 PM (0LHZx)

48 But but but but but but but but but but....the media told me they're NEVER biased, and if they are it's TO THE RIGHT, because corporations or something.

Posted by: --- at December 08, 2014 02:56 PM (MMC8r)

49 On second thought, I'd rather not be on the cover.

Posted by: Dr Hook at December 08, 2014 02:56 PM (ZwDtG)

50
I like brownies.

WALNUTS RUIN BROWNIES.

Just wanted to mention that.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 02:56 PM (t5pEO)

51 One hopes that Karma will come by with a big stick.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 02:57 PM (F2IAQ)

52 If they don't fire her a suit should cost them every nickel, including their retirement plan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 02:57 PM (ZfUN7)

53 And a related sad story from the sidebar: The media's love for Obama is not reciprocated.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 08, 2014 02:57 PM (XUKZU)

54 Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (FsuaD)

Which reminds me. My wife is going to make me a dark-chocolate mint cake for my birthday in...

(counts) 11 days...

O_O

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:57 PM (M1uf/)

55 WALNUTS RUIN BROWNIES.Wrong.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 02:57 PM (ZfUN7)

56 Objective truth is a relic of white patriarchal hetero-normative privilege; it oppresses the truths brought by womyn, racial minorities, and the LGBTQ etc. by claiming to be the one truth.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for all of Your Holiday Needs! at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (hLRSq)

57 47 I think they believed they could intimidate anyone into silence with cries of "victim shaming!"
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:55 PM (M1uf/)

____________

Hit Post too soon....

That too. But for liberals, I think it's just inherent to them to assume they are smarter than everyone else and no dumb rube outside of the DC/NY corridor would possibly outsmart them, while nobody in the DC/NY corridor would challenge them, since they're all in on the "TRUTH TO POWER, EVEN IF IT'S A LIE" way of thinking.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (0LHZx)

58 I had a walnut brownie once.
Once.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (ZPrif)

59 Keep your nuts out of my brownies.

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (ZwDtG)

60 You should only use American Black Walnuts in brownies. Not those faggot English Walnuts.

Posted by: maddogg at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (xWW96)

61 35 John Schindler @20committee
Next Rolling Stone scoop: Jews are grinding up Gentile children for matzo. Hey, some college student told them it's true. It's cool, right?
Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 02:53 PM (ZPrif

Calling all Joos, calling all Joos, is that true?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (F2IAQ)

62 *nibbles chocolate mint brownie*

you have a USB port .... I have a USB port ...

Posted by: Adriane the Food Critic ... at December 08, 2014 02:59 PM (P+IZm)

63 Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (ZwDtG)

Phrasing.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 02:59 PM (M1uf/)

64 "Damn it Ace, you need a mobile app for Apple and Android."

There's this new-fangled thingy on both Apple and Android phones called a web browser.

Posted by: Brass Bancroft at December 08, 2014 02:59 PM (RHLfG)

65

ever,

--The Left politicizes everything.

--The only ones who believe the Left's lies even less than us are the Left.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 02:59 PM (t5pEO)

66 Maybe Will Dana is waking up to the possibility that "twisting oneself to hide one's bias" isn't something that's done to be gentle to Republicans, but rather something done in order to

avoid multi-million dollar legal settlements.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2014 02:59 PM (DPC76)

67

Hollywood's on the same track.

And, now, the NFL, more than ever.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 08, 2014 02:59 PM (IXrOn)

68 I guess Jackie's feeling better that she didn't go with her impulse to identify one of the rapists as Bill Cosby.

Posted by: --- at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (MMC8r)

69 Sort of odd that the Rolling Stone considers it to be progressive to hope that a rape occurred.
Posted by: Lauren at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (BPMYx)

The Daily Caller piece points out the author rape shopped to get a really great story. That's just vile.

I would like to see explored more the relationship between the one student activist, the Dean and the White House. I believe it's come out that the girl had some type of internship at the White House and is on some kind of leadership committee or the like it UVA. Remember, someone mentioned, all casual like, that she knew someone at UVA who was gang raped.

Was there some kind of coordination to get the story published right as the White House is pushing through all kinds of campus sexual assault fuckwittery?

Posted by: alexthechick - RTFBYMFMF at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (mf5HN)

70 I know everyone's talking about lawsuits, but does the fraternity have a good case?

I'm no law-yah but isn't there some journalistic leeway where RS could just say, look we got duped by this Jackie chick, we didn't knowingly defame these people.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (0LHZx)

71 Shouldn't they be covering music?

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (JjJUC)

72 The nice thing about writing what I believe is that there's no work involved. I already believe it, so what's the point in doing research?

The disadvantage is that you get killed on tests if you're in a technical field. I stand by my belief that fire can't melt steel...

Posted by: t-bird at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (b1Ugy)

73 I find it amusing that Rolling Stone, celebrator of all Rock and Roll artists and their groupie sex and drugs, hasn't done a story of musicians rape of groupies??

Hitting too close to home? What is more predatory than a rock star fucking a 16 year old at his hotel after a concert? There is even a song. Celebrating fucking groupies.

Where is the rage about this?

http://tinyurl.com/qdydn9h

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (0FSuD)

74 A Brownie with nuts ain't nothing but a Boy Scout in a dress.

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 08, 2014 03:01 PM (ZwDtG)

75 Did the imaginary bint play guitar or something?

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 03:01 PM (ZfUN7)

76 Nuts in baked goods, like nuts in chocolate, is just like flouride in our water.

Posted by: Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper at December 08, 2014 03:01 PM (MMC8r)

77 "Damn it Ace, you need a mobile app for Apple and Android."

There's this new-fangled thingy on both Apple and Android phones called a web browser.

That shit the bed on port 1080 and port 1080-ish sites.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2014 03:01 PM (DPC76)

78 Virginia Postrel @vpostrel Dec 6
The always cogent Eugene Volokh runs through the libel law issues re: Rolling Stone http://buff.ly/1Bog6ro @VolokhC

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 03:01 PM (ZPrif)

79 If they don't fire her a suit should cost them every nickel, including their retirement plan.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The fact that the idiot editor emerged from underneath a rock and gave a recorded speech entitled, "Truth, I wipe my ass with it" ad no one cleared out his desk before he returned is an idicator.

Even Jodan Eason of CNN got nuked when he ran his mouth at Davos about atrocities that existed only in his mind.

Posted by: Blue hen at December 08, 2014 03:01 PM (Spluw)

80 39 Good news! Rolling Stone is considering changes to their editorial staff.
Iffy news: the choice is between Jon Gruber and the Ebola Czar.
Posted by: Screwed, Hard and Deepe Attorneys at Law representing the Pothead Press at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (Spluw)

New editorial staff: Stephen Glass, Scott Beauchamp, Jayson Blair, Janet Cooke, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and whoever wrote The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 08, 2014 03:02 PM (oKE6c)

81 In other words: We're going to do what we damn well feel like doing. We've got the DOJ and courts on our side, wingers.

Posted by: Soona at December 08, 2014 03:02 PM (8SzFj)

82 Rolling Stone Mag is not owned by a large public corporation.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: rd at December 08, 2014 03:02 PM (J7NUM)

83 As a general rule, anyone who like Dickens turns out to be a dick. Things Voltaire said.

Posted by: Super Creepy Rob Lowe at December 08, 2014 03:02 PM (oDCMR)

84 71 Shouldn't they be covering music?
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (JjJUC)

Too busy covering their ass just now.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 08, 2014 03:03 PM (oKE6c)

85 If they don't fire her a suit should cost them every nickel, including their retirement plan.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Even if they do fire her. It was their JOB to fact check and verify the story. The failure was every bit as much theirs as it was hers.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:03 PM (M1uf/)

86 I saw Voltaire on Candide Camera once.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 03:04 PM (ZfUN7)

87
I wouldn't mind sacrificing all the Rolling Stone staff to ISIS...

Then we'll see if they still think Djoker is dreamy.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 03:04 PM (t5pEO)

88 The staff of Rolling Stone should be learning to live on the street.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 03:05 PM (ZfUN7)

89 >>>WALNUTS RUIN BROWNIES

ENOUGH WITH THE NUT SHAMING

Posted by: Bigby's Grazzy Rookers at December 08, 2014 03:05 PM (3ZtZW)

90
New editorial staff: Stephen Glass, Scott Beauchamp, Jayson Blair,
Janet Cooke, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes, and whoever wrote The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion.

You know who else would make a good staffer? Jay Carney.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:05 PM (FsuaD)

91 Nuts give Brownies texture.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 08, 2014 03:06 PM (ZfUN7)

92
btw, who believes that "failed raid" story??

I don't believe a goddam word of it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 03:06 PM (t5pEO)

93 Keep your nuts out of my brownies.

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2014 02:58 PM (ZwDtG)

Nuts don't belong in Brownies; they belong in Cub Scouts.

Posted by: Hairy Reed at December 08, 2014 03:06 PM (8Fl6F)

94 The staff of Rolling Stone should be learning to live on the street.

Well, the Hobo population needs the boost, certainly.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:06 PM (M1uf/)

95 NUTS GIVE BROWNIES TEXTURE??

Posted by: Al Sharpton at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (rwI+c)

96
Walnuts ruin the smooth texture of a rich chocolate brownie.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Imaginary Home For Incorrigible Boys & Girls at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (t5pEO)

97 "Rape Culture" is one of the Left's revealed truths. Their "search for the truth" is to find narratives and "facts" that make the revealed truth manifest. If a "fact" conflicts with the revealed truth then the "fact" must be wrong.

Posted by: The Revealed Hat at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (lN8KC)

98 The difference between Rolling Stone magazine and some guy with a Wordpress blog is that people believe that Rolling Stone magazine has some integrity and will tell the truth.

If you're a known liar (I really can't believe this jerk doesn't understand this), people don't believe you.

The Left is worse than parasitic. Not only do they take over institutions, using their previous reputation, but they devour their host in minutes.

Posted by: AmishDude at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (L2xDv)

99 Bitch set us up!

Posted by: Rolling Stone at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (DT3rQ)

100 Why are all the liberal wimmin so fired up over rape (false but accurate) so damned ugly?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (FsuaD)

101 Posted by: The Revealed Hat at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (lN8KC)

So it's "Special Revelation" for the Secular Humanist set.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (M1uf/)

102 The staff of Rolling Stone should be learning to live on the street.

THIS IS OUR HEATING GRATE!!!

Posted by: Former Staff of The New Republic at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (MMC8r)

103 OT but this made me think of the Spanish Civil War again. The one time that the losers were the ones that wrote the history. Freaking Nazis contaminate everything.

Posted by: Bob Belcher at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (014lE)

104

Who reads The Rolling Stone?
The same people who watch The Daily Show? (although I do not believe they actually read anything - maybe look at the pictures).

But, was The Rolling Stone ever considered journalism?

I always thought of it as a magazine written by pot-heads so-to-speak. Took it with a grain of salt. Sensationalism.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (IXrOn)

105
You're gonna love my nuts!

Posted by: Slap Chop Guy at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (NtzGn)

106 In the end, the UVA story was just that, a story. Something that advanced their own prejudices. The editors did not fail to fact check because this was a story, and stories are not fact checked (how do you fact check Little Red Riding Hood).

Posted by: Penfold at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (Fbt5B)

107
If a "fact" conflicts with the revealed truth then the "fact" must be wrong.

Stuff I learned in Thermo I.

Posted by: tbodie at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (Z2OIC)

108 Go away! Rapin'!

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (rwI+c)

109 Bitch set us up!
Posted by: Rolling Stone

I do not find this assertion to be credible.

Posted by: zombie Marion Berry at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (Spluw)

110 Gonna buy five copies for my mother.

Posted by: Stoner 420 at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (VndSC)

111 Rolling Stone, let us remember, is an entertainment magazine.

Posted by: --- at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (MMC8r)

112 The staff of Rolling Stone should be learning to live on the street.

THIS IS OUR HEATING GRATE!!!

Posted by: Former Staff of The New Republic at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (MMC8r)

This is funny to me.

Well done!

Posted by: EC at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (GQ8sn)

113 The staff of Rolling Stone should be learning to live on the street.

Like a complete unknown?

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (DT3rQ)

114 "Rape Culture" is one of the Left's revealed truths. Their "search for the truth" is to find narratives and "facts" that make the revealed truth manifest. If a "fact" conflicts with the revealed truth then the "fact" must be wrong.
Posted by: The Revealed Hat at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (lN8KC)

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If one repeats a falsehood as the truth often enough, people will start thinking it's true. It's worked for them very well.

Posted by: Soona at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (8SzFj)

115 They need to be sued for every cent they have. And meanwhile, they need a taste of their own medicine. Some stories exposing the Rape Culture in Dana's home and office.

Posted by: Banana Republic at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (hKyl0)

116 Why are all the liberal wimmin so fired up over rape (false but accurate) so damned ugly?

No one wants them, so they must see all attention from men as criminal.

Aesop's 'Sour Grapes.'

Posted by: --- at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (MMC8r)

117 111
Rolling Stone, let us remember, is an entertainment magazine.

Ain't that the truth.

Posted by: Gen. Stanley McChystal at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (FsuaD)

118 106 In the end, the UVA story was just that, a story. Something that advanced their own prejudices. The editors did not fail to fact check because this was a story, and stories are not fact checked (how do you fact check Little Red Riding Hood).
Posted by: Penfold at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (Fbt5B)

Next up: the Oliver Stone extravaganza that cements the whole bullshit story as Received Truth into the minds (pardon the exaggeration) of LIVs everywhere.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (oKE6c)

119
brb, fabricatin!

Posted by: lolrollingstone at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (t5pEO)

120

So for the next two years, while the SCOAMT secretly dismantles America, we are going to hear the screaming of Rape Culture and Racists.

Huge sideshows to hide what is really going on.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (IXrOn)

121 In the end, the UVA story was just that, a story. Something that advanced their own prejudices.

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The Left has been preaching for 40 years that *everything* is just a story. There is no objective Truth, just Stories to get Power.

So they decided to start telling Stories to achieve Power.

And it worked pretty well.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (ZPrif)

122 The staff of Rolling Stone should be learning to live on the street. THIS IS OUR HEATING GRATE!!!
Posted by: Former Staff of The New Republic

As Iowahawk would say, "you'd have to have a heart of stone to not laugh at this"!

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (Spluw)

123 I'm actually a bit surprised by one thing in this affair: that Rolling Stone is still a print publication.
Posted by: toby928(C) at December 08, 2014 02:52 PM

Hey, man, sometimes you run out of rolling papers...*inhales*

Posted by: Rolling Stone Subscribers Everywhere at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (knoK7)

124 Let's be real here, Rolling Stone hasn't been particularly relevant in almost 2 decades. This story has probably caught certain people off guard for no other reason than a befuddlement that the magazine is still in business. It's more than likely that Rolling Stone will disappear altogether in another few years, and stuff like this will only accelerate its decline. So I guess there is a sort of justice at work here.

Posted by: Nonapod at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (CLP9I)

125 Maybe the RS can, like Maher and Stewart, say, sure what we printed/said/filmed is a big bunch of hooey, but see, we're in the ENTERTAINMENT business dammit.

Posted by: Bruce at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (8ikIW)

126 The editors did not fail to fact check because this was a story, and stories are not fact checked (how do you fact check Little Red Riding Hood).
Posted by: Penfold at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (Fbt5B)

Which would have been fine if they had represented it as the piece of fiction it was. Instead, they claimed it was a true story.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (M1uf/)

127 >>>This is funny to me.

Thats why we're here. To amuse you.

Posted by: Bigby's Grazzy Rookers at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (3ZtZW)

128 Nuts give Brownies texture.

Posted by: Boss Moss

Well, they give the Brownies something, but...I wouldn't call it 'texture'....

Posted by: R. Polanski at December 08, 2014 03:11 PM (/Ho8c)

129
If you have to lie about your side in order to win, maybe you should consider that you aren't on the winning side. Posted by: alexthechick - RTFBYMFMF at December 08, 2014 02:46 PM (mf5HN)Isn't that adorable. You think that there's more to life for these folks than winning.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 08, 2014 03:12 PM (OiH3z)

130 124 Let's be real here, Rolling Stone hasn't been particularly relevant in almost 2 decades.
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Ahem.

Posted by: Time / Newsweek at December 08, 2014 03:12 PM (VndSC)

131 Papa was a rolling stone. Where ever he laid his crap was his home.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 08, 2014 03:12 PM (W5DcG)

132 Aesop's 'Sour Grapes.'

That was the Descendents.

Posted by: garrett at December 08, 2014 03:12 PM (tx6gn)

133 I have a few days left of WSJ subscription. They're trashing Ted Cruz for denouncing SCOAMTs illegal EO Amnesty.

That was in this morning's Capitol Journal. Tomorrow they'll trash Jeff Sessions form half hour speech he gave at Judicial Watch.

Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2014 03:13 PM (sj3Ax)

134 I'd like for Ace to do a thread on the sidebar story about Dear Leader swearing at his lovers in the press.

Daddy beats you because he loves you.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:14 PM (FsuaD)

135 The smell in that newsroom.
BO and patchouli. Ugh.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:14 PM (XzRw1)

136
Ok which one of you Morons came up with this drink special? :

http://tinyurl.com/kf7lwy6

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM (NtzGn)

137 Posted by: Carol at December 08, 2014 03:13 PM (sj3Ax)

We seem to have reached the point where What's Good for the Chamber of Commerce is Bad for America.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM (M1uf/)

138 135
The smell in that newsroom.
BO and patchouli.

And despair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM (FsuaD)

139 134
I'd like for Ace to do a thread on the sidebar story about Dear Leader swearing at his lovers in the press.

Daddy beats you because he loves you.

It's almost like the JEF is an ingrate.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM (XzRw1)

140 Greta Van Susteren @greta
Pres Obama just arrived at GWU to do Colbert Report on Comedy Channel - airs tonight

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 03:16 PM (ZPrif)

141 So for the next two years, while the SCOAMT secretly dismantles America, we are going to hear the screaming of Rape Culture and Racists. Huge sideshows to hide what is really going on.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 08, 2014 03:10 PM (IXrOn)

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I you look at the big picture of marxism, it's all one and the same. Destruction.

Posted by: Soona at December 08, 2014 03:16 PM (8SzFj)

142 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM (NtzGn)

That's f*cking awesome.

Now I wish I drank and that I lived in Missouri.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:16 PM (M1uf/)

143 The smell in that newsroom.
BO and patchouli.

And despair.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM

And weed. But mostly weed.

Posted by: Rolling Stone Editors at December 08, 2014 03:16 PM (knoK7)

144 re 41: yes - can't find where I saw it (yet) but MAD did an illustration of "Barack Scouts" - the motto: "Be Unprepared."
Don't remember where I saw it, though

Posted by: mallfly at December 08, 2014 03:17 PM (bJm7W)

145 136

Ok which one of you Morons came up with this drink special? :

http://tinyurl.com/kf7lwy6

Is it wrong that I laughed out loud?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:17 PM (FsuaD)

146 >>>Daddy beats you because he loves you.

"You'd think they'd be thanking me!"

Posted by: Bigby's Grazzy Rookers at December 08, 2014 03:17 PM (3ZtZW)

147 We seem to have reached the point where What's Good for the Chamber of Commerce is Bad for America.

It's reached the point where if I see a CoC decal in the window of a store, I turn around.

And apropos of nothing, is High Times still a thing?

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 08, 2014 03:17 PM (rwI+c)

148 I saw Rape Culture and Racists open for Katrina and the Waves back in 1985.

Posted by: Roy at December 08, 2014 03:18 PM (VndSC)

149 We seem to have reached the point where What's Good for the Chamber of Commerce is Bad for America.

I let some of the local businesses here know that I will no longer be patronizing their establishments because- members.

They were not pleased.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:18 PM (XzRw1)

150 140
Greta Van Susteren @greta

Pres Obama just arrived at GWU to do Colbert Report on Comedy Channel - airs tonight

It's good that with the world going to hell in a handbasket, Dear Leader finds time to get his ass kissed by that whacky Colbert and his trained seals.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:18 PM (FsuaD)

151 "We can become the seed pod for great things,"said Dana of such work.

That's all I was trying to do. But I was vilified for it.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at December 08, 2014 03:18 PM (9wtFM)

152 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM

My favorite drink special was The Sandy...a watered-down Manhattan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2014 03:19 PM (knoK7)

153 136

Ok which one of you Morons came up with this drink special? :

http://tinyurl.com/kf7lwy6

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2014 03:15 PM (NtzGn)

To which I say, fuck those people. They aren't going to this bar. My bet it's a biker bar and if "they" show up, trouble city.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 03:19 PM (0FSuD)

154 "We can become the seed pod for great things,"said Dana of such work. That's all I was trying to do. But I was vilified for it.
Posted by: Anthony Weiner

Word. We feel your pain.

Posted by: The Body Snatchers at December 08, 2014 03:19 PM (Spluw)

155 Jose Cinge? OK what's the joke there?

Posted by: Bigby's Grazzy Rookers at December 08, 2014 03:19 PM (3ZtZW)

156 My favorite drink special was The Sandy...a watered-down Manhattan.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

We're going to Hell for this, aren't we?

Posted by: The Body Snatchers at December 08, 2014 03:20 PM (Spluw)

157 It's reached the point where if I see a CoC decal in the window of a store, I turn around.

Let them know why you no longer patronize them.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:20 PM (XzRw1)

158 Posted by: The Revealed Hat at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (lN8KC)

So it's "Special Revelation" for the Secular Humanist set.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:08 PM (M1uf/)

And they are the Gnostic elite, and their magazine but catechisms of a secular faith.

Posted by: The Revealed Hat at December 08, 2014 03:20 PM (lN8KC)

159 Barack Obama launches into "profanity-laced" tirades against the press

I'm amazed to discover I have something in common with TFG.

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2014 03:20 PM (DL2i+)

160

136 Posted by: Guy Mohawk
Ok which one of you Morons came up with this drink special? : http://tinyurl.com/kf7lwy6

Then, Purple Drank and Skittles is out? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Posted by: Arbalest at December 08, 2014 03:21 PM (FlRtG)

161 We're going to Hell for this, aren't we?

Posted by: The Body Snatchers at December 08, 2014 03:20 PM

At least the handbasket is nice and roomy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2014 03:21 PM (knoK7)

162 Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:18 PM (XzRw1)

If enough people did that, I bet the CoC would stop supporting Amnesty.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:21 PM (M1uf/)

163 Rolling Stone assumed nobody would say anything
because, like Gruber, they think everyone's an idiot that can't put 2
and 2 together the rest of the Old Guard media, they are convinced that they are right and everyone that matters agrees with them.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 08, 2014 02:54 PM (0LHZx)

Edited for accuracy, fact checked by my headmates...all thirty of them...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:21 PM (6fyGz)

164

Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to add walnuts to everything.

Posted by: lolrollingstone at December 08, 2014 03:21 PM (t5pEO)

165 Because? More non violent protests by thugs, for the "children"

http://tinyurl.com/krgc4k3

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 03:21 PM (0FSuD)

166 159
Barack Obama launches into "profanity-laced" tirades against the press

To which his fawning lovers reply, "Thank you sir! May I have another?"

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:22 PM (FsuaD)

167 My favorite drink special was The Sandy...a watered-down Manhattan.

ISWYDT. Bravo.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2014 03:22 PM (DPC76)

168 One other thing that we must think about. I'm sure, if you would ask anyone walking down the street about this story, how many people would look at you with the blank stares of the totally ignorant.

Posted by: Soona at December 08, 2014 03:22 PM (8SzFj)

169 OT: Just read the Washington Free Beacon Snark-tacular in the sidebar naming the couple of the year for 2014.

That was a MOAB-sized beat down.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 08, 2014 03:22 PM (VFkMe)

170 Almost Famous. On the cover of the Rolling Stone.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 08, 2014 03:23 PM (g1DWB)

171 157
It's reached the point where if I see a CoC decal in the window of a store, I turn around.

Let them know why you no longer patronize them.

They have become nothing but big business whores looking for a hand out.

I quit years ago.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 03:23 PM (0FSuD)

172 >>>Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to add walnuts to everything.

No baklava for you

Posted by: Bigby's Grazzy Rookers at December 08, 2014 03:24 PM (3ZtZW)

173 @169 link bitches.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 08, 2014 03:24 PM (0FSuD)

174 OT: Just read the Washington Free Beacon Snark-tacular in the sidebar naming the couple of the year for 2014.

That was a MOAB-sized beat down.

Iowahawk worthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2014 03:25 PM (DPC76)

175 And I will write what I believe. I believe ubama is a bought and paid for traitor. I believe he is a foreign citizen illegally in the w. house. I believe he is a cryptomuslim and a communist. I believe he is a racist who hates whites and non-muslim asians. And above all, I believe he and all his associates hate America and want to destroy civilization.

Posted by: Erowmero at December 08, 2014 03:25 PM (go5uR)

176 Was there some kind of coordination to get the story published right as
the White House is pushing through all kinds of campus sexual assault
fuckwittery?

It's not a conspiracy so much as bullshit liquefaction seeking it's own level like water due to the constant agitation.

Posted by: DaveA at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (DL2i+)

177 I like the cut of this "man's" jib

Posted by: Walter Duranty at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (LoIJo)

178 I"m watching CSPAN and I'm amazed how many small bills Congress passes by quick voice votes. Lazy fuckers.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (XzRw1)

179 This Rolling Stone story sets me off like few things can because it combines two of my most hated groups into one fetid mess: the media and militant feminists. Both groups make me very, very angry, so put the two together and MWR HULK SMASH BOOOOOM!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (4df7R)

180 PURPLE DRANK AND SKITTLES ARE OUT???????

Posted by: AL SHARPTON???? at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (DLu2s)

181 When I think of war on women and the narrative, I hearken back to posts like this beauty on DWS (Jan 2012). It makes me smile.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/325361.php#325361

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (R5UOB)

182 I"m watching CSPAN and I'm amazed how many small bills Congress passes by quick voice votes. Lazy fuckers.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (XzRw1)

Born yesterday?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 08, 2014 03:27 PM (Zmw74)

183
Re: Almost Famous.

I loved Rolling Stone in the 70s. It and a couple of other magazines were a window into a world of possibilities if I could ever escape from Doucheburg, PA.

I really like Cameron Crowe's writing. I thought he had the dream job covering bands on tour. I wished I were grown up so I could have that job, but the season would have passed by then.

Turns out the little shit was my age, 15, and faking it. Hats off to the little shit.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2014 03:27 PM (JtwS4)

184 I, for one, won't be impressed until the Washington Post calls out Tiger Beat for all of the lies they've told us about President Lightbringer McDreamy.

Posted by: Fritz at December 08, 2014 03:27 PM (dVmLD)

185 181
When I think of war on women and the narrative, I hearken back to posts like this beauty on DWS (Jan 2012). It makes me smile.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/325361.php#325361

I wonder where Sharkmouth (thank you Ace) has been lately?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 08, 2014 03:28 PM (FsuaD)

186 Born yesterday?

In the back seat of a Greyhound bus rollin' down Highway 61.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:29 PM (XzRw1)

187 178
I"m watching CSPAN and I'm amazed how many small bills Congress passes by quick voice votes. Lazy fuckers.

Posted by: TVoC Hates the GOP at December 08, 2014 03:26 PM (XzRw1)

Voice votes are used to hide the bills that they do not want the public to see.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 03:30 PM (u9gzs)

188 In the end, the UVA story was just that, a story.
Something that advanced their own prejudices. The editors did not fail
to fact check because this was a story, and stories are not fact checked
(how do you fact check Little Red Riding Hood) they wanted very badly for the story to be true. Just like Dan Rather wanted very badly for the TANG papers to be real.

Posted by: Penfold at December 08, 2014 03:09 PM (Fbt5B)

Brought to you by Wizards First Rule

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:30 PM (6fyGz)

189 John Schindler @20committee
Future NYT lede: Are we doing enough about Rape Culture? Racist cops? Transphobia? BTW, the Russian Army is in Berlin again (more on p 34)

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 03:30 PM (ZPrif)

190 @ Jane D'oh

Didn't they do a movie on her? Sharkmouth-nado? Or something?

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 08, 2014 03:31 PM (R5UOB)

191 Liberal Groups Christmas Video Features Little Girls Dropping F-Bombs To Attack Republicans

Not the first time far-left group FCKH8 has used swearing children to push their liberal ideology.

Weasel Zippers

Liberals having kids do things that normal parents would punish their kids for

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 08, 2014 03:32 PM (Zmw74)

192 OT: Just read the Washington Free Beacon Snark-tacular in the sidebar naming the couple of the year for 2014.

That was a MOAB-sized beat down.

Iowahawk worthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 08, 2014 03:25 PM (DPC76)

Not bad. They should have put "husband" in scare quotes, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 08, 2014 03:32 PM (8Fl6F)

193 btw: The Free Beacon COTY is excellent.

Must read TV.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 08, 2014 03:32 PM (R5UOB)

194 Text example of the difference between Journalism, and Propaganda.

Posted by: Big Bad Wolf, Howling at the Moon at December 08, 2014 03:34 PM (f0pWu)

195 Things liberal believe:

1. Higher taxes reduce gasoline, cigarette, and carbon use, but not business activity.

2. Colleges and universties are hotbeds of sexual abuse that everyone should attend unless you are Asian.

3. Raising awareness is morally equivalent to direct action.

4. The science is settled. We can't find 95% of the universe.

5. 1948 to 1967 is a vast gray swath of in the Israeli/Palestinian saga in which nothing happened.

6. Microaggresions are real in our language and we should not take Iranian words at face value.

7. All those Soviet invasion plans for Western Europe were forgeries.

8. Union teachers with a Common Core curriculuum are the answer to what ails us. Unless you are Asian.

9. DNA swabs to find a rapist are necessary. Paternity tests are an invasion of privacy.

10. Churches are filled with wild-eyed zealots who insist on feeding the poor.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:34 PM (659DL)

196 >>>>Liberal Groups Christmas Video Features Little Girls Dropping F-Bombs To Attack Republicans

??? Whats the point of that? Do they think its transgressive or something? I can hear the same at any mall, any day, any hour.

Posted by: Bigby's Grazzy Rookers at December 08, 2014 03:34 PM (3ZtZW)

197 Am I destined for "the cover of the Rolling Stone" ?

I'm going to come clean right here and now.
During my Junior year in college, one of my professors threw an eraser at me because I fell asleep in his class.
It was traumatic.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 08, 2014 03:35 PM (UWzjE)

198 68 I guess Jackie's feeling better that she didn't go with her impulse to identify one of the rapists as Bill Cosby.
Posted by: --- at December 08, 2014 03:00 PM (MMC8r)

Silly poster, Frats don't take those "type" of people in.......

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 03:35 PM (F2IAQ)

199 I just needed to log in and say Ann Compton is full of shit. She was one of the Administration's enablers from Day One.

That's all. Thanks.

Posted by: @JohnTant at December 08, 2014 03:36 PM (eytER)

200 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:34 PM (659DL)

*clap*

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:36 PM (M1uf/)

201 Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:34 PM (659DL)

Can I steel that for teh tweeterz?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 03:37 PM (M1uf/)

202 Can I steel that for teh tweeterz?

Of course.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:38 PM (659DL)

203 I still want to know what scripts she was shopping to Hollywood. I suspect they were about coed rape and this story was a kicker.

Posted by: Gen MacAuther at December 08, 2014 03:38 PM (wBhKc)

204 Thanks for all who answered my question on why it was quiet around here lately in the earlier open thread. I was just wondering if something was seriously wrong, other than the obvious things. I keed!

Posted by: Jaimo at December 08, 2014 03:39 PM (9U1OG)

205
Horrible twitter pun trigger warning:

http://bit.ly/160sUYj

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2014 03:40 PM (JtwS4)

206 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:30 PM (6fyGz)

What is the Wizard's First Rule again? Only one I can remember is "No matter how powerful the wizard, a knife in the back will really slow him down."

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 08, 2014 03:41 PM (GDulk)

207 " Liberal Groups Christmas Video Features Little Girls Dropping F-Bombs To Attack Republicans "

Stay classy, libs.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:42 PM (LA7Cm)

208 So at the risk of sounding like a misogynistic bastard, it seems to me that all of the rape on campus allegations seem to be turning out to be of the "we had hot drunken monkey sex, it made me feel like a cheap whore the next morning so I'm going to accuse the guy of rape" variety (when they aren't outright fabrications like the RS story). The sad thing is real rape (rape-rape, if you will) when it happens gets thrown on the same "yeah whatever" scrap-heap.

Yes I know I'm not the only one making that observation...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:43 PM (6fyGz)

209 " Liberal Groups Christmas Video Features Little Girls Dropping F-Bombs To Attack Republicans "

They literally do not believe that half the country exists.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:43 PM (659DL)

210 During my Junior year in college, one of my professors threw an eraser at me because I fell asleep in his class.
It was traumatic.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 08, 2014 03:35 PM (UWzjE)

Now you can get time off to recover from Ferguson-itis.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 08, 2014 03:44 PM (W5DcG)

211 What is the Wizard's First Rule again? Only one I
can remember is "No matter how powerful the wizard, a knife in the back
will really slow him down."

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 08, 2014 03:41 PM (GDulk)

Wizards First Rule, from the Terry Goodkind book of the same name, states that (paraphrasing) people are stupid; they will believe a lie over the truth because they are deathly afraid the lie is true or they want very badly for the lie to be true.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:44 PM (6fyGz)

212 Faith-based journalism?

Posted by: TallDave at December 08, 2014 03:45 PM (/s1LA)

213 Stay classy, libs.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:42 PM (LA7Cm)

-----------------------------------------

Using classy and lib is an oxymoron. Classlessness is their calling card.

Posted by: Soona at December 08, 2014 03:45 PM (8SzFj)

214 "The sad thing is real rape (rape-rape, if you will) when it happens"

There once was a young boy who cried "wolf!"....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:45 PM (LA7Cm)

215 If people take nothing else away from this Rolling Stone mess, let them take away this: Rolling Stone, UVA and militant feminists everywhere wish "Jackie" had been brutally gang raped by a bunch of elitist frat boys and then abandoned by her friends and the university. Because leftism is a mental disorder and leftists are all cold-blooded psychopaths.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (4df7R)

216 Let that old sock fade away

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (wBhKc)

217 Damn shame. Will Dana was so good as Jose Jimenez.

Posted by: AmericanBTGoG at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (DhZHL)

218 Yes I know I'm not the only one making that observation...

The thing that makes me pop a gasket is the logic chain, so perfect it its progtard architecture.

"Rape is bad."

"Yes, it is."

"We should believe victims without regard for due process, the truth, or common sense."

"Err..."

"You hate women."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (659DL)

219 95 NUTS GIVE BROWNIES TEXTURE??
Posted by: Al Sharpton at December 08, 2014 03:07 PM (rwI+c)

This bit makes me LOL every time I see it. Too funny.

Posted by: Rev at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (3hXy6)

220
I still want to know what scripts she was shopping to Hollywood. I suspect they were about coed rape and this story was a kicker. Posted by: Gen MacAuther at December 08, 2014 03:38 PM (wBhKc)bum-BUM-dum-dum-dum-dum-duuum-duuum

Posted by: Law and Order: SVU at December 08, 2014 03:47 PM (OiH3z)

221 They literally do not believe that half the country exists.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:43 PM (659DL)

And some of them (Tomasky) want that half to secede.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 08, 2014 03:47 PM (W5DcG)

222 wow feminists actually think people who disagree with their bat shit crazy world view are rape apologists.

Posted by: Vote Lord Humungus 2016 at December 08, 2014 03:47 PM (HEa5q)

223 Because leftism is a mental disorder and leftists are all cold-blooded psychopaths.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (4df7R)

All of my headmates agree with this statement. But they're all misogynistic bastards. Even the feminine ones.

don't judge me

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:48 PM (6fyGz)

224
This should cheer everyone up. Current front page of NYT:

G.O.P. Donors Seek to Narrow Field of Presidential Candidates to One

Dozens of the Republican Party's leading presidential donors and fund-raisers have begun privately discussing how to clear the field for a single establishment candidate to carry the party's banner in 2016, fearing that a prolonged primary would bolster Hillary Rodham Clinton, the likely Democratic candidate.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 08, 2014 03:48 PM (JtwS4)

225 "Rolling Stone, UVA and militant feminists everywhere wish "Jackie" had been brutally gang raped "

Just like every time there's a mass shooting they really, really hope there's a high body count so that they can scream about gun control.

The Left see's it path through pain and death.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:48 PM (LA7Cm)

226 And some of them (Tomasky) want that half to secede.

Yeah, I don't think they'd be happy with Texas in OPEC.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:49 PM (659DL)

227
lulz?

House D's are requesting that Jon Gruber NOT be seated next to obamacare officials at the House hearings.

Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at December 08, 2014 03:49 PM (t5pEO)

228 210 During my Junior year in college, one of my professors threw an eraser at me because I fell asleep in his class.
It was traumatic.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at December 08, 2014 03:35 PM (UWzjE)

Now you can get time off to recover from Ferguson-itis.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 08, 2014 03:44 PM (W5DcG)

Berkley instructor is giving victims some extra time to get assignment in. IRB you went to wrong school

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 03:49 PM (F2IAQ)

229 The thing that makes me pop a gasket is the logic chain, so perfect it its progtard architecture. "Rape is bad." "Yes, it is." "We should believe victims without regard for due process, the truth, or common sense." "Err..." "You hate women."
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here)

"What if the accused is Bill Clinton?"

"Shut the FFFF UP!!!"

Posted by: The reality based community at December 08, 2014 03:49 PM (Spluw)

230
All of my headmates agree with this statement. But they're all misogynistic bastards. Even the feminine ones.

don't judge me
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:48 PM (6fyGz

Newsletter?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 03:50 PM (F2IAQ)

231 If people take nothing else away from this Rolling Stone mess, let them take away this: Rolling Stone, UVA and militant feminists everywhere wish "Jackie" had been brutally gang raped by a bunch of elitist frat boys and then abandoned by her friends and the university. Because leftism is a mental disorder and leftists are all cold-blooded psychopaths.

Posted by: MWR

+1000

Posted by: toby928(C) at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (rwI+c)

232 "Yeah, I don't think they'd be happy with Texas in OPEC."

$2.32 here this morning. Been dropping like a rock.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (LA7Cm)

233

Maybe Will Dana is waking up to the possibility that "twisting oneself
to hide one's bias" isn't something that's done to be gentle to
Republicans, but rather something done in order to find the truth.

Their piece dripped with "worldview," as Wemple terms it.
====

Rolling Stone is entering Newsweek territory by the day.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (JBggj)

234 13 Sort of odd that the Rolling Stone considers it to be progressive to hope that a rape occurred.
Posted by: Lauren at December 08, 2014 02:49 PM (BPMYx)

To make an omelet, comrade, you must rape a few chickens.

Posted by: wooga at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (/06A6)

235 House D's are requesting that Jon Gruber NOT be seated next to obamacare officials at the House hearings.
Posted by: please dont squeeze the soothie at December 08, 2014 03:49 PM (t5pEO)

-----------------------------------------

He should be seated beside John Roberts.

Posted by: Soona at December 08, 2014 03:52 PM (8SzFj)

236 yo !

Posted by: sad Joe Biden at December 08, 2014 03:52 PM (W6iIX)

237 To make an omelet, comrade, you must rape a few chickens.
Posted by: wooga

I hate you.

Posted by: The Chicken at December 08, 2014 03:52 PM (Spluw)

238 One hopes that the Fraternity (aided by the National) has grounds for, and pursues a crushing law suit.

Posted by: Bwaney Fwank at December 08, 2014 03:53 PM (/GgDU)

239 The Left see's it path through pain and death.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:48 PM (LA7Cm)

The gunnie blogs call that "blood-dancing". It's a fitting description.

Newsletter?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 03:50 PM (F2IAQ)

I'm thinking about starting a blog...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:53 PM (6fyGz)

240 "To make an omelet, comrade, you must rape a few chickens."

Perfect analogy.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 08, 2014 03:53 PM (LA7Cm)

241 "Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned
even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone
will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will
believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they
are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge,
facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true.
People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a
lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all
the easier to fool.

"Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and
Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is
important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard"s Rules. He is using the
first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to
lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more
important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this.
Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a
sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 03:54 PM (u9gzs)

242 To make an omelet, comrade, you must rape a few chickens.
Posted by: wooga at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (/06A6)

can you tell that to Abdi, Mostafa and Muhammend?

Posted by: The Goat at December 08, 2014 03:54 PM (W6iIX)

243 Maybe some of those RS writers can find work at the New New Republic?
I hear they have a number of opening as of last Friday. Hughes seems like the kind of publisher who would appreciate biased reporting....

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2014 03:54 PM (ABcz/)

244 I hate you.
Posted by: The Chicken
--------------

Too little, too late. Just returned from Chik-Fil-A.

Urrrrrp.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 03:54 PM (/GgDU)

245 Isn't "unconscious bias" just another term for "thought crime"?

HotAir.com hotairblog
Eric Holder targets 'unconscious bias' in cops http://hotair.com/headlines/?p=314161

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 03:54 PM (ZPrif)

246 can you tell that to Abdi, Mostafa and Muhammend?
Posted by: The Goat

Shut up!

And your milk is terrible.

Posted by: The Chicken at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (Spluw)

247 Rolling Stone is entering Newsweek territory by the day.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (JBggj)
=====The things you read 2 nanoseconds after you hit the "Post" button

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (JBggj)

248 I recently had the opportunity the browse through the Master's Theses of UC Berkeley's School of Journalism. They're all just sitting there along shelves in the main conference room -- anyone can flip through them, like it's a library.

Every single one -- and I mean every single one -- promoted some leftist narrative.

Students are not allowed to just choose any topic they want -- they often get noodging advice, and whatever they do choose has to be approved by their advisor. So all of these theses were either directly suggested by the professors, or noodged in a direction b the professors, as the students try to please them.

Most of the theses are exactly like a long Rolling Stone feature story -- your graduation thesis assignment is basically to write a big publishable article, as if it was for a real magazine. (Or take photos for the same.)

So -- what were the topics?

- Migrant farmworkers are sad, because they miss their familes back in Mexico.

- Little black kids eat paint chips that had lead in them, because the kids are soooooo hungry, and the lead is making them retarded.

- 12-year-old ghetto girls get pregnant because mean Christian PTA members try to ban sex ed.

- Did we mention illegal immigrants? Yeah they're really sad about being exploited 'n' stuff.

- Urban hipster farms are really cool and will solve the world's food problem without relying on MONSANTO!!!

- A day at the suicide prevention line, where all the callers have really sad victim stories.

- Trannies! Something about trannies. I don't really need to make any point, because -- trannies!

- etc. etc.

It's not that the writing is bad or that it's full of "lies" -- it's that the stories must "promote the narrative". That is the only requirement.

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (K4YiS)

249 Rolling Stone is entering Newsweek territory by the day.

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2014 03:51 PM (JBggj)

New Republic, Daily Kos, Air America, etc. etc.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (6fyGz)

250 Is making a Chicken Omelette wrong?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (32Ze2)

251 During my Junior year in college, one of my professors threw an eraser at me because I fell asleep in his class.
It was traumatic.

Funny. I had one professor pause instruction to call me out for yawning loudly in class.

I learned to yawn silently after that.

Posted by: CM at December 08, 2014 03:57 PM (0NdlF)

252 We raped the TCU football team. Allegedly.

Posted by: NCAA Playoff Committee at December 08, 2014 03:57 PM (Ks4nX)

253 >>It's not that the writing is bad or that it's full of "lies" -- it's
that the stories must "promote the narrative". That is the only
requirement.

So like Erdeley, they have a narrative in search of a real-life story.
Sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (ABcz/)

254 And your milk is terrible.
Posted by: The Chicken at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (Spluw)

I'm a buck but Abdi, Mostafa and Muhammend still want to milk me

Posted by: The Goat at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (W6iIX)

255 250 Is making a Chicken Omelette wrong?
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (32Ze2)

Pretty sure it's not Kosher...

Posted by: nnptcgrad at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (Opyrm)

256 GGE - Just asked the other night, and someone responded, but I never got a complete answer.

On board the carrier, did you ever see one of these? M-14 attachment. http://tinyurl.com/mozfeho

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (/GgDU)

257 Is making a Chicken Omelette wrong?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM

Chicken egg foo yung. It's like rape with gravy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (knoK7)

258
The thing that makes me pop a gasket is the logic chain, so perfect it its progtard architecture.

"Rape is bad."

"Yes, it is."

"We should believe victims without regard for due process, the truth, or common sense."

"Err..."

"You hate women."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 08, 2014 03:46 PM (659DL)

You want to turn their heads inside out? Come back at them with, "Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick. Don't believe it? Rape apologist!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM (4df7R)

259 I had a whole college administration come down on me and my comrades just because we made a penis snow sculpture in the quad for winter festival.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM (32Ze2)

260 Is making a Chicken Omelette wrong?
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo

Why, no. Not at all
(quietly nocks an arrow to the longbow)

Posted by: The Chicken at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM (Spluw)

261 Students are not allowed to just choose any topic they want -- they
often get noodging advice, and whatever they do choose has to be
approved by their advisor. So all of these theses were either directly
suggested by the professors, or noodged in a direction b the professors,
as the students try to please them.

My younger brother got to chose his masters thesis and his PhD thesis. I guess it matters what school you go to.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM (u9gzs)

262 Do protesters move faster or slower in the cold. Trying to figure what time I should leave.

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at December 08, 2014 04:00 PM (fWAjv)

263 My younger brother got to chose his masters thesis and his PhD thesis. I guess it matters what school you go to.
Posted by: Vic

In Journalism? (We're talking of the journalism dept here, not every dept.)

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (K4YiS)

264
I had a whole college administration come down on me and my comrades just because we made a penis snow sculpture in the quad for winter festival. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM (32Ze2)You should have told them that you were engaging in an ancient pagan fertility ritual and how dare they oppress you with their Christian morality.

Posted by: Law and Order: SVU at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (OiH3z)

265
Just saw that interview with Eric Garner's wife and my oh my, she gave some info that I didn't know, like he had asthma and she told him to stay away from that block and not react to the cops who he knew and they called him 'cigarette man' and she called him lazy and overweight.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (NtzGn)

266 Chickens omlets

Nuts brownies.

Madness.

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (Ae7K+)

267 256 On board the carrier, did you ever see one of these? M-14 attachment. http://tinyurl.com/mozfeho

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (/GgDU)

Yes I did.

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (u9gzs)

268 You want to turn their heads inside out? Come back at them with, "Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick. Don't believe it? Rape apologist!"

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM

The more dedicated sort will just tune you out. What you just said contradicts The Narrative, and is therefore unpossible. Therefore you couldn't have just said it. QED. *inhales*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (knoK7)

269 Do protesters move faster or slower in the cold. Trying to figure what time I should leave.
Posted by: RWC
-----------------

I thought you might be mentally calculating windage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (/GgDU)

270 Did we mention illegal immigrants? Yeah they're really sad about being exploited 'n' stuff.

They're free to leave any time they like, comrade.

Posted by: HR needs donuts at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (ZKzrr)

271 I had a whole college administration come down on me and my comrades just because we made a penis snow sculpture in the quad for winter festival.
Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo

One frat at U of Del had an honest to God cannon on thier front lawn, and would fire it once a year, in the Spring.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 08, 2014 04:02 PM (Spluw)

272 OT sidebar: TFG throws profane tirades about the media?

Talk about ungrateful.

I guess some guys just don't like having their ballsack gargled nonstop 24/7.

Posted by: Jaws at December 08, 2014 04:02 PM (WKNX4)

273 263 In Journalism? (We're talking of the journalism dept here, not every dept.)

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (K4YiS)

He was in the Chemistry department.,

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 04:02 PM (u9gzs)

274 Yes I did.
Posted by: Vic
--------------------

Interesting. They weren't issued to infantry troops..., the need for line tossing being pretty minimal.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (/GgDU)

275 I'm thinking about starting a blog...
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014

Here's $29.99 may I be your first premium member?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (F2IAQ)

276 I guess some guys just don't like having their ballsack gargled nonstop 24/7.

Posted by: Jaws at December 08, 2014 04:02 PM (WKNX4)

Eventually wouldn't it get raw and kind of tender?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) one-and-a-half-armed Derringer Bandit at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (M1uf/)

277 I guess some guys just don't like having their ballsack gargled nonstop 24/7.

Posted by: Jaws at December 08, 2014 04:02 PM

They don't use chapstick. It chafes.

Posted by: Barry at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (knoK7)

278
I guess some guys just don't like having their ballsack gargled nonstop 24/7.Posted by: Jaws at December 08, 2014 04:02 PM (WKNX4)It wasn't the gargling that was the problem, but the press balked at tonguing the anus.

Posted by: Law and Order: SVU at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (OiH3z)

279 On board the carrier, did you ever see one of these? M-14 attachment. http://tinyurl.com/mozfeho

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 03:58 PM (/GgDU)

Yep. They used them all the time to pass lines between ships underway for UNREP (UNderway REPlenishment), particularly fuel (most everything else was done by helo).

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (6fyGz)

280 One frat at U of Del had an honest to God cannon on thier front lawn, and would fire it once a year, in the Spring.
Posted by: Blue
------------------

KA's?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (/GgDU)

281 I thought you might be mentally calculating windage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM (/GgDU)

Can't do much with a rubber band and a paper clip. Thanks DC!!

Posted by: RWC - Shopping for Justice! at December 08, 2014 04:03 PM (fWAjv)

282 Depends on the school and field.

I know a lot of people with Masters where the adviser basically had a list of topics he'd hand out. You could pick, he just had already thought up the basic topic and research question and needed somebody to do the grunt work and write it up.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 04:04 PM (ZPrif)

283 It's not that the writing is bad or that it's full of "lies" -- it's that the stories must "promote the narrative". That is the only requirement.

Posted by: zombie at December 08, 2014 03:55 PM (K4YiS)

It's just fleshing out the narrative of the "revealed truth".

Posted by: The Revealed Hat at December 08, 2014 04:04 PM (lN8KC)

284
I thought you might be mentally calculating windage.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:01 PM

That sounds violent, he's trying to figure out the slowness of being overdressed or the quickness of being underdressed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 04:04 PM (F2IAQ)

285 My kid wants to join a Frat so badly but there is no Greek Club where he goes to school. Transferring next year so he can get a little taste of University life. I am dreading it just a little bit, just based on the shit that I used to do as a Frat Boy.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 04:04 PM (32Ze2)

286 KA's?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc

Nope. It pissed off a few fainting flowers. Some of the professors thought it was funny. I remember everyone stopping dead silent in class when it went of. The professor laughed, noted that it muust be them, and carried on. I have no idea if they still have it. I highly doubt it.

Posted by: Blue Hen at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (Spluw)

287 Mr. Dana is a big fan of first-person pronouns, isn't he? The Left are all about being special snowflakse in a high-security, high-income world of make believe.

Lawyers and accountants, on the other hand ...

Posted by: mrp at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (JBggj)

288 >>>
I had a whole college administration come down on me and my comrades
just because we made a penis snow sculpture in the quad for winter
festival.<<<

The requirements on campus nowadays is you've got to give Big ANUS equal time.

Posted by: Fritz at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (UzPAd)

289 Yep. They used them all the time to pass lines between ships underway for UNREP (UNderway REPlenishment), particularly fuel (most everything else was done by helo).
Posted by: GGE
-------------------

That would be a big hit at radio amateur Field Days, where we string wire antennas from trees.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (/GgDU)

290 nood

Posted by: Vic at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (u9gzs)

291
I had a whole college administration come down on me and my comrades
just because we made a penis snow sculpture in the quad for winter
festival.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Aiming His Torpedo at December 08, 2014 03:59 PM (32Ze2)

Well to be fair, putting the Deans face on the head wasn't very nice...accurate maybe, but not nice...

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (6fyGz)

292 Snow anus?

Posted by: eleven at December 08, 2014 04:05 PM (Ae7K+)

293 "It wasn't the gargling that was the problem, but the press balked at tonguing the anus"

So what you're saying is that you don't get msnbc on your cable package.

They tongue punch the fart box for sure.

Posted by: Jaws at December 08, 2014 04:06 PM (WKNX4)

294 That sounds violent,
-----------------

I am shocked...., shocked I tell you. I meant it in the sense of staying downwind from the odor.

That's my story..

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:07 PM (/GgDU)

295 GGEs feminine headmates
like the kilt

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2014 04:08 PM (NMxmz)

296 Russian Spy Nude.

Posted by: CM at December 08, 2014 04:08 PM (0NdlF)

297 Then we should make Rolling Stone the most litigated against propaganda outlet.

Posted by: Jukin at December 08, 2014 04:08 PM (WGm5T)

298
That's my story..
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:07 PM

Forgot about the odor issue. Thanks for reminding me.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 08, 2014 04:10 PM (F2IAQ)

299 280 One frat at U of Del had an honest to God cannon on thier front lawn, and would fire it once a year, in the Spring.

We had cannons, but no girls.

Posted by: Jean at December 08, 2014 04:10 PM (NMxmz)

300 294 ...the sense of staying downwind from the odor.
-------------

Downwind..., downwind , dammit!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 08, 2014 04:11 PM (/GgDU)

301 Did any of you think we would be the beacon of truth in the age of Obama?

Posted by: The National Enquirer Staff at December 08, 2014 04:11 PM (WGm5T)

302 http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=353609#c22980457

Posted by: . at December 08, 2014 04:12 PM (WCnJW)

303 The sad thing is real rape (rape-rape, if you will) when it happens gets thrown on the same "yeah whatever" scrap-heap.

I think that is a feature to the left and not a bug. Look at all the leftists have done for the black folks and their community.

Posted by: Jukin at December 08, 2014 04:13 PM (WGm5T)

304
Ace wrote, "Perhaps a little bit of that old-fogey skepticism and balance might have served them, and their readers, and the truth, a little better that partisan sloganeering, eh?"

False assumption. They're not after the truth, which the Left views as an archaic, purely binary (and thus self-limiting)cultural construction. To them, truth is relative, a matter of semantics, framing, narrativeand perspective. That's why assholes like former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevy can say things like 'My truthis...' with a straight face.

This worldview and the real-world actions that follow fromit is one of the reasons whywe will always beat a disadvantagewith these people. For them, not only domeans justifyends, those means--however dishonest or amoral by traditional standards of right and wrong--require no justification in the first place.

Posted by: troyriser at December 08, 2014 04:14 PM (85sGm)

305
Greta Van Susteren @greta
Pres Obama just arrived at GWU to do Colbert Report on Comedy Channel - airs tonight

Posted by: Costanza Defense at December 08, 2014 03:16 PM (ZPrif)

Interesting, considering that last night Colbert made a pretty snarky comment about JugEars at the Kennedy Center Honors. Something about how Moochelle must not want to run for office, because she's allowing herself to be photographed in public beside her husband.

http://tinyurl.com/nrf6qbq

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 08, 2014 04:24 PM (TIIx5)

306 On December 5, 2014, Rolling Stone editor Sean Woods told the Washington Post that they had tried to contact the accused men, but weren't successful.

But on that same day, managing editor Will Dana said that the magazine DIDN'T try to contact the accused because of an "agreement" between Jackie and the author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely that they could not contact the men.

Which is it Rolling Stone? Did you try to contact the men or not? Someone has some 'splaining to do.

Posted by: Jane at December 08, 2014 04:38 PM (rDidp)

307 So, having not picked up an issue of RS since they employed P. J. O'Rourke, I assume they still believe they're "counterculture?"

Ah, leftism. The perfect marriage of solipsism and utter cluelessness.

Posted by: cool arrow at December 08, 2014 04:39 PM (7XKHI)

308 WALNUTS ARE THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT BROWNIES.

Glad to fact-check for you.

Posted by: SarahW at December 08, 2014 05:09 PM (Lbv/k)

309 Mmmm. Walrus brownies.

Posted by: Mann at the IPCC at December 08, 2014 05:27 PM (59hZI)

310
okay, just finished reading the "why we believed" article on Politico from the UVa "journalist", and was struck by this remarkable snippet of a paragraph from the best and brightest who wrote it: "In my 20-person major seminar, there are at least two. That is not a calculus I should have to work out in the margins of my Marx-Engels reader."

Sweetie, it isn't calculus, and if your MARX-ENGELS READER is telling you that on Saturdays, one in five equals two out of twenty, no wonder college is ****** up.

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