A real reporter calls a person accused of wrongdoing and gets their side before running with the story. Do you think Woodward and Bernstein didn't call the RNC or Nixon's people? Oh wait, this is easy to check — they did call and they quoted them within the first four grafs.

Did you dismiss all the threads complaining about how you piled onto those two journalists then wrote it off with a one-sentence 'apology'?

Both future survivors and the falsely accused in this case have shitty outcomes from RS' failure to call the other side.

This what Anna wrote directly to Robby Soave in the comments section. Still think kudos are warranted?

How's your master's from Columbia treating you, Anna? Feel a bit bad for your snark in this comment to Robby Soave:

She did libel a fraternity for no apparent reason.

A real reporter wouldn't have called someone an idiot, especially if they weren't 100 percent sure that their understanding of facts was correct.

Anna Merlan on Monday: "'Is UVA Rape Case a Gigantic Hoax?,' Asks Idiot'." I guess when you don't do any reporting yourself these kind of climb downs can happen.

What other offensive porn will Jezebel's crack investigators uncover next? Stay tuned!

Good point re: belly dancing. It's not like white people pitch a fit when they see an Asian playing classical music (well, normal white people don't pitch a fit).

As a white, I can say this is non-offensive. That said, I would appreciate if other races respected the word "white" as our word and only called us by our preferred name: bleached Americans.

I would hope too that a firefighter is clever enough to get fire insurance.

Maybe so. It's just otherwise a totally stupid thing to say. By the time the average Canadian is in junior high he knows that Marc Lepine did it because he hated women. This is not in any way a mystery.

She was right to leave him — Belinda Stronach could do way better. I wish she was the Conservative leader.

NHL playoff game?

Maybe he meant "understand" in a cosmic sense, as in "we may never understand why bad things happen."

It's a lot easier since the advent of birth control and abortion. Somehow I have managed to have sex for over a decade without an unplanned pregnancy.

I think it's unwise to be a single parent with two kids when you make no money. But I agree that higher education should be more affordable.

So does a college grad who makes $35,000 before taxes, but thanks for your thought.

I don't think $35,000 after taxes is a king's ransom but a lot of people make $35,000 before taxes out of college. If you could really make $35,000 after taxes on welfare that's a fairly strong disincentive to bother trying.