Kudos to the sheriff’s PR person for coming up with that explanation.

Wasn’t all of this basically Louis’s, from Revenge of the Nerds, theory. Spelled out after he raped the cheerleader on the bouncing moon ride, while pretending to be Ted McGinley.

What is there to deflect? Your entire intended point is about a word (unfounded) that you don’t understand.

So did Jezebel. They had the ducks in a row, they just didn’t have anyone who would go on the record. Had the Weinstein thing never happened, there still wouldn’t be anyone willing to go on the record. That’s the difference.

“The call for more rumors itself lends credibility to a story that had none at the time.”

Totally. I’m still in the greys after about a decade of visiting and I keep fucking visiting because there are really talented writers here and because the readership is involved and skeptical and thinking critically.

It’s “mea culpa” you head ass

Yeah, you don’t seem like an abuser at all.

So you’re going to act oblivious to the fact that Jez didn’t make these rumors up and wasn’t the first who posted one? The victims didn’t want to put their names to their accounts but they were nonetheless talking. That talk was newsworthy in and of itself. Jez claimed there were rumors because there were rumors.

lol, “stirring the pot” as a euphemism for staying on the trail of a serial abuser. If we only waited for legacy media to do it the “right way” we wouldn’t have nearly the same amount of knowlege a day we do now.

jez just doesn’t “hear” any random rumor from some burner account on here and write it as fact. You’re just being contrarian

You used the word unfounded a lot. I am not going to go all Princess Bride here, but if there’s one thing we learned, it’s that the NYT article put to rest the idea that the rumors were unfounded.

The self-own is strong with you.

Completely vindicated, broken clock or anywhere in between, they were right on this for years.

Question. Since you have so little respect for Jezebel, why read and comment? Fact, as has been shown, getting people to talk about sexual harassment, asault, and abuse on record isn’t easy. Those who have been assaulted can be assured of financial and emotional repercussions. Fact, this only came out after Weinstein…

Except when Jezebel did that they had plenty of evidence, just not publishable information.

so, so, so NOT BINGO. everyone is running to defend themselves for plugging their ears and not showing one shred of doubt where there was damn good reason to be suspicious. TEAM JEZEBEL ALL THE WAY ON THIS ONE.

I will not condemn a man on rumor alone.

That’s the impression I got too. She began getting heat, so to save herself she looked for a scapegoat. And given the unflattering spotlight that was hovering over GMG and now Jez, they were an easy and obvious target. I feel for Jen.

It seems to me that you handled things very well, with Jen Kirkman. It’s unfortunate, if I had to guess, I’d say I think she was just frazzled by how much scrutiny she got, and lashed out at you guys. But you all did your job. This shit’s tough!