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@LeeroySpitzer:
No, no... *this* is Gavrilo Princip. The conflict he started was nothing compared to what we just witnessed on this thread.
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Still think this could be a brilliant gambit for the book tour.
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Still wondering if this whole incident was staged to add some media juice to your book tour. Metalicious.
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What I really don't get is being obsessed with internet strangers to the point of spending your time "reblogging" them and just, you know, attacking them at every opportunity. At least the folks at Gawker are a) Good writers b) Funny c) Getting paid to do it. If you're doing this kind of muck pro bono, well... sigh for you. A big ol' sigh for you.
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I dunno. I just don't get some parts of the internet, I guess.
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EXACTLY. Everyone just needs to calm the fuck down.
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That is all.
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[www.huffingtonpost.com]
The link to the e-mail about date rape is a delightful touch.
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Someone at HP doesn't like Richard, and are willing to be vicious and underhanded. HP is like a shitty high school newsletter.
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I hope the best comes out of the situation. I really do. But for now, can we all collectively move on, and look forward to whichever fuckhead Fox News producer will most likely be stalking poor Richard for a soon to be televised ambush interview? Hang in there Richard.
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She has a "Gawker hates me" link to her profile. There are claims in this thread that she has been banned from commenting, but I see no evidence of it.
She has a link to GuestOfGuest, where Kristian Laliberte recognized her for being such a prolific commenter. That puts her in the company of a repellant social climber who has a reputation for lying and defaming people.
Her posts on getoffmyinternets are generally personal insults directed at everyone and anyone.
In the comments threads here and on Gawker, Walker Wright goes as far as to say that Blakely looks like a murderer and to question his sexuality.
I'm not saying any of this proves or disproves Blakely's innocence. I'm saying that Walker Wright is not credible. He's innocent until proven guilty. Why is Walker Wright trying to leverage the charges into a full-on character assassination? What if they turn out to be false?
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I understand sticking by your own, but giving stars out to commentors that favor your employees seems kind of wrong.
Don't you think?
And remember, partypants didn't hit anyone, even allegedly. All she did was report on something that is 100% public.
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Get away with what? If the charges against Richard are false, no one should "get away with" making them. THAT'S not fair.
I don't need to know this person to know that by getting on a high horse and using her site to advocate the spread of unproven charges, she deserves the identical insult she hurls at Richard at the end of her post.
If she has any actual evidence of what happened, she should contact the prosecutors. If not, she should shut up.
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Star please?
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Also, I will assume the police did some investigating in order to determine whether an arrest was warranted. Otherwise, we would see many scorned women looking to use the NYPD as a revenge tactic.
That said, if Richard is proven innocent, I will be first in line to apologize. Truly. If this was anything but what Jessica stated it was, then that would be a true travesty.
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I'm just saying that for some blogger with no direct knowledge to advocate spreading charges, to write in a public forum as though guilt is established, and to accuse everyone who doesn't believe the charges of being part of a media cover-up, is sickening.
If you don't attack people for being batterers when you don't have any facts (other than your faith in law enforcement), you won't have to apologize later.
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*Questionable.
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Also, PP runs a tiny blog with a regular group of commenters. It's not like she was speaking to a Gawker size audience. Gawker decided to link to her post and report on this story.
You need to step outside of your little NYC media circle. You look goofy with those kids, anyway. You're old enough to be their dad!
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Now I'm more convinced that the people pursuing Richard here and elsewhere, and complaining about media bias, are just indulging their free-floating resentment of people they don't know. As if it's so awful that there are a bunch of NY new media people who go to parties together.
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Sure, she said a few provocative things but that's party pants. She never, however, presumed anyone's guilt.
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I hope everyone is passing this on. I don’t care what kind of media darling you are, nobody should get away with this. Nobody who does something like this to someone who cares about them should be off planning self-celebratory blogger parties or taking "check out my ironic moon wolf tee" pics for their blog. No one seems to want to say it, so I will: You’re a scumbag, Richard.
I thought maybe she'd edited the post to remove that or something, but no. Try to be at least somewhat believable in your assertions.
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This would be a really dumb time and place to woo you, wouldn't it.
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The logic appears to be: If you can't win an argument, just lash out with whatever personal insults you can come up with.
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