It was a bit disorienting this morning when Twitchy gave well-deserved kudos to Ana Marie Cox for immediately correcting her piece on Scott Walker and campus rape reporting as soon as it was debunked. Cox issued tweets announcing the error and explained that she deleted her original tweets not to disguise the error but rather to keep others from retweeting them out of context with no correction attached, further spreading the lie.
The Daily Beast, which also published its own story based on Jezebel’s faulty hit job, has since fully retracted its piece and issued a correction and apology. So what’s this over here? It’s the good folks at NARAL, still riding the false Jezebel piece and headline (“Scott Walker wants colleges to stop reporting sexual assaults”) a full 24 hours later with this tweet.
Scott Walker wants colleges to stop reporting sexual assaults: http://t.co/EhsWvdmqly via @Jezebel pic.twitter.com/Pz17DdvOqv
— NARAL (@NARAL) February 28, 2015
Good thing NARAL’s followers can recognize a lie when they see it.
@NARAL @Jezebel Fuck this little slimeball
— emily xyz (@jerseymaiden) February 28, 2015
@NARAL @Jezebel Why? He planning on going past high school and "enjoying himself" at college? Just askin'.
— Anna (@Blaze1755) February 28, 2015
#ScottWalker needs 2 b sexually assaulted, pronto!#Wisconsin clean up your mess. It's out of control@NARAL @Jezebel
— Robert L. I. (@movonup) February 28, 2015
@NARAL @goldietaylor @Jezebel what conceivable motivation can one have for this beyond straight misogyny? Srs question
— Ingraham Effingham (@eff_ing) February 28, 2015
@NARAL @Jezebel @goldietaylor The last line is especially vile; Walker doesn’t want the DOJ to know OR publicly disclose sexual assault info
— Steve Seidler (@GrayShadowTech) February 28, 2015
We went ahead and corrected that typo for you: “The last lie is especially vile.”
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