Another Daily Beast Disaster: Scott Walker ‘Rape’ Hit
Implodes
by John Nolte28 Feb 2015
No one expects anything approaching a standard of journalism
from the shallow, snark-site
Jezebel. The Daily Beast, however, does pose as an objective
journalism outlet and now has another disaster on its hands.
Likely motivated by partisan too-good-to-check zeal, the
Daily Beast blindly believed Jezebel and went on to falsely repeat and report
as fact that
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has proposed that universities no longer be
required to report the number of sexual assaults on campus to the Department of
Justice.”
The Daily Beast ends its report with,
“No explanation for the deletions is given.”
And that is just one report. The Daily Beast is so excited
by this dramatic Anti-Walker Rape Narrative, it has so far published two
reports, the second by Brian Weidy:
Walker’s AG and Undergrads Hate His Sex Assault Cut: The
2016 Hopeful Just Made a Bunch of Enemies
Scott Walker’s budget proposal to delete the requirement
that universities report sexual assault cases has not only turned students
against him, but also his Republican attorney general.
Incredibly, via Twitter, Weidy appeared to brag Friday about
how quickly he was able to produce his phony Walker hit.
Apparently, a quick Google search was too much for him.
Big news, right? And a perfect boost to the Democrats’ tired
War On Women narrative. This is the kind of reporting that could tie a
conservative presidential candidate up in knots until his poll numbers fall
through the floor.
There is just one problem.
The reporting is not true.
Not even close.
While The Daily Beast was happy to leave things at there is
“no explanation for the deletion,” Draw and Strike blogger Brian Cates put his
Magic Google Machine to work for about, oh, 20 seconds and found the explanation:
As it so happens, this Jezebel writer, Natasha
Vargas-Cooper, either didn’t do any research at all on this piece or she
deliberately left out the whole story.
There is a pretty damn good reason Scott Walker deleted
these reporting requirements.
He did it because – get this! – the University of Wisconsin
*asked* him to.
No less than the Associated Press reported Friday:
The University of Wisconsin requested that Gov. Scott Walker remove a requirement that all
26 campuses report allegations of sexual assaults to the state every year
because it already submits similar information to the federal government, a UW
spokesman said Friday.
Rape reporting wasn’t deleted. A redundancy was deleted.
Rapes will still be reported.
Although Draw and Strike completely debunked The Daily Beast hit-piece more than 13 hours ago, as of this
writing, The Beast still hasn’t corrected, deleted, or updated its dual “Walker
Would End Rape Reports” lies.
In fact, just two hours ago, 10 full hours after the story
was debunked, The Daily Beast used Twitter to promote what has been proven a
lie:
This is the fourth major journalistic embarrassment for The
Daily Beast in less than a year.
Just last month, Daily Beast editor Justin Miller used his
Twitter account to scream “Fuck You!” at
Republican Senator Rand Paul.
In August, Paul was singled by the Beast, this time with the
use of violent imagery the Beast itself had previously defined as unacceptable and dangerous.
Mitt Romney would run for president in 2016. The exact opposite ended up being
true.
In what is probably the worst indictment against The Daily
Beast, Jezebel has at least “updated” its false, lazy, and irresponsible
reporting. As of now, The Daily Beast has not. When Jezebel shows you up in
journalistic integrity, you have hit bottom.
The Daily Beast did not immediately return an email
request for comment.
Daily Beast
IAC/InterActiveCorp
was a funder for the Daily Beast.
Note: Alan G. Spoon is a
director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp,
and was a trustee at the Committee for
Economic Development.
Steven L. Rattner
was a director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp,
and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Donna
E. Shalala was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is
a risk committee member for the Risky
Business Project.
George
P. Shultz is a risk committee member for the Risky Business Project, and was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development.
Alan
G. Spoon was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and is a director at the IAC/InterActiveCorp.
IAC/InterActiveCorp
was a funder for the Daily Beast.
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