There's been a huge talent drain at the Post lately. Also, Glenn Kessler left.
  • @[email protected]English
    15•3 days ago

    In addition to Kessler’s fact check, Bernard was being condemned — not by him! — as a dirty liar whose account couldn’t be trusted, because she was an abortionist, and they always lie. Even after a suspect was arrested, Bernard was still attacked in rightwing media for allegedly “failing” to report the crime, although of course she properly reported it. Indiana AG Todd Rokita ® made a big show of launching an investigation, telling Fox News that Bernard was merely an “abortion activist acting as a doctor” who needed to have her medical license revoked if she had lied. When Rokita went after her on national wingnut television, Bernard’s reports were already filed with the appropriate state agencies, where journalists were able to obtain copies. Even then, Rokita still pursued Bernard, filing a civil lawsuit claiming Bernard had violated her patient’s privacy by telling the Indianapolis Star about the case, although Bernard never identified the girl. After two years, Rokita finally dropped the suit.

    This has all the echoes of the “Sandy Hook Crisis Actors” hoax that Alex Jones pushed in 2012, only with state level officials piling on top of celebrity shock jocks.

    You’ve got what amounts to a criminal cover-up on one end (no, there wasn’t a rape! no, there wasn’t a shooting!) mixed with a witch hunt on the other (let’s de-license anyone who contradicts our cover up).

    Really, deeply chilling stuff in a country that supposedly prided itself on an independent mass media and a government by rule of law.