Anne Appelbaum seems to have achieved perfect unanimity amongst her commenters - all I've managed to read think she is deplorably off base with her defense of Roman Polanski (said defense seems to be drifting towards 'the young slut wanted it', which is not winning her praise).
Meanwhile, Ms. Appelbaum is awaiting corrections from Patterico, and vice versa. A quote about motes, beams and eyes seems apt here, if Ms. Appelbaum has a Bible handy.
POTENTIALLY DELICIOUS IRONY NOT QUITE WORTH LOOKING FOR: If Ms. Appelbaum ever criticized Bush, Clinton, or even her dogwalker for failing to own up to a mistake, this would be a lovely time to bludgeon her with it, although one would have to interrupt her auto-bludgeoning to do so.
Wow, ole Anne's quite the tool huh?
Posted by: Donald | October 01, 2009 at 07:14 AM
If journalism schools had any chance to avoid being sand castles, they'd devote at least a lecture on AA's behavior as an example of what not to do. That last link to Patterico is sadly hilarious; too bad she doesn't have any friends to strongly urge her to stop destroying the reputation that she worked hard to construct. Or responsible editors.
Posted by: Captain Hate | October 01, 2009 at 07:52 AM
Writing under deadline it's easy to make a mistake. She, however, made 4 biggies (aside from the entire tenor of her piece and ignoring her obvious conflict). Now, when I make one I am mortified and try to get a correction up asap. I think we all do. But bloggers have nothing but their reputations and cannot do otherwise. I guess it's different for people like Rather and Applebaum, etc.Kinda like Polanski's attitude about being above the law, isn't it?
Posted by: clarice | October 01, 2009 at 08:44 AM
Please excuse this cross-posting which I originally posted in the "I am not a lawyer" thread on Polanski. It concerns writing to Whoopi Goldberg's corporate paymasters about his idiotic "rape-rape" comments:
Dear All: Try this for T-Mobile:
Robert Dotson CEO
Susan Nokes COO
Larry Myers HR Executive
Mr. Kim Thompson Corporate Communications
Address: 12920 SE 38th St. Bellevue WA 98006
Telephone: 425-378-4000
Be aware that the FEC folks say Dotson sent John Conyers $1000 to be re-elected in 2008, so you are dealing with a 200 proof liberal.
As for Toys 'r Us:
Gerald L. Storch CEO
Claire Babrowski COO
Dan Caspersen Human Resources
Address: 1 Geoffrey Way Wayne NJ 07470-2066
Telephone: 973-617-3500
">http://www2.toysrus.com/about/execCommittee.cfm"> Here's brief profiles of these folks. Nothing at FEC on Storch and the search function there collapsed when I tried the other two.
This info comes from the subscription database REFERENCE USA, available at many public libraries (advt.)
Carry on
Posted by: Gregory Koster | October 01, 2009 at 02:57 PM