The World Turned Upside Down: Un, Atrios, What The Hell Does This Mean?

Don't misunderstand. I'm not saying that the fact the he's an asshole is more important than the fact that he's probably a serial rapist, I'm just saying that general asshole behavior is easier to cover than allegations of serious crimes that aren't in the legal system.

"the fact that he's probably a serial rapist"

I wonder what The Horse of Media Whores Online would have made of that phrase if it had been used by the corporate media against Bill Clinton back when you were cutting your baby blogger's teeth there.  It sounds like something Falwell or Barbara Olson would have said. 

For the benefit of your rump of regulars, it can't be a fact and be merely probable to start with and there has been no test of its probability.  

If a PROSECUTOR who has taken statements, depositions, looked at chronologies, evidence, etc. brings a criminal case, which is what a charge of rape is, and he were found guilty OF MULTIPLE RAPES , well, then, yes, there would be a probability that was a fact.  But there has been no indictment, there has been no trial on even a single case of rape.  I hate to be in the position of having to defend Bill Cosby who I really don't have any affection for, but I do rather have warm feelings about intellectual integrity, fairness and the rule of law instead of the drool of slur which is your stock and trade at Eschaton.  

If you want to call him an asshole, that's not a criminal matter and the standards of evidence required aren't any higher than the opinion of your communities' lowest standard.  And, in the case of your blog, that's about as low as a blog deputed to be of the left gets, these days. 


Update:  As an example, none of your "Brain Trust" would seem to be interested in actually reading what I wrote on this, which isn't a defense of Cosby, it's insisting that people not be tried in blog gossip and on the online tabloids like Salon and Alternet.   But I guess that's too subtle a point for your geniuses.   Rule of law gives way to drool of slur, it's the standard of journalism you practice. 

Update 2:  Uh, yes, any online mag like Salon that can regularly have five or six Lena Denham or Mama Honey Boo Boo columns up at once and in the "Most Read" column - and it's the regular fare, there - is a friggin' tabloid.   This is tabloid stuff that is quite reminiscent of the stuff they ran against Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton all the time.  Until there is an actual conviction, it's irresponsible either if the accusations are false or if they are true.