tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post809074397585521620..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: The "Journalistic Standards" of Alternet-Salon, AgainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-39163671255067493622015-04-27T12:22:32.254-04:002015-04-27T12:22:32.254-04:00I remember that "story" well enough to k...I remember that "story" well enough to know it was completely debunked, right down to the "septic tank" that was never on the property. Of course, lie is halfway 'round the world before truth can get its boots on, so the lie persists to this day, apparently.<br /><br />And yes, it's of a piece with anti-Papist slanders even I heard in East Texas in my youth (priests get the nuns pregnant, who bury the aborted fetuses behind the walls of the convents). It's disgusting such lies go on and on. But, as you say, it's because they have some utility for those who continue the lies.<br /><br />And, of course I love that these things get "found every so often." Makes it so much more true if it isn't just the one at Tuam which a modicum of review will prove was not a "mass grave" perpetrated by the nuns at all.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com