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WARBLOGGER WATCH
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Glenn Reynolds comes within inches of calling one of his preferred cites a liar today. "Blogger" Josh Chafetz had told of a story passed along by an "old and trusted friend" who related the events of: "Last week here at Yale, [where] several male students, armed with a 2x4 in the middle of the night, broke into the suite of another female student and activist, because she had an American flag hanging upside-down (a symbol of distress, dissent with the government) out the window of her room." Chafetz next relates how his trusted friend "verified [the events] with the victim."
For Herr Professor Doktor Reynolds, "The story, frankly, seems hard to believe." Per Reynolds, Chafetz, then, cannot be relied upon to pass along factual reports from friends-of-friends. Will Reynolds then continue to pay attention to the unreliable Chafetz's speculations about events involving the administration or Islamofascistterorristagressors - i.e., persons further removed from the circle of friends of friends - if Chafetz cannot be relied upon to report accurately on the life and times of his intimates? Yes - as long as Chafetz's writings buttress GHR's BS.
Glenn, for his part, believes it "does it not sound like Yale students to do such a thing, it doesn't sound like the way Yale students would do such a thing if they did." True Yalies, of course, flee such martial endeavors, ordering proxies to deploy not 2x4s but daisy cutters and cluster bombs in their stead. posted by Anonymous10:29 PM
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