I just read another of those columns by Sally Kohn at CNN. I have written often about Kohn since she never seems to bothered by actual facts in her opinions; the political slant is always more important than the truth. Today, Kohn wrote about the purported "gang rape" reported in Rolling Stone. According to Sally, the Rolling Stone article was "poorly fact checked". She does not acknowledge that a big part of the story has been shown to be false. She does not mention that Rolling Stone retracted the story and apologized for printing it. She does not mention that none of the supposed perpetrators of the rape were asked for their version of the facts. Indeed, she fails to note that some of the supposed victim's friends who were quoted in the story now say that they were never even contacted by the author. All Sally Kohn can do is say that the holes in the story came from the alleged perpetrators of the alleged rape disagreeing with the story, and Kohn then asks if we ought believe only the perpetrators.
This column by Sally Kohn is the lowest of the low. In order to prove that there is a "rape culture" in the USA, Kohn wants to ignore the obvious untruths in the story and write them off to poor fact checking. The story says there was a gang rape at a particular fraternity's party on a particular date, but there was no party on that date or the week before or after. The supposed victim claims that she was pushed through a glass table and was cut badly by glass shards during the rape, but those friends of the supposed victim who were with her that night and brought her home say there was no blood, no cuts, and no injuries consistent with the story. For what it is worth, the friends of the supposed victim also say that she was not at a fraternity party, never mentioned a fraternity, and identified someone other than a fraternity member as her "date" for the evening. (The Rolling Stone piece says that it was the date who organized the gang rape.) This is a lot more than poor fact checking.
I am disgusted by Kohn for writing this crap and by CNN for posting it on the internet. Certainly, we don't know what actually happened to the woman who is the subject of the Rolling Stone piece. We do, however, know that the guys at the fraternity at U VA did not rape her even if someone else did. Even a lowlife politico like Sally Kohn ought to understand that she should not continue to accuse these guys of criminal actions when it is unmistakable that they didn't do anything of the sort.
This column by Sally Kohn is the lowest of the low. In order to prove that there is a "rape culture" in the USA, Kohn wants to ignore the obvious untruths in the story and write them off to poor fact checking. The story says there was a gang rape at a particular fraternity's party on a particular date, but there was no party on that date or the week before or after. The supposed victim claims that she was pushed through a glass table and was cut badly by glass shards during the rape, but those friends of the supposed victim who were with her that night and brought her home say there was no blood, no cuts, and no injuries consistent with the story. For what it is worth, the friends of the supposed victim also say that she was not at a fraternity party, never mentioned a fraternity, and identified someone other than a fraternity member as her "date" for the evening. (The Rolling Stone piece says that it was the date who organized the gang rape.) This is a lot more than poor fact checking.
I am disgusted by Kohn for writing this crap and by CNN for posting it on the internet. Certainly, we don't know what actually happened to the woman who is the subject of the Rolling Stone piece. We do, however, know that the guys at the fraternity at U VA did not rape her even if someone else did. Even a lowlife politico like Sally Kohn ought to understand that she should not continue to accuse these guys of criminal actions when it is unmistakable that they didn't do anything of the sort.
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