Clearly someone is lying and hopefully the truth will come out, but this blog is about the reactions to the Washington Post story. Around the web today on various chat forums discussing this anyone who suggested that perhaps the original story was in fact truth and someone is paying this women lots of money to say she lied is being attacked, down voted, or censored. Yet the same people who are attacking others for making that suggestion are willing to believe that she was paid to lie in the first place and has suddenly got a conscious and decided to tell the truth. And it's not just the normal I'm going to stick up for my guy type response, it almost seems coordinated on reddit again people who say perhaps she's lying now are getting 50 down votes, it's normal for people who go against the hive mind to be down voted -5 or -10 but rarely over -20 unless they're being a troll. While both sides of the political aisle are hypocrites, ie believing one plausible story, over the other because one puts their guy in a more favorable light, I find liberals to be much less tolerable of other people's opinions. Where a republican or conservative will at least, even if just for a moment, consider merit of the other story a liberal will immediately dismiss a counter-story and slap you in the face for even bring it up.
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