Yes. To be honest, she kind of came off as not all there. If it weren’t for the stacks of research on the table, I wouldn’t think she was a driven person. I don’t dislike her, but she does creep me out a little. But she didn’t strike me as making the reporter her mouthpiece. Maybe I’m wrong.
Frankly, when I first read it, I pretty much just dismissed that phrase because it’s so sensationalistic, and I tend to tune out that kind of tone to extract non-vague facts. So the other points, especially the office abuses, were of more interest to me.
It was not very long. But yeah, I’d like specifics about that statement too.
Maybe, the reporter seemed mildly enthusiastic about the subject. He didn’t seem disinterested.
I don’t think it’s a well written or sufficiently detailed article. I don’t think I’d much like her or the reporter. But neither do I think it was pure fluff and smear.
The most shocking revelations were pretty shocking when they were reported years earlier. This is old news repackaged. The whole prostitutes in hotel rooms thing… I heard about that like… two years ago? What else is there in the whole thing?
The reporter probably convinced himself he was doing great stuff to be enthusiastic about, but he’s a shitty reporter, so… what?
There’s nothing to detail. I think we’ve come close to seeing eye-to-eye and I really appreciate your reasonableness. I’m going to have to disagree about whether this is or is not a smeary puff.
Likewise, I appreciate the rational debate. You and others in the thread did convince me that I was making an assumption about the misuse of expense funds. It might be true, but I shouldn’t assume it is.
Are you equally upset that most articles about professionals only mention when the person is female instead of male, or black instead of white? All the women athletes at the Olympics, for example, who are described in headlines based on the man they’re related to.
Isn’t it more likely, considering the fact that the vast majority of time the gender/ethnicity/religion of a person is listed when it doesn’t conform to cultural stereotypes, that male prostitutes were labeled such because people assume female when they read the word “prostitute”?
You certainly jumped right in and formed your opinions.
No, I think she shouted “male prostitute” because there was a little extra shock in the fact that some service agent was gay. I think if we were as liberated as we claim, we wouldn’t make the distinction. She’s seeking to embarrass that agency, so why not throw in some gay scandal. Let’s really get the readers huffing and tsking.
I’m talking about the woman in the video. Go watch it. Then read the rest of the comments before replying.
