Thanks Jezebel! Sincerely, Scott Walker
February 28, 2015
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Gawker Media website Deadspin helped Cory Gardner win the Colorado Senate race, and contributed to Republicans taking the Senate, by botching a gotcha story about Garnder supposedly faking his high school football record. Deadspin was dead wrong, and we said Thanks Deadspin!
Now Gawker Media website Jezebel has done the equivalent for Scott Walker.
"Senior Reporter" (what could that possible mean at Jezebel?) Natasha Vargas-Cooper thought she had a big, BIG scoop that proved Walker hated women, or something. You see, Walker supposedly didn't want sexual assault statistics reported by the University of Wisconsin because budget cuts would defund such reporting:
It was the perfect WAR ON WOMEN narrative. But Vargas-Cooper didn't know the full story, perhaps because she was too busy dancing on Walker's political grave.
The Daily Beast then picked up the story, and Scott Walker supposedly hating women spread like wildfire.
Turns out the reporting cut was requested by the University of Wisconsin itself because it was redundant of federal reporting it already did -- why spend the money to report the same thing twice?
And the world came crashing down on Jezebel and Vargas-Cooper, but she stood strong in the face of the patriarchy: