Canman Canned Facts: My Assault on Reason

Late last Friday afternoon I thought I'd try implementing an idea on how to get the latest Penn State scandal revelations into the public discussion. I thought I'd go to Reason's Hit and Run blog and post comments to most of their writers recent posts. So I commented on these posts and tried to make them at least tangentially related to the content covered:

How To Talk to People Who Think You're Evil and/or Insane: Podcast

The Hidden Legacy of Columbine: Ignorance About School Violence

Some California Cities Are Making It Harder to Quit Smoking

Southern Poverty Law Center Scraps Its Anti-Muslim Hate List

CDC, in Surveys It Never Bothered Making Public, Provides More Evidence That Plenty of Americans Innocently Defend Themselves with Guns

When I went back to look at them Saturday, I found that my comments had been deleted and that, while I was allowed to log in, I was not allowed to comment.

While my comments were deleted, I saw that a lot of responses to them were still there. I must say that I was surprised to see my comments deleted. I can understand that they might consider this spamming, but lately, I've noticed that all their comment sections seem to have a few spam comments. These tend to be actual spam with links to pitched products. Since I never expected that Reason would delete my comments, I didn't think to capture them with screen caps or Wayback Machine saves, but one of these posts did have a Wayback save with my comments:

The Hidden Legacy of Columbine: Ignorance About School Violence

Here's the screen caps of my comments and replys:

As you can see the reactions are mixed. This appears to be the only post where my comments were captured. In some of the other posts, there are commenters trying to be helpful -- like in this one:

How To Talk to People Who Think You're Evil and/or Insane: Podcast

I mentioned John Ziegler's stopping OJ Simpson from doing a sports memorabilia show, but couldn't get a couple links to his podcasts to be accepted. Some commenters gave suggestions on how to do it. One of them even posted the links.

In another thread I suggested a possible Reason hook. The first Reason post I ever read on the Penn State scandal was by Tim Cavanaugh. He got some derision from a commenter for including this:

Criminal accusations generally, sex accusations broadly and child-related accusations specifically are prone to witchmob kangaroo hunts, and Sandusky has not been convicted of any crime. But the failure to report seemingly credible reports of rape is an institutional problem, and Paterno needs to be held responsible for the institution’s behavior.

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I also mentioned a couple tweets from Reason writer, Cathy Young. From the Twitter threads:

From @Zigmanfreud on @newsweek's last-minute spiking of his story on the #PennState sex abuse case.

https://www.mediaite.com/columnists/newsweek-was-about-to-publish-my-epic-investigation-of-the-penn-state-scandal-and-then-fear-killed-it/ …

After reading Mark Pendergrast's book on the Sandusky case, I believe this is a story that needs to be heard.

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And now for something really controversial: my latest in @NewsdayOpinion looks at a book that argues Jerry Sandusky is probably innocent & convicted on "recovered memories"

https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/jerry-sandusky-legacy-1.17001451 …

Mark Pendergrast makes a surprisingly strong case.

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Am I fully converted to Sandusky revisionism? I wouldn't say that, but at the very least the case deserves another look (and the book deserves more media coverage).

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Also a shout-out to @Zigmanfreud, who's been a lonely voice on this for a while at significant risk to his career (it's discussed in the book).

Canman Canned Facts

Friday, April 27, 2018

My Assault on Reason

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