CORRECTION: New evidence suggests that the screenshot discussed in this post and elsewhere was not a forgery but the result of a glitch. I offer a correction, and an apology, and a discussion of the implications, here.
So the other day I showed you all in detail how someone at men’s rights hate site A Voice for Men fabricated evidence — in the form of a faked screenshot — in order to cover up an embarrassing mistake on their part. The person responsible for the fabrication appeared to be AVFM’s so-called “managing editor” Dean Esmay.
Well, now it appears that they’re going to triple down on their dishonesty and concoct more screenshots. In a “news roundup” from Esmay today I found this remarkable passage:
And going back to the story with the error I found a new “editorial note” from Esmay:
I can’t wait to see what on earth they’ve come up with this time. I encourage readers to take screenshots of all this in case AVFM decides to do any retroactive ninja editing as part of its plan to pretend it was right all along.
Meanwhile,those of you who have been following this story may be wondering: who is this Joshua Thompson? Well, it appears that AVFM — or at least Dean Esmay — can’t even get the name of the post’s author right. That’s right, AVFM’s MANAGING EDITOR can’t get the name of one of AVFM’S OWN WRITERS RIGHT.
The author was first identified on AVFM as Jason Gregory — and if you look at the bio for Jason Gregory on any of the other articles he’s written for AVFM, like this one, it points to American Idiocracy, the blog where the problematic Facebook post originally ran. (It’s now been replaced, on his blog, anyway, by a completely rewritten version.)
At some point, apparently by accident, AVFM changed the byline of the author to Jason Thompson, who appears to be someone else who wrote something for AVFM a long time ago. And now Dean Esmay is calling him Joshua Thompson.
Or maybe Joshua Thompson is his real name, and Jason Gregory was his pen name, and Esmay has accidentally doxxed his own writer. Who knows?
I suspect we have not yet plumbed the depths of AVFM’s dishonesty –or incompetence.
I’m not David, I’m a school of cories and clown loaches. I’m an actual hive mind! (Sorta)
I was assuming that “doofy” was a typo for goofy. But I don’t see how it’s an insult to be compared to someone as lovable as Goofy. The MRA’s, on the other hand, are more like Scrooge McDuck.
That’s just how I imagine the scene in Pauly’s place when he reads something he doesn’t like on the Net (you know … people having happy lives instead of men going around beating women, or laws being passed that recognise “human” doesn’t mean “man” – that sort of thing).
The reason I post here so sporadically is because I am one of the seven cats in the left foot of the David suit. It is hard to type with a foot. BTW I am the scrappy orange tabby who likes to stick my head in boxes and howl until someone rubs my butt.
If we’re all David, then David spends way too much time on the cat avatar maker.
David IS the cat avatar maker.
Ahem.
Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons, and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn’t a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one, and calls out “Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!” she doesn’t get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves’
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn.
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O’Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate…
But she didn’t do it. And now it’s too late.
Dr. Suess
Crap. I mean, Dr. Seuss.
Could we be Power Rangers kitties in a giant David Megazord?
@kittehs
At last the conspiracy is complete XD
I am not a cat. I might be a stylish bird:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pecunium/3112613912/in/set-72157603860044740
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pecunium/1778406228/in/set-72157603860044740
but I can get a bit ruffled.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pecunium/1777554103/in/set-72157603860044740
but I am always Dave.