
Celebrity basing over the summer seemed particularly lurid and accuracy-challenged.
If you go strictly by the unsubstantiated headlines, former Vice President Al Gore sexually assaulted a masseuse, laughed in her face and got away with it. All that supposedly happened during a trip to promote himself as a best-selling author and all around cool guy.
Murderers like Hasan are routinely held accountable. That’s the essence of the American criminal justice system. If law enforcement was in any way an accomplice to Hasan’s crimes – by commission or by omission – the same standard should apply.
“He had built a very successful career by identifying himself with the kind of conservative causes favored by his California constituents. But, as a result of one extra-marital fall from grace, his entire life began unraveling. That’s when the exaggerations and falsehoods generated by a rapacious media blitz used rumor and innuendo to destroy him.”