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'Lying hacks’: Campus rape reporting 'hit piece' on Scott Walker implodes

https://twitter.com/Me_In_Jersey/status/571668798811574274

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Scott Walker haters have been caught framing a story in an attempt to make the Wisconsin governor appear to be a threat to women, and @DrawAndStrike has a fantastic takedown at Storify:


https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/571658025079087104
https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/571677608158597121

What happened?

Scott Walker’s budget contains language to delete certain sections related to campus rape reporting requirements. An article at Jezebel started it all by framing it this way:


https://twitter.com/natashavc/status/571336720165281792

The Daily Beast linked to the Jezebel story:

And the Daily Beast published their own version of the story this morning, calling Walker’s alleged move a “gutpunch for advocates for assault victims”:

https://twitter.com/frostedweidies/status/571406859669794817
https://twitter.com/frostedweidies/status/571447935965274113

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But there’s something not mentioned in the Jezebel article:

https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/571657466372612096

The deletion of the rape reporting statistics language from Walker’s budget was made at the request of the University of Wisconsin because it would have been redundant, as the USA Today has reported:

The University of Wisconsin requested that Gov. Scott Walker remove a requirement that all 26 campuses report allegations of sexual assaults to the state every year because it already submits similar information to the federal government, a UW spokesman said Friday.
[…]
UW System spokesman Alex Hummel said Friday that the university requested the change because information given to the state is duplicative of data required to be reported to the U.S. Department of Education under federal law. The university also posts the information on its website.

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The misleading Walker hit piece at Jezebel was promoted elsewhere:

At least the error has been noted in that instance:

Baby steps.

If Walker runs, this is just a tiny sample of the kind of massive lies and distortions we’ll see in the coming months.

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https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/571670887742738433


https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/571667895878594560
https://twitter.com/rsmccain/status/571684126090272768

Great work!

Editor’s note: This post has been updated to correct the spelling of the Twitter handle of @DrawAndStrike.

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