Oh, this is rich.<\/p>\n
I know few regular TAH readers are HuffPo fans. Well, recently they showed their “mad journalistic skilz”.<\/p>\n
Seems that HuffPo South Africa published – then retracted – some obvious bullsh!t masquerading as an op\/ed piece. It seems that someone purporting to be a feminist from South Africa wrote a piece advocating that voting rights be withheld from white males to “wrestle control of the world back from white males”. The restriction wouldn’t be permanent – only “for 20 years (just less than a generation)”.<\/p>\n
The claimed “author” was, of course, fake.\u00a0 And the person who actually wrote the ridiculous trollbait HuffPo swallowed apparently did it to prove a point:\u00a0 that the HuffPo would publish anything that fit their editorial worldview, regardless of truth or suitability.\u00a0 Seems as if the article didn’t even meet HuffPo’s own guidelines for publication.<\/p>\n
Oh, did I mention that the HuffPo went so far as to post an article defending<\/span> the obvious bullsh!t before realizing it was bullsh!t?<\/em>\u00a0 They were forced afterwards not only to run a retraction, but to explicitly state that they were in favor of universal suffrage.<\/p>\n