February 15, 2006
Shattered!
During the CPAC bloggers'
main bacchanale at the Marquee Bar and Lounge—hosted by the wonderful
Mike Krempasky—the subject of Stephen Glass' old work of fiction on young partying conservatives kept coming up. Several people wondered if the story itself was available online, and whether Glass had really alleged that young conservatives were cokeheads.
Oddly enough, former Wonkette Ana Marie Cox discussed that shaggy dog story in Mother Jones several years ago, debunking it and other Glass-related fact-checking fiascos.
In the snippet she quotes, the "young conservative" event was at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, but it takes place in the spring (so theoretically it wouldn't have been CPAC), and the cons in question were smoking grass rather than snorting coke. And Glass didn't appear to be making the point that a lot of conservatives are really libertarians—but rather that his imaginary right-wing friends were hypocrites.
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At least I got the hotel right. As for the cocaine I was "fake but accurate." It was good enough for Dan Rather.
Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at February 16, 2006 01:14 AM (JAozc)
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Well, there's still a chance that cocaine was in the oroginal article, but didn't show up in Cox's expose.
Posted by: Attila Girl at February 16, 2006 02:03 AM (XbEp3)
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I recall that the Glass article was about CPAC. I was a college student at the time and I remember thinking to myself that I had gone to all the parties and didn't see either Glass or anything he described in is essay. Rather then engage in a drug orgy, most of my circle debated political philosophy over a couple cold ones (it was there that I figured out I wasnÂ’t a conservative, but an Objectivist, so the moment sticks out in my head as important).
Later, it sure was amusing when I learned that Glass had made it all up . . . very satisfying to see his lies utterly discredited.
Posted by: Nicholas Provenzo at February 16, 2006 06:49 AM (nISc5)
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