Newspaper Columnists Who Should Be Fired

[tongodeon]

"CORRECTION: This submission misstates that one Dalai Lama admitted to having sex with hundreds of men and women while knowing that he had AIDS. Additionally, the submission misstates that many monks participated in the dismemberment of female bodies. In fact, there is no factual evidence to substantiate either of these claims. Spectator regrets

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[loic]

at least some of the comments are amusing.

[waider]

"The author is a Columbia College junior majoring in American studies."

Not in a while has the word FAIL seemed so appropriate.

Well, there is some good news there..

[drieuxster]

They understand that no matter what happens a subsequent release of differently enabled information means never having to be sorry...

Besided, why should Radical Leftwing Publications still be advancing the clearly FAILED pre-911 agenda of 'factual evidence' given that the Whole World Changed on 09/11 and no one need decend to the dark days of the evils of liberalism and that whole failed reality based community. I mean, we all know that we are ALL way sooooo past that now.

[epileptikitty]

Did he crib it from Conservapedia?

[tensegritydan]

Apparently, the writer, who is a college student and not a professional journalist, confused two people with similar names, Tenzin Ösel Rinpoche, who was the incarnation of Lama Yeshe, and Ösel Tendzin, a buddhist teacher (born Thomas F. Rich in Passaic, NJ) who had unprotected sex with students when he was HIV positive.

The pathetic thing is that neither person was a Dalai Lama, though they are all Buddhist. Those damn Buddhists, spreading AIDS everywhere!

I guess this writer could not be bothered with the exhaustive fact-checking research which involves clicking a few links in wikipedia.