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Totally. |
So start a thread fof them. The topic of this thread is Blake Lively. |
Again, we aren’t deciding a motion to dismiss, this is a discussion board. Some of the allegations in her complaint are directly contradicted by her own texts. To me, that is compelling evidence that her claims are bullshit. YMMV |
Well you just convinced us all! How much does JB pay you to carry his water? |
It's ok to point out the misogyny of maligning women for minor offenses while men's crimes with actual victims get barely a mention. it's a discussion forum, remember? It's gross. |
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If anyone is being paid for their time on this thread, I think we all know who that is, and it certainly isn’t me. |
It’s also gross to make up sexual harassment claims as part of a power play. |
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When that's proven then that would be appropriate but we're not even close to that point now. People think they know, but they have no idea. |
I'd have no problem admitting to being paid to advocate for women, but I do it for free. What you're doing, tearing down women for sport, is shameful. |
Thanks, that was interesting. Really shows how insidious this all is. If I'd read that first, when the Lively lawsuit story broke out I'd be primed to think "oh, I heard about that, he called her sexy and then she threatened to cry harassment if they didn't go with her edit." Most people won't read the full complaint or even articles, just headlines. Having read this after I've seen the lawsuit, naturally I'm thinking "ok, he harassed her and they wanted to get ahead of the story and plant seeds of doubt for when the inevitable hit." But which is right? I'm still tending to go with the second version, because the lawsuit literally cites texts from Abel and Nathan discussing getting ahead of the story and creating alternate theories using reddit, so that's more credible than an anonymous reddit poster (but of course, that poster is using a throwaway account because they are spilling inside dirt - which is both what an actual insider and a paid troll would do!). These are some citations from her complaint that seem relevant. Of course, Baldoni may have some other compelling evidence that disputes this. We'll see. https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Blake-Lively-NY-Lawsuit.pdf 9. On July 31, 2024, following the recommendation of their publicist, Jennifer Abel, Wayfarer and Mr. Baldoni retained a crisis communications specialist named Melissa Nathan, and her company The Agency Group PR LLC (“TAG”). Ms. Nathan delivered a proposal to Mr. Baldoni, which included “[a] website (to discuss), full reddit, full social account take downs, full social crisis team on hand for anything – engage with audiences in the right way, start threads of theories (discuss) this is the way to be fully 100% protected.” Ms. Nathan also proposed the “creation of social fan engagement to go back and forth with any negative accounts, helping to change [sic] narrative and stay on track.” Per Ms. Nathan, “All of this will be most importantly untraceable.” As Ms. Abel described it, the plan was to engage in “social media mitigation and proactive fan posting to counter the negative” as well as “social manipulation.”3 10. This plan went well beyond standard crisis PR. What Ms. Nathan proposed included a practice known as “Astroturfing,” which has been defined as “the practice of publishing opinions or comments on the internet, in the media, etc. that appear to come from ordinary members of the public but actually come from a particular company or political group.”4 11. On August 2, 2024, TAG circulated a “SCENARIO PLANNING” document to Mr. Baldoni, Mr. Heath, and others, which described preparations and strategy “should [Ms. Lively] and her team make her grievances public” (the “Scenario Planning Document”), and is attached hereto as Exhibit D. To “get ahead of this narrative,” Ms. Nathan’s plan proposed strategies to advance misleading counternarratives, including pushing Ms. Nathan’s narrative that Ms. Lively had “less than favorable reputation,” proposing to “explore planting stories about the weaponization of feminism…,” and misleadingly blaming Ms. Lively for production members’ job losses. 16. Ms. Abel responded that she had just “spoke[n] to Melissa about this… about what we discussed last night for social and digital.” Ms. Abel added, “Focus on reddit, TikTok, IG.” With reassurance that Ms. Lively would be “destroy[ed]” and “buried,” Wayfarer Case 1:24-cv-10049 Document 1 Filed 12/31/24 Page 9 of 93Deadline |
Just because you chose to ignore evidence that contradicts Blake, doesn’t mean the rest of us do. |
I'm willing to say at best we don't know. But I'm not running around shrieking about a Harvey Girl, trollop etc. I don't even see anyone digging in on Justin in such a vile way. The hate directed toward Blake is obscene. |
Baldoni has 2-3 things that contradict some minor points of Lively's dozens of claims. That's not the same thing as proving that she made everything up. She might have made everything up, but if she did, that's certainly not been established thus far. |