Fact checking after the fact.
NYT Reporter who shall remain nameless: Really? The MacAir emails were legitimate? That seemed too over the top to be believable.
baugher: Yes, and they were published despite the strong reluctance of one party to the conversation to have any ongoing association with the other party to that conversation.
NYT Reporter who shall remain nameless: Would you have published it without consent?
baugher: Absolutely not. It took some convincing conversation to get permission, as one of the parties to that conversation is not as committed to garnering attention from that relationship as the other party, who mentions it at any and every opportunity to promote herself.
NYT Reporter who shall remain nameless: But she got dumped by him, and on the internet! Why would she keep bringing it up?
baugher: But that wasn’t how it happened. Julia got pissed off at Jakob’s aloofness and dickish behavior offline and called him out on it online on their very ill-advised blog. He didn’t publicly respond to her, and thereafter, they broke up privately. He went on to hook up with other women, including her best friend’s younger sister, Leven Rambin (an actress on All My Children, who was formerly a friend of Julia’s and who is now estranged from her much older sister, Mary Rambin, a Julia hanger-on who clearly resents Julia). Scorned Julia guest-blogged on Gawker, whose commenters are notorious for being hostile towards her, and in trying to garner favor with them, she dished on her ex’s private business, including revelations about his departure from his job and innuendoes about his mental health. When that went over badly with the commenters, she decided to play the victim who was dumped and cheated upon. When I published the please buy me the Mac Air emails, she announced that her blog was ruining her life and was on hiatus from the internet. That didn’t stop her from twittering hourly and posting pictures and videos of a calculated, more wholesome self. She didn’t stop blogging, she just stopped posting hourly on her blog. Look, this girl gets paid to go on television and lie about celebrities on behalf of a supermarket tabloid. She just brought her work home with her when it came to her own bad press and made up stories that the NYT apparently swallowed hook, line and sinker.
NYT Reporter who shall remain nameless: What? Do you have sources for all of this?
baugher: Seriously, did you folks do any type of research on her before you published your “Julia is the new Carrie” story?
NYT Reporter who shall remain nameless: Well, everything she said checked out, and she invited the reporter into her home.
baugher: How well did that strategy work out for you with Margaret Jones, aka Seltzer?
NYT Reporter who shall remain remain nameless: I wasn’t involved with that, but your point is well taken.
baugher: Wasn’t anyone a little afraid of getting caught in her freakish hair extensions? Those things have taken a life of their own. Cousin It meets that freaky clown from Polergeist.
NYT Reporter who shall remain nameless: She has hair extensions?
baugher: Holy hell. You have a great night. Sleep well in the knowledge that you killed my faith in the NYT.
