Or, in other words, she's met with her lawyers, and her fat ass is more than a little exposed:
HBO's "Girls" star Lena Dunham has been doing a lot more apologizing than acting or writing these days, since her autobiography, "Not That Kind Of Girl" is reported to have falsely identified her alleged "rapist" from college and plunged her and her publisher into legal hot water.
Dunham claimed in her book that while attending Oberlin College she was raped while stoned on alcohol, cocaine and Xanax by a Republican named "Barry" who wore purple cowboy boots, had a lush mustache and hosted a campus radio show called "Real Talk With Jimbo."
However, when Brietbart began digging into Dunham's story, they discovered there was a campus conservative named Barry who attended Oberlin at the same time as Dunham and easily could be identified as, or mistaken for, the man Dunham was describing, but he insisted he had never met her and the radio show did not exist, Mediaite reports.
Barry hired an attorney and went after Dunham and her publisher, Random House, funding his legal action with a request on a crowd-sourcing site to raise money.
Random House backed off, stating that the "Barry" name was a pseudonym and they "regret the confusion" that led to the lawsuit and offered to pay "Barry's" legal fees and include a disclaimer in future copies and online versions of the book.
Or, in other words, whatever it would take to settle this tort without, you know, actual big money being involved.
I'm afraid it's too late for that, Lena:
Not good enough for "Barry" and his attorney, Aaron Minc, who wrote on their fund appeal site: "We have been contacting Random House and Ms. Dunham since October 6, 2014, seeking an apology and exoneration. Our repeated pleas to handle this quietly and with dignity were met with indifference. It wasn’t until more than $20,000 was raised for Barry’s legal fund — and the attention of John Nolte of Breitbart News Network — that Random House responded yesterday."
Or, in other words, not until, you know, actual big money became involved.
They stated: "We will continue to keep the GoFundMe campaign active to raise money for survivors of sexual assaults and for Barry’s ongoing legal expenses until we receive an apology from Ms. Dunham and both Ms. Dunham and Random House have taken all appropriate steps to clear Barry’s name and restore the damage caused to his reputation."
Which will not, and should not, be cheap. I mean, who would take such an "apology" seriously? The whole point of Not That Kind Of Girl was to smear what Dunham and Random House thought would be a safely "anonymous" conservative Republican in order to, in turn, tar all conservative Republicans by association. Now it's blown up in their faces, and they're frantically trying to get out of pecuniary accountability for their reckless character assassination. Or at least Random House is. But nobody should believe for a single, solitary moment that Lena Dunham is, or will ever be, repentant for her words and actions. She meant every word she said in her book, and meant to inflict as much reputational damage on the entire American Right as she possibly could.
I would strongly counsel "Barry" to take that cow for every last cent he possibly can. Given that she received a $3.7 million advance for her slanderous tome, that could wind up being a lucrative jackpot.
But if Random House wants a more "economical" settlement, Dunham could always agree to spend a year in an ISIS harem, so she can learn what a real "rape culture" is like.
You might even call that "sexual justice".
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