Did I say that Felicia Sonmez was a viper?
I did, and ’twas only yesterday.
I take it back; she’s far far worse than that.
I had forgotten – or perhaps never realized – that she has a history described in this lengthy Reason article from three years ago. It is a profoundly chilling story, reminding us of the worst of the MeToo craze. Sonmez got on board in order to destroy an old friend with whom she’d had consensual drunken sex one time and ended up regretting it. A whole bunch of journalists believed her without needing any proof at all and also without questioning the many contradictions in her tale of how it happened.
That Reason article contains details of what Sonmez did and how she did it that convey a level of planning and self-righteous vindictive viciousness that is tremendously disturbing to even read about.
[Hat tip: PA Cat.]
She looks like one: the NY Post ran a picture of her that makes her look like a snake about to eat a small bird:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/09/washington-post-staffers-fume-at-reporter-felicia-sonmez-over-twitter-battles/
As for Sonmez’ concern about colleagues of color, one of the reporters she blasted, Jose Del Real, is Hispanic and gay, which makes him a double minority.
Here’s a link to the Vanity Fair article about l’affaire Sonmez:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/inside-the-washington-posts-social-media-meltdown
Long story short: the older major newspapers were caught flatfooted by staff members’ recent use of social media and are desperately playing catch-up. Meanwhile neurotics like Felicia are gleefully torching as many reputations and careers as they can. She may have been fired by the WaPo, but (unlike DJT) she hasn’t been given the boot by Twitter.
I googled the guy from the Reason article. His life and professional trajectory may have changed, but I think he’s ultimately landed on his feet. His girlfriend stuck by him. He’s a second year law student and maintains an extremely interesting blog of articles about the Pacific and Asia on a lot of things I had no idea about. He comes across as a pretty good journalist. (Which is more than I can say about Felicia.)
I think on the end, he’ll do much, much, much better professionally than she will. (If there is karma or Divine Justice, he definitely will.)
Lee Also:
Glad to hear it. The guy was certainly guilty of having drunken sex and cheating on his girlfriend (he says only once for the latter), but neither thing used to be a crime and since the girlfriend forgave him that’s fine with me. He also stupidly took too long to realize Sonmez’s viper nature when she was quizzing him later, and he therefore made some ill-advised conciliatory declarations against interest, as they say in the law biz, in an attempt to placate her.
Don’t apologize if you don’t think you did anything wrong it never works.
Look at Dave Weigel. What did his apology get him?
Or this guy on an unrelated topic.
https://www.outkick.com/jack-del-rio-will-be-fined-100000-for-his-comments-on-george-floyd-protests/
Once you apologize they smell blood in the water.
I vote for her epitaph to be; here lies someone who, while they lived, made the world a meaner place…
Griffin,
Jack Del Rio did not apologize.
Sonmez, a pale redhead, claims to be a “person of color” because of her Spanish sounding last name.
He seems too have stopped updating his internet presence after he got into ucla law.
https://www.jonathankaiman.com/
Educated, upper class, childless women appear to be very susceptible to wanting control and power over others. It’s almost like there’s a basic, fundamental core need in their DNA that is going unfulfilled.
It’s odd, because I’ve been assured a woman needs a man and children like a fish needs a bicycle.
RufusTFirefly:
Inconceivable!
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You keep using that word…
It’s odd, because I’ve been assured a woman needs a man and children like a fish needs a bicycle.
You were assured that by a childless woman who has remained unmarried for all but three years of her adult life. Her older sister had a husband, and handsome passel of kids, and an occupation with more robust operational measures of competence.
RufusTFirefly:
Is there a part in “The Gods of Copybook Headings” that speaks of “beer goggle’s?”
Art Deco,
Yeah, but all Susanne Patch ever achieved was caring for her younger sister and elderly mother, marrying, raising six children and becoming an author and expert in gemology, then, after her children were grown, obtaining a law degree and working as a legal expert in the field of jewelry and gemology for 15 years.
A completely wasted 82 years. Surely, on her deathbed, she felt unfulfilled and regretful.
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There’s this, strange couplet,
Unsurprisingly, I can’t make heads nor tails out of it. There is nothing of value in reading the words of dead, white men.
And yet another inexplicable occurrance, another viper?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/06/11/the-onceinageneration-scientist-who-had-his-life-ruined-by-overblown-me-too-nonsense-n2608576
h/t InstaPundit.com
om,
This is really odd.
After reading the story at the link you provided a phrase from another, dead, white, male poet, William Congreve, popped into my head.
What a strange coincidence! Oh well, no need to ponder more on it. I’ve been assured there is nothing of worth in the work of white men so I’ll just treat the behavior of Kristin Knouse and Felcia Sonmez as bizarre happenstance. Both women matriculated through our elitist institutions of higher learning. Surely their reasoning is far above the crude scribblings of men who lived before women’s suffrage or the invention of the iPhone.
That cracker smart ap
https://mobile.twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/status/1535631473730064385
Rufus,
Well, he did apologize for calling Jan 6 a ‘dustup’.
https://www.outkick.com/jack-del-rio-apologizes-for-nothing/
Dont apologize to the croc he’ll eat yoi just the same
Griffin,
I had not seen that. But it was a reasonable apology, in my mind. He didn’t back down from criticizing the BLM riots.
Rufus,
But it opened the door just a crack and it did him no good.
And do you think his fate would have been any different if he referred to Jan 6 as a riot (which I would deem accurate)? Of course not because the offense was comparing the BLM riots to Jan 6.
The idea that he was fined $100K for that comment is truly outrageous.
From the reason article, “He [Jonathan Kaiman] has electronic exchanges from her [i.e., first accuser Laura Tucker] in the months following their encounter in which she sends him friendly notes and initiates get-togethers, including a suggestion that they meet over drinks.”
If that is true, then Laura Tucker bears the burden of proving she is not a miserable liar.
And, well, we know what Somnez is.