Record producer Quincy Jones is spreading gossip and celebrity secrets all across the 'net. People are writing to ask me, "How much of this should we believe?" My answer is "As much as you want to believe." People have a tendency to try and separate everyone into Truth-Tellers or Liars and I don't think anyone falls wholly into one of those categories. There are also people who sincerely believe things that aren't so…or tell stories that are more speculation than first-hand knowledge. I dunno how much of what Quincy Jones is spilling is true but a pretty safe answer would be that some of it is and some of it isn't. Since most of it is stuff I don't really care about, that answer works for me.
Are you following the Rob Porter Scandal? If you're watching Fox News, probably not since it's gotten almost no mention there. But he is the now-former staff secretary who resigned Wednesday after two ex-wives accused him of abusing and beating them. That's pretty awful but it gets worse when you realize how many people in our government knew about it and did nothing. In fact, a lot of them defended him and praised him and called his accusers "character assassins" or worse, right up until the moment that it became obvious that Porter's guilt could no longer be denied. Then suddenly we got a lot of "I didn't know about this" and faux sympathy for his victims. Dahlia Lithwick has more.