Fake hate at George Washington U
posted at 9:08 pm on November 5, 2007 by Bryan
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A freshman painted swastikas on her own dorm door.
After evaluating evidence from a hidden camera positioned in response to the swastika postings in Mitchell Hall, University Police have linked the student who filed the complaints to several of the incidents.
Following a final interview with investigators today, the student admitted responsibility for those incidents…
Using footage from a hidden video camera, the University Police Department linked freshman Sarah Marshak with the vandalism. She will now appear before Student Judicial Services and could face federal and District charges, a spokesperson announced Monday afternoon.
In an interview with The Hatchet Monday afternoon, Marshak, who had been a reporter for this newspaper, categorically denied drawing the swastikas on her residence hall door.
Marshak saw six swastikas on her residence hall door, where she lived alone.
I’m just shocked that she’d been a writer for the school newspaper. Shocked, I tell ya.
Stacy McCain looks into the why of this story.
It’s the “American Idol” syndrome: Everybody wants their 15 minutes of fame, and faking a hate crime against yourself is a quick shortcut to the limelight.
Now, GW, any update on the YAF smear? You know who did it. We have him admitting it on video. Whatcha gonna do about it?
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Ya, I bet she gets a job with MSNBC or some place like that.
boomer on November 5, 2007 at 9:16 PM
Well, you know, the nazi Republicans hurt her self esteem so much, it was as if they drew those swastikas themselves. So it was the same thing, like. Kinda.
stonemeister on November 5, 2007 at 9:16 PM
Faking hate crimes in places where it is sure to spark outrage and sympathy (like college campuses) is becoming a disturbing trend.
Nessuno on November 5, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Maybe TNR will hire her to replace Franklin Foer.
Ali-Bubba on November 5, 2007 at 9:22 PM
Those charges better include more than simple vandalism.
mojowire on November 5, 2007 at 9:25 PM
If you search “Sarah Marshak” on Facebook, it looks like she’s from Israel and is a Stephen Colbert fan (what appears to be his autograph is her profile picture.)
Vizzini on November 5, 2007 at 9:27 PM
But remember folks, even if the hate crime is always hoaxed, THE HATE IS REAL!
BKennedy on November 5, 2007 at 9:27 PM
…the Power of Facebook.
Vizzini on November 5, 2007 at 9:28 PM
She needs a copy of this book
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2007/11/my-book-to-help.html
bbz123 on November 5, 2007 at 9:29 PM
maybe she has a future at the NYT or The New Republic
mfnorman on November 5, 2007 at 9:29 PM
Indoctrination U.
Where do you suppose she got the idea, from one of her profs perhaps?
Kini on November 5, 2007 at 9:30 PM
The new generation of reporter. Frightening.
4shoes on November 5, 2007 at 9:35 PM
NO! I am stunned! You would think these pinheads migh realize that if they must LIE to prove they are right, then…..
Gatordoug on November 5, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Give her a break man! Face it. In this country, if you ain’t a victim you ain’t nobody!
ronsfi on November 5, 2007 at 9:50 PM
Ah yes. Remember the old DR. Pepper ads? Think ogf that jingle with these words
I’m a victim
She’s a victim
He’s a victim
Wouldn’t you like to be a victim too
Gatordoug on November 5, 2007 at 10:00 PM
How about the noose on the Columbia professor’s door? I’ve long suspected this as manufactured hate, courtesy of a leftist student or professor. Any updates?
RightWinged on November 5, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Which means she is more than likely Jewish and if so that means a Jew painted swastikas on her own door. What a credit to the millions of her people that suffered and were put to death under that symbol.
People are freakin broken. :(
Benaiah on November 5, 2007 at 10:13 PM
Whoever she is, and wherever she’s from…
she’s a dumbass.
Always Right on November 5, 2007 at 10:18 PM
This kind of dishonesty doesn’t help counter anti Semitic hatred.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1Y1-111653726.html
Speakup on November 5, 2007 at 10:32 PM
With the writers being on strike, MSM news stations will be scrambling to hire someone with her experience.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 5, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Maybe she was going for ‘extra credit’ from one of her Profs?
I think that those who fake a hate crime should face the same punishment as if they had comitted the hate crime. As it is she’ll probably get a simple repremand and extra credit.
CrazyFool on November 5, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Let,s see a Liberal drawing swastikas in the dorm
to make the other side look bad,is there an election
coming or something.
Maybe ACLU will step in,and say she was practising a new religion which requires drawing swastikas as a form of
ritual,or shes an artist and got artisticly carried away.
canopfor on November 5, 2007 at 10:40 PM
This is a horrible cry for attention from a normal liberal college chick. Nothing more, nothing less.
As I see our future being dumbed down, I see more and more mental problems emerge.
This POS liberal society we are living in is destroying this country.
The NEA is really accomplishing it’s goal. It was a political department from the beginning and now our youths are learning on a curriculum that makes them actually stoopid.
They rewrite history, make socially right choices sound evil , and want control while saying they support true freedom.
I truly believe Savage’s statement that liberalism is a mental disease. And do not agree with him on a while lot. To me he is somewhat on the radical side of the right.
All in all, I see a dim future for this country due to the miseducation of the future citizens
lsutiger on November 5, 2007 at 10:40 PM
*whole
lsutiger on November 5, 2007 at 10:41 PM
So true, because it’s a real hate crime against whom ever she was framing with it.
abinitioadinfinitum on November 5, 2007 at 10:41 PM
If you search Sarah Marshak on face book…….
Benaiah on November 5,2007 at 10:13PM.
Benaiah,even if she is from Isreal,Liberals have also
infected that country as well,the Isreal left would
love to give Isreal away in hopes of peace.
canopfor on November 5, 2007 at 10:50 PM
You could knock me over with a feather!!!11!!1 I didn’t see that one coming.
jdpaz on November 5, 2007 at 11:23 PM
Phoney Soldiers marching arm-in-arm with Phoney Hate Crime Victims.
Next stop, revisionist History.
Gotta go make a noose.
Or two.
profitsbeard on November 5, 2007 at 11:46 PM
She is from Coral Gables,FL and went north broward prep.
She has been active in jouralism for years even won awards.
liberrocky on November 5, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Remember the incident at Columbia where a noose was found on an African-American professor’s door, and the school initially wouldn’t turn the video over to the police (but later complied)? Does anyone know if the culprit was ever revealed? I’m wondering if that was the same kind of thing.
JustTruth101 on November 6, 2007 at 12:00 AM
I’ve asked that same question a couple of times. I’ve felt that it was a fake from the moment the school officials wouldn’t release the video to the police. This woman is supposedly all scared and they aren’t doing anything to help catch someone threatening a professor in such a profound way? Something doesn’t jive.
Sultry Beauty on November 6, 2007 at 12:31 AM
Drawing the swastickas that republicans won’t draw.
vegasbookie on November 6, 2007 at 12:56 AM
The swastikas were fake but accurate.
saint kansas on November 6, 2007 at 3:23 AM
Sounds like the makings of a fine NBC News producer.
GT on November 6, 2007 at 3:50 AM
Apparently……..there ain’t enough hatin’ goin’ on so the leftists are forced to make the hate.
And who would know better how to hate better than a leftist?
And what ever happened with that noose case? Did I miss something?
Talon on November 6, 2007 at 6:08 AM
But remember folks, even if the hate crime is always hoaxed, THE HATE IS REAL!
BKennedy on November 5, 2007 at 9:27 PM
Heh! If reality doesn’t fit what it is you want to be true (and she wanted to find bigotry and hate), then, well, you can simply create it where none exists. Voila! Instant “truth”. What a moron.
reine.de.tout on November 6, 2007 at 8:03 AM
I’m a middle-aged white male. I’m certainly a victim of hate, racism, and discrimination. Is there anything I can hang or paint on my door to broadcast my special plight to the world while getting my 15 minutes of fame?
Rod on November 6, 2007 at 8:29 AM
Nothing will happen, a few courses in sensitivity classes, a trip to the holocaust museum, a few “I’m sorry”, and she is back on campus.
Let the person be a Republican, and she would be hung on a campus tree, and allow the crows to peck out her eyes.
right2bright on November 6, 2007 at 8:34 AM
Nascar=Racism
I remember the good old days at GW. Mitchell Hall was so filled with marijuana smoke the students couldn’t even get up to go to class, let alone manufacturer phony hate crimes.
pistolero on November 6, 2007 at 8:52 AM
Hey, how about some sympathy for this poor wannabe student journalist? Here she is, trying to change the world, looking for evil Bushitler conservanazis fomenting racism on campus and she can’t find any! They were probably out clubbing baby seals or peeing on the homeless. What’s the harm in drawing the swastikas that you know those fascists would have drawn if they’d only had the opportunity? So you had to use a little Hate Helper to serve this dish of revenge against all that anti-semitism you know is bubbling up on the Right. The ends justifies the means, dude. Sure this incident was fake, but accurate.
Tantor on November 6, 2007 at 9:16 AM
The “Raising Awareness” defense.
Too bad, Charlie Manson never thought of that…All he would have needed was a jury of Intellectuals™
franksalterego on November 6, 2007 at 9:44 AM
Exactly what I have been thinking too! I’d bet anything that’s the case.
Nineball on November 6, 2007 at 9:56 AM
I hear Rosie will need some
slavesinterns for her new show on MSLSD.Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 6, 2007 at 9:56 AM
No. Get used to it. Don’t you know we are the cause of major problem in the world? Despised and hated……that’s our role. You can’t have problems in the world if there is not someone to blame.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on November 6, 2007 at 9:58 AM
We can forgive your ignorance this time; that is, assuming that you haven’t been through the RA program at University of Delaware.
saint kansas on November 6, 2007 at 10:05 AM
I figured out what to do. I’ve tacked up a pair of my used whitey-tighties over the mail slot of my front door. I’ll let you know what the mailwoman says or does. I bet she’ll feel sorry for me. Look for me in the news.
Rod on November 6, 2007 at 10:45 AM
She is a user on livejournal. http://starrynight87.livejournal.com/profile
I found her profile because she was an award winning member of the “Cappies” in her elite private school in Florida. And of course she is a rabid hillary supporter and all around moonbat.
BelchSpeak on November 6, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Maybe she could write for the Edwards campaign.
2theright on November 6, 2007 at 11:34 AM
One time, at band camp…
LtE126 on November 6, 2007 at 12:07 PM
I found a photo of her too. Why are the cute ones so flippin’ crazy?
BelchSpeak on November 6, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Any update on the noose incident at Columbia? It seems to have been swept under the rug.
awake on November 6, 2007 at 1:14 PM
She’s not that cute, except perhaps in the sense that all more or less healthy, well-groomed 18-year-old chicks are cute. (This is known as Derbyshire’s Law.)
Ali-Bubba on November 6, 2007 at 3:14 PM
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