Comedian Ed Helms of “The Office” and “The Hangover” fame splendidly knocked Rolling Stone for its disastrous reporting of the University of Virginia rape scandal during his remarks at the school’s commencement Saturday.
“It has been said that a rolling stone gathers no moss,” Helms said to mass applause. “I would add that sometimes a rolling stone also gathers no verifiable facts or even the tiniest morsels of journalistic integrity.”
“Rolling Stone tried to define you this year,” the comedian continued. “As a result, not only was this community thrown deep into turmoil, but the incredibly important struggle to address sexual violence on campuses nationwide was suddenly more confusing than ever and needlessly set back.”
Later in his speech, Helms commended the graduates and the UVA community for having the “courage” to ask the “hard questions” following the Rolling Stone debacle.
“This community didn’t fall for the fallacy that just because Rolling Stone was wrong everything here must be perfectly peachy,” Helms said. “You all had the courage to understand you can be outraged at Rolling Stone and still ask yourselves some hard questions: When sexual violence does occur in our community, do we have the best possible protocols and resources available to our students?”
“And UVA is charging forward to answer those questions and you should be proud of that,” he declared.
Watch below, with the choice comments coming at about 9:45.
H/T Reason
