As The "Skank" Turns: Model Talks To Mo Dowd, Blogger Still Not Apologetic

At left, accused Skanks in NYC blogger Rosemary Port's Facebook photo; at right, Liksula Cohen.

If a story involves the words "skank" and "ho," an anonymous blogger, a besmirched model, and lawsuits, hell, it can be a Maureen Dowd op-ed column. The imbroglio between model Liksula Cohen and "Skanks in NYC" blogger Rosemary Port—Port wrote that Cohen was a "psychotic, lying, whoring...skank," Cohen successfully sued to have Google give up Port's e-mail address—gives Dowd an opportunity to opine about anonymity on the Internet, "If I read all the vile stuff about me on the Internet, I’d never come to work. I’d scamper off and live my dream of being a cocktail waitress in a militia bar in Wyoming," and dubs the Cohen-Port affair "the Case of the Blond Model and the Malicious Blogger."

While Port contended that Cohen made the situation a bigger deal by going to the press—"Before her suit, there were probably two hits on my Web site: One from me looking at it, and one from her looking at it"—Cohen tells Dowd, "It’s there for the whole world to see. What happened to integrity? Why go out of your way solely to upset somebody else? Why can’t we all just be nice?" Dowd also learns that Cohen "may become an activist, and has been e-mailing with Tina Meier, mother of Megan Meier, the 13-year-old who killed herself after getting cyberbullied by the mother of a classmate who pretended to be a teen suitor named 'Josh.'"

Cohen is no longer going to sue Port for defamation (she had planned a $3 million lawsuit), but Port is still planning on suing Google for $15 million. And Port was supposed to appear on Good Morning, America on Monday, but the Daily News reports that "she was advised that a public apology could land her in legal hot water." A source explained that with an apology, "your defense of not having intention and malice has just gone down the drain... [Rosemary] knows now that she made an emotional - as opposed to a logical - decision."

And yesterday, NY Times Ethicist Randy Cohen tackled the topic of anonymous blogging (and commenting): "Has anonymous posting, though generally protected by law, become so toxic that it should be discouraged? It has. To promote the social good of lively conversation and the exchange of ideas, transparency should be the default mode. And that goes both for lofty political discourse and casual comments on Amazon."

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By Jen Chung in News on August 26, 2009 11:45 AM

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Mo MoDo

As an anonymous blogger that writes a blog exclusively about Maureen Dowd, I fees personally responsible for her desire to become a waitress for militia men.

Pardon the blog-whoring.

The Edge

Rosemary Port looks bangable.

NannyState

Under my veil of anonymity, I think the idea of Maureen Dowd coctail waitressing at a militia bar in Wyoming is kinda hot.

Mr. Shankly

Bartender, perhaps, but not waitress. Collins has the waitress look, but 'diner' not 'cocktail'.

hotstepper

can i request booby tassels with that?

Trilby16

I can't make myself pay enough attention to this story to figure it out.... Skank vs. Ho? Ho vs. Blogger? Blogger vs. Maureen Dowd? WTF is this about and why should I give a crap???? Briefly!

Wza

Hahahaha!

Agreed!

babyhitler

I still contend that NY Times Ethicist Randy Cohen writes SUPERGAY. He writes like how Frasier Crane's brother, Niles, Talks. You know, SUPERGAY. In real life, David Hyde Pierce loves cock bouquets too. I hope Randy Cohen isn't married to a woman cause you know that's some brokedown mountain hiding in the closet shit.Cohen and Owen Gleiberrman should get together. I think they'd make a good match.

thefacts

Writes SUPERGAY? You ever hear him talk? He does a weekly bit on NPR. Now, I know a lot of gays and it is really hard to tell if someone is gay but how they sound.

But the first time this guy opens his mouth, I thinks, "This guy is gay!" I mean, it's flaming. Not even the stereotype nasal. But that kind of supercilious intonation of effete elitism. And I think I read in one of his columns where he mentioned his family. Pity her ass.

But leave Owen Glieberman alone. That dorky voice of Adam Balkin got to to. Sounds like a hick from Kansas.

hotstepper

perhaps. but since you are the person reading cohen's writing and hearing SUPERGAY, aren't you actually just outing your inner monologue?

babyhitler

what are you talking about? didn't you hear about the study where 80% of people can tell a gay man just from a picture? it's the tension of the muscles. Actually, my gaydar is kinda broken cause I didn't realize my friend way gay even thought he spoke with a lisp, wore black leather chaps and told me he was gay (I thought he was joking). Anyway you can totally tell Cohen loves dick salad, you know, arugula and romaine with an array of penises on top of it.

blondeinthecity

This has me wondering: would I comment on Gothamist articles if it weren't for the veil of anonymity?

hotstepper

"...casual comments on Amazon."

i suggest cohen actually visit amazon or maybe foxnews or NYpost comment boards before declaring such foolishness. if people's identities were known on those types of cyberspace locales, we'd definitely have less bodybag vacancy in the real world.