Wild that in the middle of a $2 million dollar lawsuit, Ellen thought it was a good idea to open up to the Washington Post. My lawyer would have told me to zip it. 
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Thank you, that worked for me. I appreciate the heads up to look for the X. They made it very faint and easy to miss.
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I sent it to you in a word doc, which I’m happy to share with whomever. I wasn’t sure about copying it in to the thread due to the legal process and that this thread I am sure will be evidence.
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As I noted on the Trump thread
In the images included in the WaPo article, which I’m sure were representative of Doughtys best foot forwards, the horses and facility strike me as not well kept.
To a lifelong horseman, that says everything.
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So Sue Hershey from USEA intro teaching certificate department doesn’t think there is an issue with EDH?? what the….
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I had started to comment, “I hope if WaPo ever visits my farm they choose more flattering photos.”
There’s nothing wrong with them per se.
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I urge anyone coming here from what feels like a hit piece at WaPo against the OP to read the whole thread, even at 1600 posts and take it in context of all the people in the area who are longtime COTH posters, sensible and reliable, who stand by the OP’s assessment. To have multiple people outside the program band together with accusations is very strong evidence.
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OMG - my post made it into the article. I’m famous! LOL
Though - the author missed the entire point - like, did you read the thread? Did you Google the names and arrest records? Come on now.
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Yes.
I wondered if she did not know they were coming that day or something?
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He was busy transcribing quotes from a trainer who didn’t know EDH and who said “sometimes horse people are crazy” it seems. How odd that he didn’t seem to try contact any of the people who said that EDH is the crazy one.
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I would find that very unlikely. This sort of thing is arranged weeks in advance. So she had at least 2 weeks to get her place spruced up and have her best-conditioned horses showcased and this is the best she can do.
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That was my thought as well.
I figured that was probably the reason the jumps in the lessons looked pretty organized with ground lines and everything.
I also noticed the caption under one of the photos that said a “worker” was shoeing the horses.
Farrier. The word is farrier. Or even blacksmith.
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The WAPO missed the thread discussion of the very concerning records of the people ED has brought to her barn?
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Apparently so.
They included multiple quotes from some random person in another state who it turned out was not even involved.
But they could not check out the allegations of the criminal records of the people who are actually on the property?
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I would guess it is less that they missed it and more that they had a planned article ahead of time and they gathered the information to fulfill their planned article, not the information that disputed their planned article.
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Makes me wonder who commissioned this “human interest” piece and how much it cost them. Bet the check bounced, if it was issued.
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Or the third party who issued it will end up going to jail following a future legal proceeding.
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That mystified me. Why did they ask for her opinion at all, much less publish it?
Including that unrelated opinion as if it were news definitely made the article look slanted to a point of view.
She gave them what they wanted, the article slant: ‘Horse people are crazy and do crazy things. Stormy Daniels is a horse person. Stormy Daniels is crazy and does crazy things.’
The real point of the article – on the eve of trial – was Stormy. Not ED, of course. ED was just convenient and willing to open up with statements and photography, so let’s use her case.
Stormy lives an eventful life, and is known to sue people (as do others living eventful lives, she isn’t unique in that). They hunted among those she has sued for an easy case to make.
ED’s case has a lot of internet fodder. ED is cooperative with the slant, of course, it’s in her interests. So let’s do ED’s case because it is easy pickings.
Ignoring ABUNDANT hard evidence and first hand witnesses (property owners, past employees, etc.) about ED’s business and horse care practices, going back years before Stormy ever met her. Instead, they cherry-picked a narrow range of those that had an agenda.
Missed that Stormy hasn’t participated in this thread in over 6 years. It continues for all these years because it has gone past Stormy, has been about issues other than Stormy, for years.
And make Stormy look vindictively crazy … right before the trial.
I notice that they didn’t survey a broader scope of TX horse people who know ED, know her practices and know her horses. I’d understand if they reached out to a few who didn’t want to participate. But they clearly didn’t even reach out to event organizers who don’t know Stormy, who wish they could ban ED from their events.
But there was no real investigation into what is behind the lawsuit.
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So, the article’s background is people with an anti-Stormy agenda, people ED pays for services, and some individuals in the USEA who are not close to the issue, and who have not done a serious investigation into ED’s business and horse welfare practices.
A lot of “visited the barn [scheduled] and it was beautiful, case closed”.
Missed the pre-Stormy history, missed the documented problems with horse welfare, the financial problems, the problematic employees around children, missed the problematic behavior in the barn and at offsite horse events. With people who don’t know Stormy, who pre-date Stormy v ED.
This is clearly not a serious bit of reporting to look more deeply into horse welfare with ED, beyond the people that ED pays for services.
This article is solely is about Stormy looking ‘crazy’ … at a strategic moment.
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No mention of the bullet incident either which you would think after the Barisone incident and gun culture in the US it would be an interesting piece of the story.
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