You may be surprised to learn that the latest skirmish in America’s culture war is taking place in the New York court system with the lawsuits and countersuits between actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. You may not even know who those people are, but, take my word for it, this case is big because it pits the smoking remnants of the woke-imbued believe-all-women/all men are misogynists narrative versus a guy being accused of “toxic positivity” and “harassment” in the workplace. Naturally, everyone has come out of the woodwork to cover the case, including a truly odious reporter of sorts who is known only-too-well by longtime media-savvy conservatives.
This case has taken on Amber Heard and Johnny Depp-like overtones. The media world ardently prays for the televised trial, which is scheduled for sometime in 2026 (unless it settles first). Many observers following this case dream of the day when both actors are put on the stand, hoping to watch the real-time train wreck a la Depp and Heard.
Unlike the Depp/Heard case, the balance of power in this one lies with the popular “Gossip Girl” actress Blake Lively, who has gone on to big movie roles, including the movie based on the hyper successful novel “It Ends With Us.” She drew first blood with her lawsuit accusing the director and actor playing opposite her, Justin Baldoni, of sexual harassment on set. Lively’s husband, actor Ryan Reynolds of “Deadpool’ fame, is her force multiplier. It was no mere coincidence that Baldoni’s talent representative, who also repped Reynolds, dropped him “within hours” of the lawsuit being filed.
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Lawsuits, countersuits, and filings in the case have taken on melodramatic overtones with each side—especially Lively’s—engaging in attempted narrative-setting storytelling in legal filings to win over the court of public opinion. PR agencies have been hired and, it’s suggested, weaponized. Much of the mediacrats at the New York Times and other major entertainment publications have been seeded with juicy inside stories told from Lively’s side. Baldoni has filed a lawsuit against the Times for its alleged biased coverage.
Independent social media influencers have come to prominence by poring over court documents and reading verbatim quotes from these legal documents on their livestreams and podcasts. Quite by happenstance, I discovered along the way that these influencers and podcasters aren’t knee jerk “believe all women” bots. These influencers go where the facts take them, as it should be. Candace Owens and Megyn Kelly have also been following the case on their YouTube channels. As a result, there’s been a disturbance in the leftist media force.
The case’s popularity on the right-of-center political social media sites has drawn out one of the most odious reporters to emerge from the pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. The black widow herself, Taylor Lorenz, has entered the chat to shout down alternate voices who dare suggest that this movie director and actor is being railroaded by the usual suspects–the media and Hollywood.
Here are all of Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds’s famous friends we will likely see deposed in their Baldoni Lawsuit 🧵
— Zack Peter (@justplainzack) March 27, 2025
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These influencers believe Justin Baldoni is being railroaded. Lorenz has concluded that reading the legal documents and arriving at their conclusions that Lively is exaggerating or lying about harassment on the set is wrongthink and a "gateway to conservatism” -- and thus must be extinguished.
Most other people call this pattern recognition or arriving at a conclusion, but you can't have that when Lorenz and her fellow lefties seek to use this case to resuscitate the #MeToo movement. As a result, an entirely new set of media figures are now being Taylor Lorenz'd.
Lorenz projects onto these influencers the assumption that there's a political motivation for thinking that Justin Baldoni didn't do anything wrong. She believes they do as she does and use these stories to do political damage. She worries that these influencers are using the case "to dismantle support for the #MeToo movement.”
Lorenz uses her once rarefied perch in the upper echelon mainstream media to lecture social media influencers—of which she is one— that they are somehow unworthy of their “amass[ed] unprecedented audience growth” for talking about the case, as one publication put it.
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Tucker Carlson once observed that “Taylor Lorenz stalks the landscape hurting people and if you say anything about it she claims you are attacking her.” Carlson’s absolutely right.
Some influencers, such as Zack Peter, complain about Lorenz’s criticism of influencers making money talking about the case—as if she’s not doing the same thing. Of course he’s making money. So’s she. In fact, whether it’s from the New York Times, the Washington Post, or YouTube, the size of Lorenz’s paycheck has never affected her fundamental ham-handed hackery.
Aside from her hypocrisy, one of her most reliable character flaws, the reporter who has fallen from grace now uses her independent perch to clout chase and draft on other influencers’ popularity to raise her own profile.
As you might have figured out, Lorenz is strictly on Team Blake as she always was. Reading the court documents has done nothing to disabuse her of this believe-all-women-even-if-they’re-wrong cheerleading.
Indeed, in a recent post on X, she said:
I've read all the legal filings, seen the "evidence" by Baldoni, and spoken to multiple ppl involved in/aware of the details of the situation. You are championing a misogynistic smear campaign against a woman who made credible allegations of sexual harassment at work. It's gross…
Nothing will change her mind. Not even the truth, apparently.
The moderate or right-of-center people following the case represent a challenge to the former Daily Beast reporter’s most ardent cause: herself. "Right-wing creators’ coverage has that effect. [...] It’s resulted in more and more liberal women adopting right-wing ideology surrounding women’s rights.” Sounds like a personal problem, lady.
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You need only do a quick search on PJ Media’s website to find that some of Lorenz’s most loathsome “work” has been since the 2024 election. Here are a few headlines about the “serial hysteric.”
This is one in which she seems to ratify using code words to talk about arming up to attack immigration officers.
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Here’s the one where she says she felt “joy” when Luigi Mangione murdered a healthcare CEO in cold blood on the New York City street.
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This story discusses how Lorenz “understands” why someone would want to murder healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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And on and on it goes. She is a deeply unhappy, troubled woman who uses her words as a sword.
This is a person who wears her free radical emotions like a forcefield.
But now an entirely new set of Gen Z influencers have learned to see right through it.
Editor's Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.
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