The plan this morning wasn’t to keep following Vancouver Voice blogger Marcus Griffith’s ongoing crusade for more details about Bethany Storro’s horrifying account of having acid randomly thrown at her by a passer-by. But then developments turned adequately strange.

Apparently, only hours after yesterday’s Voice post, in which Griffith raised (admittedly very speculative) questions about what witnesses might have seen and heard, whoever administers Storro’s Facebook page fired off one status update that said Storro wouldn’t comment, followed by another that said her eagerly anticipated interview with Oprah next week has been canceled.

I’d link to the page, but it apparently went down sometime after I was on it this morning. Even a Google cache search wouldn’t bring it up. Maybe it’ll come back. But good thing I took a screen shot:

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A writer for the Seattle edition of Examiner.com has now written about Griffith’s initial story (which he’s followed today with a slightly over-the-top “analysis” of the splash patterns on Storro’s face), but we’ll see if anyone else starts airing it now that Storro won’t be on national TV. Even if it was because she couldn’t talk as much as she wanted to about Jesus.

Is all of this still oh-so-iffy? Damn right. But it’s interestingly iffy.

Keep reading to see screen grabs of comments about Griffith’s story on another Facebook page, “Send hugs to Bethany Storro.” They ain’t kind.

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Denis C. Theriault is the Portland Mercury's News Editor. He writes stories about City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau, focusing on issues like homelessness, police oversight, insider politics, and...

27 replies on “Acid-Attack Victim Cancels on Oprah!”

  4. Why must everything that happens be an opportunity to talk about Jesus?

    “Hi. I had a testicle shot off in Iraq. But I’d like to tell you about unicorns.”

    See how silly that sounds?

  7. I wonder if she canceled or if Oprah’s people told her thanks but no thanks after the story looked hinkey?
    Or perhaps the ‘turning to another directions’ Ms Storros refers to is that they were starting to question her story.
    It’s getting weirder and weirder.

  10. @Suburban Porn King – How dare you suggest that unicorns don’t have a place in every single conversation on earth! I’m with fukfuk-They do have excellent plans for us.

  11. I have always hoped the fraggle rocks would take over. But that could be just because I am strangely drawn to having Doozers be a reality. Can you imagine if they could make bacon buildings? ummm bacon.

  16. I’ve been following Griffith’s work, and am deeply intrigued by the questions he raises. Here are two more speculative observations to add to the pile of already speculative evidence, and it involves her Facebook profile pictures.

    Her pre-attack picture showed building blocks that spelled “DEAF”. Now, her picture on Facebook is the very same one that the media has most prominently shown of her. The picture change strikes me as somewhat opportunistic. And that she has shied away from interviews and potentially hostile media spotlight is also telling. That, plus the other evidence that Griffith and others have pointed out, *plus* the fact that a perp with *3* studs in her ear and as striking as the picture of the alleged attacker hasn’t been caught yet, all adds up to one fishy story. Oh yeah, add in what she said the other day about this incident being “all about letting people know about Jesus.”

    Experience tells us that when people are trying to hide something – and when people who feel loyal to that person are trying to defend – they usually retort with ad hominem attacks and vitriol. Much like the personal comments made on Storro’s Facebook page. That is one way for these people to handle the situation; the other way is to simply realize that they would do more good by clearing up some indiscrepencies and answering the questions. The fact that Storro hasn’t done that amid rising scrutiny is both selfish and compelling.

  18. “Experience tells us that when people are trying to hide something – and when people who feel loyal to that person are trying to defend – they usually retort with ad hominem attacks and vitriol. Much like the personal comments made on Storro’s Facebook page. That is one way for these people to handle the situation; the other way is to simply realize that they would do more good by clearing up some indiscrepencies and answering the questions. The fact that Storro hasn’t done that amid rising scrutiny is both selfish and compelling.

    “Posted by glp on September 11, 2010 at 8:38 AM | Report this comment”

    What “indiscrepencies” [sic]? Saying it, doesn’t make it so.

    If I had endured what Bethany Storro had and continues to endure, and some racist fraud trying to pass himself off as a journalist, as in Marcus Griffith, approached me, demanding that I “prove” that I didn’t throw acid in my own face, I would handle it differently than Storro has. If Griffith were my size, I’d punch his lights out. If he were bigger than me, I’d hit him with something, to ensure that I hurt him badly enough that he couldn’t get up, and hit me. I wouldn’t be any fairer with him, than he was with me.

    And unlike Griffith and you (i.e., Denis Theriault), I’m a journalist, so you can just imagine what a civilian must feel like.

    “The plan this morning wasn’t to keep following Vancouver Voice blogger Marcus Griffith’s ongoing crusade for more details…”

    Denis Theriault

    Griffith isn’t “crusading” to get more details, he’s simply trying, with his editor’s help, to turn the public against Bethany Storro. Griffith has no evidence to prove that Storro pulled a hoax. He’s demanding that she “prove” that someone threw acid in her face. That’s from the Black Supremacist Handbook. Back during the 1990 Central Park Jogger trials, Trisha Meili’s attackers’ black supremacist defenders (legal counsel and on the street) also said variously that she had wounded herself, and that she was “faking” her injuries. Yeah, she faked losing 75% of her blood, her sense of smell, and her balance.

    Griffith even insinuated that Storro had thrown hot coffee in her own face, when her doctor said that her attacker had thrown a very strong acid, either “sulfuric” or “hydrochloric,” in her face.

    Blacks constantly pull race hoaxes, but Griffith never seeks to expose them. He’s only interested in defaming a white woman, in spite of having no incriminating evidence against her, because he hates whites, and sees himself as a protector of blacks. And he in turn gets protection from his editor (as do you), who publishes comments in support of him, but typically censors criticisms of him.

    I checked out Griffith’s “exposé” on white supremacists/neo-Nazis/whatevers, and found that despite over 3,500 page reads, there wasn’t a single comment. What’re the odds of that? A billion to one? Apparently, no one commented in support of him, and his editor censored all his critics.

    And you’re helping spread his baseless rumors. You must be proud of yourself.

    Nicholas Stix
    http://westernfrontamerica.com/2010/09/07/bethany-storro-case-raceless-attacker-strikes/

  20. Nicholas Stix jumped to the race card, before anyone questioned Storro’s story.

    It kinda makes you wonder if he and Storro are acquaintances.

  21. tcraighenry said:

    That’s from the Black Supremacist Handbook. Back during the 1990 Central Park Jogger trials, Trisha Meili’s attackers’ black supremacist defenders (legal counsel and on the street) also said variously that she had wounded herself, and that she was “faking” her injuries. Yeah, she faked losing 75% of her blood, her sense of smell, and her balance.

    Erm…Did you know that all of the black kids tried & convicted of the Central Park Jogger crime were released after a Puerto Rican guy “found Jesus” and confessed in minute detail to the rape/beating? But don’t let facts get in the way of a good “hate”.

  22. There is so much time wasted on hate and who did what to who… As the old addage goes… “why can’t everyone just get along?” I personally do not understand why someone would do this to themselves. To bring up Jesus??? I really don’t think that an acid attack on someone would really be the basis for such a thing! And Oprah? C’mon… gimme a break! Leave it alone!

  23. Her story is kind of fishy…nothing really adds up. In my opinion, i think she did this so she could “promote” jesus. stuff like this has happened before. and i don’t think that the police or the writers are wrong to speculate that it’s a fake. and i think Oprah canceled on her cause they found out she wanted to go all jesus freak on them. it’s like really, no one wants to hear about how much you love jesus, and how good he is. if he’s so damn good, where was he when the acid hit your face? ha. people want to hear about the burning sensation you felt when the acid hit you, or how about how angry you were when it happened, cause no matter what she says, you know she was mad as hell. XD hahahaha

  26. Well look whose an idiot now. She totally f’ed herself when she told police the attacker said “Hey pretty girl.” Nobody would believe that

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