{"id":1064,"date":"2021-03-26T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyadfactcheck.com\/annex\/2021\/03\/26\/nyad-fans-wield-baloney-in-her-defense\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T15:51:26","slug":"nyad-fans-wield-baloney-in-her-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyadfactcheck.com\/annex\/nyad-fans-wield-baloney-in-her-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyad Fans Wield Baloney In Her Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 4, Diana Nyad announced<\/a> that Nyad<\/em>, a biopic about her favorite subject \u2014 and mine, for better or worse \u2014\u00a0 would begin filming this summer<\/a>. While her fans cheered the announcement, a few skeptics tried to inject some reason into the festivities. In particular, they questioned the legitimacy of Diana Nyad\u2019s Cuba-Florida swim. For example:<\/p>\n

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This did not please Nyad\u2019s devotees.\u00a0 I saved some of their replies and have listed them below.<\/p>\n

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The closest anyone came to a rational response was some version of, \u201cshe couldn\u2019t have lied about the Cuba-Florida swim because I was there.\u201d This makes me think of the large block of ice that magician Ricky Jay once conjured out of thin air in front of journalist Suzie MacKenzie. If you\u2019re on Twitter, Kim O\u2019Connor tweeted a beautiful thread<\/a> about Jay in general and that bit of wizardry in particular.<\/p>\n

Note that Nyad banned me from her page a while back, so I had to watch from another account and hold my tongue.<\/p>\n

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Stay Upright \u2014 Don\u2019t List!<\/h5>\n

To begin with, here\u2019s one of my favorite retorts:<\/p>\n

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Another favorite, given that many of the party crashers provided links to the Diana Nyad Fact Check<\/a> page, which in turn provides links to the sources for all quotes:<\/p>\n

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Old Chestnuts<\/h5>\n

Chestnut #1<\/em>
\nParaphrase:\u00a0 \u201cYou can\u2019t criticize anyone about anything unless you\u2019ve done the thing they claimed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chestnut #2<\/em>
\nParaphrase: \u201cYou can\u2019t criticize her if she\u2019s a woman.\u201d The offense here was particularly egregious, though, because a woman had leveled the criticism.<\/p>\n

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Chestnut #3<\/em>
\nParaphrase: \u201cYou\u2019re a hater.\u201d This one never gets old.<\/p>\n

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Chestnut #4<\/em>
\nParaphrase: \u201cYou\u2019re envious\u201d (but the author gets extra points for artistic merit).\"\"<\/p>\n

Chestnut #5<\/em>
\nA glorious variation on the theme of \u201cshe\u2019s awfully amusing, so why should I care if she\u2019s lying?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Buckle up for positivity!<\/h5>\n

The following replies all come from one Nyad fan\/2013 crew member. Diana praised him on her March 10 FB Live: \u201cThank you for all your comments on Facebook,\u201d she told him, \u201cyou\u2019re always so darn positive.\u201d\u00a0 (28:05)<\/p>\n

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Originals<\/h5>\n

Original #1<\/em>
\nAnother 2013 crew member declared that he wouldn\u2019t have risked his life for a fraud:*<\/p>\n

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*Even the bad frauds don\u2019t tell you ahead of time. The good ones maintain the respect of their marks long afterward.<\/p>\n

Original #2<\/em>
\nFrom a former Nyad manager who sees eye-to-eye with Diana on her first-or-nothing ideology. And he doesn\u2019t care how much he has to shred logic to get there. His response requires a setup from one of the party crashers:<\/p>\n

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<\u00b0))\u0302)\u0316)><\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0><((\u0317(\u0302(\u00b0><\/p>\n

I am grateful to those who do<\/em> care, enough even to take a shot at changing minds cemented years ago.<\/p>\n

Nyad has gone dark since her March 10 FB Live event. Maybe that\u2019s a sign that the filmmakers listened to experienced marathon swimmers worldwide and decided to pull the plug on a multi-million-dollar promotion of fraud.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, maybe it\u2019s a sign that Diana put in her earplugs and began stockpiling hors d\u2019oeuvres for the next celebration.<\/p>\n

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