Of course we may have seen somewhat different inventory. But I'm sure it was not so wildly different as to make up the difference between her claims and what was there a couple months later. And if such a wild change in stock IS so possible, what's the point of her review existing at all?

There were more size 2s. Not a lot. That was just where I found one. And it wasn;t a child's (yoof's) size 2. HEART Ronson, as much as it might be ghastly to admit, is also for adults.

I am not at all looking to rid the world of fattism. In fact, I think you;d find many readers think I'm anti-fat person. My point about obesity w/r/t Wilson is that A) it looks like she exaggerates (if not lies) in the New York Times no less, about fattness and B) she has a long record of using "fat" as a needless throwaway slight where it adds no humor at all to the work but instead is just mean for mean's sake.

There is writer's license to exaggerate (see her most recent piece's opening about El Sombraro "Hat" on the Lower east Side of which she writes was “An oasis of counterculture… beyond the strangling grip of the mainstream.?” Anyone who knows the place knows that is hardly true outside of those who see Urban Outfitters as "punk." But that's fine because, you know, WRITING!. But when she throws around things like "96% is polyester" in a newspaper that already has credibility problems, well…why even go to the store?

Finally, the whole thing was disingenuous and a hatchet job from the beginning. Like sending Frank Rich to Hardee's.

–Mannequins are brought on and off the floors regularly. Did you check with Penney to see if they made any changes since her article was published– by coincidence or design– before deciding they were "fictional"?

–Comparing store inventory in separate visits spanning a period of at least two months means you are looking at different stock. What she saw and what you saw? It's impossible to say if one missed what the other noticed. As for sales, they may have been discounting more at the time of her August visit in order to clear the floors for Fall; you may have visited in full-on Fall, before the massive Thanksgiving/Xmas markdowns. Did you enquire?

–The I ♥ Ronson line is for the yoof, not CW or her demographic, I don't think. Also: "I found one (a size two) right away… a pair of pants." For serious?

–Good for you/the Editors for anticipating/addressing the elephant in the room, the Chris Christie posts. But are you sure of the way you've justified it? Because if you are totally behind ridding the world of fattism, you can't really think it's ok to mock only the public figures? This doesn't make sense.

I'm glad you are finally willing to acknowledge that CW came off as hard on the rich in this piece as she did anyone else. Personally, I prefer when when she goes after rude sales staff (who ignore or trail her due to her own shabby appearance)– a group wholly deserving of her ridicule. You want to see mean? I'm thinking of a tiny boutique with the initials KZ. I think we'd all enjoy seeing her sink those fangs into those ladies. But also? She can wax rhapsodic over stores, and it's at those times, when she makes clear that she is not someone who can afford to buy as she'd like, that she comes across as human. Most Americans can certainly relate to that.

Also, I thought Real America was a column not about whining about how a writer is not a real journalist?

This was awesome. RT @abesauer: "I just ousted @cintra as the mayor of JCPenneys on @foursquare!"