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'This is not a hoax, a lie or a scheme': Jackie's former UVA roommate defends her after Rolling Stone apologizes for gang rape story

Rolling Stone rape article author previously fell for a hoax story from 'sexually abused altar boy named Billy', report claims

EXCLUSIVE: 'My daughter told the truth': Father of girl at center of University of Virginia 'gang rape' storm defends 20-year-old saying she WAS raped - and simply made mistake over name of fraternity where 'attack' happened

Jackie's father told MailOnline his daughter was not a liar despite Rolling Stone magazine saying there were flaws in her account
He said she had only been at university two weeks when attack happened and had simply got fraternity name wrong
Jackie told the magazine she was raped by seven men in a frat-house after being taken there by her date
Magazine said she identified them as Phi Kappa Psi but she then told the Washington Post that she had NOT said they were members of fraternity
The magazine apologized for its article and said questions had been raised over Jackie's credibility - and was accused of 'victim blaming'
The magazine has now admitted 'these mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on Jackie' after being doused in criticism for apology
Father, speaking at northern Virginia home, says his daughter has been 'crucified' after speaking out

By Nick Fagge In Charlottesville, Virginia for MailOnline

Published: 15:06 EST, 8 December 2014 | Updated: 15:14 EST, 8 December 2014

The father of the University of Virginia student at the center of the Rolling Stone fraternity rape row today insisted his daughter had told the truth.

The 61-year-old told MailOnline his daughter had been ‘crushed’ by accusations that she had made up the testimony that she had been gang-raped at a UVA fraternity party in 2012.

The father said his daughter - known as Jackie - had wrongly identified the Phi Kappa Psi as the fraternity where she had been attacked as she had only started the university two weeks before.

And he added that his daughter’s detractors had failed in their duty to seek her version of events before accusing her of lying.

Jackie's father told MailOnline: ‘She told the truth. She did not know the details [of the fraternity] because she had been there for two weeks and she was 18 years old.’

Rolling Stone magazine has apologized for trusting the subject of rape article after the University of Virginia fraternity revealed they did not have a party the night of alleged rape and no 'lifeguard' is a member. Pictured: Students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house

Rolling Stone magazine has apologized for trusting the subject of rape article after the University of Virginia fraternity revealed they did not have a party the night of alleged rape and no 'lifeguard' is a member. Pictured: Students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house


Rolling Stone's new apology (pictured) now says 'these mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on Jackie.' The magazine's original note was criticized for placing the blame for the botched article on the alleged rape's victim

The father condemned the intense media scrutiny his daughter had been put under after it emerged details of the Rolling Stone article on university campus rape, published last month, had been wrong.

Speaking on the steps of his smart detached home in an affluent housing development in Northern Virginia where the family lives with their pet dogs he said: ‘[The media] crushed my daughter when she is an innocent girl. [The media] crucified her.'

Jackie's father's robust defense of her comes after the Rolling Stone article which began with her account of being attacked in a fraternity house at UVA.

In the story by writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely, a junior identified only as 'Jackie' says she was repeatedly assaulted by a group of seven Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members.

But on Friday, Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana apologized in a letter to readers, admitting there were discrepancies in Jackie's account about the incident and saying that the magazine has now 'come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced.'

The magazine came under heavy fire for an apology that was seen as blaming the victim and throwing Jackie under the bus.

Rolling Stone has since quietly changed the three-paragraph note, adding a section saying: 'These mistakes are on Rolling Stone, not on Jackie.'

'We published the article with the firm belief that it was accurate,' reads the new section of the apology, seen as of Saturday. 'Given all of these reports, however, we have come to the conclusion that we were mistaken in honoring Jackie's request to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account.

'In trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault, we made a judgment – the kind of judgment reporters and editors make every day.'

Her father's comment that she did not know the fraternity name come after Jackie herself told the Washington Post that she had not known the name of the fraternity and had not told Rolling Stone that she did.

In fact, she said, 'I know it was Phi Psi, because a year afterward, my friend pointed out the building to me and said that’s where it happened'.

Advocates for sexual assault victims have been furious since Rolling Stone's original apology.

Rolling Stone: Trust in alleged UVA rape survivor 'misplaced'

Though the magazine has been forced to backpedal on parts of their story, these advocates worry that many may lose sight of the fact that the problem of rape is still a major one that needs to be addressed and confronted.

There are also concerns that some victims may now be afraid to come forward.

Despite revelations that Rolling Stone was distancing itself from the story, some students say they still saw hints of truth in the account—and that in itself means something.

'If we are being honest with ourselves, no matter if specifics of the article are true—reading the article as a college student, you were thinking, "This could happen,"' sophomore Rex Humphries, who joined a fraternity last spring, told Politico Magazine.

Julia Horowitz, a student journalist at UVA, wrote in the publication: 'What does it say that we read an article in which an 18-year-old girl was pinned down, graphically violated by multiple people in a house we pass almost every day — and we thought, “That just may be right?”'

'These events undoubtedly do occur here,' added freshman Maddie Rita to Politico Magazine.

'And while this report has clearly had factual flaws as well as rhetorical missteps, there are plenty of other fully corroborated accounts not only at this university, but at every university around the country.'

On Friday Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana apologized in a letter (pictured) to readers, admitting there were discrepancies in Jackie's account about the incident at the Charlottesville, Virginia school and saying that the magazine has now 'come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced'

Tagged: The house was graffitied on Thursday, hours after a Rolling Stone article was published detailing the gang-rape allegations against the fraternity

Phi Kappa Psi fraternity issued a statement revealing it did not have a party the night of the alleged rape and it did not have a member who was a 'lifeguard' at the time.

On Friday afternoon, Phi Kappa Psi released a statement denying the attack took place in its house.

The fraternity said that it was working with police, but said it had found out several aspects of the account were inaccurate - it said Phi Kappa Psi did not host party the night of the alleged assault.

The statement said the fraternity had reviewed 'the 2012 roster of employees at the Aquatic and Fitness Center does not list a Phi Kappa Psi as a lifeguard. As far as we have determined, no member of our fraternity worked there in any capacity during this time period.'

Phi Kappa Psi said the house does not have pledges during the fall semester - Jackie claimed she was allegedly raped as part of an initiation pledge - it stated 'no ritualized sexual assault is part of our pledging or initiation process. This notion is vile, and we vehemently refute this claim.'

Some of the subject's friends, told the Washington Post, they believe Jackie did endure a traumatizing incident, but parts of her account do not add up.

'DOUBTS OF ACCURACY': UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S STATEMENT IN FULL

'Over the past two weeks the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi has been working tirelessly and openly with the Charlottesville Police Department as they investigate the allegations detailed in the November 19, 2012 Rolling Stone article. We continue to be shocked by the allegations and saddened by this story.

We have no knowledge of these alleged acts being committed at our house or by our members. Anyone who commits any form of sexual assault, wherever or whenever, should be identified and brought to justice.

'In tandem with the Charlottesville Police Department's investigation, the Chapter's undergraduate members have made efforts to contribute with internal fact-finding. Our initial doubts as to the accuracy of the article have only been strengthened as alumni and undergraduate members have delved deeper.

'Given the ongoing nature of the criminal investigation, which we fully support, we do not feel it would be appropriate at this time to provide more than the following:

'First, the 2012 roster of employees at the Aquatic and Fitness Center does not list a Phi Kappa Psi as a lifeguard. As far as we have determined, no member of our fraternity worked there in any capacity during this time period.

'Second, the Chapter did not have a date function or a social event during the weekend of September 28th, 2012.

'Third, our Chapter's pledging and initiation periods, as required by the University and Inter-Fraternity Council, take place solely in the spring semester and not in the fall semester.

'We document the initiation of new members at the end of each spring. Moreover, no ritualized sexual assault is part of our pledging or initiation process. This notion is vile, and we vehemently refute this claim.

'It is our hope that this information will encourage people who may know anything relevant to this case to contact the Charlottesville Police Department as soon as possible. In the meantime, we will continue to assist investigators in whatever way we can.'

They said Jackie told them for the first time the alleged attacker's name recently, but no-one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi - it turned out to be similar to the name of a student who belongs to a different fraternity, and no one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi.

The international fall-out from the report on one of University of Virginia's most illustrious fraternities was extremely damaging - it accused the school of repeatedly hushing up sexual assault victims in order to protect their reputation and the fraternity house was sprayed with graffiti reading 'Suspend us!' and 'UVA Center for RAPE Studies'.

University president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and said it would examine the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.

In a statement today about the article, titled 'A Rape on Campus' by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Managing Editor Will Dana wrote: 'Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her.

'In the months Erdely spent reporting the story, Jackie neither said nor did anything that made Erdely, or Rolling Stone's editors and fact-checkers, question Jackie's credibility.

'Her friends and rape activists on campus strongly supported Jackie's account. She had spoken of the assault in campus forums.

'We reached out to both the local branch and the national leadership of the fraternity where Jackie said she was attacked.

'They responded that they couldn't confirm or deny her story but had concerns about the evidence.

But he added after receiving new information, the pop culture magazine was led to conclude it needed to issue an apology.

'We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account,' wrote Dana.

'We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.'

In the piece published last month, it was claimed that Jackie decided not to press charges when the incident first happened, but she felt she needed to go public with her story after hearing from two other women who were gang raped at the fraternity, which counts President Woodrow Wilson as one of their distinguished alumni.

In her account she spoke of the difficulty in breaking her silence, and said in some cases it was met with opposition by her friends at UVA.

'One of my roommates said, 'Do you want to be responsible for something that's gonna paint UVA in a bad light?''' Jackie told the magazine.

'But I said, 'UVA has flown under the radar for so long, someone has to say something about it, or else it's gonna be this system that keeps perpetuating!'

'My friend just said, 'You have to remember where your loyalty lies.''

In the account Jackie claimed she was just a few weeks into her freshman year at UVA when she met a junior boy named Drew, through their shifts working as lifeguards at the university pool.

When Drew asked her out to dinner and a 'date night' function at his fraternity, Jackie claimed she accepted and spent three hours getting ready for the night out on September 28, 2012.

Back at the fraternity house after dinner, she claimed the two spent some time at the party before Drew asked if she wanted to go upstairs where it was quieter.

The meeting was called after the magazine published the article describing a woman's account of a brutal gang rape, and what the magazine called a hidden culture of sexual violence at the school

But when Drew led her into his bedroom and shut the door, the room was pitch black and she could hear others moving around. That's when the nightmare started, she claimed.

She said a man tackled her down and onto a glass table which shattered and tore up her back.

Others held her down and for the next three hours, she lay helpless as seven men allegedly raped her while two others, including her date Drew, watched and gave direction.

She claimed the men swigged beers and called each other nicknames like 'Armpit' and 'Blanket'.

Jackie claimed she was able to identify the last man who assaulted her from her anthropology discussion group, and his friends started taunting him because he couldn't get an erection, asking 'What, she's not hot enough for you?' and 'Don't you want to be a brother?'

Scandal: The Rolling Stone article accused the school of repeatedly hushing up sexual assault victims in order to protect their reputation. An aerial view of the campus, designed by Thomas Jefferson, above

When Jackie came to at 3am, the room was deserted but the party was still going on downstairs. She claimed she fled the house in her bloodied dress, barefoot because she was too afraid to look around for her shoes.

She said she then called her three best friends at the time, two guys and a girl, who found her beaten and in shock.

While her friends were distraught at her condition, she claimed they debated calling the police fearing the impact it would have on Jackie's and their reputation (the two boys wanted to rush a fraternity).

She claimed she finally opened up to Dean Nicole Eramo, the head of UVA's Sexual Misconduct Board, but she was told she could go to the police with her story, or treat the incident internally by either filing a complaint with the school's Sexual Misconduct Board, or sit down for an informal resolution' with her attackers in a meeting mediated by Eramo.

Jackie said she decided on neither option, and claimed Dean Eramo did not open an investigation into the fraternity.

Protests: A member of the audience holds a sign during a board of visitors meeting about sexual assault at the University of Virginia last week in Charlottesville following the damning article's publication

She told the magazine she was now coming forward two years later, because she had recently discovered that two other women experienced similar assaults at Phi Kappa Psi.

The first account came from a woman who graduated in 2013 who said she was raped by a group of men at the house when she was a freshman.

The other was a first-year whose friends called Jackie one night when she came back to her apartment wearing no pants, and said she'd been attacked by four men in the Phi Kappa Psi bathroom while another watched.

Perhaps most startling about the allegations is what Dean Eramo allegedly said in a meeting with Jackie last May.

Jackie claimed she and her friend Alex went to speak with Eramo in her office, and Eramo said that she heard it 'through the grapevine' that 'all the boys involved [in the gang rape] had graduated'.

Jackie claimed that was false since she saw one of her attackers on a campus riding a bike recently.

In a statement posted to the school's website following the accusations, UVA President Teresa A Sullivan said that the school has asked the Charlottesville police to investigate a fraternity based on new details from the article.

'The University takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct, a significant problem that colleges and universities are grappling with across the nation. Our goal is to provide an environment that is as safe as possible for our students and the entire University community,' President Sullivan writes.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2865965/My-daughter-told-truth-Father-girl-center-University-Virginia-gang-rape-storm-defends-20-year-old-saying-raped-simply-mistake-fraternity-attack-happened.html#ixzz3LLJq9260
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http://www.infowars.com/rape-hoax-exposed/

Rape Hoax Exposed
by William L. Anderson


"... So why did supposedly intelligent people swallow what was obvious nonsense? First, and most important, UVA has a long history of campus decadence. A university which has a fight song that begins with “From Rugby Road to Vinegar Hill, we’re gonna get drunk tonight! The faculty’s afraid of us, they know we’re in the right…” is going to attract attention for debauchery. Second, until the 1970s, UVA was all-male, and 40 years later, feminists on campus still are rankled about that fact and have attacked the Greek-based campus culture for obvious reasons.

Third, the imbecilic Progressivism that rules higher education these days has created a surreal atmosphere on college campuses in which leftists are demanding – literally – that nearly all aspects of interpersonal relationships be regulated by the state. Thus, everything is politicized.

Over the years, Progressives have taunted pro-life supporters with the accusation that they want “government in the bedroom,” yet that is exactly where Progressives have led us. When the Obama administration gave new guidelines for colleges and universities on how to pursue accusations of sexual assault and rape, it essentially ordered government agents to oversee all sexual encounters on campus....

... This is an Alice-in-Wonderland set of legal standards, but that is how things are done these days. Even if two persons have sexual relations and they seemingly are consensual, the female is permitted to change her mind later and charge the male with sexual assault or rape, and it is up to college officials and government agents (should the college actually rule in favor of the male and the female appeals to the government) to determine long after the fact if it was rape (sex without consent) or not.

To make things even more surreal, most college and universities actively encourage students to engage in sexual relations. Dormitories and health centers on campus give out condoms by the basketful, andmany institutions celebrate “Sex Week” in which students are given “demonstrations” on how to have good sex, among other things...."

(Bold emphasis is mine).


If feminist activists and university administrators actually wanted to curb sexual assault wouldn't they want to take measures like having single sex dorms instead of co-ed dorms and floors and stop the "Sex Week" stuff?

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Dec 6 2014, 09:54 AM
Should we look at her other work to see how much of it is fiction?
http://thefederalist.com/2014/12/08/sabrina-rubin-erdelys-old-stories-sure-read-like-bad-lifetime-movies/

Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Old Stories Sure Read Like Bad Lifetime Movies
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/rieder/2014/12/08/lessons-of-rolling-stone-flawed-story-on-uva-rape/20096297/

Rieder: Rolling Stone rape story fiasco
Rem Rieder, USA TODAY 4:42 p.m. EST December 8, 2014

Every time there's a journalism train wreck, like the recent one involving Rolling Stone's unfortunate story on rape at the University of Virginia, it's a worthwhile exercise to focus on what can be learned to help prevent future disasters.

Sadly, the lessons here are so basic that they hardly require a phalanx of ProPublica investigative reporters, a J-school seminar featuring distinguished scholars or that journalism convention staple, the panel discussion, to ferret them out.

Get all sides of the story (and the more explosive the story, the more vital that is). Check out everything thoroughly. Report skeptically. As the great media critic Ronald Reagan taught us, trust but verify.

Pretty basic stuff. But too often ignored.

The story painted a harrowing picture of a gang rape at a fraternity house and a culture that allowed it to happen. The piece attracted enormous attention. But as its flaws emerged, Rolling Stone was forced to back away from it.

There were two factors that may well have contributed to Rolling Stone letting its guard down.

First, the story was on the side of the angels. Who is more sympathetic than a rape victim? Who wouldn't want to give voice to her anguish?

Second, it fit into a neat, widely accepted narrative: Rape on campus is a serious problem. So is the bad behavior of frat culture. Universities are not widely known for their aggressive, unforgiving responses to sexual assault on campus.

So the victim's account hit all the right notes.

But it's precisely at those times that due diligence is so important. You don't have to have seen the entire film noir catalog to know that things are not always as they seem.

Of course, we have seen this movie before. Similar factors were at play in 2006 when a North Carolina prosecutor charged Duke lacrosse players with sexually assaulting a stripper at a team party. The charges turned out to be bogus, the players were cleared, and the prosecutor lost his job. But even as holes developed in the stripper's story, most of the press coverage continued to follow the party line.

"It was too delicious a story," Daniel Okrent, a former New York Times public editor, told American Journalism Review at the time. "It conformed too well to too many preconceived notions of too many in the press...."

In the current imbroglio, Rolling Stone's biggest problem was its failure to try to interview the men that Jackie, the story's protagonist, said had assaulted her. It did so, managing editor Will Dana said, at her request, given the sensitive nature of the material and her fear of retaliation. Again, you want to be sensitive to a rape victim. But to go with a completely one-sided story, particularly such an incendiary one, is journalism at its shoddiest.

In further explanation, Dana says Jackie raised no red flags with the magazine's editors and fact-checkers before the piece was published. But that's hardly a green light to accept her account wholeheartedly without any attempts to corroborate. (See Reagan, R., or the old journalism chestnut, "If your mother says she loves you, check it out.")

And the bad journalism hardly ends there. The story includes an episode in which Jackie tells her friends about the rape and they tell her not to talk about it. She is the only source. And it turns out it's not even clear there was a party at the fraternity house on the night in question.

Rolling Stone, which has done impressive, edgy journalism on things that matter over the years, did serious damage to its reputation. It is now, Dana told The New York Times, engaged in "picking up the pieces."

And Dana did himself and his magazine no credit when, in his note to readers on the subject, he threw Jackie under the bus, citing "discrepancies in Jackie's story" and adding, "our trust in her was misplaced." (The line was later removed.)

No doubt reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone were well-intentioned in putting this piece together. But when the journalism blows up, it can do more harm than good for the cause it is trying to advance.

Back in 1998, the Cincinnati Enquirer (like USA TODAY, owned by Gannett) was forced to apologize for and renounce a series of articles critical of Chiquita Brands International, not because of the reporting but because of illegal eavesdropping by one of its reporters. The focus became the journalism scandal, not Chiquita's behavior.

Sound familiar?
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After Retreat on Rolling Stone Article, Virginia Campus Still Uneasy

By ALAN SCHWARZDEC. 6, 2014


I have never heard of UVa students refer to themselves as juniors, sophomores or seniors. They refers to themselves by what year in school they are. First-year, second-year, etc. . . .
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Greta covering story now.
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http://hamptonroads.com/2014/12/uva-will-not-lift-suspension-fraternity-activities

U.Va. will not lift suspension of fraternity activities

By Larry O'Dell
The Associated Press
December 8, 2014


The University of Virginia says it's creating a group to explore its policies and campus culture after a Rolling Stone article on an alleged gang rape prompted an "intense, ongoing period of introspection."

School officials also said Monday that the university won't lift its suspension of Greek activities at the request of national fraternity and sorority organizations.

The university suspended Greek activities until Jan. 9 after Rolling Stone published an article describing an alleged rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. The magazine has since backed away from many details.

The Greek life groups had urged the school to lift the suspension after the magazine acknowledged missteps in its reporting.

Officials say the newly created group supports the goal of providing an outstanding education while ensuring students' safety and well-being.
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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/university-virginias-anti-rape-plan

University of Virginia announces task force to address sex assault
12/08/14 07:11 PM
By Irin Carmon

The University of Virginia isn’t letting questions about the reporting by Rolling Stone on an alleged sexual assault at a frat party stand in the way of broader reform on the issue, according the university.

“I remain committed to a fearless examination of our culture and practices,” UVA president Teresa Sullivan said in a statement, adding, ”Everyone agrees that there is a piece of our culture that is broken, and only a united effort will provide us the best answers for how to fix that.”

Sullivan announced the creation of two groups to address campus reforms, an “ad-hoc group to explore policies, practices and organizational structure” and an “administrative task force charged with implementing the advisory group’s recommendations.” She added, “Our most important work is ahead of us.”

That work includes examining the role of Greek like, alcohol and drug use, as well as zeroing in on prevention and response. Sullivan will sit on the ad hoc committee, as will Board of Visitors members, alumni, administrators, students and parents.

Sullivan has asked the Charlottesville Police to open an investigation into the incident described at the beginning of the Rolling Stone story, featuring a freshman who was allegedly gang raped at a fraternity. There will also be an independent review of the University’s practices by the Virginia attorney general’s office.

The explosive Rolling Stone story has come under attack for factual discrepancies that appear to arise from an agreement the reporter made with a source to not contact the assailants. But the problem at UVA appears to go wider and deeper: A video emerged showing Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo — who played a prominent role in the Rolling Stone article — acknowledging several UVA students had been suspended, rather than expelled, after admitting to sexual assault. The university has also been accused of hypocrisy for expelling students over academic dishonesty but not sexual assault.

Sullivan previously suspended fraternity activity until the end of the year. She addressed students last week, saying, “Our university has been placed at the center of this crisis. We will not shrink from it. We will lead.” In a second statement Monday, the university said fraternity activities will resume on Jan. 9 “in conjunction with a new Fraternal Organization Agreement that will enhance the safety of members and their guests.”
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Rolling Stone Parody Poster Features Lena Dunham, Lampoons UVA Rape Story Apology, Clinton, Cosby
12/8/14

In the wake of the continued fallout resulting from the questionable Rolling Stone UVA fraternity gang rape story, and separate allegations that Lena Dunham’s story of being raped in her hit book, Not That Kind Of Girl, is “(collapsing) under scrutiny”, a poster parodying both Rolling Stone and Dunham is showing up all over Hollywood.

Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton are also featured on the poster, both men having been branded with varying degrees of sexual assault accusations, and the Rolling Stone themed parody poster was likely created by the right-leaning political Los Angeles street artist, SABO, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The poster depicts a Rolling Stone cover with Dunham as the center piece surrounded by teaser headlines of the stories this issue of Rolling Stone might contain if it were real. These include, “LENA DUNHAM She’s that kind of liar”, “BILL CLINTON What it cost Bubba to keep Hillary standing by her man”, “OUR UVA APOLOGY Oops we did it again”, and “HEY! HEY! HEY! Bill Cosby fights back”, HEY! HEY! HEY! being the signature phrase of Bill Cosby’s Fat Albert cartoon character. The final headline included alludes to the creator of the Rolling Stone parody poster, SABO, saying the controversial street artist is “The Greatest Political Artist since Goya!”

A Rolling Stone themed parody poster seen plastered all over Hollywood, features Lena Dunham, Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby.

In an email, to The Hollywood Reporter, SABO gives some insights into the themes behind the Lena Dunham focused Rolling Stone parody poster, primary being the liberal politics that he feels motivate Rolling Stone, Dunham, and of course Bill Clinton.

“Remember (Dunham) accused a Republican of raping her in college, and that story is falling apart. Then you have the politics of Hollywood with her, Cosby, the Rolling Stone article that is being detracted. Last but not least, our beloved Bubba Clinton’s blast from the past and the double standard of why Rolling Stone didn’t run with his rape allegations but they ran with the UVA false story.”

While the validity of the Rolling Stone UVA rape story continues to fall further apart following Rolling Stone’s apology, so too does Lena Dunham’s.

Breitbart News conducted a thorough investigation of Lena Dunham’s story of being raped in college, making a point throughout not to discount her suffering some type of sexual assault but also seeking the truth. In her story Lena describes her rapist as being the “campus’s resident conservative” whose name was Barry. Along with others, the Breitbart report could find virtually nothing that substantiated the majority of details in Dunham’s rape story, particularly not her description of Barry.

Unfortunately, some of Dunham’s details do point to a real man named Barry, but several others make it clear that he doesn’t fit in Dunham’s rape story. Now, the real Barry is fighting to clear his name and has reportedly started a legal fund to conduct this ongoing effort.

The apparently many untruths in both the Rolling Stone UVA rape story and Lena Dunham’s being raped by the “campus’s resident conservative”, are being called tragic because they throw potential doubt and fear of not being believed on those who really have suffered a sexual assault, while also vilifying some people who may be innocent.

In the case of SABO’s Rolling Stone parody poster, all of these themes and issues are seemingly rolled into one.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1664650/rolling-stone-parody-poster-features-lena-dunham-lampoons-uva-rape-story-apology-clinton-cosby/#gfzEZhLxkKG0wDL3.99
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A letter from a friend: Jackie's story is not a hoax

by Emily Clark | on Dec 07 at 10:43pm

Fellow Wahoos,

My name is Emily, and I was Jackie’s suitemate first year. I am writing to you in regards to Rolling Stone’s recent statement of “misplaced trust” in Jackie. I feel this statement is backwards, as it seems it was Jackie who misplaced her trust in Rolling Stone.

I fully support Jackie, and I believe wholeheartedly that she went through a traumatizing sexual assault. I remember my first semester here, and I remember Jackie’s. Jackie came to UVA bright, happy and bubbly. She was kind, funny, outgoing, friendly, and a pleasant person to be around. That all notably changed by December 2012, and I wasn’t the only one who noticed. Our suite bonded that first semester and talked many times about the new troubles we were facing in college. Jackie never mentioned anything about her assault to us until much later. But I, as well as others, noticed Jackie becoming more and more withdrawn and depressed.

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A letter from a friend

When someone is willing to pen a letter under her own name, it's worth my time to read it. I think it might be worth your time as well. You may disagree with Emily, but any real discussion begins with a sincere statement of what you believe and why.
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Dec 8 2014, 08:03 PM
A letter from a friend: Jackie's story is not a hoax

by Emily Clark | on Dec 07 at 10:43pm

Fellow Wahoos,

My name is Emily, and I was Jackie’s suitemate first year. I am writing to you in regards to Rolling Stone’s recent statement of “misplaced trust” in Jackie. I feel this statement is backwards, as it seems it was Jackie who misplaced her trust in Rolling Stone.

I fully support Jackie, and I believe wholeheartedly that she went through a traumatizing sexual assault. I remember my first semester here, and I remember Jackie’s. Jackie came to UVA bright, happy and bubbly. She was kind, funny, outgoing, friendly, and a pleasant person to be around. That all notably changed by December 2012, and I wasn’t the only one who noticed. Our suite bonded that first semester and talked many times about the new troubles we were facing in college. Jackie never mentioned anything about her assault to us until much later. But I, as well as others, noticed Jackie becoming more and more withdrawn and depressed.

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A letter from a friend

When someone is willing to pen a letter under her own name, it's worth my time to read it. I think it might be worth your time as well. You may disagree with Emily, but any real discussion begins with a sincere statement of what you believe and why.
Good read. Still ain't evidence, though. If this discussion group stands for anything, it stand foursquare against Witch Burning for political reasons.
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Stupid Megyn called the Duke 3 "frat boys" again on The Factor.
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http://gotnews.com/breaking-fraud-jackiecoakley-cried-rape-uvahoax/

Don't know if this is true...but if it is...we got ourselves another Mangum.
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A letter from a friend: Jackie's story is not a hoax

by Emily Clark | on Dec 07 at 10:43pm

Fellow Wahoos,

My name is Emily, and I was Jackie’s suitemate first year. I am writing to you in regards to Rolling Stone’s recent statement of “misplaced trust” in Jackie. I feel this statement is backwards, as it seems it was Jackie who misplaced her trust in Rolling Stone.

I fully support Jackie, and I believe wholeheartedly that she went through a traumatizing sexual assault. I remember my first semester here, and I remember Jackie’s. Jackie came to UVA bright, happy and bubbly. She was kind, funny, outgoing, friendly, and a pleasant person to be around. That all notably changed by December 2012, and I wasn’t the only one who noticed. Our suite bonded that first semester and talked many times about the new troubles we were facing in college. Jackie never mentioned anything about her assault to us until much later. But I, as well as others, noticed Jackie becoming more and more withdrawn and depressed.

<snip>

A letter from a friend

When someone is willing to pen a letter under her own name, it's worth my time to read it. I think it might be worth your time as well. You may disagree with Emily, but any real discussion begins with a sincere statement of what you believe and why.
Good read. Still ain't evidence, though. If this discussion group stands for anything, it stand foursquare against Witch Burning for political reasons.
Call me a cynic....but this sounds very much like Crystal saying she'd been raped to avoid being put away. Could it be that by December, Jackie was failing her classes? I believe when asked why she was doing so badly that she said she had been raped.
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