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A letter from a friend: Jackie's story is not a hoax
The Cavalier Daily ^ | December 7, 2014 | Emily Clark

Posted on 12/08/2014 1:29:34 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative

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To: Celtic Conservative

Jackie left school because she was failing several classes. Other media are picking up on this.


41 posted on 12/08/2014 2:10:07 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
...the massive damage she has caused is unconscionable. Moreover the new level of doubt she has laid upon the veracity of young women's future rape claims -- real victims -- cannot be repaired no matter where this story goes from here.

I agree with that whole-heartedly. 1000%.

But just as I was skeptical about the assertions made against the fraternity when I read the first article in Rolling Stone, I am also skeptical about the assertions being made against Jackie now.

If you didn't believe Rolling Stone when they told you the fraternity was a mob of gang-rapists, why believe Rolling Stone now when they are basically blaming this all on Jackie?

Rolling Stone could easily be throwing Jackie under the bus, calling her a liar to try to dodge as much of the blame as they can, when they could have gotten it all wrong from the outset.

How many times have we seen the MSM get just basic, easy-to-verify facts completely wrong?

42 posted on 12/08/2014 2:11:13 PM PST by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: hoosiermama; WildHighlander57; LucyT

Since my last post was pulled, I’ll let someone else connect the dots to dear ol’ dad.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2609978/posts


43 posted on 12/08/2014 2:26:42 PM PST by maggief
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I remember a guy said he left college because it wasn’t a “good fit”. That and the fact that he flunked out because he drank like a fish and his parents cut him off.

CC


44 posted on 12/08/2014 2:29:48 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Hodie Christus Natus est!)
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To: Doogle
....she’s heading down the Sandra Fluke highway.

You mean immature, a trollop, an alcoholic and most probably neurotic?

That highway?

45 posted on 12/08/2014 2:33:56 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: Celtic Conservative
That and the fact that he flunked out because he drank like a fish and his parents cut him off.

That's exactly what he meant to say, but the kid is a born politician!

He should go far!

46 posted on 12/08/2014 2:45:47 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: publius911

Nope, the USAF kicked him to the curb too. That was 25 years ago, I wonder what he’s up to.

CC


47 posted on 12/08/2014 2:50:10 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (Hodie Christus Natus est!)
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To: dirtymac

Yes, the part that gets me in these kind of incident reports
is that women, a lot of them at least, want the public at large to believe them just because they say it’s true and they are crying and it is a sad story!

I have a beautiful daughter so I am sensitive to stories like this. But, women who tug at our heart strings to “just believe them” are, in my opinion, always going to barking up the wrong tree............particularly two years after the winds of time blow all evidence away.


48 posted on 12/08/2014 2:50:53 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: Cecily

No, she did not go to see any doctor or clinic, and she did not report her “gang rape” to the police. Her friends, who were with her after the “incident”, also told the WaPo that they weren’t interviewed by the RS reporter, and also that Jackie’s version of events as reported by the RS were widely different than how they recollect what she told them. Two that were interviewed by WaPo disputed that she had a bloody dress, that they were in front of the fraternity when they met, and that they discouraged her from getting professional help, among other things.

I would encourage you to read the original article. It is a great example of narrative journalism. Facts and fact checking aren’t important.


49 posted on 12/08/2014 3:22:31 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Conscience of a Conservative; maggief

My bad. Looking at a different story.


50 posted on 12/08/2014 3:22:41 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: vladimir998

Can you point me in the direction of her father’s interview or that information? I haven’t seen that anywhere, but will start looking now.


51 posted on 12/08/2014 3:25:45 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I was thinking that, too, but I haven’t seen this info before. Can you point me towards it?


52 posted on 12/08/2014 3:27:55 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: maggief

Any chance you would consider sending me the link to the father’s story in a PM? I’m not quite the super sleuth you are. Thanks if you’re willing!


53 posted on 12/08/2014 3:34:25 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

2 years later....BUNK!!!!!!! if you are raped CALL THE COPS, CALL THE DEAN, CALL MAMA AND DADDY, TELL SOMEBODY....but if 2 years pass STFU.


54 posted on 12/08/2014 3:59:45 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: FamiliarFace

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


55 posted on 12/08/2014 4:14:07 PM PST by vladimir998
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To: Sherman Logan

I am not following this “news story”, but I bet she refused to name the frat... and so Rolling Stone just assigned the crime to the frat they thought was guilty.


56 posted on 12/08/2014 4:19:56 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: Jim Noble

I am with you. I have heard of multiple partners. But seven guys raping a woman on a campus today? That’s just not how these things work.

One guy? Yup. Seven? No way.

There are too many girls out there who will engage in sex without rape.


57 posted on 12/08/2014 5:02:04 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I think the RS knew this person was “troubled” but went the sensationalist/radical feminist route and they are the most responsible. “Jackie” never filed a false report but the RS published a false account.


58 posted on 12/08/2014 10:00:40 PM PST by Baladas
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To: publius911

eyep


59 posted on 12/09/2014 7:10:05 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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