Renda appears to have connections in high places all the way to the whitehouse. She is tight with the UVA president Sullivan. It looks like she was being setup as the next Sandra Flock. I don’t know all her connections or how she was anointed but it appears she pushed this story at Rolling Stone. Or this thing was probably all setup from the beginning with the whitehouse pushing rolling stone to do this story and using renda as the new Sandra flock. They were hoping for another round of congressional hearings with republicans questioning their stories. Another war on woman.
Some coincidence.
It fit into so many 'narratives'. I think it was an incestuous shared agenda-fest. A clique. From the Weekly Standard:
"Moving in a reverse pyramid from the specific to the more abstract, they decried the fraternity system, privilege (the “money-fraternity complex”), and the rape culture of the South, including Thomas Jefferson for his relations with Sally Hemings. The charges went higher and higher up the ladder of generality until the sex crime committed at UVA became a confirmation of the basic theory of privileged Western male oppression .."And, remember, the libs wanted this issue to increase turnout of young women in the last election.
What I'm waiting for now, re: your post, is the story that the Senate was the first to be fooled by the Jackie story.