I found the link and tried reading the article myself, but the pop-ups were too annoying.
Anyway, if I understand your point, you're saying that the Democrats twisted the information to be used for their own agenda. Correct? And the article was debunking the Dems' claims.
Yes. The study was saying that they surveyed women on 2 campuses, and 28% of the women said that at some point in their lives, mostly before college, they had been assaulted or someone had attempted to assault them. The politicians (not all Dems, Rubio was mentioned, but all the named ones were male) changed it from "28% on campus have been assaulted" to "28% have been assaulted on campus." But if you look at the actual study, which is linked, you can see that only 5% of them specifically said they were raped at college.
Then FR's own Einstein took the male politicians' lies as proof that the female academics' study was deceptive. And would rather DIE than admit now that he didn't even read it. He doesn't have the attention span to read my summary, so I am not surprised, but I'm getting a fair amount of entertainment value out of this.
Of course, the article linked also tries to throw a little shade on the study by comparing it to the Bureau of Justice Statistics data, where it says 2012 the rate of rapes and sexual assaults was 1.3 per 1,000 Americans ages 12 and up. But of course, they are counting men as well, and people of all ages (above 12) so not surprisingly, their percentage of sexual assault is much lower than just "girls in college." But it's terribly sloppy and deceptive. I was actually dismayed because this is OUR side, and I think we should not pull the same sorts of tricks that liberals do.