Rolling Stone

You gave up on your reporter and her reporting.

Would you have done that in the nanosecond of time, framed by history, that Me Too had traction?

By the end, the Washington Post knew that it was wrong, but it had led the avalanche and wouldn't admit it.

You should buy all the court documents and find the notes from Jackie's discussions with Ms. Erdely.  One of the first things that Dean Eramo did was check if Phi Kappa Psi had a party on the night that Jackie was assaulted.  They did.  That's in the notes.

I'm sure that the reason that Dean Eramo immediately checked if there was a party was that unregistered parties plague college campuses all over the country.

Why was the swim coach let go?

How did Jackie know nicknames of male students whom she'd never met before?  It's impossible to decide which outrage is the worst, but three of those men who weren't named by their real names in the article self-identifying so they could file a lawsuit has to be one of them.

Her friend Ryan was flattered by the Haven Monahan joke; he was going to let her pay for bus and concert tickets for his birthday, until she was raped.  Before she knew that her date with Drew was going to be a gang rape, of course she told Ryan that it was "Haven Monahan" who had asked her out.  What was she supposed to say after the rape, "I lied about Haven Monahan, which you already knew but were having fun with, but now I've been raped and I don't know what to say?"  18-year-olds don't talk like that.

Where was Drew for 6 years, from when he was first a student and a member of another fraternity at UVA to the time that he was matriculated again and met Jackie?  His absence is documented in the Charlottesville Police Department's victim-blaming, perpetrator-absolving statement.  What about the Drew's financial records that "may have been relevant" to Jackie's story about Drew taking her to dinner on the night she alleged that she was later raped?

Why did Phi Kappa Psi have an old picture from the night of the alleged rape, a picture of nothing going on, by the time that the police investigated, 2 years later? Who keeps a picture of nothing going on in college?

All of the above is what I remember without even rereading what I wrote.  There were a thousands inconsistencies in the defense, and even blatant factual errors in the articles attacking the Rolling Stone article, and all the mainstream media did was ignore them or repeat them.

You know that I wrote about this case for years.  I was going to write about it during the summer of 2017, but I was evicted for my "false" accusations of voyeurism in my apartment, accusations which I'd say that you know were true.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist.  I'm just not as impressed by prestige as I used to be.

Do you remember what the Charlottesville Police Department used to question the fraternity?  A questionnaire; answers voluntary.  Maybe the police department was out of lightbulbs and all the interrogation rooms were full, or maybe UVA has one of the oldest law schools in the country and is where people who work in and for Washington, D.C. have sent their children for so many years that the genteel method of questioning rape suspects and their accomplices is in no danger of being displaced.

If California is an epicenter of the commercialized misogyny with which the United States has brainwashed the world for a century, then the University of Virginia is an epicenter of the nepotism and rape apology that have paralyzed our court and criminal justice systems despite every incarnation of the women's movement.