Feminist Who Tipped Rolling Stone To UVA's 'Jackie' Had Obama Ties

by JASmius



It was inevitable:

The girl at the University of Virginia, who allegedly falsely claimed she was gang raped at a campus fraternity house, was introduced to Rolling Stone magazine by an [extreme]ist from the university with connections to White House advisers, making several visits to the White House herself.

Emily Renda worked at the Eisenhower Executive Office with her associates at the White House to develop resources such as websites and documents concerning the Obama administration's sexual assault policies, The Daily Caller is reporting.

Renda connected the alleged rape victim, "Jackie," with Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who broke the University of Virginia story, which has since been discredited.

"You figure into the article as a survivor, activist and mentor/support for Jackie," Erdely said to Renda in an email about the November story.

Renda has also become a frequent visitor to the White House where she has assisted President Barack Obama's rape advisers to develop publications for the White House Task Force To Prevent Students From Sexual Assault.

Oh, yeah, she and they "develop publications," alright.  None of them are real, factual, honest, or bear any remote connection to or with reality, but they certainly are "publications".  Which would be fine and dandy if they were labeled as fiction and put on the comic book shelf where they couldn't be used to slander and libel innocent people and ruin their lives.

But remember the key factor in any discussion of the mentality of the Left: It's all, always, about The Narrative.  You can see it in Miss Erdely's comments to Miss Renda: "You figure into the article as a survivor, activist and mentor/support for Jackie."  She sounds like a movie director excitedly developing a screenplay in a production meeting.  It was exactly what Miss Erdely was looking for, because it was exactly the story she wanted to tell.  The fact that none of it ever actually happened was irrelevant to her.

Sabrina Rubin Erdely was and is a story-teller, not an "investigative journalist".  But while her story was make-believe, the reputations and lives she was destroying were very real.  Which is why Rolling Stone had to retract her story and is staring down the barrel of some hardcore legal trouble.

But while that story is dead, The Narrative lives on, untouchable and unstoppable.  And that's the irony of this particular story in turn: The Obama White House, through Emily Renda, figuratively "raped" Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone magazine to try and keep their moribund "War On Women" meme breathing.  And now that the "Jackie" story has collapsed into an ignominious heap of rhetorical rubble, they sail on, safe behind their demidivine "six degrees of separation".

And Miss Erdely and RS will never realize it.

Pity there are no investigative journalists who want to tell that story.