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Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Date: December 05, 2014 02:14PM
(CNN) - Rolling Stone magazine apologized to readers Friday for a story it published chronicling one woman's account of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house and the school's failure to respond to that alleged assault.
The magazine editors made the choice not to contact the man who allegedly "orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her," a decision Rolling Stone says it now regrets.
"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in (the woman's) account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Rolling Stone said.
-CNN.com
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The magazine editors made the choice not to contact the man who allegedly "orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her," a decision Rolling Stone says it now regrets.
"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in (the woman's) account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Rolling Stone said.
-CNN.com
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/2014 02:15PM by Fox News.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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libs hate America.
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Date: December 05, 2014 02:16PM
But the important thing is - justice has been served!
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Lena Dunham's fake rapist
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Date: December 05, 2014 03:00PM
Shockerz.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Sorry we came in your mouth...
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:12PM
a little there.
Love, the Dim Party.
Love, the Dim Party.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:27PM
You believed Rolling Stone to begin with?
Ever?
LOFL
Ever?
LOFL
idontlikebeingrightaboutshitlikethisbutiam
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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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truth sometimes better
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:30PM
Will the protesters at UVA re-protest false reporting and hold candlelight vigils for the victims of crying-rape-liars? OR will they just slither away after trashing these guys publicly for their moment on TV?
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:33PM
"We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account,"
Why, would that be part of investigating a story maybe? I hope they get sued, forced into doing a story about false accusations and how damaging they are to anyone publicly falsely accused of this.
Maybe at some point there will be laws to protect the identities of accused until after a conviction. I dare the assholes who protested these guys to own up and support that.
Why, would that be part of investigating a story maybe? I hope they get sued, forced into doing a story about false accusations and how damaging they are to anyone publicly falsely accused of this.
Maybe at some point there will be laws to protect the identities of accused until after a conviction. I dare the assholes who protested these guys to own up and support that.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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eesh
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:39PM
So what did the woman lie for? Attention? Lawsuit?
Blessed are the murderous.
Blessed are the murderous.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Sherlock No-mes
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:41PM
Oddly enough, rumor is possibly to promote a film script she wrote on... campus rape.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Deep Thinker
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:46PM
Hold up Skippy. There are still other parts of this story that are independent of Jackie's claims. Other women have come forward. The university's inaction - no one ever expelled for sexual assault. These realities won't change. UVA is not out of the woods.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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eesh
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Date: December 05, 2014 04:57PM
Deep Thinker Wrote:
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> Hold up Skippy. There are still other parts of
> this story that are independent of Jackie's
> claims. Other women have come forward. The
> university's inaction - no one ever expelled for
> sexual assault. These realities won't change.
> UVA is not out of the woods.
...but it's the boy that cried wolf now. Every accusation will be taken with a grain of salt.
Blessed are the murderous.
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> Hold up Skippy. There are still other parts of
> this story that are independent of Jackie's
> claims. Other women have come forward. The
> university's inaction - no one ever expelled for
> sexual assault. These realities won't change.
> UVA is not out of the woods.
...but it's the boy that cried wolf now. Every accusation will be taken with a grain of salt.
Blessed are the murderous.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Vexxxed
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Date: December 05, 2014 05:02PM
Didn't realize Michael Nifong was a writer for Rolling Stone.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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She was pimping a script
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Date: December 05, 2014 05:11PM
That no studio will now touch.
"There are still other parts of this story that are independent of Jackie's claims"
BullFuckingShit.
This entire episode was a figment of bullshit. To claim anything else is to expose one as a liar, fraud, and eater of shit.
"There are still other parts of this story that are independent of Jackie's claims"
BullFuckingShit.
This entire episode was a figment of bullshit. To claim anything else is to expose one as a liar, fraud, and eater of shit.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Jeesuz H. Christ
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Date: December 05, 2014 05:38PM
Is Rolling Stone to be held to a different set of journalistic standards with regard to one-sided, sloppy, slanderous, non-factual reporting than - oh I don't know, say Fox News on everything Obama?
Fox News got everything wrong on Benghazi and the fictional "stand-down order" and a plethora of other facts and never issued so much as an apology or factual correction.
Fox News got everything wrong on Benghazi and the fictional "stand-down order" and a plethora of other facts and never issued so much as an apology or factual correction.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Ah, the butthurt of the Left
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Date: December 05, 2014 05:53PM
Why so faggot bro?
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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D-BAG DEMOCRAT.
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Date: December 05, 2014 06:05PM
Jeesuz H. Christ Wrote:
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> Is Rolling Stone to be held to a different set of
> journalistic standards with regard to one-sided,
> sloppy, slanderous, non-factual reporting than -
> oh I don't know, say Fox News on everything
> Obama?
>
> Fox News got everything wrong on Benghazi and the
> fictional "stand-down order" and a plethora of
> other facts and never issued so much as an apology
> or factual correction.
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> Is Rolling Stone to be held to a different set of
> journalistic standards with regard to one-sided,
> sloppy, slanderous, non-factual reporting than -
> oh I don't know, say Fox News on everything
> Obama?
>
> Fox News got everything wrong on Benghazi and the
> fictional "stand-down order" and a plethora of
> other facts and never issued so much as an apology
> or factual correction.
Attachments:
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Date: December 05, 2014 10:47PM
CRIME & COURTS
Rape story unravels: Rolling Stone says trust in UVA source 'misplaced'
Published December 05, 2014
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The dramatic Rolling Stone story of a gang rape at University of Virginia, which prompted national outrage until scrutiny of the alleged victim's account began to raise serious doubts, was based on "misplaced" trust in the still-unidentified woman, the magazine said Friday.
The 9,000-word story, titled "A Rape on Campus," detailed a young freshman's horrific account of being gang raped on a floor strewn with broken glass after being dragged into a darkened room at a fraternity party in 2012. The author, freelance writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely, identified the victim only as "Jackie," and did not interview the alleged attackers. But the story blasted the Charlottesville school, saying university officials turned a deaf ear to Jackie's complaints in the latest example of its long history of indifference to alleged sexual assaults.
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In recent days, Fox News' Howard Kurtz, the left-leaning Slate magazine, The Washington Post and other outlets had begun to question certain aspects of the account, noting, among other discrepancies, that no party took place in the location described in the time frame Erdely's story cited. The magazine initially stood by the story, published in the Nov. 19 edition, but on Friday reversed course.
"... we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced."
- Will Dana, Rolling Stone
"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana said in a statement. "We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story."
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In the wake of the story, university president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and an examination of the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.
“The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to reexamine our responsibility to this community,” Sullivan said at the time. “We are committed - above all else - to accountability with regard to these serious matters.”
The case was reminiscent of the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, in which wealthy white fraternity members at an elite southern school were accused of being sexual predators. But unlike the Duke case, no suspects were named and no victim came forward, other than to Erdely, who has refused to fully identify Jackie.
In addition to a growing drumbeat of media skepticism, based partly on Erdely's departure from journalistic standards that critics said required her to attempt to talk the accused rapists, several of the women identified as Jackie’s close friends and campus sex assault awareness advocates cast doubts on the report.
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The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at University of Virginia did nnot host a party on the night of the alleged attack, according to fraternity officials. (AP)
The magazine said Erdely and fact-checkers spent months working on the story and found Jackie to be credible. Erdely said she did not pursue or name the suspects at the behest of Jackie, who said she feared retribution from them.
"She asked me not to name the individuals because she’s so fearful of them," Erdely told The Washington Post. "That was something we agreed on.”
Erdely would not say whether she knew who the alleged attackers were.
Capt. Gary Pleasants of the Charlottesville police department said that detectives are looking into the allegations at the request of the university but declined to comment on the status of that investigation.
The University of Virginia fraternity named in the story, Phi Kappa Psi, released a statement Friday afternoon saying the organization did not host a party on Sept. 28, 2012, the night the attack allegedly occurred. Fraternity officials also said that no members of the fraternity worked at the university’s Aquatic Fitness Center at the time, as Jackie claimed, and that no room in the fraternity house matches Jackie's description.
"It is our hope that this information will encourage people who may know anything relevant to this case to contact the Charlottesville Police Department as soon as possible," the statement read. "In the meantime, we will continue to assist investigators in whatever way we can."
The Washington Post has interviewed Jackie, now a 20-year-old junior at the school, and others involved in the case in recent days and tried to verify the story. The paper reported that Jackie’s close friends said they believe something traumatic happened to Jackie but have come to doubt her account because her story has changed and key points cannot be verified.
Mollie Hemingway, a media critic and senior editor at The Federalist, said she followed the story closely, from her "emotional" reading of the Rolling Stone story to the questions that soon followed. She said she prides herself on reading critically, but acknowledged buying in to Erdely's story until only recently.
"This has been an absolutely devastating blow to Rolling Stone's credibility," she said. "[Erdely] has a lot to answer for as well. She literally took the memories of one person who claimed to have been traumatized and built an entire story around it.
"But the worst things is that people who are victims of rape will not be believed," Hemingway said. "That is the worst part of this story. I don't think the writer or this magazine could have done more damage to victims of rape if they had set out to."
Rape story unravels: Rolling Stone says trust in UVA source 'misplaced'
Published December 05, 2014
FoxNews.com
livefyre
The dramatic Rolling Stone story of a gang rape at University of Virginia, which prompted national outrage until scrutiny of the alleged victim's account began to raise serious doubts, was based on "misplaced" trust in the still-unidentified woman, the magazine said Friday.
The 9,000-word story, titled "A Rape on Campus," detailed a young freshman's horrific account of being gang raped on a floor strewn with broken glass after being dragged into a darkened room at a fraternity party in 2012. The author, freelance writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely, identified the victim only as "Jackie," and did not interview the alleged attackers. But the story blasted the Charlottesville school, saying university officials turned a deaf ear to Jackie's complaints in the latest example of its long history of indifference to alleged sexual assaults.
ADVERTISEMENT
In recent days, Fox News' Howard Kurtz, the left-leaning Slate magazine, The Washington Post and other outlets had begun to question certain aspects of the account, noting, among other discrepancies, that no party took place in the location described in the time frame Erdely's story cited. The magazine initially stood by the story, published in the Nov. 19 edition, but on Friday reversed course.
"... we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced."
- Will Dana, Rolling Stone
"In the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account, and we have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced," Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana said in a statement. "We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story."
Related Image
In the wake of the story, university president Teresa Sullivan promised a full investigation and an examination of the way the school responds to sexual assault allegations.
“The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to reexamine our responsibility to this community,” Sullivan said at the time. “We are committed - above all else - to accountability with regard to these serious matters.”
The case was reminiscent of the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, in which wealthy white fraternity members at an elite southern school were accused of being sexual predators. But unlike the Duke case, no suspects were named and no victim came forward, other than to Erdely, who has refused to fully identify Jackie.
In addition to a growing drumbeat of media skepticism, based partly on Erdely's departure from journalistic standards that critics said required her to attempt to talk the accused rapists, several of the women identified as Jackie’s close friends and campus sex assault awareness advocates cast doubts on the report.
Related Image
The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at University of Virginia did nnot host a party on the night of the alleged attack, according to fraternity officials. (AP)
The magazine said Erdely and fact-checkers spent months working on the story and found Jackie to be credible. Erdely said she did not pursue or name the suspects at the behest of Jackie, who said she feared retribution from them.
"She asked me not to name the individuals because she’s so fearful of them," Erdely told The Washington Post. "That was something we agreed on.”
Erdely would not say whether she knew who the alleged attackers were.
Capt. Gary Pleasants of the Charlottesville police department said that detectives are looking into the allegations at the request of the university but declined to comment on the status of that investigation.
The University of Virginia fraternity named in the story, Phi Kappa Psi, released a statement Friday afternoon saying the organization did not host a party on Sept. 28, 2012, the night the attack allegedly occurred. Fraternity officials also said that no members of the fraternity worked at the university’s Aquatic Fitness Center at the time, as Jackie claimed, and that no room in the fraternity house matches Jackie's description.
"It is our hope that this information will encourage people who may know anything relevant to this case to contact the Charlottesville Police Department as soon as possible," the statement read. "In the meantime, we will continue to assist investigators in whatever way we can."
The Washington Post has interviewed Jackie, now a 20-year-old junior at the school, and others involved in the case in recent days and tried to verify the story. The paper reported that Jackie’s close friends said they believe something traumatic happened to Jackie but have come to doubt her account because her story has changed and key points cannot be verified.
Mollie Hemingway, a media critic and senior editor at The Federalist, said she followed the story closely, from her "emotional" reading of the Rolling Stone story to the questions that soon followed. She said she prides herself on reading critically, but acknowledged buying in to Erdely's story until only recently.
"This has been an absolutely devastating blow to Rolling Stone's credibility," she said. "[Erdely] has a lot to answer for as well. She literally took the memories of one person who claimed to have been traumatized and built an entire story around it.
"But the worst things is that people who are victims of rape will not be believed," Hemingway said. "That is the worst part of this story. I don't think the writer or this magazine could have done more damage to victims of rape if they had set out to."
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Date: December 05, 2014 10:48PM
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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Stand Down Bitch
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Date: December 05, 2014 10:54PM
Fox Never Apologized for this rape of the truth.
Nine tax-payer funded investigations proved there was no stand down order. It was a total Fox News fabrication.
Whoever put this shit out should be in jail. Fox News and the GOP should be refunding the American people for all the money spent on their bogus allegations.
:=)
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Nine tax-payer funded investigations proved there was no stand down order. It was a total Fox News fabrication.
Whoever put this shit out should be in jail. Fox News and the GOP should be refunding the American people for all the money spent on their bogus allegations.
:=)
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Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Libs Lie Lots
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Date: December 05, 2014 10:59PM
Stand Down Bitch Wrote:
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> Fox Never Apologized for this rape of the truth.
>
> Nine tax-payer funded investigations proved there
> was no stand down order. It was a total Fox News
> fabrication.
>
> Whoever put this shit out should be in jail. Fox
> News and the GOP should be refunding the American
> people for all the money spent on their bogus
> allegations.
>
> :=)
It wasn't a lie dumbass. They were told not to go. Whether there's some semantic difference around whether that was an official "stand down order" wasn't the issue to begin with.
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> Fox Never Apologized for this rape of the truth.
>
> Nine tax-payer funded investigations proved there
> was no stand down order. It was a total Fox News
> fabrication.
>
> Whoever put this shit out should be in jail. Fox
> News and the GOP should be refunding the American
> people for all the money spent on their bogus
> allegations.
>
> :=)
It wasn't a lie dumbass. They were told not to go. Whether there's some semantic difference around whether that was an official "stand down order" wasn't the issue to begin with.
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Fox News
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Date: December 05, 2014 11:05PM
Stand Down Bitch Wrote:
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> Fox Never Apologized for this rape of the truth.
>
> Nine tax-payer funded investigations proved there
> was no stand down order. It was a total Fox News
> fabrication.
>
> Whoever put this shit out should be in jail. Fox
> News and the GOP should be refunding the American
> people for all the money spent on their bogus
> allegations.
>
> :=)
FYI: Santa ain't real. He is an urban-legend made up by Libtards so they can turn America into a European socialist melting pot
-------------------------------------------------------
> Fox Never Apologized for this rape of the truth.
>
> Nine tax-payer funded investigations proved there
> was no stand down order. It was a total Fox News
> fabrication.
>
> Whoever put this shit out should be in jail. Fox
> News and the GOP should be refunding the American
> people for all the money spent on their bogus
> allegations.
>
> :=)
FYI: Santa ain't real. He is an urban-legend made up by Libtards so they can turn America into a European socialist melting pot
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Phrat boy
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Date: December 06, 2014 10:18AM
I win because I was right. Women win because there was no gang rape. Politically correct liberals lose! What a great day!!!!!!!!!
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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utVWL
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Date: December 06, 2014 10:34AM
Obviously a cover up by the status quo to protect the guilty!
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Big Billy
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Date: December 06, 2014 10:56AM
Anyone who believes in anything written in that rag is a COMPLETE AND UTTER MORON!
Re: Rolling Stone apologizes for raping UVA Fraternity
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Date: December 06, 2014 12:19PM
Thought it made sense. Still stupid.