10/22/2016
Sabrina Ruben Erdely, a highly paid professional writer for ROLLING STONE, wrote a libelous story about UVA, the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and Dean Nicole Eramo based on the lies told by a girl named Jackie Coakley. Itâs not her fault, she says, she was lied to:
âIt wasnât a mistake to rely on someone [so] emotionally fragile,â Erdely said softly on the witness stand, as her voice broke and tears flowed in an otherwise silent courtroom. âIt was a mistake to rely on someone who was intent to deceive me.â
Day 4: Erdely gives scarring testimony Hawes Spencer, C-Ville.com 10/20/16
However, in a previous article, she wrote a libelous article about the Catholic Church, also based on an unreliable witness, and in a third article, she wrote a libelous article about the US military â also based on an unreliable witness.
Hereâs the Catholic Church story:
https://t.co/EqNTSl1qyt The Rolling Stone article from CNP #8- The catholic church sex crime files
â Coastal Noise Media (@CoastalNoise) August 2, 2013
And hereâs the US Military story:
In an article in 2014 I wrote that
Weâve seen Sabrina Rubin Erdelyâs Rolling Stone article about the UVA rape deconstructed, refuted, and retracted. Eugene Gant and the Catholic Leagueâs Bill Donahue have both noted that Erdelyâs apparent lack of elementary skepticism earlier caused her to believe an improbable accuser in the case of an alleged pedophile priest. [Before Rolling Stone Was Conned By âJackieâ They Fell for âBillyâ. Bigtrial.net, December 6, 2014] So this rape-in-the-military story is her third strike.
The discredited Sabrina Rubin Erdely describes one womanâs âvictimizationâ in terms that show that Erdely doesnât have a sufficient skepticism to keep her from falling for conmen on the street who need gas money to get their wife to a hospital.
The night before, February 12th, 2010, [Rebecca Blumer] and some friends had gone to a bar not far from base for a couple of beers. Three Army guys â one with light hair, the other two dark-haired â had sent Blumer a shot of Jägermeister, a drink she didnât care much for but had downed anyway. The light-haired man had rounded the bar to talk to her. The last thing ÂBlumer remembered was being overwhelmed by a dizzy, sluggish feeling, her limbs and head too heavy to lift, the Ânoises in the bar rising up and caving in on her. Only later would Blumer find out the rest: that at 1:40 a.m., police had noticed her driving with her headlights off. That sheâd barely been able to stand upright during her field sobriety test, but when placed under arrest sheâd gone berserk, trying to break free of the police car and screaming incoherently. In jail, sheâd yelled for a doctor and fought with the cops so Âwildly that sheâd been hosed down in an effort to quiet her. Now, crouching in her cell with a swollen jaw; bruises smudging her wrists, ankles and neck; her abdomen sore inside; and her lower back and buttocks afire with what felt like rug burn, it dawned on ÂBlumer. Sheâd been roofied and raped.
Either that â or had an alcoholic blackout. Blumer canât remember what happened, and this common in alcoholic blackouts, which can be caused simply by excessive drinking. Itâs happened to me, although not for thirty-plus years.
There was actually a drug test â reported by Erdely â which came up negative. Leon Wolf of RedState, who doesnât like us, not only came to the same conclusion, but verified it by original reporting with interviews with USN personnel. Quote from Wolf:
The point of this story is this: the evidence is clear all over the face of this story that Erdely â as enabled by her editors at Rolling Stone â has a serial habit of reporting rapes without conducting any more fact checking than she did of the UVA story. It is facially obvious that she did not talk to the accused rapist because there wasnât one. There is no evidence that she talked with anyone who was present at any of the bars where Ms. Blumer drank on the night before her DUI to attempt to verify even her story about meeting the three guys. And, again: the sources who spoke to RedState were clear that Ms. Erdely made no effort to contact any member of the Naval command who was involved with the investigation to get their side of the story with respect to what manner of investigation was conducted into Ms. Blumerâs allegations or what that investigation revealed.
After an exhaustive investigation that spanned a year and a half (which Erdely and Rolling Stone ignored and/or did no research into whatsoever), no one was able to produce any evidence that a sexual assault had occurred, physical or otherwise. The alleged victim herself had no recollection of it happening, did not report it to the police who arrested her, and had a ready motive for latching on to the narrative, which is that it would have stopped or possibly prevented punishment at the hands of her military superiors and possibly prevented her from permanently losing the top secret clearance necessary to keep her job.
Sabrina Rubin Erdelyâs OTHER Possibly Fake Rape Story | RedState, April 7, 2015
Iâm sure Wolf would reject as deplorable Steve Sailerâs suggestion that Erdely was motivated by "anti-Gentilic" prejudice. After all, as Steve admits, "anti-Gentilic" isnât even a word.
But there does seem to be a pattern here. And the anti-military and anti-Church stories are still online, unretracted. And now that you know about Erdelyâs (and Rolling Stoneâs credibility) in these cases, hereâs what Rolling Stone is doing now: