A lot of effort has been put into stuffing the UVA – Rolling Stone gang rape on broken glass hate hoax down the Memory Hole by making the scandal seem as boring and technical as imaginable: mistakes were made in following proper journalistic procedures. Nothing else to remember here, move along.
The key roadblock was to keep the words “catfishing” and “Haven Monahan” out of the public mind. If you understand how those two fit together, the story is hilarious: a super-girly girl, Jackie, catfishes a dream date “Haven Monahan” into digital existence to make a boy she likes, Ryan, jealous.
When that’s not working she makes up a story about Haven Monahan’s sexual assault. When that still doesn’t make Ryan fall in love with her, she switches back to having Haven send Ryan an email explaining why Ryan should fall in love with Jackie, cribbed from Dawson’s Creek and other romance shows for boy-crazy tween girls.
When that fails, Jackie slowly becomes aware over many months that if she can’t have Ryan, she can still have some of the attention she craves by portraying herself as a victim of campus rape culture. But of course she can’t call the police because she just made everything up. Dean Nicole Eramo recognizes that Jackie’s probably never going to talk to the police about her woozy story.
Eventually, Sabrina Rubin Erdely comes to town for Rolling Stone and between them they work up a doozy of a story. With publication, an actual Night of Broken Glass ensues with SJW vandals smashing the windows of the libeled fraternity house. Jackie then defends Dean Eramo when America’s feminists try to get the poor woman fired. It’s a complete fiasco, but nobody in the media seems to notice that Erdely’s article is absurd until Richard Bradley blogs about it five days later.
Comments:
* Jackie Coakley’s wedding photos.
* I hadn’t heard of her claims of terminal illness until this article came out.
She came very close to destroying a lot of lives with her lies.
She may not have intended to when she set out on this path, but she never tried to stop the juggernaut once it got moving.
She and Erdley deserve whatever public shaming they get, and more.
* Lawsuits create legal documents and sworn statements that reporters can use with fewer problems than when they simply quote people on the street. Court documents are also a one-stop shop for making a deadline. Thus, the lawsuits have a chance of returning this stupid story back to public awareness.
* To those watching at home: study how Steve has been careful and persistent with this, working the angles and pitching things so that more mainstream types can take cues from him and broaden the message. THIS is how it’s done. THIS is how to win people over in e.g. the migrant situation, among others.
* And yet the Post will still not print Coakley’s name, on the basis that they do not print the names of rape victims. This in a story that clearly indicates that she was NOT a rape victim at all, but rather just a liar. Is there also a policy against printing the name of liars?
Many of the commenters pointed this out and gave Coakley’s full name and as of last night (the last time I looked) the Post was allowing these comments thru. Maybe they feel that if they don’t have their fingerprints on it, it’s OK. The whole “not printing” thing is getting ridiculous in the internet age where this information almost always becomes public anyway.
Incidentally, I learned from the comments that (a) Jackie has gained a good 60 lbs. or more and (b) has gotten married! As Mr. T would say, ” I pity the fool” who married her. In the old days she would have pretended to be pregnant to ensnare the guy in her web but what did she do this time?
* From T. Rees Shapiro’s linked article (emphasis added):
Duffin wrote: “So if I can just ask a question, then … Why did you tell us before the date ever happened that his name was Haven? Haven Monahan? A name that belongs to no UVA student ever? Why has the name changed since then?”
Jackie wrote back: “His last name was Monahan and he called himself Haven. His first name was John or Jake or something. And he was there that night but he was a bystander. He wasn’t involved. Not really.”
I never had noticed until now that the real first name of “Haven Monahan” was “John or Jake or something”. I am curious why Jackie Coakley muddled her story by making “Haven” merely a nickname for a Monahan whose real name is John.
In previous comments in this blog, I pointed out that a Monahan family surely was known to Coakley from Stafford, Virginia, where she grew up and participated in a swimming club.
Coakley become certified to work as a lifeguard while she attended Mountain View High School in Stafford, Virginia, in 2012. The best opportunity for Stafford high-school students to train as swimmers was to join an organization called YMCA Stingrays Swimming, which trains at the Goolrick Hall swimming pool at Mary Washington University in Fredericksburg, Virginia, about ten miles south of Stafford.
(I myself lived in Fredericksburg and then in Stafford during 1992-2000, and so I took a special interest in Coakley’s Stafford-Fredericksburg connection.)
The Stingrays star female swimmer around the year 2012 was Bailie Monahan of Colonial Forge High School in Stafford. For example, Monahan still holds the team records for the following races
* 100-meter butterfly
* 200-meter butterfly
* 400-meter intermediate medley
* 200-meter medley relay race
* 50-meter freestyle
Bailie Monahan was not only a superb athlete but also a superb student. She was awarded the title of USA Swimming Scholastic All-American in 2011 and 2012
Bailie Monahan is the daughter of Daniel Monahan, a US Marine Corp colonel, and has two younger brothers, Cullen and Nolan, who also are star athletes and competitive swimmers. However, both Cullen and Nolan Monahan are significantly younger than Jackie Coakley.
In Coakley’s yarn, she met John (aka Haven) Monahan while both of them were working as lifeguards at the University of Virginia’s swimming pool.
As far as I know, that Stafford Monahan family does not include any member named Haven or John, but Coakley’s own father is named John.
I speculate that Jackie Coakley enjoyed a fantasy of marrying into Stafford’s Monahan family. Since that family lacked a son whose age was appropriate for her, she imagined that the family had a somewhat older son (age appropriate for her) who went by the name “Haven”, but whose real name was “John”. Since she fantasized about marrying this imaginary “Haven Monahan”, she gave him the birth name “John”, which is the name of her own father, who perhaps symbolized a husband in her mind.
Perhaps there are some Freudian aspects of Coakleys fantasy about marrying into the Stafford Monahan family.
Another possibility is that John is the name of Coakley’s high-school classmate who appears in the photograph of “John (Haven) Monahan” that she showed to her university friends.
A name Jackie provided to the three friends of the student she was going to date did not match anyone at U-Va., and a photograph of the student the friends saw was actually of a man who was Jackie’s high school classmate and attended a different school in a different state. That man, reached by The Post, confirmed that the photos were of him but said he barely knew Jackie and had not been to Charlottesville in at least six years.
In other words, perhaps that guy in the photograph that Coakley showed to her friends at the University of Virginia is named “John or Jake or something.”
* An important element of modern journalism is to turn interesting, funny stories that contradict the narrative into dull, boring stories that are ignored after the first paragraph.
I’m betting the majority of the hoax hate crime stories are pretty hilarious in the hands of a competent writer.
* I believe that a degree of lying comes naturally to women. Consider: Makeup, plastic surgery, padded clothing of one kind or another, and behaviors calculated to make them appear vulnerable and in need of special protections, special mentoring and counseling, and affirmative action benefits. I call these “estrual displays and behaviors”. They are part of the mating game, pervasive in the human experience, and usually very effective and successful. In short, women have natural dispositions to project lives of illusion for calculated gain. Jackie Coakley and Sabrina Rubin are only doing what comes naturally to them.
* For all you guys out there, watch out. There is a bit of Jackie Coakley in all of them. They can turn on the tears for damn near anything.
There is a reason that Jewish law (halacha) and Muslim law (sharia) profoundly mistrust females, particularly in matters of sex and truthtelling.
* Jackie very likely went on a heavy-duty regimen of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medication after her lies were exposed, which would explain the drastic weight gain.
Shapiro’s restraint and lack of sensationalism in reporting the story is admirable to me. One could argue that he and his editors intentionally tried to subdue various details to mute the craziness, but I feel that they respected their readers’ intelligence enough to know that the facts spoke for themselves. The story is so outrageous from all angles (and Jackie’s lies are the gift that keep on giving, even a year later) that if it were a movie, film critics would give it low ratings for lacking nuance and credibility.
I discovered Steve’s writing through Richard Bradley’s blog, having not heard of him before. At one point in the comment section, he alluded to being a controversial writer, so I looked him up. One of my favorite discoveries of the past year.
It’s curious that Bradley slowly abandoned his blog after his involvement with exposing the Rolling Stone article. I would think it’s a journalist’s dream to have a central role in uncovering a major fraud surrounding a hot national topic, but he completely walked away from it.
* This girl created tremendous disruption. A U Va. dean came within inches of having her career destroyed. A fraternity had its windows broken and was forced to close. The entire reputation of a major university, indeed of all young white men was besmirched. And so far Jackie has paid NO price at all. She was not indicted for any crime, she was not expelled for honor code violations, she has not been named in any civil suits, she has not even had her love life damaged. She has never even apologized. Her identity as a self proclaimed “victim” has magically shielded her up until this very minute (the WaPo STILL won’t print her name) even though it is abundantly clear that she is not a victim at all but a perpetrator of a fraud (while on the flip side, white males are automatically presumed to be guilty without any evidence at all – if the left didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.) Do you have any doubt that if Haven Monahan had really existed that he would not have been allowed to remain enrolled as a student at UVa?
In our system, people who have committed major offenses (and she has) are allowed to “get on with their life” only after they have paid their debt to society. This manipulative woman (she is no poor girl) hasn’t paid squat. My only hope is that people like Jackie tend to come to no good end on their own.
And of course, Steve was not bringing this up spontaneously – he was responding to a recent WaPo story which is turn was triggered by the information that has been revealed in connection with the pending lawsuits. So it was entirely newsworthy and appropriate.
