Dear Media: This Elizabeth Lauten Nonsense Is Why Everybody Hates You

[Valin]

The Federalist:

Mollie Hemingway

December 3, 2014

 

Last week, President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey prior to Thanksgiving Day, as is tradition. And as in previous years, his teenage daughters Malia and Sasha stood by his side. The daughters are cute as can be — and Malia is growing into an absolutely beautiful young woman.

 

They are, however, teenagers. And they were, I guess, engaged in some mild teenage behavior — eye-rolling and smirking and what not. I watched a video of the event and didn’t really notice anything worth commenting on (apart from the interesting annual practice of Obama signing the cross over the turkey). But one minor Capitol Hill staffer thought the girls were dressed inappropriately and acted a bit churlish. And then, for some reason, she wrote about it on Facebook.

At which point some people lost their everliving minds. Her comments were posted on Twitter where the social media mob fed their hankering for constant outrage. There were petitions calling for her to be punished. And worst of all the media wrote and broadcast story after story after story about the matter. Elizabeth Lauten lost her job for saying mean things about President Obama’s children.

 

Now, Lauten is in communications and her job presumably included an assumption that she wouldn’t embarrass her boss. Besides, in a city where you can keep your job even if you’re involved in serious scandals at the IRS, State Department, Veterans Affairs or the Department of Justice, an actual job loss is refreshing, in its own way. She even gave a full-throated apology — within hours of the initial post — for being mean, not one of these “I’m sorry if” constructions that politicians frequently use.

 

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There are wa-a-ay too many other, more important things going on for the media to focus on.

[Valin]

A clarifying period of media bias
Noah Rothman

December 3, 2014

 

Mary Katharine Ham’s review of the multiple counts of sexual assault to which Donny Ray Williams Jr., a former Democratic staffer, plead guilty on Tuesday is required reading.

 

She observed that the 10 counts to which Williams confessed to range from spiking a woman’s drink with Ambien in order to have sex with her to getting another woman intoxicated at his home to a point where she could not give consent to their sexual activity.

 

“Prepare for think pieces on the toxic environment that led to this type of behavior,” she warned. “Prepare for many questions of his former bosses about what blinded them to the abuse happening under their noses.”

 

Well, we haven’t seen much in the way of garment rending on the left about the “rape culture” pervasive within the Democratic Party or even Washington D.C. more neutrally. One would think that kind of analysis is deserved considering that it seems that local prosecutors are going to let Williams off easy.

 

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A clarifying period of media bias

Noah Rothman

December 3, 2014

 

Mary Katharine Ham’s review of the multiple counts of sexual assault to which Donny Ray Williams Jr., a former Democratic staffer, plead guilty on Tuesday is required reading.

 

She observed that the 10 counts to which Williams confessed to range from spiking a woman’s drink with Ambien in order to have sex with her to getting another woman intoxicated at his home to a point where she could not give consent to their sexual activity.

 

“Prepare for think pieces on the toxic environment that led to this type of behavior,” she warned. “Prepare for many questions of his former bosses about what blinded them to the abuse happening under their noses.”

 

Well, we haven’t seen much in the way of garment rending on the left about the “rape culture” pervasive within the Democratic Party or even Washington D.C. more neutrally. One would think that kind of analysis is deserved considering that it seems that local prosecutors are going to let Williams off easy.

 

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10 counts & he gets probation?

 

 

 

He's running a "Blacks on Blondes" porn studio & using incapacitated women. How about a sexual slavery charge?

 

Oh...wait....protected species....black, gentle giant Democrat.

 

Billy Jeff Clinton....our first black pResident....and serial rapist?

 

This is just another chapter in the Democrat's War-on-Women.....the Rape Culture.

 

He worked for panels chaired by Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.). He also said he worked for Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.).

 

 

 

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