The Washington Post reported yesterday that former Democratic congressional aide Donny Ray Williams Jr. pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two women back in 2010.
And news of Williams’ guilty plea has many conservatives wondering if the MSM will pay as much attention to a Democratic staffer who just admitted to sexually assaulting women as they did to Republican staffer Elizabeth Lauten who was forced to resign over a Facebook post she wrote critical of Malia and Sasha Obama:
@MattCover someone should tweet that dem staffer rape story to all the people who covered the lauten story…
— Ryan (@chasinghumility) December 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/LIBSRSCUM/status/540143648361312256
Dem staffer found guilty of date rape. Will the media coverage match that of GOP staffer Lauten’s Facebook post? http://t.co/lTz0GV0F2S
— Ricard (@Ricard_MN) December 3, 2014
Where's @amandamarcotte or @sandrafluke? Nothing on liberal Dem staffer and his rape spree? Crickets? Color me SHOCKED.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 3, 2014
Weird how our super-sensitive War on Women Rape Culture betters aren't en fuego on this Dem staffer. Who rapes people. Rape rape rape.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 3, 2014
And the reaction from MSM folks? Circle the wagons!
Here’s Dylan Scott from Talking Points Memo:
All these GOPers predicting that "the media" won't cover the Dem staffer rape charges are linking to a WashPost article, for chrissake.
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) December 3, 2014
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Scott’s tweet led to this back-and forth with the Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery jumping in:
https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/540162476290351104
@LoganDobson Just saying the complaint rings a little hollow when I'm saying it in WashPost, HuffPost, etc.
— Dylan Scott (@dylanlscott) December 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/540164648176480256
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/540165053391974400
Fair? Um, yeah. As one story is about rape and the other isn’t:
@WesleyLowery @LoganDobson @dylanlscott When one story is about a dumb facebook post and the other is about rape? Uh… yea.
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) December 3, 2014
Also Lowery is incorrect on the timing of the Williams story:
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/540166501396127745
@WesleyLowery @LoganDobson @dylanlscott He was indicted two years ago. That’s like saying Ferguson is a story going on for a week.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 3, 2014
Lowery added this defense:
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/540167144764235777
It’s “disingenuous”? Really?
It seems, however, that Lowery isn’t above making the same disingenuous comparison when he tweeted out his new article comparing the amount of money raised for businesses looted during the Ferguson protests two weeks ago with money raised for Darren Wilson since August:
OK https://t.co/rvJ7yWtBYR https://t.co/CpwIXRIVaL
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) December 3, 2014
And here are the two tweets Hemingway posted:
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/540149831050608641
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/540151340802920450
Context: Lowery is a hypocrite; Verdict: Nuked:
https://twitter.com/GrantGambling/status/540183974300364801
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/540185123405443072
https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/540185491656966146
@davidharsanyi @seanmdav @MZHemingway Wait for it, he's about to accuse you guys of not being able to read or something…
— John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) December 3, 2014
Lowery’s larger argument is to wait for the “full news cycle” on the Williams coverage:
https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/540168760091369473
Exit question: Does anyone really believe the MSM will cover Williams’ rapes with the same gusto as Lauten?
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Related:
Twitchy coverage of Elizabeth Lauten.
Twitchy coverage of Ferguson.
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