I was poking around the Internet on the story about Elizabeth Lauten — you know, that GOP staffer who went on line to criticize the President’s daughters.
Her comments were most certainly inappropriate. Going after the non-adult children of any politician is just wrong. Malia and Sasha were doing nothing wrong and, frankly, I thought their attire was just fine for the occasion (their dad pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey). The criticism was merely a matter of misplaced opinion, at best, or mean-spirited partisanship, at worst.
The internet sleuths discovered that, according to the press, Lauten had “quite a rap sheet.” They noted the 31-year-old Lauten was charged with shoplifting at age 17 and was issued a speeding ticket at 19. To me “quite a rap sheet” needs more that youthful indiscretions – not that I am excusing either event.
Having said all that, I still find the massive publicity roll out as quite incredible. You would have thought that Lauten was guilty of some egregious crime – at least one Class A felony. The hyperventilating hyperbole crowd called her online comments “cyber bullying” – the latest over stated political correctness pseudo crime. As always, application of the exaggerated charge demeans serous and damaging bullying.
Of course, the liberal Democrat megaphone, amplified, as usual, by a subservient press, suggested that this is yet another example of universal Republican or conservative thinking. The event was hyped so much that it was actually a topic in a Josh Earnst White House briefing.
In fact, this was nothing more than an obscure GOP employee offering up a tasteless and inappropriate comment. It did not deserve the publicity it got, and she probably should have suffered no more than a verbal admonishment from her boss.
The media and blogger feeding frenzy was more immediate and more extensive than a number of other real news stories – Benghazi, finding the IRS Lerner emails, the several caught-on-tape Jonathan Gruber admissions of official deceit in passing Obamacare and others. In these cases, the Main Stream Media takes on the role of political censor.
Oh, What about Donny Ray Williams?
No, I did not affix the wrong headline to this blog. The fact that most of you have to do a name search on Google to discover almost anything about this guy is also very telling.
For almost 15 years, Williams has been a top Democrat operative, having works for Homeland Security, Senator Mary Landreau (D-LA), Representative Elija Cummings (D-MD), Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and even the Obama White House for a brief stent. During that time, he has also been a serial rapist.
In return for dropping 10 charges of sexual assault, Williams confessed to two. He played at the highest levels of the Democrat hierarchy, commits arguably 10 Class-A crimes against women, and nothing in the daily news stories.
This is just another example of the outrageous imbalance of reporting by the Main Stream Media. Since the start of the Obama administration, the liberal lean of most news outlets has collapsed in to a mere repetition of talking points and narratives emanating from the Democratic Party.
It is no wonder that despite all the demonizing by the Main Stream Media, FOX News dominates the ratings. In the tradition that you can lead a horse to water, but not make it drink, the Main Stream Press is yet to discover that you can dish out propaganda-as-news, but you cannot make the public swallow it.