“There was a racial undercurrent to some of the arguments made at the meeting, the participants said, given that [Joe] Morrissey and a majority of the General Assembly are white, and the 17-year-old at the heart of his conviction is black, as is a majority of his Richmond-area legislative district.”
…Whoa, whoa, whoa.
She was what?
Are you telling me that a white guy with a history of predating on women got convicted of a sex crime involving his underage, African-American receptionist, and nobody in the media thought to mention that minor fact?
Morrissey is perilously close to being their collective nightmare when it comes to sex and power imbalances.
But apparently the ‘D’ after Joe Morrissey’s name washes away sins.
It certainly helps when you need to obscure key details on a scandal for as long as humanly possible.
Seriously: the fact that this is first I – somebody who actually has been following the story – have heard of this demonstrates, point-blank, that the media fell down on the job.
Again. “And again and again and again and again.”
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