This embargo is selectively practiced by legacy media. Consider the intemperate remarks made by Elizabeth Lauten, who remarked that the First Family's daughters should, "Dress like [they] deserve respect, not a spot at a bar." Lauten was forced to resign from her position as communications director for U.S. Representative Stephen Fincher, a Republican back-bencher.
The outrage machine went into high gear, with detailed segments on the network newscasts, twitter shitstorms, news vans parked in front of Lauten's parents' house, even a cadre of investigators dispatched to scour her personal history. Yes, Virginia, there is a War On Women, and it is being waged by the progressives, always at the ready to dehumanize a member of the other tribe.
Elizabeth Lauten is guilty of the cardinal sin of hypocrisy. At least she isn't a rapist, right?
The rapist nobody ever heard of is Donny Ray Williams. As of today, a Google search of his name turns up fewer than 700,000 results, one-fifth as many as Lauten's. Legacy media does not want you to know his name as much as it wants you to know Lauten's. Lauten's transgression is used to taint the G.O.P. If the media were not suppressing Williams' heinous crimes, his behavior might taint the Democratic Party.
All Williams did, under color of authority (Staff Director, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee), was spike a woman's drink with Ambien, and rape her while she slept. He has pled guilty to, among other things, third-degree sexual assault.
Where is the manufactured outrage about 'toxic masculinity?' Have the forty-year old allegations about Bill Cosby sucked all the oxygen out of the discussion regarding rape committed by powerful men? The truth is that the media wants to protect Democrats, even if it means suppressing stories like that of Donny Ray Williams and his victims.
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