September 18, 2017

Newsweek buries the story of Seattle's Democrat mayor being forced to resign because...


In a barely-covered story, the Democrat mayor of hugely-liberal/Democrat Seattle managed to dodge and deflect claims from 4 unrelated males that the mayor sexually assaulted them when they were under-age.

The mayor strongly denied all 4 charges and refused to resign--and why should he if the charges were false?  But after #4 he made what he apparently considered a big concession:  He said that after his term expired in November, he wouldn't seek re-election.

Then someone discovered a sealed case file in neighboring Oregon, confirming that 33 years earlier, one of the boys had sought counseling after claiming that the guy had indeed sexually assaulted him.

Then just recently a 5th accuser came forward--this time a family member.  And finally the mayor resigned.

That's all just background.  The crazy story now is how Newsweek covered this:  As the former "fake news" magazine saw it, the real story wasn't the Democratic mayor's child abuse and lying denials, but the fact that Donald Trump junior used the mayor's case to "bash Democrats."  Yep.  The mag tweeted
"Donald Trump Jr. has used the resignation of Seattle's mayor over sex abuse allegations to bash the Democrats."
Now, I doubt anyone is surprised that Newsweek would so utterly twist the story from "Democrat mayor sexually assaults 5 underage boys, then falsely denies it when confronted" to an anti-Trump tweet.  I think we've all seen that absolutely nothing is off-limits when it comes to Liberal Democrats using "fake news" to either attack Republicans or cover for damaging acts by Democratic politicians.

So the hoot here isn't Newsweek's twisting the story---but the comments from Americans who caught 'em doing it!  Here are a few, and I suspect they'll delete the thread in minutes:

  * You mis-spelled CHILD abuse.  (Newsweek's headline omitted "child" entirely)
  * Democrat mayor screws kids and you made the story about Trump Junior??  Really??
  * Wow, you guys totally lack self-awareness!  (Oh I think they're aware, just trying to deflect anger.)
  * Definitely the most important part of the saga of the Dem mayor is Trump Junior's reaction.
  * Shouldn't Newsweek be joining Trump Junior in bashing child abuse?  How many now?
  * You're actually blaming DJT jr for condemning a pedophile?  Wow, the Left is truly evil.
  * And yet you wonder why people think the media is biased or goes for fake news...
  * Democrat mayor assaults 5 underage boys and you make the story about Trump junior?
  * Thanks for standing up for pedophiles against the bigots who criticize them, Newsweek!

There were probably a hundred comments along these lines.  And a lot of "This is why we elected Trump."

Okay, in the grand scheme of things this isn't a big deal, but I thought it was amusing that so many readers caught Newsweek doing the "Look!  Squirrel!" thing with this story.

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