The Clintonoids had White House officials dying under mysterious circumstances, and now the Obamunists have White House officials waging war against the cops. Funny how this sort of crap never seems to happen in Republican White Houses, huh?
Not that you'd ever know it from the utter absence of media coverage:
A White House staffer was arrested after she allegedly fired a gun at an off-duty U.S. Capitol police officer Friday morning during a domestic dispute in Upper Marlboro.
According to Prince George's County police, officers responded to a home in the 13000 block of Burnished Wood Court at around 5:30 a.m. Friday for a report of a shooting. A preliminary report found Barvetta Singletary texted the officer at around 2:30 a.m. to come to her house for sexual intercourse.
In light of the pic above, a fate arguably worse than getting shot.
After engaging in intercourse, Singletary, thirty-seven, asked the officer about another female he was dating, according to charging documents. The officer then asked Singletary to walk outside towards his vehicle.
In other words, the whole thing was a trap.
Once outside and in the vehicle, Singletary asked the officer where his cell phones were. When the officer refused to reveal that information, Singletary reached into the officer's bag and grabbed two cell phones and his service weapon, according to charging documents.
The officer then ran back inside the home, followed by Singletary. Once inside, police say the officer pleaded with Singletary to return his gun while she demanded the passwords for his phones.
After some time, Singletary then fired a shot in the direction of the officer, who then fled the residence, according to charging documents.
Singletary, a White House aide, is charged with first and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment. No one was injured during the incident.
A White House aide assaulting a member of a federal police force with his stolen service weapon not long after her boss gave an impassioned speech about the need for more gun control that makes almost twice annually what I earned even at the apex of my now-defunct (first) career. A fact that I find singularly infuriating.
Whereas the comparative interest of the Obamedia in actual Obama White House scandals versus fabricated kerfuffles about Republicans is merely wearisome for its insatiable repetition:
Let's just not forget how this week [last December] began: With a sweaty, embarrassing, round of rock-tossing at now-former House Republican staffer Elizabeth Lauten. As the Thanksgiving news cycles began, Lauten experienced some strong emotions about the way Sasha and Malia Obama acted during the ceremonial presidential pardoning of a turkey. "Your mother and father don’t respect their positions very much," wrote Lauten on Facebook, by way of saying that the girls lacked role models. "Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar."
This was not "news," in the traditional sense of the term. Lauten was one of hundreds of communications staffers on the Hill....Lauten erred in criticizing the first daughters, insofar as she was a communications pro who did not get the invisible memo that no one is supposed to attack political children, but her bigger error was doing this during a news lull. She was ripped apart in what is for obvious reasons called "Black Twitter," where resentment about any personal disrespect for the Obamas is intense. She resigned. [emphasis added]
In fear for her life, from people like, well, Barvetta Singletary, no doubt.
And the press covered this like Lauten had stuffed the Obama girls in the trunk of a car and driven into Mexico. As Alana Goodman documented at the Washington Free Beacon, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today Show both gave precious time to the Lauten resignation, and two news trucks parked outside her parents' home. The three main evening news broadcasts, on which time is even more precious, all covered Lauten. The fate of a GOP staffer who blurted about the president's daughters was judged to be important enough to take up four and a half of the sixty-six minutes the networks were using to describe everything that happened on Earth that day. [emphasis added]
But all the Obama White House does is put out a bland, blatantly "We'll let it blow over and then you can come back" statement about Miss Singletary's "unpaid leave," and the media deemed it not newsworthy that a violent, unstable gun nut is working in close proximity to the gun-grabbing president of the United States.
But if a single member of the Walker White House gets so much as a fart caught sideways, it'll be blaring headline news for a month.
Media bias has shamelessly been the case for half a century. It's part of the cosmic media background radiation. White noise. So I, for one, try not to get too hung up on it because if you do, you'll be constantly, unsustainably, blitheringly angry in perpetuity. It's not so much that we have to accept it, but we do have to pace ourselves.
But when the blatant double-standards, the sheer toxic unfairness of it all, reaches these proportions....well, Mollie Hemingway did say it best.
Exit thought: I'd have put Miss Singletary on the short list for Hillary's VP if the latter hadn't made already made that functionally impossible.
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