According to the
Post, in November of 2017, a woman
approached them with the claim that after meeting up at the 2004 Democrat National Convention in Boston, Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex on him in his hotel room.
Fairfax denies any wrongdoing. He says the sex was consensual.
The
Post chose not to publish the story, the
Post decided we did not need to
know about this allegation — that we did not need to
know this particular piece of information, that
knowing about this did not rise to the standard of what we need to
know to keep us free.
Here is how the
Post explained its reasoning for keeping the American people from
knowing this:
The Post, in phone calls to people who knew Fairfax from college, law school and through political circles, found no similar complaints of sexual misconduct against him. Without that, or the ability to corroborate the woman’s account — in part because she had not told anyone what happened — The Post did not run a story.
Fair enough.
Except…
Later that same year, this is the same
Washington Post that very, very, very strongly believed we most definitely needed to
know about every single allegation against Brett Kavanaugh — you
know, the guy President Trump nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.
In fact, the
Post was so eager for us to
know about the allegations against Kavanugh, it was the
Post that broke the story wide open by reporting every sordid detail about the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford.
And yet…
While the
Post is correct that Fairfax’s accuser did not tell anyone about the alleged assault at the time… Uhm, neither did Ford.
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