Let me start this blog with a thank-you to CBS News – which, alone among the networks, has decided not to give Virginia Lieutenant Governor, Justin Fairfax, a free pass on the two rape allegations made against him.
You can read about – and watch the video of – one accuser, Meredith Watson telling her story, by clicking here.
A few excerpts:
In her first interview about the alleged incident, one of the two women accusing Justin Fairfax of sexual assault told “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King that she believes the now-Virginia lieutenant governor preyed on her because he knew she had been assaulted before.
“He knew that the year prior that I had been raped by someone and that nothing was done about it. And he was a very good friend to me,” Meredith Watson told King. “Which is why I never would’ve expected anything like this from him.”
Watson claims Fairfax assaulted and raped her in 2000, when they were both students at Duke University. She said the two were friends and that she had confided in him about being allegedly assaulted by a Duke basketball player the year before.
Watson went public just days after Vanessa Tyson accused Fairfax of sexually assaulting her while they were both working at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Tyson and Watson say they’ve never met. Fairfax adamantly denies their assault allegations.
“He forcibly sexually assaulted and raped me,” Watson said. “I was not on the bed, initially. There was a couch. And he pulled me over and I tried several times to get up and was pushed back down, held down.”
“It was very clear,” she said.
Fairfax has said the night in question was consensual. To that, Watson said, “If you have to hold someone down, it’s not consensual.”
Two women have come forth, both with credible accounts of sexual congress with Fairfax (they have to be credible, he doesn’t deny either of them). The only issue is whether it was consensual (Fairfax says yes, they say no).
And the Democrats’ “every women must be believed” crowd? Nowhere to be found.
Maybe that’s because so many of them are hiding from being asked about Joe Biden.
Now, if CBS, or one of the other networks, would do a story or two on the man Fairfax would succeed, Governor Ralph Northam, and his statement in favor of infanticide (that is NOT an exaggeration – click here and see for yourself), maybe I would start thinking mainstream media have finally started to retrieve some of their integrity.
I’m not counting on it.
