The Unbelievable Defense of William “90K” Jefferson

An amazing thing is happening in politics and the news. There is a rush to defend William “$90,000 in my Freezer” Jefferson, Democrat, Louisiana.

NewsBusters.com points out the hypocracy of AP:

the AP worked hard to leave out something very important but very basic in an article about Democratic US Representative William Jefferson’s 16-count bribery indictment. What the AP left out was any identification of Jefferson’s party affiliation. In almost 30 paragraphs, no where is there any hint of what party Jefferson belongs to, not even a “(D-LA).”

MSNBC is portraying the story this way:

Democratic leaders fear that Rep. William J. Jefferson’s indictment yesterday on racketeering and bribery charges, coming exactly one year after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered his ouster from the powerful Ways and Means Committee, could rekindle a smoldering dispute between the speaker and black lawmakers who were once pillars of her power.

The New York Times provides this unbelievably sympathetic quote in the story titled “Lawmaker Indicted Could Hurt State”:

“It hurts to lose that kind of experience, if that’s what it means,” said Oliver M. Thomas Jr., the City Council president. “It’s another shot to a recovering community.”

Their local news station, KATC, paints Jefferson’s indictment this way:

The corruption indictment Monday against U.S. Rep. William Jefferson dealt another setback to a city struggling to recover from the economic and political devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Can you imagine those same stories being written about a conservative Republican? It is truly unbelievable to watch the double standard.

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