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On Thursday, CBS Evening News continued the network’s track record of being the only broadcast network to report on the allegation of domestic violence against DNC deputy chairman, Congressman Keith Ellison, which he denies. While both ABC and NBC had not said a word about the allegations since they broke late Saturday night, CBS sat down with Karen Monahan the ex-girlfriend accusing the Congressman.
From the very beginning of the report, the network was treating the subject with the seriousness that it deserved. “Congressman Keith Ellison, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a candidate for Minnesota attorney general, has denied allegations that he abused his ex-girlfriend,” announced anchor Jeff Glor. “Tonight, Karen Monahan is speaking on camera for the first time about an incident she says happened nearly two years ago.”
Reporter Jericka Duncan wasted little time in getting to Monahan’s account of what happened:
I was still in bed, and I was laying across the bed on my stomach. I was listening to my podcast, and he walked in. He said, "I need you to take the trash out." And I kept-- because I was on my stomach-- I heard him and I just went like that and shook my head. And he looked at me and goes, "Hey, you (bleep) Hear me?" And then he looked at me. He goes b[*]tch, get the (bleep) Out of my house," and he started to try to drag me off the bed. That's when I put my camera on to video him.
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