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The liberal TV news blackout of the “gender-fluid” rapes in Loudoun County, Virginia was finally broken Wednesday evening by NBC Nightly News and correspondent Catie Beck. But it was anything but fair as the network took to suggesting the cases and the school district were being exploited by parents along with the state and national Republican Party as they looked for an upset in the tight race for governor and beyond.
After desperately trying to ignore the firestorm for two weeks, anchor Lester “fairness is overrated” Holt broke the news to his audience. “A school board in Virginia is at the center of a firestorm. Parents demanding resignations after they say a sexual assault on campus was covered up,” he announced before questioning the motives of parents: “Now, it is a hot button issue in the state's very tight governor's race.”
Beck’s report started off well enough, noting that at a school board meeting Tuesday night “parents reach a boiling point. Once, again, school board members facing the heat.”
Although she omitted the “gender-fluid” identity of the attacker, Beck gave a half-decent rundown of the facts of the case.
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