NBC Drops the Democrat Label for Newest Virginia Racial Gaffe

[See NewsBusters for more.] Now that it’s clear that none of top three Virginia Democrats engulfed in scandal will be resigning voluntarily, CBS and NBC have stepped up the effort to clean up their racial gaffes. During a tour of the governor’s mansion, First Lady Pamela Northam last week handed cotton to an African American child and asked her to “imagine” what it would be like to be a slave. On NBC’s Today, reporter Geoff Bennett explained this new problem facing the Governor’s wife: “A Virginia state employee said during a tour of the governor's mention, Pam Northam gave her daughter and another black student balls of cotton before asking them to imagine being enslaved.” Yet, like CBS, he never once used the word Democrat. Instead, Bennett explained only that scandal is enveloping “Virginia’s top elected leaders.”