The Mayor Gets a Pass
By Michael Medved
Why do some political scandals grab national headlines but others make only local news? A recent trial highlighting the appalling corruption of Detroit's mayor certainly deserves more media attention: a jury awarded $6.5 million of city funds to two cops who guarded Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick before making charges about his drunken orgies in the Mayor's mansion, cover-up of drunk driving, and diversion of public money to frolics with his mistress and to mollify his wife. Mayor Kilpatrick charged the jury with racism, but both of the officers he fired for reporting on his misdeeds were black and one of them was a deputy police chief.
If the Mayor had been a white Republican, the judgment against him--with jurors flatly calling him a liar--would have rocked the nation, but our media culture chooses to ignore this lurid and appalling case that happens to center on a youthful, African-American Democrat--best known up till now for his two diamond earrings.
Why do some political scandals grab national headlines but others make only local news? A recent trial highlighting the appalling corruption of Detroit's mayor certainly deserves more media attention: a jury awarded $6.5 million of city funds to two cops who guarded Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick before making charges about his drunken orgies in the Mayor's mansion, cover-up of drunk driving, and diversion of public money to frolics with his mistress and to mollify his wife. Mayor Kilpatrick charged the jury with racism, but both of the officers he fired for reporting on his misdeeds were black and one of them was a deputy police chief.
If the Mayor had been a white Republican, the judgment against him--with jurors flatly calling him a liar--would have rocked the nation, but our media culture chooses to ignore this lurid and appalling case that happens to center on a youthful, African-American Democrat--best known up till now for his two diamond earrings.
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