Apparently Wife-Beating Isn’t Big News in Ohio

As far as I can tell, not one news entity in Ohio has picked up the story about revelations of spousal abuse by Rep. Charlie Wilson in his divorce papers.

Not a one.

In fact, the only news groups that have even mentioned the story are Townhall.com, our old friend David Freddoso in the Washington Examiner, and here and a few other blogs. Compare this to the Mark Foley scandal, which broke in late September 2006 and dominated the final month of the campaign.

We don’t have a news business. We have a narrative reinforcement business, and they do a strikingly effective job of collectively averting their eyes from information that hurts their preferred cause. For Pete’s sake, this is wife-beating we’re talking about, and it is admitted in a public record. How is this not news? How is this not something that the voters in Ohio’s 6th Congressional District ought to know about before they cast their vote?

Here is the filed complaint. That’s very fucked up shit. How could anyone attack their wife like that? What a SCUMBAG.