I usually try to be very careful when I write, so it’s sometimes a great pleasure to read a column by someone who just lets it all out.
In this case, it’s a column from the Dallas Observer by Jim Schutze: “Fired Assistant DA Jody Warner Accuses Uber Driver of Scaring Her. Oh, Please.”
It’s one of those rare columns in which he writes what most of us might think privately but never express in so many words.
Ah, and what words!
District Attorney Faith Johnson fired Jody Warner, 32, an experienced assistant prosecutor, on Monday after Johnson reviewed an audio recording of Warner drunkenly threatening and abusing 26-year-old Uber driver Shaun Platt over the weekend. In a press conference Tuesday, Warner set some kind of new world record for the least apologetic apology since Donald Trump did Access Hollywood.
Bad enough. But wait. Worse than Trump. Way worse. Through tears and much wiping of the nose, Warner made a completely off-the-wall gratuitous suggestion that Platt, the driver, was some kind of sexual predator and that’s why she got upset. That would have been like Trump saying he had to grab women there in order to proactively protect himself from personal violation.
I would throw in some more quotes, but instead I’ll just have to let you read the column yourselves.
My thanks go to a high school classmate who called my attention to the column. “Even if you have heard about this incident, read this particular account,” she said in an email. Oh, she was so right.
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Spot on!