Note the AP will never question the political climate of a state that elects a former high-ranking Klansman to the U.S. Senate... of course, if this was South Carolina, Texas or Mississippi (with GOP Senators and Governors), well you remember the political lynching they did to Dubya when that Black guy was dragged behind a truck.
You are 100 percent absolutely right.
I commented in another thread about this crime that there were no political ramifications, because depraved animals exist in both political parties, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an institutional bias in lamestream media when covering such stories. If perchance, Robert KKK Byrd was a Republican, you can bet the media would be playing up the ‘Grand Kleagle’ angle 24/7 regarding the horrifying assault on this girl.