Friday, July 31, 2009
Legislature / Politics / Woods McKensie Morrison Speaks Out: 'I Am Not a Wild Woman on a Hunt for Men'
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:00 PM
"I am not a bad person. I am not an extortionist. I am not a wild woman on a hunt for men. I'm a normal girl. I'm 22 years old. ... I haven't been charged with anything because I had nothing to do with it. The truth will come out in the end, and I think we will all pay for our mistakes and response. ... I feel like I can move on. I feel that I've learned. I'm hurt, and I'm beat up, and I'm emotionally scarred but all we have is the future and hope."Consider this interview a parting gift to the legislature from Stanley, the lech. If he only could have resigned with a little class, this never would have happened. Instead, he decided to blame the woman, even if she is only a 22-year-old college student, and now here's McKensie Morrison coming across as all sweet and innocent on TV and making the entire legislature look like a gang of creeps and perverts ... again. Pith is praying for them all. Watch the full interview here.
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Let's see if I've got this straight: On the day they busted the alleged extortionist, the TBI questioned Ms. Morrison in her office for several hours. As a result of that questioning, they filed no criminal charges against her. Instead their reaction was to:
1. Confiscate her i.d. and parking pass;
2. Tell her to clean out her desk;
3. Tell her leave the Capitol immediately and not to come back; and
4. Tell her not to talk to anyone about the incident.
They did not notify the person in charge of the legislature's intern program, or anyone else outside Sen. Stanley's office.
Pardon me for sounding suspicious, but it sounds like the TBI was more interested in clamping a lid on the story than anything else.
I have been wondering if any of the lawyers in the Legislature have explained slander law to Stanley. I don't believe accusing a former legislative intern of criminal acts can be considered part of his official duties and protected speech.
I'm just glad Cara Kumari got that exclusive with McKensie. She's our Nashville Barbara Walters. A great reporter. ms. Dru Smith Fuller, Green Hills News and Dru's Vues, too Blog
What to say about Senator Stanley? Here we have a family values champion who does not worry about his own family. He does, however, worry about OUR famiies. He wants to tell us how to live, how to reproduce, who to marry, where to worship, blah, blah, blah. He will never vote for any kind of social assitance for our families. He just want us all to go to church on Sunday, practice abstinence (as if he would know anything about abstinence), adhere to his view of the Sancticty of Marriage ( I do think our boy Stanley is confused about that part,) blah, blah. Stanley is just the most recent in a long line of GOP Hypocrites. I do feel sorry for his wife and children. Do I feel sorry for the poor victimized Stanley? No way. Kick the bum out for good.
Oh, legislators certainly are, as a class, abusive greedy pervs; but if you think female humans are innocent victims as a class, I have some stock in Lehman Brothers to sell you.
Bottom line: this was a terrible interview that left us with more questions than answers. Kumari had a golden opportunity to get to the bottom of how this whole thing happened and she muffed it.
We don’t know when and how the affair began, we don’t know whose decision it was to take the pictures, we don’t know anything about the nature of the relationship between Morrison and Watts, we don’t know who the news organization was that offered $7,500 for the pictures, the TBI suggests there was direct contact between Morrison and Watts on the day of the planned payoff in Whites Creek, what was that all about? Florida press reports suggest Morrison's admitted to having a crack addiction in the past, where were the questions about that? And most obvious of all, what does she have to say to Stanley's wife and kids?
I wonder if Kumari’s interview had been with Stanley whether she’d have lobbed the same type of softballs in HIS lap?
This was a weak interview. Even accounting for the disinclination to skewer a young woman who was likely the weaker of the two in the Stanley/Morrison relationship, this was really not well done. It ends up being more stream of consciousness from the young woman.
"1. Confiscate her i.d. and parking pass;
2. Tell her to clean out her desk;
3. Tell her leave the Capitol immediately and not to come back; and
4. Tell her not to talk to anyone about the incident."
I don't think it was the TBI who could make these instructions(don't even know where you got #4), sounds like it would be the reaction for the intern program when they fire someone.
I'm sure MNPD and TBI sleep well at night knowing Nashville suddenly has 5000 online Sherlocks still tracking down McNair's real killer and putting together the real facts behind poor, victimized Paul Stanley.....
Most men would find "wild women" on their trail pretty appealing and men,obviously, aren't that hard to "bag". Seems they're both pretty poor, long-term relationship risks. But I agree: where the news in this story?
What amazes me is that the intern didn't demand to have a lawyer present when she was being grilled by the TBI.
According to Morrison, it was the TBI agents who copped her i.d., told her to leave and not come back, and told her not to discuss the matter with anyone.
Morrison also claims (in the interview) that the head of the intern program didn't know she had gotten the boot until days later.
I agree with the posters who thought this was a weak interview. The interviewer seemed embarrassed by the subject matter, instead of asking the uncomfortable questions straight on, like an adult. Since this was the interview every reporter in Tennessee wanted, it was a good "get," but weak on execution.
