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There is every likelihood that the medical examiner was right and she died from fainting and hitting her head on a desk in the office late at night while no one else was there and thus was found dead the next morning.
There were also things that seemed odd. As many of us remarked at the time, Lori was a 28 year old runner and had had a physical exam not so long before she died. The investigation was remarkably swift and virtually no one said anything after a few days. Everything was wrapped up nice and tidy. You cannot even find a picture of Lori Klausutis on the web, at least not easily.
Let's assume that the official finding is the correct one because there is no evidence otherwise. Can you imagine the furor that would have erupted if Joe Scarborough had been a Democratic congressman? Actually, I think it is very easy to imagine this because of California congressman Gary Condit. One of Mr. Condit's interns, Chandra Levy, disappeared in May of 2001, only two months before Lori Klausutis died in Mr. Scarborough's office. Unlike the situation with Mr. Scarborough, the Condit/Levy incident blew up into a national scandal that played out in the media for years and we didn't know for sure if Chandra was dead or simply didn't want to be found. In fact, it wasn't until 2009 when another person was indicted for Chandra Levy's death that suspicion finally was lifted from Gary Condit. By that time, Condit had lost his congressional seat having lost a 2002 primary, the first ever election that he had lost.
By the way, in contrast with Lori Klausutis, there are several thousand pictures of Chandra Levy on the web. We feel sorry for her and are made to transfer some of that as anger toward Mr. Condit (at least until the real killer was found) but there are no pictures of Lori for us to raise any kind of feelings for her or what happened to her.
While it is true that a difference in the two situations was that Mr. Condit had admitted to an affair with Chandra Levy, its also true that there was literally a body found in Mr. Scarborough's office, i.e. the office of a sitting US Congressman. Like with Mr. Condit, had Joe Scarborough been a Democrat, regardless of whether any evidence pointed to his guilt, it would have been front page news for years and he would have been so tarnished by GOP innuendo that there is no way he would have landed the cushy and lucrative job at MSNBC.
Getting back to the Twitter fight between Moulitsas and Scarborough, the raising of the Lori Klausutis issue really upset Mr. Scarborough. Mr. Scarborough issued the following tweet several times:
JoeNBC Anyone in media who interviews @markos, know that you're extending your credibility to someone who regularly suggests that I'm a murderer.
And also said things like:
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