New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg agrees with NBC News: The key takeaway from the Loudoun County, Virginia, school sexual abuse scandal is that conservatives are bad.

By now, you probably know the most important details of the story. A teenage girl was beaten and forcibly sodomized in a school bathroom on May 28 by a skirt-wearing 15-year-old male. Loudoun school officials, who now admit they were aware of the assault, initially tried to cover it up, going so far as to deny at a June 22 board hearing there have been any assaults in school bathrooms in the district.

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