Media Double Standard on Racism
by Kevin McCullough

Pretend the nightmare of an Al Gore administration had ever come to pass. Pretend also that he had decided to name Donna Brazille as his Secretary of State. Pretend with me that Brazille had gone up to be confirmed and Republican senators began to harass her for any of the millions of silly things she had said in her public career. And imagine if one of the Republicans had slipped off their meds and said something along the lines of Brazille not having integrity on international relationships because she once said something naughty about "white boys".

The headlines would scream it across the front pages of America the next morning..."GOP SENATOR PICKS ON AFRICAN AMERICAN NOMINEE!"

Now suppose that a couple of Republican senators decide to take matters into their own hands and even though the nominee had been voted out of committee and to the floor they wanted to spike the nomination for a while simply because "they hadn't read the transcripts."

Well I think you get the picture - and we both know what would happen.

The media would go wild and the GOP would have a PR dilemma on their hands the size of a senator’s ego.

Yet the reverse is happening consistently with malcontents who feign an existence as liberal, Democratic United States Senators and nary a word is printed. How come?

Am I the only one in the room that sees a small irony in allowing a former Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan to obstruct the nomination of a well-qualified African-American? And let's be clear here - Donna Brazille, however qualified politically, ain't no - Condoleeza Rice in terms of foreign policy qualifications. In fact I doubt 5 or 6 Donna Brazilles would be.

And it’s not just Byrd.

Senator Edward Kenned has decided to pull the same stunt against Alberto Gonzales - the first Latino to ever be named to the post of Attorney General. Come to think of it, he also had nasty pointed things to say about Miguel Estrada.

So Senator Kennedy stalls on Hispanics, and Byrd won't let a gifted African American take her place in history.

For all the discussion that the Democratic Party tries to put forward about diversity they seem be quite intolerant of it.

What they actually desire are ideological clones that believe, walk, dress, sit, eat and drink exactly like them. For "minorities" who choose not to, they will not confirm them, no matter how qualified.

And with the emergence of the blogosphere one thing is certain. Even if the mainstream media chooses to look the other way on all of the Democratic bad behavior - bloggers won't, nor Brit Hume, nor talk radio.

But the double standard for Democrats and Republicans on race in the mainstream media will apparently continue. Eventually - like the sewer - all this stuff will back up on them

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