More on Dodd

Joseph Farah’s has a column on another Democrat hypocrisy. This time it’s on racism via Sen. Christopher Dodd’s praise of past KKK leader Sen. Robert Byrd:

Dodd's comments were 100 times more offensive and egregious than were Lott's. He was talking about a bonafide racist – not a repentant racist, but one who only recently was forced to apologize for using the "n-word" in an interview with Tony Snow.

Remember how Lott's comments were scrutinized endlessly by the media? And they were right to do so. Lott became a political distraction on the national landscape because of his gaffe. But Dodd has no such worries. You see, he has gotten a free ride from the major media.

Besides a few talk-radio shows, including mine, Dodd's comments have been little reported anywhere and the TV talking heads have scarcely noticed his remarks.

Even Dodd's political adversaries in the Senate have been stunningly quiet about the outrage – with the exception of Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., who pointed out the hypocrisy of Democrats for overlooking the offenses of one of their own.

Perhaps the greatest irony in all of this are Dodd's own words about the Lott affair back in 2002: "If a Democratic leader had made [Lott's] statements, we would have to call for his stepping aside, without any question whatsoever."

He continued, "If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift. I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside."

Note the media bias and let’s not forget the SDP post on Daschle’s involvement in this hypocrsiy on racism. DVT also found other bloggers who covered this issue as the liberal media ignore it.