UNEQUAL OUTRAGE – AT 10:02 P.M. ET:  A story now getting wide circulation holds that some black members of Congress were cursed and spat at by tea partiers protesting the health bill outside the Capitol.

If it is true, and I have no reason to doubt the testimony of Congressman John Lewis and other black congressmen of fine reputation, then the tea party movement must immediately, and I mean immediately, denounce and condemn these scummy individuals, try to identify them, and drum them out of the movement.  I've never seen anything racial about the tea party phenomenon.  It is impossible to control every individual who shows up at a Capitol rally.  Some nuts may have joined in.

That having been said, I have a question:  Why is it that, when anti-black racism is charged, it becomes a headline story, but bigotry against other groups is largely ignored by the press?  Now, don't get me wrong.  The anti-black racism must be exposed and stomped out.  But I've seen CSPAN coverage of so-called "anti-war" rallies and pro-abortion demonstrations in which the most vile anti-Christian and anti-Semitic filth is spouted, and it isn't even reported.  If I weren't watching CSPAN, I wouldn't have known about it.

There is a double standard.  It's one of the reasons the press is held in such low regard.  The double standard must end.

March 20, 2010