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The Daily KASS: Coverage of corruption has hypocritical scent
When it comes to covering corruption, is there a media double standard, one for weak black politicians and another for powerful white guys?

African-Americans like the hapless Sen. Tombstone, or Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, the Urkel of local politics, deserve the thwackings they get. When Burris or Stroger give a foolish non-answer, that or even a no-comment becomes news, evidence of their nefariousness. Not so with the much pinker bosses, like Mayor Richard Daley or Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Lisa's Daddy), two bullies who believe in democracy as long as they can play king.

Burris' few lies to a state impeachment committee are nothing compared with the hundreds of millions devoured by corruption in the Daley administration. And Madigan still hasn't been held to account for his flunky, state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-Madigan), holding onto the bombshell Burris affidavit--the one in which Burris revealed his earlier lies under oath--by slipping it into her desk drawer.
The full analysis raises some interesting questions, but misses one biggie: How did Obama get a free pass? The best anybody could say about his connections to The Machine is that he somehow managed to tiptoe through the muck without getting his boots dirty. Where's the leader who is willing to turn the fire hose on the whole stinking mess?
Posted by: mom 2009-02-20
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