Astonishingly, a DOUBLE Standard

Governor Mitt Romney, Republican (MA), caused a media stink when in Iowa last weekend. He referred to the "Big Dig" in his state as a "TAR BABY".

James Taranto in his Best of the Web column for the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal received examples of others use of "TAR BABY".

• The Boston Globe has used the term in at least two editorials, reports the Boston Herald's Victoria Buckingham: " In a 1994 editorial, the Globe described U.S. dealings with Iran as resembling a 'tar baby' and even articulated the term's assumed meaning in a 1998 editorial on China's censoring of the Internet: 'The Communist rulers of Beijing ended last year tangling with a tar baby. The tar baby--passive, sticky and invincible--was played by the Internet, which the leaders want to censor.' " (The Herald also referred to the Big Dig as a "tar baby" in a 2004 editorial.)
  
  
• Ditzy left-wing columnist Molly Ivins wrote in October 2001, "It now looks, with 20-20 hindsight, as though he should have taken a few more deep breaths before smacking that tar-baby that is Afghanistan."
  
  
• In a 2003 interview with the Boston Globe, John Kerry described 1992 hearings on missing soldiers in Vietnam as a political "tar baby."
  
  
• This past May, White House press secretary Tony Snow said of a program to monitor terrorist communication, "I don't want to hug the tar baby of trying to comment on the program--the alleged program--the existence of which I can neither confirm nor deny.
  
  
• The athletic teams at California's Compton High School are called the Tarbabes. (The population of Compton is more than 40% black.

Also, Toni Morrison penned a book titled, TAR BABY. Tony Snow took some heat for his use of the term, naturally he serves a Republican, but not a peep about the others.

Then to see this picture of Senator Joe Lieberman, with Bill Clinton, doctored to put him in blackface. The doctoring was done by Jane Hamsher and was posted, but removed, from Huffingtonpost.com

Hamsher is a Hollywood producer and fiberal blogger. She moved to Connecticut to support Ned Lamont over Lieberman in that Dummycrat primary.

Where's the outrage? Where's Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, oops they're in Connecticut working for Ned Lamont.