Hillary vs. Rush on Race

The most widely heard complaint regarding Rush Limbaugh's observation that African-American quarterback Donovan McNabb received more favorable press coverage than he deserved goes something like this: Right or wrong, Limbaugh shouldn't have interjected McNabb's race into the argument.

But if Rush's critics really mean what they say, where were they two months ago when New York Sen. Hillary Clinton declared in the midst of a speech on civil rights that she was glad she grew up in the segregated suburbs?

Addressing the American Constitution Society on Aug. 3, Mrs. Clinton criticized Republicans for idealizing "the 1950s white suburbs for family life, which I grew up in and write about in my book – and am very grateful for – but didn't exactly describe the universal experience in America?"

Imagine if Limbaugh had said he was "grateful" that he grew up "in the 1950s white suburbs."

After all, which is worse: A political commentator observing that the press practices affirmative action when it comes to covering black quarterbacks, or the most powerful Democrat in the country clearly suggesting that the all-white culture of her youth was superior to anything black America had to offer at the time?

Of course, there was no press coverage [except for NewsMax] when Hillary touted her segregated roots. And little public outrage, except from the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, who called on Sen. Clinton to explain herself.

That's too bad. If conservatives demanded that liberals be held to the same standard they are, the left's racial McCarthyism would likely cease overnight.

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