{"id":3289,"date":"2010-12-21T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/21\/the-double-standard-rears-its-ugly-head-again\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T19:41:27","slug":"the-double-standard-rears-its-ugly-head-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/21\/the-double-standard-rears-its-ugly-head-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The double standard rears its ugly head, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbour defends comments on race, but is the damage done to his potential 2012 bid?<\/a><\/p>\n

“A pattern of remarks is a different matter than one off-the-cuff anecdote that suggests a man remembers the elders of his youth through rose-colored glasses,” Geraghty writes. “Watermelon jokes are appalling. Perhaps in that time and place the comment was common, but to modern ears, across the country today, it’s an unthinkably obnoxious and racially provocative remark.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This kind of thing only hurts Republicans, of course. Democrats get away with murder…. or at least, former membership in murderous organizations<\/a>. And “insensitive remarks” seem only to harm Republicans, too.<\/p>\n

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