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They are being very, very nice to her. Dare I say the "liberal-democrat friendly- media" is trying to bury this one?
Yup, they are.
[/ QUOTE ]True, but in fairness, lame comments usually make for lame television, even the offensiveness of it wasn't enough to make that joke interesting.
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Now some of You know I don't side with one party or another. But if this was uttered by a Republican, regardless of gender, creed, race, etc. There would probably be an outcry for that person's resignation.
[/ QUOTE ]There's a couple of our society's traits at play here:
1. Minorities have a greater allowance for bigotry. From the misogyny of black culture to elitism of asian culture, that's just how it works, a white man saying the same thing would have a greater impact, no matter the party.
2. Democrats are the only option for the discriminated. What's his face was made to resign largely because the Republican party is holding an unprecedented percentage of the minority vote and the they're nervous even the slightest show of bigotry will send them running back to the Democrats. If a Democrat is shown to be bigoted, the minorities are never going to vote Republican in response.
It's a two party system, there's nothing a Democrat can say that'll seem worse than the stances Rebulicans have traditionally taken on minority issues (most recently affirmative action), so her comment just doesn't have much significance any way around.
...and every media source is biased as hell, one way or another, most American news sources are heavily biased towards sensationalism and whatever will cause the fewest accusations of favortism. Republicans will sneer at their treatment of Hillary, but many Americans like her and her multitudinous detractors just aren't vocal enough for this to earn more coverage.