Sadly, if a public figure is politically correct, nothing bad he does matters, and if he is politically incorrect, the slightest thing becomes a major scandal.
Ted Kennedy drinks and drives, a girl dies with no attempt to help her, and he is "the lion of the Senate". Clarence Thomas possibly read Playboy and made a few ribald jokes, and he is a stupid, evil, sexist pervert.
“Sadly, if a public figure is politically correct, nothing bad he does matters, and if he is politically incorrect, the slightest thing becomes a major scandal.”
Exactly.
Barney Frank can sit around while his boy-toy runs a male prostitution ring out of his house. Media says squat. But... hey! Sarah Palin wore a one piece bathing suit in a beauty contest 20 years ago and it’s “news.”