Consider these two facts:
1. Rick Perry, the Republican governor of Texas threatened to veto and then actually vetoed funding for the Travis County District Attorney's office when the DA was arrested and convicted of driving while drunk and then refused to resign.
2. Mary Landrieu, the Democrat senator from Louisiana, allegedly used government money to pay for a series of trips between Washington and New Orleans even though the trips were for the purpose of campaigning. Use of such government funds rather than using campaign/private money to pay for the trips would be a felony.
Now consider the response to these two facts:
1. Perry has been indicted by, you guessed it, a grand jury run by the Travis County District Attorney's office, the office of the drunk DA. The media has reported the indictment over and over again. I just read an article asking whether the indictment "disqualifies" Perry as a candidate for 2016.
2. Landrieu announced an internal investigation by her own attorney into the charges of wrongful use of government funds. She also announced that she had repaid the government thousands of dollars for trips where the cost was inadvertently charged to the public. There is almost no discernible media coverage of this story.
So a Republican governor does nothing but carry out his job responsibilities and he gets indicted and smeared in the media. A Democrat senator allegedly misappropriates public money for her own purposes, is forced to pay at least some of the money back and announces a whitewash investigation by her own lawyer which will surely find no wrongdoing. Nothing happens to the senator and the media doesn't even bother to cover the story.
Draw your own conclusions.
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