<There was a tremendous fuss over it. Hell, you're still quoting it. If there had been no fuss, would you know?

This is just like your statement the Harvard graduation speaker got away with using "jihad". There was a fuss over that, too. Or you wouldn't have known.



As you noted, probably without meaning to, without Fox, talk radio, and other conservative-leaning news outlets, the whole incident probably would have been glossed over.

What consequence do you want Byrd to face? The old man made a pretty complete fool of himself. What would you call a consequence? What would make you happy?

Without going into gory details, I would want exactly the same thing to happen to Byrd as would have happened to Newt Gingrich had he used the term "white nigger" while he was Speaker of the House. I seriously doubt Newt saying "sorry" would have covered it, or that the general reaction would have been "sad" sympathy for an "old man."

The hypocrisy in this situation was obvious.