Remember back in 2004 when Vice President Dick Cheney looked Senator Patrick Leahy in the eyes and said, “Go f-ck yourself?”
Foul language on the floor of the Senate? Good gracious sakes alive! It was reported by the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, the Associated Press, New York Times, CNN and all the usual liberal suspects. And based on their reaction, one would have thought the world was about to end.
Well, now we have a similar situation with a House Democrat saying exactly the same thing to another House Democrat, but the same media that was horrified by Cheney is silent about the Democrat.
Politico has the story of Russ Carnahan’s vocabularic violation:
Rep. Russ Carnahan has all but agreed to avoid a primary fight against Rep. Lacy Clay if, as expected, the two Democrats are drawn into the same district by the Missouri legislature.
But for detente to occur, there had to be hostilities.
Two weeks ago, a frustrated Carnahan approached Clay on the House floor. Carnahan had been hoping to get Clay and fellow Missouri Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleave to pressure Gov. Jay Nixon to veto a Republican remapping of the state’s congressional districts. Not only had Clay and Cleaver declined to help, they had stopped taking Carnahan’s calls on the matter.
“[F—-] you,” Carnahan said, according to a source who heard the obscenity. Then, with sarcasm, he added “Thanks for your help.”
And the media responds with a collective yawn.
Source: Politico
