Heard the one about John Edwards and his love child? Well if you haven't maybe it's because you are a victim of the mainstream media's evil liberal bias. Over at Slate Jack Shafer is taking the press to task for refusing to report Monday's National Enquirer's Edwards love-child story. If Larry Craig was fair game for all what makes Edwards so special? Isn't he also a hypocrite who deserves the same over the coals treatment at Craig received last year. Why the kid-glove treatment? Is this maybe less about a liberal bias than a homosexual one? Lord knows middle-aged politicians cheating on their wives is a entirely novel story-line.

At least three-dozen daily newspapers in the United States published the Craig news the day after the Roll Call scoop...but this morning not a single U.S. daily mentioned the Enquirer piece...Or are they observing a double standard that says homo-hypocrisy is indefensible but that hetero-hypocrisy deserves an automatic bye?