Can you imagine the obit of a Republican senator from the south who was a former member of the KKK, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the nomination of Thurgood Marshall? The guy would be crucified.
But, when it's a Democrat, as is the case with the now deceased Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the lede is glowing:
Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who was the longest-serving senator in US history, and whose grandiloquent oratory and unrivaled command of parliamentary rules made him the Senate's unofficial dean, died early this morning at Inova Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia. He was 92.
If he were a Republican, the lede would have been much, much, much different.
When Sen. Strom Thurmond died, the New York Times article was titled "Strom Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100."
Even worse, this was their lede when Sen. Jesse Helms died:
Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. He was 86.
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