C'mon, Biden should have been lynched too, for what he said. However, I think Lott is not exactly an example of good behavior, and that is what I tried to argue.
So we agree that the main stream media are masters of `special pleading', e.g. NOW and Boy Clinton.
Recall that Bob Packwood was considered a `moderate' conservative, or a "good, acceptable (or at least not evil) Republican" until they got tired of him and excoriated him for playing `tonsil-hockey', I believe, with unwilling female aides. But he did that for years.
Again the issue isn't or shouldn't be a divisive one for us, specific cases like Packwood or Lott; the issue remains, the MSM uses a double-standard when reporting on conservatives and liberals and that standard is dictated by liberal folkways and mores.