If Kerry had uttered "Macaca," the mainstream media wouldn't have covered it. (Of course, our FREEP Truth Squad would be all over him...)
I have to agree with what John Podhoretz said over at the Corner: Kerry's comments today on our allegedly stupid men in uniform demonstrate how out of touch the man is. Insulting the soldiers in Iraq in front of a bunch of predictably liberal college students is not a smart thing to do; compounding the problem by playing the "chickenhawk" card makes George Allen's "macaca" gaffe seem Shakespearean by comparison. The alarming thing is that this man managed to get 48% of the vote just two years ago. The reassuring thing is that he will never ever come anywhere near the White House, although that was set in stone before this incident.