Double standard

Joel Stein's excellent column asks an important question of voting citizens, but I think we can extend this to media coverage. He asks if people can handle a "hot" woman VP, and whether that would color our attitudes and voting habits. How about media coverage? Rush Limbaugh is practically drooling over himself, but among respectable journalistic types are reporters whetting out too much praise because of her looks? Or handing out harsh critiques to hide their crushes? We'll see these next few months.