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What you hear from some conservative commentators, that this is a “high-tech lynching” of an “uppity black conservative” and the media punishing him for being “black while conservative,” is either ludicrous or boring. Ludicrous, because you can’t for a minute tell me Politico wouldn’t have run the story if it had been Romney, Perry, Paul or Bachmann. It has nothing to do with his skin color and everything to do with the fact that this is what news does today, and maybe the fact that he’s a Republican. That’s what newspapers do today in the Age of Twitter â€" they report first, ask questions later. And if it’s not ludicrous, it’s boring, because we already know the media is biased against Republicans. So what? We’ve been saying that for years.

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