Excellent question. It caught my attention. Pat Buchanan wrote a wide-ranging article on the media's totally biased treatment of the presidential election, and concluded with the way the media treats Sarah Palin vs. the way it treats Michelle Obama. Buchanan wrote:
The media cannot get enough of the "Saturday Night Live"
impersonations of Palin as a bubblehead. News shows pick up the Tina
Fey clips and run them and run them to the merriment of all.
Can one imagine "Saturday Night Live" doing weekly send-ups of
Michelle Obama and her "I've never been proud" of my country, this
"just downright
mean" America, using a black comedienne to mimic and
mock her voice and accent?
"Saturday Night Live" would be facing hate-crime charges.
How do we know? When the New Yorker ran a cartoon of Michelle in an Angela-Davis afro with an AK-47 slung over her shoulder, New Yorker editors had to go on national television to swear they were not mocking Michelle, but the conservatives who have so caricatured Michelle and the Messiah.
Is there a media double standard? You betcha.