Things NBC, ABC, CBS, New York Times, LA Times, etc. Aren't Telling You:

Well, my goodness, my break from politics was short, indeed.

You've surely heard about McCain-Palin's racist supporters screaming vile invective.

For two days now, there have been stories about boisterous McCain-Palin supporters screaming inflammatory words at the very mention of Obama's name. Words like "terrorist" and "Kill him!" and "treason." And at no point has McCain or Palin called on those folks and others who would imitate them to stop.

It's the story in many major newspapers and leftist websites. Of course, a closer look by some (not part of the media types who have already decided America will get Obama as President whether she wants or needs him) shows that it's not a mob, it's one or two individuals.

Milbank’s lone racist at the rally soon became a group (or a mob) of people shouting racial epithets. A New York Times editorial Tuesday (“The Politics of Attack”) misquoted Milbank’s Post column, claiming that one person shouted “Kill him” and “others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew.”

But, strangely, you've not heard about the torrent of left-wing hate. Things like trendy “ABORT Sarah Palin” stickers.

Nor will you hear about these protestors at a Sarah Palin event:

The media has been busy reporting the "anger" of the conservatives at the McCain/Palin rallies, how supporters want McCain to get tougher on Obama and force Obama's terrorist associations into the eyes of the public and how McCain has been forced to "defend" poor little Barack Obama.....but where are the media reports about Obama supporters wearing t-shirts calling Sarah Palin a Cunt?

And the silence is deafening.

It's all part of Doubly Standard Proceduretm. Simply put, "Bad Behavior by Our Enemies the E-vile Republicans Must Be Condemned. Similar Behavior by Our Friends Is Always Excused Because We Are Not Just Right, But Righteous."

Doubly Standard Proceduretm has been used by the Left for years. Accidentally killing civilians in a war zone is bad. Killing police officers in our own country is okay, because the killers were fighting a war of liberation.

I can think of an easy dozen examples. I'm sure you can think of hundreds more.

Update, information from Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit:

LEFTY ASSASSINATION FANTASIES: Various people, oddly, deny that such existed. Try Death of a President by Gabriel Range, or Nicholson Baker's novel, Checkpoint, just to start.
Similar Obama assassination fantasies, should they appear, won't get this kid-glove treatment from Big Media, I suspect. "It is not the first time a novelist has chosen fiction to express their point of view about American society or politics. Upton Sinclair did it. So did John Steinbeck. Nick Baker does it with more nerve and fewer pages."
UPDATE: Here's Salon, in 2003, on a play entitled I'm Going to Kill the President, "one of the most amusing plays currently running in New York . . . a madcap farce about terrorism and apathy in John Ashcroft's America whose performance may or may not be a federal offense."
ANOTHER UPDATE: "Snipers Wanted."