More whining on the AM

While driving today, I flipped on local righty talk show host Mark Belling. He was going off about a "puff piece" in the local daily on Wisconsin Attorney General Pet Lautenschlager.

Lautenschlager has been through a lot in the past few years ranging from a drunk driving offense to breast cancer. So Belling takes the opportunity to play the conservative-as-victim role by pointing to what he perceives to be a liberal bias in the newspaper. He questioned aloud whether the paper would ever print such a piece about a Republican.

As a matter of fact, the paper just the other day featured similar writings about the life of the late chief justice William Rehnquist, a native of Shorewood and no stranger to controversy. I suppose if this is pointed out to him, Belling would modify his argument to say that the Republican has to be dead in order for him to be praised.

I'm not trying to defend Lautenschlager here. Incidentally, I am hoping that Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk decides to challenge Lautenschlager in the Democratic primary next year. Lautenschlager's legal and ethical problems should be enough for voters to look for a new top cop.

UPDATE: In the comments, Stacie pointed out this recent article on Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) proving that a Republican doesn't have to be dead in order for the paper to publish a gushy piece on them.