It’s, like, um, you know, a double standard

Over at Polysigh, John Pitney notes that the New York Times, in making fun of Caroline Kennedy for her verbal tics, was employing a double standard—probably, Pitney argues, because Kennedy had irritated the Times reporters. Pitney uses a Barack Obama statement that the Times scrubbed before printing to make his point about the double standard. Convincingly, I think. Here’s the link.