Well, it’s Monday mornin’ and a quick trip over to the LAT site and a search for “Barbara Boxer” still produces NOTHING about her exchange with Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice in a Senate hearing last week, where she accused Rice of not being capable of understanding the sacrifice that military families are making in the Iraq war because Rice is single and childless.

As I’ve shown here and here, it seems like everyone else in the media has covered it is some fashion or form, either as news itself, or as an indication of how the MSM feels that right wing blogs and talk radio are piling on Babs for no reason. Yeah, like they wouldn’t be howlin’ their damn fool heads off if it had been a Republican Senator saying something like that to a single-childless Democrat! Katie bar the door on that one.

As reported by the AP late yesterday, the subject was brought up to Rice during her trip to Jerusalem. Standing with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Condi replied to the reporters’ inquiries on her exchange with Boxer:

“No,” Rice answered when asked if her status hinders her understanding of the sacrifices involved. “I also think that being a single woman does not in any way make me incapable of understanding not just those sacrifices but also that nothing of value is ever won without sacrifice.”

So, the International press is aware and curious about this, it’s burning up the blogs and talk radio, the White House had strong words against Boxer’s line of questioning — and still not a single peep about it in the LA Times! Not even from a columnist or an Op/Ed letter. What is it? Can’t they even begin to think of a way to spin this to bolster their anti-Iraq War viewpoint? Maybe that’s it — it’s so damaging on so many levels, that they can’t. As See-Dubya, (thanks for the linkage See-Dub!), guest-blogging over at Michelle Malkin’s blog while she and Brian Preston are over in Iraq wrote yesterday:

My question about Boxer’s tantrum is this: if not having kids of fighting age disqualifies you from making a decision about the war, and since Sen. Boxer admits her “grandchildren are too young” and her “kids are too old”, then by her own logic shouldn’t Sen. Boxer recuse herself from any votes related to military issues as well?

“Who pays the price” for Senator Boxer’s decisions?

The only thing that the LA Times could possibly say to that is: Touché . . . (db)

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