It seems the Ku Klux Klan is politically acceptable when the Klansman in question is blocking Condi Rice for Secretary of State. From Michelle Malkin:

Democratic Sen. Robert “Sheets” Byrd, past recruitment officer for the KKK and former advocate of racial segregation, has announced that he will obstruct the confirmation of the first African-American woman to be nominated to be Secretary of State.

And if you don’t think that’s exactly how CBS and the rest of the MSM would have played the story if Byrd were a Republican and Rice a Democratic nominee, I have some genuine Bush National Guard documents to sell you.

If that’s not enough, the awesome Malkin linked to a photo of Byrd in full regalia. Hope he doesn’t wear that to the hearings.

Just more proof positive that the MSM’s photographic memory is selective to whatever backs its agenda.