Newspaper sat on Sanford scandal for 6 months

Since the Mark Sanford story broke, I've yet to see anyone deny that the media has a double standard that treats Democratic scandals more harshly than comparable Republican scandals.

But before anyone tries it, it's now been revealed that the State (the daily paper in Columbia, South Carolina) knew about this GOP scandal 6 months ago but didn't report or investigate it until this week.

But when folks in the media think they know about a Democratic scandal, it seems like they can't get it into print fast enough. The pop-up media pounces all over Democratic woes regardless of how true or how serious the story is, or how reliable or credible their sources are.

This is not a spang-new phenomenon. I noticed this double standard over 20 years ago, and I was only in high school then.

Meanwhile, there's no sign of Mark Sanford resigning. If he wasn't a Republican, he'd be gone by the end of the week. You know it, and I know it.