The front page of today's Chicago Sun-Times is a study in subtlety:

At least as interesting as what's on the front page is what's inside. This column by Jesse Jackson, an Obama supporter, struck me for its laissez faire attitude toward the tone and divisions roiling the current Democratic campaign:

That's why the current press focus on the sniping between the campaigns is a dangerous distraction. Candidates are tired; the campaign is close. Advisors argue for going negative; surrogates take cheap shots. Little things get magnified out of proportion, and start rubbing the raw wounds of race and gender.

If you ever needed proof there's a double standard on race in America, this is it. Imagine how Jesse Jackson would respond - and how the mainstream media would cover the story - if a Republican candidate's campaign had acted in the same manner as Hillary Clinton's: surrogates raising questions about Obama's past drug use, suggesting his middle name (Hussein) would be a foreign policy asset, and downplaying the historical role of Dr. Martin Luther King in the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Would Jesse Jackson excuse this sort of behavior by saying the candidate was tired, that surrogates will be surrogates, and that these were all "little things" that got "magnified out of proportion?" And would the mainstream media's treatment of the story be different from what it is today? The questions answer themselves.