Taking Rep. Jo Bonner to the woodshed....

...for taking Rep Charlie Rangel to the woodshed.
     That's what Salon.com did this week, blasting the North Alabama Congressman for a tirade against the already convicted Rangel.
     The column by the site's news editor suggests it is unseemly for a white Alabama Congressman to be attacking a black New York Congressman, especially since Rangel had already been found guilty by the House ethics committee, of which Bonner is the highest ranking Republican.

     It's Alabama's racial history at play here, of course.
     If he were a House member from New Jersey, Bonners rant probably would not have merited even a mention. But we in Alabama travel wtih some very heavy, very nasty baggage. And unless we manage to become a kind of model state for racial equality and fairness, we'll always be a target, an example for editorial writers.