Glenn Reynolds links to a Breitbart Big Journalism post reporting that CNN has defended its failure to cover an alleged gun-running California Democrat’s travails based on its practice of never covering state-level politicians.  Glenn notes that a search of the CNN Web site produces plenty of stories about a silly comment from his (ahem, Republican) state senator.

Rhode Island can do him one better.

Our Democrat (just-now former) Speaker of the House, Gordon Fox, experienced a multi-federal-agency raid on his home and State House office.  And I have to confess that a search of CNN’s Web site on his name does, in fact, produce a story.

Only… it’s a 2010 story titled “Rhode Island House speaker kills immigration bill.”  Basically, the story is crediting Fox for toeing the line that “immigration matters are best handled at the federal level.”

Maybe if state-level Democrats were targeted for corruption probes or running guns in order to advance the causes of illegal immigration or abortion, rather than for crass person gain, then CNN would see its way clear to celebrating them for risking it all for the cause.