Your "free," "liberal" press in action:

Condoleezza Rice is a sticky subject at the Washington Post this week.

The paper has suspended "The Boondocks," a comic strip populated by cynical, politically aware African-American children, because of a series of jokes about the national security adviser's personal life....

On Tuesday, cartoonist Aaron McGruder had one of his young characters speculate: "Maybe if there was a man in the world who Condoleezza truly loved, she wouldn't be so hell-bent to destroy it."

A rep for the Post, which won't be resuming the strip until Sunday, said: "We had no way of knowing whether Mr. McGruder's assertion that Condoleezza Rice had no personal relationship was true or not."

Rice's office didn't return a call yesterday.

The artist's rep told us yesterday, "Not a single other paper in the nation chose to abort this week's strip."

--New York Daily News (scroll down)

Read through the week's strips for yourself here. Pretty mild for the most part, I'd say.

For the record, the Post's squeamishness about the subject of interpersonal relationships in the Executive Branch does not prevent it from preserving a copy of the complete Starr Report on its Web site to this day.

(Thanks to BuzzFlash for the Daily news link.)