IF A BORDERLINE PSYCHOTIC MAN HAD SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR...

Back in July, a man at a campaign event in New Hampshire asked Rudy Giuliani why he had made "New York City a sanctuary for illegal aliens."

Giuliani went ballistic:

"You must be talking about another candidate," said Giuliani, who went on to argue that his administration urged the federal government to deport as many illegal immigrants as possible.

"Here are the three areas that you have distorted into this view that I gave sanctuary to illegal immigrants," said Giuliani, turning his back on the voter and addressing the other voters, seated on couches and loveseats around him.

He said that, as mayor he had to make sure that all kids went to school, that everyone needed access to hospitals and that illegal immigrants needed to be able to inform the police about crimes without fear of deportation.

"That's why you are wrong," said Giuliani.

"As mayor of New York City," he said. "If I was nothing else, I was rational and sensible."

This was covered, as far as I can determine, by one (1) news organization -- The New York Observer -- which pointed out, by the way, that Giuliani was whitewashing his record as mayor.

Yesterday, by contrast, Hillary Clinton was asked a sharp question about her Iran stance at a campaign event in Iowa. She had words the questioner, accusing him of being a plant from a rival campaign ... and then (unlike Giuliani in July) she apologized.

This story has now made:

* the New York Post ("IT GIRL TO SNIT GIRL: HIGH-RIDING HILLARY RIPS IOWA VOTER")
* MSNBC ("CLINTON GETS SNIPPY WITH IOWAN OVER IRAN")
* The Washington Post ("Clinton's Iran Vote Prompts A Harsh Back-and-Forth")
* The American Spectator ("Hillary Slaps Iowa Voter")
* AP
* the Politico

Nope -- no double standard here.

(Cross-posted at If I Ran the Zoo.)