CBS This Morning on Monday eagerly hyped a new expose by the Washington Post: As a child, Donald Trump pulled pigtails and threw rocks at kids. This is the same Washington Post that went after Mitt Romney for allegedly forcing a haircut on another boy in 1965. Talking to reporters Marc Fisher and Michael Kranish, CBS co-host Norah O’Donnell wondered, “You go all the way back to his childhood to help reveal some of Donald Trump. What did you learn?”

Post editor Marc Fisher revealed the not-so-startling revelations: “We learned as he once said, he hasn't changed since second grade. Keep that in mind as you hear about some of the things that he did, such as throwing rocks at a toddler in the yard right across from his own home, pulling the pigtails of one of his classmates.”

Fisher stated that Trump himself sees this “as evidence that he was a mischievous, rambunctious kind of kid.” He added, “People who were around him during that time saw him as quite a ruffian, really.”

The Washington Post book, Trump Revealed, is 448 pages. The hosts on CBS did not explain when they would release a similar effort on Hillary Clinton. As Brent Bozell and Tim Graham noted, the Post on August 15, devoted a front page look at the Democrat’s 1969 college address. The headline oozed, “At Wellesley, fiery speech was a breakout moment." Bozell and Graham wrote:

In 1969, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a commencement speech insulting liberal Republican Sen. Edward Brooke as too conservative, too out of touch. It was a "moment of glory," the Post proclaimed, the culmination of what "her campaign now describes as social justice activism."

In contrast, the Post in 2012 devoted 5400 words to the “pranks of a then-17-year-old Romney. In the 2013 book Collusion, Bozell and Graham wrote:

Reporter Jason Horowitz penned a 5,400-word "expose," a bombshell. on how Mitt Romney may have pinned a boy down and cut his hair in 1965. 1965. Nineteen sixty-five. That's almost a half- century ago. Even if every detail in this hit piece was accurate-and they weren't-how is it relevant? The same journalists that who couldn't find anything relevant in the mistresses Bill Clinton or John Edwards were "romancing" in the risky present of their presidential campaigns could somehow find something more compelling - a haircut -- in the yellowed past of Mitt Romney's high -school career. The Post carried several full pages of breathless prose under the big headline "Romney's pranks could go too far." The Post reported that Romney's Cranbrook schoolmate John Lauber was "perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality," and that he screamed for help as a brutish Romney held him down and forcibly hacked off his hair. Another student, David Seed, told the Post he ran into Lauber three decades later at an airport and apologized for not doing more to help him. Seed claimed Lauber said, "It was horrible. . . . It's something I have thought about a lot since then." The paper recounted another incident in which Romney allegedly once shouted "atta girl" to a different student at the all-boys' school who, years later, came out as gay.

A young Romney gave haircuts and Trump pulled pigtails. But Clinton delivered an inspiring speech. This is the difference in how the Post investigates the backgrounds of Republicans and Democrats.

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