Just imagine if the "Republican Club" of ANY city had put out an ad calling for a member of the Clinton administration to be stood up against a wall and shot? Especially if it was combined with a fund-raising appeal for the Bob Dole campaign?
All Hades would have broken loose in the dominant media, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, and Dan Rather would have led with it, and the rest of the media would give it more coverange than we're hearing about the Kobe Bryant, Scott Peterson, and Michael Jackson stories combined.