Clemens and Bonds...double-standard by the media?

As of yesterday, we found out that the congressional committee looking at the Mitchell report on HGH and steroid use in major league baseball, has recommended to the justice department to look into whether or not Roger Clemens lied during his testimony in front of the same committee a week or so ago.

I agree. They should. There are so many contradictory statements to Clemens denial that it would be almost conspiratorial by a pretty substantial number of people, if Clemens is telling the truth. By that, I mean that either Clemens is lying about his denial that he ever took steroids/HGH, or at least 5 other people are lying that he DID take them. This is not a "he said vs he said" situation. And new we have learned that Clemens, (with regard to his denial that he attended a party hosted by Jose' Canseco), that there actually may be photographic evidence that the WAS there. And Clemens is now backstroking saying that he may have "misremembered" that event.

Funny that he used the phrase "misremembered" to his own statements, when he used the exact same phrase with regard to former teammate and friend, pitcher Andy Petitte, when Petitte said that he heard Clemens talking about using HGH. So you have to wonder, if Clemens is "misremembering" about the party, could he ALSO be "misremembering" that conversation and Petitte be right?

Still, the real issue for me is why has the media been so tirelessly running article after article about Clemens, and showing very little support for him, when just 4 months ago, these VERY same media were calling the indictment of Barry Bonds a "witch hunt"? (The exact words that Kevin Blackistone, sports writer and ESPN guest of the show "Around the Horn", used when describing the effort to get to the truth of Barry Bonds claim of denials of his use of steroids and HGH. As he too was mentioned in the Mitchell report.) Bonds, IMHO, has proven to be FAR more guilty than Clemens has at this point and I very much believe that Clemens is lying, but the evidence will out on that story line.

So where is the media regarding Bonds indictment for lying to a congressional committee? Is the media playing a double-standard here? You have to ask that question.

Which also begs another question. While Andy Petitte is coming across as the "victim" in this whole sordid affair, by openly and almost immediately admitting he did use HGH, because as he claims, he did it on the advice of people who told him it would help him rebound faster from an injury, where is Selig, the players union, and all of the MLB exec's in regard to this? Basically, why are they allowing Petitte to continue playing?

Look, I understand that Andy Petitte is a sympathetic figure right now, and I actually and honestly feel sorry for him. But that does NOT diminish that he acted in a manner that, while not illegal in baseball at the time he did it, is illegal now, and is seen as a form of cheating, even at the time he did it. So, why has MLB not at the very least, suspended Petitte from play?

I am beginning to wonder if there is not some type of double-standard going on here.