As a colleague suspected yesterday, since Madeleine Albright was the first female Secretary of State and Colin Powell was the first black man, Condi Rice will not get the usual media swoon for being the first black woman as Secretary of State (or even the first black woman to hold a cabinet post that weighty.) It’s nowhere on the front of the Washington Post today. That would not be the case if Rice was serving a Clinton. On the other hand, that’s nice, since she is not being appointed for that reason. But it ought to be interesting to see just how much less gooey reporters are than they were over the selection of Madeleine Albright in Clinton’s second term. The most recent boomlet of pro-Madeleine bias is captured here.