One of the most remarkable, yet least remarked upon aspects of this year's presidential race is the disparity in the media coverage of the candidate's spouses. On one hand, Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama are all sweetness and light, and on the other hand Judy Giuliani and Jeri Thompson are treated as power hungry nuts and you-know-whats.

Today offers another perfect example of this contrast. Dan Balz serves up yet another glowing profile of Elizabeth Edwards in the Washington Post, while the New York Post's Page Six reports on the upcoming Vanity Fair hit job on Judy Giuliani:

Judith Giuliani is an opportunistic, puppy-killing homewrecker who has a full-time hairstylist and needs an extra seat on planes for "Baby Louis," her Louis Vuitton handbag - at least according to a hatchet job on the former mayor's wife in the September issue of Vanity Fair.

Incidentally, this represents the second installment of Vanity Fair's jihad against Rudy Giuliani's bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Back in June VF published Michael Wolff's hit piece on Hizzoner himself, a 3,587-word essay which essentially boiled down to the author offering his personal opinion that Rudy is off his rocker.