He made sure to point out that he was the only one of the politicians called out in the mini-scandal that returned the perks, and nobody else was criticized nearly as harshly for the same practices. He didn't say that it was because he was brown, but left us to make our own inferences. And I inferred as much.
Prejudice and hypocrisy towards lefties being that much more acceptable in the traditional media than that directed towards minorities...