This morning there were some minor fireworks on Morning Joe, as Hugh Hewitt and Joe Scarborough duked it out over Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton and media bias in general.

Joe argues that there is simply no way that the press has failed to cover Hillary’s many scandals, using his own show as the example, while Hugh points out two major stories about Hillary that no one, including Joe, have covered at all.







Hugh also points out that voters really don’t care that much about something that happened 40 years ago, but there is a media frenzy anyway. Republicans face a headwind, says Hewitt, while Democrats have the wind at their backs.

What both fail to address adequately is the difference in the way things are covered. Any story about Ben Carson is presented from the media as a sort of “ah HAH!! Got him!” moment, while the reluctant coverage of everything Hillary is reported by every network but Fox News with an eye roll and an exasperated sigh, as if to say “ugh, the stupid Republicans are trying another stupid attack against virtuous Hillary.”

That makes a difference. A big one. It is a bias they never admit to, that they refuse to see, and that if you bring it up, they simply mock it. Because that’s what they do. But it is there, and Hewitt knows it, and Carson knows it, and the base knows it.

And we know it here at The Right Scoop.