Weighing in on the resignation of Democratic California Congresswoman Katie Hill Monday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained that her departure from Congress is proof that “the bad guys won here.” Hayes also accused The Daily Mail and Red State, two publications that published intimate photos of Hill, of committing a crime.

Hayes began the segment by expressing his disappointment that the House Ethics Committee’s investigation of an alleged relationship Hill had with a congressional staffer, in addition to the publication of the intimate photos, “appears to have successfully forced Katie Hill, a very promising young member of Congress, from office.” It looks like Hayes agrees with Daily Beast columnist Margaret Carlson that Hill’s departure from office is a “tragedy.”

While Hayes admitted that the relationships Hill had with a campaign staffer and a Congressional staffer were “problematic,” he issued a complaint that “it really seems like the bad guys won here.” When Hayes’s guest for the segment, Fordham University Professor Christina Greer, said that she put the blame for Hill’s resignation at “the feet of certain journalistic outlets,” Hayes jumped in and called into question the integrity of The Daily Mail and Red State by quipping: “if you can call them that.”

Shortly after Greer accused the two publications of committing “technological domestic violence” by publishing nude photos of Hill, Hayes indicated that he agreed with her analysis. According to Hayes, “Red State and Daily Mail, I think, are the two outlets that published this and like, that decision to me is just utterly and completely indefensible. You are essentially complicit in a...crime and a statutory violation.”

Greer proceeded to recycle the talking points recited by other talking heads about the supposed double standard Hill has to face because of her gender. Greer whined that similar scandals have not brought down male politicians; citing Newt Gingrich as an example, despite the fact that Gingrich resigned from his position as Speaker of the House.

Hilariously, Greer attempted to make the case that men implicated in sex scandals “get a pass from the press,” listing Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter as an example. Maybe Greer forgot that the media covered the Hunter scandal, which also had a campaign finance component, extensively when it first broke last summer.

Perhaps Greer might have had a point if she claimed that there was a double standard when it came to the coverage of Democratic politicians implicated in scandals versus their Republican counterparts. After all, the Hunter scandal received more than four times the amount of coverage of scandals involving Democrats.

As for the idea that the media have ruthlessly gone after Hill, that’s preposterous. It took the resignation of Hill for MSNBC to even begin reporting on the complex sex scandal surrounding Hill in the first place.

A transcript of the relevant portion of Monday’s edition of All In is below. Click “expand” to read more.