Someone should call poison control, because I’m starting to think the coffee that’s being served to the Morning Joe crew is laced with some kind of truth serum. Last week, we saw Scarborough and his panel mercilessly mocking the IRS for its laughable “lost emails” hokum. Today, Joe sat down with Mark Halperin, Time Magazine’s senior political analyst, and Bobby Ghosh, managing editor of Quartz.

The trio had a nice discussion about how the media has a left wing bias and, as a result, is not giving proper coverage to the IRS scandal.

Yes, you read that right. An MSNBC panel admitted the existence of left-wing media bias.

According to Halperin, the story is a test for the media, and it’s failing badly:

When any government agency, particularly one as powerful as the IRS, engages in something that even people sympathetic to the administration say looks weird and suspicious, it’s incumbent on all of the national media to aggressively ask more questions. The Republicans in Congress are asking questions. I think with a different administration - one that was a Republican administration, this story would be a national obsession - and, instead, it’s getting coverage here and a few other places. But it deserves a lot more questions.

Bobby Ghosh agreed, saying:

Absolutely. If they were targeting Democratic groups and had been a Republican president, I think it would be in the front pages of every newspaper for weeks.

Only Bloomberg’s resident Obama apologist, Al Hunt, tried to take a stab at pretending that the media was doing its job. Scarborough wasn’t buying it. At the end of the segment, he held up a copy of the New York Times and said:

I find it hard to believe that if the Democratic chairman of the Ways and Means sent a Republican administration a letter saying we are going to begin an inquiry about you targeting individual Americans and political groups that don’t like Republicans - and then a week or so later, e-mails from the top leaders at the IRS disappear? I find it hard to believe that would not be on the front page of this newspaper every day.

Obviously “Morning Joe” has it right. If there was a Republican sitting in the White House, left-wing rags like the NYT wouldn’t be able to contain themselves. Their people would tear into this scandal like a bunch of rabid jackals who’d stumbled across a wounded zebra. They’d slap daily block letter headlines across their front page decrying the evil GOP and its attack dogs at the IRS. …And they’d be right to do so. This is a huge story. Their relative silence speaks volumes about their painfully obvious bias.

So, Congratulations MSNBC regulars! You’ve come dangerously close to acknowledging reality. Keep it up, and you might even attract some viewers!

h/t TruthRevolt