During Sunday’s edition CNN’s Inside Politics, host John King was frustrated with President Trump’s supporters, both in the media and elsewhere, for what he suggested was their double standard on lying politicians. But in doing so, he exposed CNN’s own shifting standards for what they would and wouldn’t hold Democratic leaders accountable for.

After accidentally playing back-to-back clips of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson and former Congressman Darrell Issa downplaying the infamous “Trump Tower meeting” instead of a clip of Trump, King was eager to knock around his supporters. “The President's supporters often say there's Trump Derangement Syndrome, they call it, among his critics and the media. Well, that's an example of Trump Can Do No Wrong Syndrome among his supporters,” he sneered.

Zeroing in on Issa, King chided how doggedly the former Congressman pursued accountability for the deaths of American diplomats in the terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi. “Darrell Issa did not say, ‘Well, she's a politician. Hillary Clinton, she didn’t get it exactly right. Susan Rice, she's great. Give her some grace, she didn’t say— ’” he huffed as he trailed off.

While King was trying to mock Issa for not holding Trump to the same standard, it actually demonstrated how CNN didn’t have the same desire to hold the Obama administration to the standard they were now applying to Trump’s. The Benghazi attack led to the deaths of four Americans yet CNN and rest of the liberal media often chastised Congressional Republicans for demanding and seeking accountability.

Aghast by the idea that President Trump still had supporters around the country, CNN Congressional correspondent Phil Mattingly chimed in and wondered: “What would have happened if Nixon always had defenders?”

“[T]hey didn't have the megaphone that the President’s supporters had now to continue to defend him, to continue to make the case that whatever comes out isn’t wrong, is whatever one else would have done, and he is in the right here in general,” Mattingly whined.

After decrying how Trump supporters see what the media was doing as “just an effort to try and take him down,” Mattingly seemingly proved them right by declaring that “this fight, right now, is a fight for public opinion. This fight right now is a fight over the airwaves.”

King was in “1,000 percent” agreement with his guest. And as if he was thinking back to a more civil time, he recalled how “I lived through covering the White House, the Bill Clinton team smearing prosecutors, and smearing the investigation, and casting doubt.” “This is that plus times ten I think,” he proclaimed. “At the core of it, forget the issue, forget your partisanship,” King continued. “[Trump supporters are] saying it's okay if the president lied. It's not okay if the president lies about anything!”

King’s comparison of Trump to Clinton was further evidence that CNN didn’t take equal accountability seriously. It was during the 90s that CNN obtained the “Clinton News Network” moniker for their pedestrian coverage of Clinton’s horrific behavior. They weren’t as interested in a lying president then and even complained they spent too much time on it.

This is CNN.

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