Willie Geist wondered out loud what would happen to a Republican candidate who had written that women fantasize about being raped--and Joe Scarborough questioned whether he would he still be in the race.

But when it's a candidate for the Dem presidential nomination who had written those words, well, that's a different story. On today's Morning Joe, when Scarborough raised the matter of Bernie Sanders having written that women fantasize about being raped, Mika Brzezinski repeatedly tried to shut him down and turn the page.

For those who would claim that the story is irrelevant ancient history, Sanders having written the words in 1972--when he was 31--Geist and Scarborough pointed out that the MSM painted Mitt Romney as a bully for--at age 18--reportedly having helped administer an unsolicited haircut to a prep school classmate.

See the screencap below for a shot of Mika trying to shut Scarborough down.