Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on NBC’s Today Monday that the media had a bizarre obsession with looking into Ben Carson‘s past, and that they had a “vendetta” against the Republican presidential candidate.

“I would imagine some questions are appropriate, but I do believe that this is a totally crazy obsession over incredible details from 30 and 40 years ago…” Priebus said. “The fact is we kind of wish the media would be just as obsessed or half obsessed with Hillary Clinton‘s lies of many years about really relevant things, like people who have died in Benghazi and her emails.”

Host Matt Lauer pushed back against that, arguing that the media did do some digging into Clinton and Barack Obama‘s history. “Yeah, but the difference is that the media is actually– they do have an actual vendetta or at least an agenda against some of these candidates,” Priebus argued.

“In regard to Hillary Clinton, the media, yeah, they cover it. But they cover it with a laugh and a wink and a nod and you know, ‘Isn’t it horrible she had to sit in a chair for 11 hours?’ I mean that’s the tone of the coverage of Hillary Clinton; it’s a tone of, ‘This is silly, let’s move on.’”

“I mean, those are things that might be interesting for, you know, a question, but not an obsession,” he said on Carson’s past and Marco Rubio‘s credit card. “I would say that Hillary Clinton’s past is something that people ought to be obsessed with.”

Watch, via NBC.

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