The media spent Tuesday morning rushing to Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar’s aid, after she was criticized from both parties for making an anti-Semitic comment on Twitter, (not her first.) Politico first ran a story praising Omar as a “superstar villain” for the right, while MSNBC took that headline and ran a segment about it on MSNBC Live with Craig Melvin, trying to spin the Democrat scandal as a problem for Republicans.

Guests, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne and opinion writer Jennifer Rubin weighed in, as host Craig Melvin recited the Politico piece, which weirdly argued Republicans can’t criticize Omar’s bigoted statements because she is both a woman and a minority:

“A new Politico headline reads ‘Superstar freshman Dems replace Pelosi as GOP targets.’ It goes on to point out, ‘The strategy risks backlash for a party that's struggling to find support from women and people of color,’” Melvin read.

Briefly rehashing Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s recent aplogies as well, Melvin simply called the three freshman Democrats' controversial comments “headaches” for Republicans. Guest E.J. Dionne, however, praised Democrats for condemning Omar’s anti-Semitic comments. But if Republicans did the same thing, they would be making a “boogeyman” out a “young woman," he complained:

[T]he idea that the Republicans would use three women is just not a great look for them. Three younger women is not a great look for them. But I think we have to bear in mind that historically, there have always been so-called or real left wing boogeymen, now women for Republicans.

Setting aside the Virginia Democrats scandal that hasn’t been dealt with yet, Melvin actually asked if Democrats were “better” at addressing controversies within their own party. Fellow guest and fake conservative Jennifer Rubin assured him they were, slamming the “white male, Southern” GOP as taking “dog whistles” from President Trump to silence complaints about discrimination:

I actually think that Democrats are much much better and much much quicker to do it. It's for a very simple reason. Republicans both in the makeup in congress and in the constituency has become the party of white, mostly male, in a good many senses, southern party. They are the inheritors, if you will, of the people who used to be Dixiecrats in the South. The Democrats as you see from this amazing diversity in Congress, are a much more far reaching party. And so when they have an anti-Semitic comment, you've got 10, 12 Jewish congressmen to come forward. If there's an anti-black incident, as there was in this horrible series of events in my state of Virginia, you have enormous pressure from both within and without. The sad fact is that the Republican party now relies upon wolf whistles and dog whistles and all sorts of signals to its base. They are very loathe sometimes to criticize discrimination. Of course, they have a president who sits atop their party, who sits in the White House, who every day is a fount of anti-women, anti-black, anti-immigrant rhetoric and so for them it gets to be much much more difficult.

Yet again, the media finds a way to turn a Democrat scandal into a Republican problem.

Read the transcript below: