When someone says the press must stop giving the Republican Party equal airtime and treating it as a legitimate political entity, he nearly always means the media must stop reporting Democratic scandals.

In recent rants aimed at “fairness” and “balance,” the rants that say our core democracy is under attack because the press have been far too fair to the GOP, it’s nearly always the case that the speaker’s true desire is to see Democratic malfeasance excused or ignored entirely.

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