Over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence responded to the Charlottesville, Va., violence in strong and perhaps even presidential terms. White supremacists should “be pushed out of the public debate entirely,” Pence said, discredited completely as “the hate groups that they are.”

But then rather than slamming white supremacists some more, Pence inexplicably decided to blast the press who “spent more time criticizing the president’s words than they did criticizing those that perpetrated the violence.”