A MERE SEVEN PERCENT OF JOURNALISTS IDENTIFY AS REPUBLICANS, “and when they do give money to political campaigns they usually donate to Democrats, lending evidence to Republican presidential candidates’ claims that they are facing a hostile audience when they deal with the press.”

You don’t say. And the disparity has quite an impact on how stories are reported, as Hugh Hewitt tries to explain to Joe Scarborough, with little success:

Any story about Ben Carson is presented from the media as a sort of “ah HAH!! Got him!” moment, while the reluctant coverage of everything Hillary is reported by every network but Fox News with an eye roll and an exasperated sigh, as if to say “ugh, the stupid Republicans are trying another stupid attack against virtuous Hillary.”

That makes a difference. A big one. It is a bias they never admit to, that they refuse to see, and that if you bring it up, they simply mock it. Because that’s what they do. But it is there, and Hewitt knows it, and Carson knows it, and the base knows it.

As a wise community organizer once said, get in their faces, and punch back twice as hard.

Related: It’s Good to Be a Democrat.