On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, White House correspondent Major Garret pointed out the hypocrisy of the White House's campaign for equal pay between men and women by applying different standards to its own pay differential than it does to private industry. As he said to co-host Norah O'Donnell, "The White House is getting, as you indicated, Nora, roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric."

Garrett's report explained how the administration was spinning its own numbers while disingenuously using a different standard nationally:

Good morning. The White House is getting, as you indicated, Nora, roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric. The analysis of White House salaries, which nobody here disputes, shows that the median income of female staffers is 88% of that of male staffers. The study showed men and women with the same White House jobs earn exactly the same salary. Now, the White House said its gender pay gap is tied to job experience, education, and hours worked among other factors. This matters because those explanations, according to the labor department, explain a good deal of the gender pay gap nationally.

The big difference in these stories is when President Obama discusses this issue nationally he doesn't mention those other work variables, only the broad figure that 77 cents per dollar is what women earn compared to men in median wages. When the factors the White House used to defend its pay gap are used nationally, the labor department says the difference in median wages between men and women shrinks to about 5 cents to 7 cents on the dollar.