Democrats are turning over every stone to discredit anyone they can inside the Trump administration. The latest mudslinging is over Vice President Mike Pence’s use of a private e-mail account while he was Governor of Indiana.

And while they’re trying to point fingers and equate this with Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, two very unlikely sources are saying, "Not so fast."

Both TIME magazine and The Washington Post have come to the defense of the vice president, reminding everyone that these are two separate beasts entirely.

Before TIME writer Philip Elliott started to dig in, he included a bit of a disclaimer since he realized he was about to do something unbiased for a change, calling Clinton’s e-mails “one of the most absurd faux scandals in American politics.” So, TruthRevolt has to call him out on that. But, Elliott was finally able to put his personal feelings aside and recognize the abundance of “Schadenfreude and snark emanating” from those comparing apples to oranges. He writes:

“Pence was a Governor. Clinton was in the Cabinet.” Elliott informs that Pence discussed a terror-related arrest in one of the e-mails that was already in the news, unlike Clinton who made “the nation’s best secrets” vulnerable.

“Using private email was legal in Indy. Using private email was discouraged at the State Department.” Here, Elliott states, “Indiana law explicitly forbids government employees such as the Governor to conduct politics on state accounts, so it’s credible to argue Pence had no other options. That is in contrast to the State Department, where government rules strongly encourage employees to do their jobs on state.gov email accounts that are archived and subject to review.” Pretty simple.

“Pence signed up for a commercial service. Clinton built her own server in a basement.” Fairly self-explanatory. Pence used an AOL account, while Clinton sent minions into her underground lab at home to MacGyver something together.

“People generally trust Pence. That’s not the case with Clinton.” Though Elliott acknowledges the truth in that statement, he implies that the trust issue with Clinton is a “conservative storyline” while Pence “gets a pass.”

“Pence was an unexpected addition to the Trump ticket. Clinton advisers always assumed she would run for President again.” Pence is considered a good man even by his political rivals, Elliott notes, but never expected him to be in his current position. Whereas, everyone knew Clinton’s political aspirations, making her choice of a secret server all the more suspect. “In fact, her choice of a private email server was in part designed to shield her messages from scrutiny when she moved back to campaign life,” Elliott said.

“Finally, size matters,” Elliott concludes. “We’re talking about 30 pages of Pence emails that he forwarded from his AOL account to state archivists. Clinton? She handed over 55,000 pages to the State Department.”

Pretty clear-cut, even for TIME.

Amber Phillips did something similar for The Post. She, too, was careful not to walk too far off the liberal plantation, saying the media is taking Pence’s “word” for most of this, but can still see how Pence’s private account is “way different” from Clinton’s.

Phillips noted how “ Clinton exclusively used her private email account for work, something no secretary of state had done before,” while there’s no evidence Pence did the same. Plus, Pence preserved his e-mails, whereas Clinton “withheld some 50 percent” she said were “private.”

When Pence’s e-mail was hacked, he closed it down and opened a new AOL account, but again, Clinton left top secrets vulnerable while using the account “in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.”

Phillips concludes, “[T]hese two situations are fundamentally different: Using a private account if you're the governor of Indiana, where it's legal to do so and you're ostensibly dealing with much less-sensitive information, is much different than using a private email account exclusively to do work as secretary of state,who has  access to many if not most of the nation's top secrets.”

Good job MSM… this time.