Media demanded Obama's AGs to step down over way less than what Sessions did.

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https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/02/five-things-media-figures-demanded-obama-attorneys-general-resign-over-are-less-serious-lying-under/215537

The Daily Caller, led by former reporter Matt Boyle, pursued a month-long effort in late 2011 to gin up calls from Republican lawmakers that Holder resign following conservative outrage over an ATF operation called “Fast and Furious.”

Fox Business Host Stuart Varney On Then-AG Lynch: “Surely, The Attorney General Should Resign” Over Clinton Email Investigation.

Wash. Post’s Michael Gerson: Obama Should Have Replaced Holder Over Problems Prosecuting Terror Detainees.

After House Republicans announced they would investigate Holder for perjury after he testified that he had never considered prosecuting reporters as part of a leak investigation ... Fox political editor Chris Stirewalt said, "He's gonna have to go, he probably should have gone during that time in between the re-election and the inauguration, he was already dragging a lot around behind him."

In July 2010, Fox contributor Newt Gingrich said Holder “should resign for national security reasons” and over supposed “racism inherent in the Black Panther case” -- a discredited accusation of voter intimidation by members of the New Black Panther Party ginned up by Fox News.

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