Gerstein is right: it's important for coverage of Cohen to distinguish what, if anything, makes his influence peddling different (Stormy definitely counts, Russia may or may not) from garden variety DC sleaze.https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/994578197714030592 …
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It is? I thought sleaze was bad in general, so why are we whataboutism-ing it?
I find it thoroughly disgusting that you're dismissing a conversation about how common this is among POLITICAL parties as "whataboutism." It's pathetic and gross.
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That’s not what I’m dismissing, what I am dismissing is the idea that journalists, or whoever, have to distinguish why THIS sleaze is worse than OTHER sleaze. THAT is whataboutism.
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No. Actually, that is NOTHING like whataboutism, and your suggestion that it is is both ahistoric and a dangerous superimposition of nationality onto partisanship. Moreover, the entire point of journalism is accuracy, which the distinction of these issues requires.
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IT IS THE DEFINITION OF WHATABOUTISM. If this behavior is supposed to be abhorrent in general, why in the world are we trying to compare and contrast it with previous examples of it? You’re basically making the argument that moral relativism needs to be injected into the convo.
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LOL. No. But thanks for sharing your hysteria.
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Cool, why don’t you go ahead and, I don’t know, explain how saying “we need to compare this bad thing to other bad things other people have done” is different from whataboutism?
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Do you not understand that us giving a pass to those "other people" who did the bad things is how we arrived here, at this moment in time, with this level of blatant & out in the open corruption to begin with? They shouldn't get to rebrand as The Resistance.
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How is holding people to ONE STANDARD giving people a pass?
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