Fredericka Whitfield of CNN simply cannot be that stupid. "But the Dems can't politicize this..."

[Hekate]

The tv went on just long enough for me to hear this fragment about what our president has just done.

I yelled and shut it off. Then I wanted to weep.

CNN, if you're listening, the president is INSANE. You know this.

To talk of the Democrats' response (whether Congress or Mme Speaker or our candidates) as "politicizing" his behavior does not just miss the point, it heads it off past Pluto. This kind of conversation normalizes Trump -- it takes his manifestly abnormal behavior and treats it as though it is normal. I'm not picking on Ms Whitfield in particular, but a whole system of commentary that continues to take Trump's behavior and discuss it as if it were normal. (Judy Woodruff of good old PBS does it too.) Get a grip -- none of this is normal.

I'll continue to pick and choose who I spend my time on, and I'll continue to recommend them and their panels. But what I will not do is tolerate anyone who continues to discuss Trump's behavior in a way that suggests it is normal. Our government is collapsing, and for a good review go to the archives and watch Rachel Maddow's coverage from Day One on "hollowing out."

[StarfishSaver]

1. Do you know what she actually said?

Or did you just hear the sentence fragment?

[Hekate]

3. That's a cogent question, because yes, I am being reactive. "Triggered," as they say...

It was the gestalt, in the moment, her expression of "concern," her statement that Democrats might damage themselves by "politicizing" (i.e. just discussing or arguing) Trump's off-the-cuff decision to assassinate someone without going to Congress or officially notifying anyone.

I put as much as I could into the subject line of the OP -- but no, I did not witness the rest of the conversation, just maybe a minute. If I turn out to be wrong about Fredericka, I will own up to that -- but I routinely turn off commentators that I see as engaging in bothsiderism and/or normalizing Trump by discussing his worst statements/behavior/decisions as though they made some kind of rational sense.

[radius777]

2. Disease of both-siderism

and the myth that democracy and justice are the same thing. History shows us that injustice (slavery, Jim Crow, oppression of women/gays/etc) often received popular support.

Just because about half the country voted for Trump doesn't mean he's legitimate or virtuous, especially considering the findings of the Mueller Report and the impeachment hearings.

The media's job should be to tell the truth and highlight injustice - not pretend that both sides are morally equal.