Here We Go Again With The "Both Sides" False Equivalency. You Be The Judge.

[TrollBuster9090]

So, according to the right wing propaganda machine, Greg Gianforte isn't so bad for assaulting a reporter who dared to ask him a question he didn't like because LEEBERULS like Maxine Waters do the same thing. So...both sides...

Before it becomes a talking point that conservative pundits throw out on panel shows, unchallenged, let's do a little reality check. Here is what they're claiming is Maxine Waters 'shoving' a reporter. The alleged 'shove' comes at the 1:45 mark. The reporter from TYT asks her a pretty ridiculous question (wasn't Obama forming an alliance with Russia to fight ISIS the same as Trump colluding with Russia), and she put her hands up and walked past him. At one point her right hand makes SLIGHT contact with his microphone.

Yeah, that's definitely equivalent to what Gianforte did to a reporter.

[still_one]

1. no question about it. Marine Waters grabbed that 97 pound weakling, Michael Tracey by the collar,

jammed him against the wall and said, " go ahead, make my day punk"

brutal, absolutely brutal

[pnwmom]

2. No, she grabbed him by the neck, threw him down to the ground

and broke his glasses!

[Arkansas Granny]

3. One of the most ridiculous charges I've seen. What a snowflake.

[HopeAgain]

4. If you want to see a a " shove"

Look at what Trump did to the Prime Minister of Montenegro.

[joshdawg]

7. Yessir, that was indeed a shove.

It said, "Let me get in front of you because I'm the POTUS. I'm more important than you."

Sometimes his ego is such that one would like to shove him to the ground and, if he wore them, break his glasses.

[maddiemom]

12. You're pretty mild mannered in your reaction to the man's ego.

[WinkyDink]

5. Republicans ALWAYS use the "We did it, but it wasn't bad. You did it, and it WAS" "defense."

[delisen]

6. TYT propagandist an embarrassment to journalists but good comic relief.

[luvMIdog]

8. he was TRYING to get her to do something by jamming that mic right up in her face

and all she did was brush past & he made something out of NOTHING.

[George II]

9. TYT is supposed to be a "progressive" outlet, so why is he sticking up for trump....

....and trying to bash Obama's dealings with the Russians?

On the other hand, she was walking off from the podium and he jumped in front of her to ask her a few obnoxious questions. When she was finished she stepped around him and he again moved into her path.

I wonder how foolish he felt after he had a chance to watch that video?

[JHan]

11. He's getting dragged on twitter, it's beautiful.

[heaven05]

10. no comparison

to the "body slamming" incident. People who say that are delusional and forcing a 'false equivalency' meme that is just plain BULLSHIT!!!! This Breitbart clown is a bannon clone.... what can be expected from a follower of bannon? TYT is a 'trojan horse' for the RW.