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Reasons including religion or the color of their skin and what if during the obama era,a republican era of congress had said wherever you see these people, surround them and confront them. i know its what aboutism, but take on the question. >> no, i think its very much that kind of reality check. we know life would have been very different, the outcome would have been different and the responses would have been different. for me the take away from what maxine did is stepped in it. she tried to d...

Kim. hes a very talented man. he said north korea is a rough place, but theres a lot of rough places. >> this is classic trump what aboutism. he said that regarding russia youll recall an interview number of months ago, putin has done a lot of bad things, but america has done bad things. that is what our adversaries normally do. you preach to us but youre not so good yourself. trump doing the work there. but ill tell you, looking at kim almost as a young man who took over his fathers business. i...

Obama administration, which is what the what-aboutism types are always saying, that was a different situation. that was not dealing with these asylum seekers and short circuiting the due process that theyre entitled to under the law. >> is this what republicans stand for? >> some republicans apparently, but not all republicans. and i think what would be really interesting is if there werent other things kind of covering up this story, if you will, now. whether its north korea or rosean roseanne,...

They were factually inaccurate. these are the tones that the president has taken to, taken the occasion about others, their needs, losses, sacrifices and making them about donald trumps own grievances or accomplishments, right? >> yeah, putting aside some of the stuff she said was factually incorrect, its comparing apples to oranges. i think you can have a real problem with the gravity of what shes talking about versus what roseanne barr says. putting that aside, this is what were talking about ...

What aboutism. right? the issue at hand is -- hes had a friendly relationship with, said something that was ooffensive and racist that she lost one of the highest rated shows in america. and, the presidentdown ha donto weigh in on that, right, the white house doesnt have to weigh in on that, they might think its not important. but to make a decision to weigh in on it, and then the lead, your top line statement is not just at the beginning a condemn neigh, that is both incompletely predictable. a...

Believes. all that probably explains why the president has failed to condemn the blatant racism of roseannes tweet. >> the president simply calling out the media bias. no ones defending what she said. the president is the president of all more than and hes focused on doing what is best for our country. >> what is best for our country would actually be condemning racism in all forms. not what aboutism, not, im the victim. roseanne appears to be having trouble understanding that too. tweeting toda...

Of the things that many other politicians say, plenty of other politicians have said a lot worse and it doesnt -- he shouldnt have been put in jail. rame ramesh, what do you make of this rationale? >> i think there is a kind of cynicism that shades into a kind of cheap, you know, pseudosophistication where you say all they are owl crooks. and in fact blagojevich was significantly worse than most politicians are. if its true that our standards for corruption are too low, which is i think what he ...

>> im a progressive and there should be things. just roseanne was not the person for at ththat. lets have someone who is a mainstream conservative. we we should have all points of view represented in the media. >> there is some media bias and joy behar has some horrible things, keith olbermann has said some horrible things, kathy griffin, but they all paid a price, except for joy behar. this isnt a time to play what aboutism. it a time to tuck aboalk about comment that cannot be tolerated. >> i ...

Has created in this country. and that is a problem. to my fellow conservatives out there, do not make any excuses for this. this is inexcusable. and when you have conservative media outlets saying that, oh, abc was looking for an excuse to get rid of roseanne because everyone is against middle america. that is bs. >> how much money are they losing out on, tara? i mean, of course they wanted the money. >> of course. >> theyre not losing any -- no, no, no. >> heres the thing though, when we do thi...

Own, what aboutism is back. what about her is complaining that about gave a free pass to more liberal hosts. what about keith oberman? he had a statement about disney. he wrote on twigger, bob iger called valorie jarrett to let her know that abc does not tolerate comments like those made by roseanne barr. he never called president trump to apologize for the horrible statements made and said about me on abc. maybe i just didnt get the call. sarah sanders gave details. >> the presidents pointed to...