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Theres a term coined sometime in the last century called what aboutism. and it describes how the soviet union would respond to wegs tern criticism of the communist system. the american president could won dem the soviets for imprisoning slave labor and soviet leaders would say yeah, well, what about jim crowe? or what about your illegal war in vietnam. it was a useful tactic to change the subts from one offense to the other. and the obvious response to soviet what aboutism is the following. yeah...

And it is also wrong. were being treated to a 21st century of what aboutism from, of all people, conservatives and the republican party. when you say the torture is repugna repugnant, they say whabt drones? >> in some sort of liberal, i dont know, confused world, droning is more humane than torturing someone or interrogating them aggressively. its bizarre. to me, it seems completely i recall rehenceble that its okay. >> death by drone or water boarding. which would you prefer? >> can you explain...

>> well, where it is similar is that almost every government says it is respecting the rights, and every government pretends it is behaving lawfully and in the case, the cia has lost the lawful cover and falling back on the utilitarian argument, but it is a weak utilitarian argument, because if you are going to violate the torture, you better be saving the world from a massive terrorist event, and when brennan said, that we got useful information and he was even there fudging, because he said th...

And so how much does this torture regime look like what happens like other places in the world? >> well, where it is similar is that almost every government says it is respecting the rights, and every government pretends it is behaving lawfully and in the case, the cia has lost the lawful cover and falling back on the utilitarian argument, but it is a weak utilitarian argument, because if you are going to violate the torture, you better be saving the world from a massive terrorist event, and whe...

Box. if you go to russia today, was there two weeks ago for a week and turn on television, state del vision which is all encompassing and how everybody gets there and news and picture of the world with rare exceptions. youre being told there were already corpses in the plane. there are all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories. and at the same time, youre in for a big dose of what aboutism? the imcomplication being okay maybe we did this without that being said. but what about when the united state...

David, given that, why did the biden administration we joined the human rights council in the first place? >> the biden administration says human rights are important. were going to be part of the council. we dont agree with everything that they do. with respect to allow them to do an evaluation of racism in the united states, and thats all it is, basically a report or no trial or hearing about it, were saying that were not hiding anything. were a transparent country, a leader in human rights an...

Win for him. but this is not a game. dont forget donald trumps entire political career was founded on the racist birther lie that barack obama was not born in this country. a lie that he reportedly still believes. all that probably explains why the president has failed to don democrat the blatant racism of roseannes tweet. and instead, sent sarah sanders to double down today. >> the president simply calling out the media bias. no ones defending what she said. the president is the president of al...

Babies. cruelty should never be mistaken for strength. im guessing youre saying it is his belief that he looks strong to his base. >> as a brand manager, how he got here is by projecting strength to people who were angry and wanted somebody to go to washington and be strong in the face of the establishment. what is missing is all the substance thats required not just for the president of the united states, but anybody who is responsible for policy. what is getting lost and conflated in all of th...

From the four committees he is on? >> at this point i think no. i initially thought he should step down to sort of spare democrats the anxious so having to defend him and having to point out the subtleties, having to make these arguments about degrees of abuse and culpability but i think at this point its pretty well established that what he did is not in the same realm as either what roy moore did or even what john conyers has been accused of. even to flatten those two things is misleading and ...