New Rule: The Danger of False Equivalency | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

It puzzles me when I hear "ones as bad as the other" excuse. Bill's right it's people being lazy and not even really doing their homework on the candidates. The just hear the headlines or what gossip they heard secondhand at work, the bar, school or wherever. What was most damaging about the release of the FBI letter to congress was that the two words "Hillary" and "email". That's all people will hear at this point. They won't hear much after that. Not that it had nothing to do with her email server or actual email that Hillary sent.A pure case of the headline is more sensational than the actual facts behind it.

This is the full quote by Noam Chomsky that Bill cites in his video:

"Well, let me give an example. When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief."- Noam Chomsky

It shows we are capable learning capable of learning about something when we choose to. We can know what a baseball batter's average is in the 7th inning facing a left-handed pitcher with the wind going out to right field when in a particular ballpark in the month of September after he had taco's and beer the night before but couldn't tell you the significance NATO, name the Secretary of State or that latest email news doesn't even involve Hillary's email server or anything sent by her. That will get lost in the headlines.

Before spouting of one's as bad as the other do some actual homework. Especially before choosing whom to vote for. It deserves a little more attention than worrying about Brangelina's divorce.