So over on FB a particularly thick-headed comedian acquaintance who favors himself above politics was going off about how Rachel Maddow and Tucker Carlson are just two sides of the same coin.

Predictably, this didn't sit well with me because it's just so fucking stupid. 1/

The two are not comparable, at all. Maddow has an admittedly progressive bent to her politics and views, but her show is reality-based and well-researched. She admits error when mistakes are made. She isn't perfect but she genuinely tries to hold bad actors to account. 2/

Tucker is the diametric opposite of Maddow, and not just in his placement on the political spectrum. He's not merely right-leaning like say, Chris Wallace. He's a dedicated white-supremacist, fascist, and propagandist. He lies as easily as the rest of us breathe. 3/

Democrats hate Tucker because he lies about them.
Republicans hate Maddow because she tells the truth about them.

One side is morally justified in their feelings, the other is not. 4/

The fact is there is not a progressive mainstream media equivalent of Tucker, Fox News, Newsmax, or ONA, and never has been. Falsely, cynically equating Maddow, MSNBC, and CNN with Tucker, Fox News, and Newsmax isn't some galaxy brain level insight. 5/

What it does instead is normalize and excuse the far-right disinformation and propaganda poisoning our democracy and helps to drag the Overton Window on what constitutes acceptable public discourse ever further into fascism.

Bothsiderism only benefits the enemy. 6/6