re: #193 NJDhockeyfan

I think a lot of people have lost the ability to differentiate between people saying that something is a problem that needs to be fixed and a ‘scandal’. People who have bough into the stupid shit over the years, like ACORN, anti-global warming conspiracy theories, Fast and Furious, etc. have gotten into this mindset that every ‘scandal’ is going to be something that goes Right To the Top!

In most places and cases, ‘scandals’ are localized. In Fast and Furious it was one asshole pretending to be a whistleblower who was responsible for most of the bad shit, in ACORN there was really no problem at all, a few places had very minor problems that were made to look like more, in ‘climategate’ the emails were a little nasty, etc.