Fake news and lemmings

One of the areas where that anti-Trump left chose to express their outrage was in castigating Trump for his inappropriate interaction(s) with women. 

It's further interesting that the political left has over the past few decades; ignored sexual misconduct by JFK, ignored sexual assault by Ted Kennedy, Actively defended Bill Clinton against accusations ranging from adultery to sexual harassment to rape.

Fast forward to last week.  Someone digs out a 14 year old comment from Mike Pence's wife (takes it out of context) and out come the torches and pitchforks.   What we have here is a man who has chosen to establish some personal behavioral standards about how he conducts himself in order to honor his; wedding vows, his wife, his family, and his positions.   He's chosen a standard that certainly hasn't been applied to many in the democrat party recently.  He's chosen to act in such a way as to avoid the "appearance of impropriety", not just that impropriety.    Remember when someone made that argument that it was fine to actively support Hillary because she hadn't been either charged or convicted of any crime?  How well has she avoided the appearance of impropriety.   What are the chances that Bill Clinton would have engaged in any of his various sexual peccadilloes had he held himself to the standard Pence has chosen?

The fascinating thing is that this didn't become a thing because Pence bragged about how moral he was, it wasn't because he expected or demanded that anyone else live as he lives, he didn't even assert his right to choose who and under what circumstances he chooses his dinner guests,  It became a thing because this is the best the "mainstream" media could come up with to tar Pence with.   Sure enough, the bait gets thrown out and the lemmings on social media uncritically follow right along making up all sorts of stuff as they go.

No one ever said that lemmings have discernment or critical thinking skills, just a herd mentality and an irrational need to demonize those they disagree with.