>>>Person A: Talking about Trump's administrations ties to Russia, there are a lot of his people that are lying, right?
>>>Person B: You want to talk about lies - what about about Hillary's emails! There is the real lies!
>>>Person A: But we're not talking about HRC's emails, we're talking about Trump's administrations's ties to Russia.
>>>...so Person B here has done a WHATABOUTISM. and now you..as person C, says the problem is we're talking about Trump - which is of course the topic to begin with.
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>I didn't need an explanation or to watch a clip to see what "whataboutism" might mean. It's a trite point of little value IMHO- especially when used to distract from somebody pointing out hypocrisy, e.g. the same people who gave Bill Clinton a pass now screaming that Moore should stand down. Those who make this observation call it hypocrisy; you respond "whataboutism" as if that's a perfect rebuttal to their point.
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>>>..meanwhile the GOP is building the Titanic with not enough lifeboats to begin with and presenting you with a captain that's never even been in a damn boat let alone steer one.
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>See, that's a sort of "whataboutism" to avoid the point that Bill has made 3 times now, that Trump didn't build the Titanic or specify the lack of life preservers or run it into an iceberg. Whatever anybody tries to discuss, some always respond "WHATABOUTTRUMP!"

Ok who is president right now? That would be Trump, right? So talk about Trump. You can't use someone else's past failures as an excuse for new ones by a different person.