Is this the dumbest whataboutery deflection ever?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I saw it on the comments to John Oliver's anti-Putin piece. At one point he showed a clip from Russian state TV with a guy preaching horrible anti-gay hate speech.

Comment: *blah blah lots of stuff about how the US isn't any better than Russia*...there's lots of people preaching anti-gay stuff on US TV too! They're called televangelists, and often even dressed like that guy.

That's the sort of thing that makes you wish you could reach through the computer and strangle the moron saying it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Hilariously I actually do remember some people trying to argue after Russia passed that "gay propaganda" law that the US was just as bad on gay rights, for reasons like that at the time gay marriage wasn't legal in every state, or because some anti-gay hate crimes still took place in the US, or something about American evangelicals in countries like Uganda, because of course the actions of a few churches and pastors in foreign countries is definitely comparable to actual government policy. And of course Uganda was a very gay-friendly place before American evangelical leaders started developing interests in it, obviously.