Thing here is, the right knows the center and the left will demonize their own given the whiff of scandal, real or contrived. The right is perfectly content to laugh off or praise the same or worse behavior from their own cohort.
Playing two different games. Yeah, I found some iffy examples in the Gay debacle; mostly not. But the rails were laid and folks who hated doing book reports are discussing quotation marks in a sentence that starts "[the authors] say".
And on to the next target. 😐