As you know by now, an aide to Sen. Ben Cardin has been fired after The Daily Caller posted a video he'd shot of himself having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room. Politico framed it this way: "Cardin staffer linked to sex tape leaves Senate." No, a Cardin staffer who shot a sex tape was fired from the Senate. And as Twitchy reported, NBC News took the "Republicans pounce" approach, noting that it was conservative news outlets that "alleged" the staffer did what he did on video. Of course, it was conservative news outlets; liberal outlets like NBC News would have buried the story.

Ben Goggin is deputy tech editor at NBC News, and he says that "smears of LGBTQ people" and pornography "ring a little hollow" when you're posting gay porn.

To state the obvious, which smears of LGBTQ people? 

We remember … "Decency is on the ballot."