I really don't see what the difficulty in understanding that:
It is not surprising that both sides out of the gate were wanting to point their fingers at the others.
Means: It is not surprising that both sides out of the gate were wanting to point their fingers at the others.
IMPLIES: both sides are equivalently equal in their pointing of fingers...right out of the gate. Otherwise, its largely a meaningless point, if 1 side is doing it far more so than the other, but we're supposed to get that out of the claim that "both sides out of the gate yada, yada"
If i were to post a statement such as:
During the Viet Nam War, both sides suffered casualties.
Would you believe i meant that the casualties were equal?
No, I'd wonder "why is he posting the obvious?". "Was their some expectation that one side wouldn't?" Remember gulf war one, when we hardly suffered any casualties compared to the Iraqis? THAT would be noteworthy, despite that "both sides suffered casualties".
Your statement had a clear inferrence, whether it was by design or not, that both sides were equivalantly going after each other, "right from the gate". Cu4 + Kramer, as conservative as they are, don't equal the public reach that the MSM, pundits like Krugman, and politicians like Clyburn reach. So yea, your statement might be "technically true", but was poorly clarified
And therein lays the problem.