False Equivalence

Yesterday, at his still-hilarious anti-billboard press conference, Roy Blunt expressed outrage at any suggestion that he's taken "$556,682 from the insurance industry," because, in his words, "you can't take any money from the insurance industry."

And then, without a hint of irony, Blunt demanded that Robin Carnahan's "supporters ought to explain why she's taking this insurance industry money." 

So it's impossible for Roy Blunt to take "insurance industry money," but reporters ought to look into Carnahan's "insurance industry money"?   Am I thinking about this too logically?