Archive for category Hypocrisy
Running Towards the Smoke and Fire
Posted by Shane Smith in American People, Climate Change, Conservatives, Disaster, Gun Control, Health Care, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Philosophy, Society on April 18, 2013
I am about out of energy for this week. But I do have the smoking remains of an irony meter sitting in the corner crying to be heard. And a tiny little mangled… something. Something Confucius might have called Ren. Something I almost forgot about. Read the rest of this entry »
Reason Derangement Syndrome
Posted by Shane Smith in American People, Conspiracy theories, Corporate Socialism, Hypocrisy, People Are Nuts, Republicans, Tea Bag Party, The Koch Brothers on February 22, 2013
Think Progress reported yesterday that the painfully unaware State Rep. Dennis Hedke has introduced a bill that would prohibit public funds from promoting sustainable development. An interesting story, and a great example of rightwing hypocrisy and nincompoopery. But I also think it overlooks the real story.
The article points out that Hedke is so blissfully ignorant of his own actions that he can’t see why anyone would question a connection between his day job and his latest bill. This is interesting, since his day job is contract geophysicist for some 30 local oil and gas companies. Conflict of interest? Certainly not!
“I can’t see why,” Hedke said. “I didn’t think about that. It really never crossed my mind. I’d probably just say no.”
Claiming Abstinence, LDS, Idaho, Republican Senator Mike Crapo Arrested for Drunk Driving
Posted by Cliff Lyon in Conservatives, Edward Kennedy, Hypocrisy, Liars (politics), Lying, Mitt Romney, Mormon LDS, Republicans on December 25, 2012
We are no longer surprised when a Republican politician who claims superior virtues and morality, fidelity or religious conviction turns out to be a hypocrite.
The steady parade of Republican hypocrites remind us of our differences. We pedestrian scum (Democrats) claim to hold no high ground in the realm of personal purity. In stark contrast, Republicans to the person, bathe in self-righteous claims of moral superiority.
Mike Crapo mug shot
No doubt, Republican apologists will invoke Lewinski or Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick in a feeble effort to distract us from the hypocrisy. Its all they’ve got. But neither Clinton nor Kennedy associated himself with the lofty moral high ground claimed by their Republican counterparts. Neither man was elected under such an absurd premise. And we Democrats cherish the Founders intention that we be free to elect “scumbags.” The Founding Fathers knew self-professed moral angels were likely to disappoint.
Ever since Karl Rove convinced the Republican Party to grab its collective ankles before the alter of the Evangelical Christian Right, Republican politicians have rushed to the public podium to loudly and publicly declare themselves proprietors of an impossibly high “moral” standard. The result is serial oneupsmanship among Republicans at every level of office and a predictable train wreck of hypocrisy.
For Mike Crapo, being a Republican AND a Mormon AND a drunk is a double whammy made all the worse coming on the heels of Mitt Romney’s ass whuppin’. No one will be surprised when we find Willard slumped by the side of the road soaked in his own urine. Such is the state of today’s Republican party a.k.a. The Clown Barkers’ Carnival.
The AP reported this story
Hatred for the Kenyan Usurper Means Romney Can Get Away With Literally Anything
Posted by Cliff Lyon in 2012 Elections, American People, congress, Conservative, Conservatives, Holly Richardson, Hypocrisy, Liars (politics), Lying, Mitt Romney, Racism, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Bag Party, Utah Politics on October 12, 2012
This is the most honest, well-written encapsulation of what we are experiencing in the election.
Fresh lies from Romney, or the Republican Congress
Driftglass Writes: Don’t me wrong: I appreciate the careful documentation the Many Lies of Team Romney during this election season. But I look at those efforts less as the drafting of a bill of particulars against the GOP, and more like Josephus gathering up an armful of books from burning Jerusalem and documenting the great city’s demise from a perspective in the ruins.
Why? Because for the Conservative 47% of the active electorate, the day Willard sewed up the Republican primary was the day it stopped mattering to them what lies Willard shits down their throat. Willard has calculated (correctly) that their bottomless, mindless, berserk hatred for the Kenyan Usurper means he can get away with saying and doing literally anything and then completely reversing himself hours later. And so, unless he transforms himself into a Scary Democrat Negro (hence my graphic), he has the base locked down.Willard has calculated (correctly) that the average “undecided” voter is an idiot who is barely aware that Barack Obama is President, much less who said what when. Lies? Truth? All the “undecided” knows for sure is that people on both side should stop being so mean!
Willard has calculated (correctly) that most of American media is a joke run by hacks with the moral compasses of Tijuana donkey show pimps, who are congenitally unable to call a liar a liar and who get paid on commission each time they say “Both Sides Do It” when a Republican shits the bed in public.
Random Conservative idiots with spluttering apoplexy
Pointing to each morning’s fresh lies from Team Romney, or the Republican Congress, or Boss Limbaugh and his legions of imitators, or random Conservative idiots with spluttering apoplexy, has become the the bread and butter of Liberal teevee, radio and print. And good on them (us) for providing that service.
It does, however, beg the question, “Who the Hell are they talking to?” Because there is no referee in this fight, kids.
There is no umpire, here: no impartial judge; no jury of 12 men good and true.
For us, the playing field will never be level and we must stop playing as if it were, because there is no cavalry coming to rescue us…but us.
And most importantly; remember that however long the odds or however discouraging a given day might be, we are a hardy and tenacious stock and our clear understanding of who we are and where we came from gives us a secret weapon that no movement based on a contempt for reality and a tissue of lies can match: the power to summon giants.
Address of John F. Kennedy upon Accepting the Liberal Party Nomination for President, New York, New York, September 14, 1960…
I am as guilty as the media is for investing too much energy pointing out the lies only to have them fall on deaf ears. The soaring level of hypocrisy, obvious as it is outrageous, among the righteous, morally superior, religious and/or otherwise just plain racists is sufficient evidence to anyone who is paying attention that morality is unilaterally customizable on an ad hoc basis for the pedestrian religious right (Republicans) in this country.
So I will no longer entertain moral arguments from religious Republicans. From now on, I shall withhold my otherwise generous respect and civility in discourse with these well-groomed, Bible-thumping cretins. For the first time in my life, I finally understand how entire nations stood by and watched and/or helped Hitler exterminate millions of innocent men, women and children without a shred of self-examination. They were merely Republicans by a different name.
One more thing:
Calls for civility, especially from some in the Mormon community deserve your contempt. They are a gratuitous demand we excuse the “Many Lies of Team Romney” we’ve see during this election season. The uncommon duplicity, distortion and noise coming from Republicans is as violent assault on our Democratic principles as the illegal Republican assault on our voting rights.
Civility is speaking out against this assault. Incivility is defending it.
Palling Around With Terrorists: Obama Administration Embraces MEK
Posted by Richard Warnick in Barack Obama, Hypocrisy, Iran, National Politics, Terrorism, This Blog on September 26, 2012
The Bush administration cited MEK as a reason to invade Iraq
Four years after Sarah Palin famously accused then-candidate Barack Obama of “palling round with terrorists,” it can be said truthfully. Last Friday, news leaked that the U.S. State Department is going to remove the Iranian terrorist group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) from its list of foreign terrorist organizations.
MEK’s ideology is a mixture of Islam and Marxism with cult-like practices. The group once called itself “the People’s Holy Warriors of Iran.” They supported the Islamic revolution in Iran and later allied with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. During the 1970s MEK conducted numerous attacks on American officials, including an attempted assassination of the U.S. ambassador in Tehran. Six Americans were killed. It has been listed as a terrorist organization since 1997. The MEK fought in the Iran-Iraq War, made use of chemical weapons, and brutally put down Iraqi Kurdish people in the early 1990s. The Bush administration cited Saddam’s support of MEK as a reason to invade Iraq, and the group was forcibly disarmed by the U.S. Army. In recent years, the MEK is believed to be involved in a wave of terrorist attacks against Iranian nuclear scientists.
The Obama administration’s decision was made with bipartisan support. MEK has many prominent U.S. political figures on its payroll, including Howard Dean, Rudy Giuliani, Wesley Clark, Bill Richardson, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, former National Security Advisers Frances Townsend and General James L. Jones, and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell.
Note to all U.S. Attorneys: Everyone associated with MEK can be charged with providing material support for terrorism, a federal crime under the USA PATRIOT Act (18 U.S.C. §2339A and §2339B) punishable by 15 years in prison.
Now that the United States has de-listed the MEK as an international terrorist group, our government can overtly fund them to conduct terrorist attacks on Iran. According to some reports, MEK has received covert U.S. and Israeli assistance for years.
[W]ith the MEK, we have a group that, at least according to some reports, appears to have intensified its terrorism, and yet they are removed from the list. Why? Because now they are aligned against the prime enemy of the US and Israel – and working closely with those two nations – and are therefore, magically, no longer “terrorists.”
More info: Five lessons from the de-listing of MEK as a terrorist group
UPDATE: It’s official: U.S. Takes Iranian Exile Group MEK Off Terror List
Conservative’s Obsession With Vouchers
Posted by Glenden Brown in Activist groups, Conservative, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Republicans, This Blog on August 19, 2012
Whether it’s education or health care, conservatives have decided some sort of voucher scheme is the way to go. What’s up with that? The vouchers won’t come anywhere near covering the actual costs of either service. They’ll leave people less educated, less healthy and less financially secure.
At some point, can’t we just say that conservatives hate public programs and are willing to go do great lengths to dismantle them and stop pretending it’s some sort of principled plan to reform public programs?
We Never Conceived of Billion Dollar Babies
Posted by Larry Bergan in 2012 Elections, American People, Bigotry, Capitalism, Conservatives, Election Fraud, Hypocrisy, This Blog, Voting Rights on August 14, 2012
Like Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan because they looked just like humans.
Seen around the intertubes
Posted by Shane Smith in Conservatives, Hypocrisy, Internet on August 4, 2012
Part yeahrightlikeiamreallycounting in a series of whatever happens to strike my fancy when I am surfing…
Ray Gaster is a Savannah GA lumber yard owner. He is also not entirely capable of understanding what government is or how it works or what it does. In other words, he is a republican. So he made a sign, to announce his ignorance. Someone helped him put by labeling what government does. Or at least many of the things it does. I see a few they left out. Still, the picture is worth seeing…
I wonder if he can read those notes? I wonder where he learned to read. Oh well, good luck Ray!
Mitt Romney, outsourcing the 2002 Winter Games
Posted by Becky Stauffer in 2012 Elections, Conservative, Hypocrisy, Mitt Romney on July 15, 2012
I wondered at first why Romney didn’t object at all to the fact that American athletes’ uniforms were made in China. Until I heard someone suggest that the uniforms for the 2002 games were made in Canada. Really? That sent me in search of my official beret from 2002. And here’s what I found. Romney apparently had no problem outsourcing in 2002.
Crossposted at RedStateBlues
It is American to be against America
Posted by Shane Smith in 2012 Elections, Conservatives, Deficit, Economy, Hypocrisy, Republicans on July 11, 2012
Modern republicans core only value, as an explanation for what we know about Mitt’s taxes:
An avoidance of which Romney surrogate Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says: “It’s really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.”
That is, very literally, why this country can’t have nice things.
Which explains the “democrats hate America” talk from the right. I guess they hate it so much they are willing to pay for it.
O’Reilly: ‘We Live In An Age Where Truth Really Doesn’t Matter Anymore’
Posted by Richard Warnick in 2012 Elections, 4th Estate (Media), Bill O'Reilly, Evolution, Hypocrisy, Liars (politics), Mitt Romney, National Politics, Party Politics, Republicans, This Blog on April 26, 2012
Via Media Matters: Billo bloviates about about “craziness” in the media without ever mentioning his own network, which is the worst offender. Instead, he took on a recent exchange between Chris Matthews and Michael Steele on MSNBC – which was far from the one-sided right-wing propaganda Faux News Channel specializes in.
Matthews pointed out that Willard (“Mitt”) Romney is going to be the nominee of a party that believes there’s no such thing as science, and asked, “How does this guy go from hard right, severely conservative to this new regular mainstream character he’s portraying himself as?” Steele responded forcefully. Video here. [MSNBC, "Hardball," April 23]
O’REILLY: The problem for American voters is that anything goes these days. The Internet is full of unbelievable nonsense, as well as gross defamation. And now on some national news programs, we’re getting the same craziness. So if you’re uninformed, how can you possibly know what’s true and what’s not true?
And the problem is not exclusively on the left.
How many times have we heard that Barack Obama was not born in America, that he’s a Muslim, a Manchurian candidate, a plant from outer space? Whatever madness the anti-Obama forces can think up.
We live in an age where truth really doesn’t matter anymore. Greedy news executives and the net have obliterated it. Journalistic standards have collapsed — the Trayvon Martin case proves that.
You can pretty much do anything you want in the media, and the courts don’t care. It’s almost impossible for a well-known person to win a judgment of defamation.
But Talking Points has had enough. So every time I see craziness in the national media during the campaign, I’m going to show it to you. And I hope you will vote with the clicker. That’s the only solution to the problem. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 4/24/12]
It will be interesting to see if O’Reilly and other commentators on his network go along with Romney’s Etch-A-Sketch campaign, or if they try to hold him accountable for the hard-right positions he declared during the primaries. I suspect Faux News will say whatever Karl Rove and other GOP operatives tell them to say, and Billo will call any other analysis “crazy.”
For the record, Romney never abandoned the theory of evolution (as Steele pointed out to correct Matthews’s mistake), but he did ditch science on the issue of climate change.
UPDATE: I never watch O’Reilly, so I didn’t pick up right away on his self–pitying. When he said. “It’s almost impossible for a well-known person to win a judgment of defamation,” he was probably thinking about the loofah/falafel thing on the Andrea Mackris phone sex tapes.
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