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Category Archives: Hypocrisy

Another day, another meme

Saturday, June 13, 2009

One of the latest right wing memes accuses Obama of having a Messiah Complex. Charles Krauthammer runs with that argument in a column reproduced in this morning’s Day. (I will not link to Krauthammer, but you should have no trouble finding it). Krauthammer is actually a psychiatrist, though you’d never know it by reading his […]

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A trip down memory lane

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

I was perusing a front page article in the Globe this morning (co-written by a brilliant young reporter who coincidentally shares my last name), and I noted that Republicans are taking offense at the idea that someone’s life story should be considered in determining his or her fitness for the bench: Obama, however, was quickly […]

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Topsy Turvy

Sunday, April 26, 2009

David Broder has rightly been subjected to more withering blogger scorn than I am capable of expressing, but that doesn’t mean I can’t add my mite. His recent column (Stop Scapegoating) advising against prosecuting torturers has been deconstructed here and here as well as elswhere, but there are many levels of absurdity in the column, […]

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Puzzling

Friday, April 24, 2009

Republicans must be immune from cognitive dissonance. There are plenty of examples, but here’s one that truly needs to be more widely known. We are told by Rove and his ilk that Democrats would be criminalizing “policy differences” if they so much as think about investigating the Bush era war criminals. At the same time […]

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Earmarks

Sunday, March 8, 2009

The earmark debate is a distraction of major proportions. It is also an example of hypocrisy of major proportions, as Taxpayer for Common Sense documents. You can download there data at this location. The data demonstrate quite conclusively that earmarks are largely, though not solely, the domain of those states and of that party that […]

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The non-Apology Apology

Friday, February 27, 2009

Last week the New York Post ran a scurrilous and racist cartoon. In the face of overwhelming public revulsion-it apologized. It was a classic blame the victim apology, implying as it did that anyone who said they were offended was not truly offended, and that in any event, the problem was with millions who saw […]

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A little lexicography

Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Supreme Court is about to rule on whether the word that begins with “F”; the word that should not be said, is always and everywhere obscene. Is it, in other words, obscene only when it refers to sexual activity, or is it obscene when used as an adjective, adverb or noun for the purposes […]

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Please let this be true

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Via Atrios and the New York Post: Defying disgusted constituents and angry Republican leaders, disgraced Rep. Vito Fossella has told pals he plans to seek re-election. And, shockingly, the Staten Island pol is feeling “pretty good,” he confided to friends. … Fossella confessed last week to having a 3-year-old daughter with gal pal Laura Fay, […]

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McCain’s other pastor

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Among other things, a Through-the-Looking-Glass history lesson. But of course, when it’s a right wing cleric that just makes things up it gets no attention. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXZbIGJrDkg[/youtube] Not scary because not black. Not offensive because he backs McCain.

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Give Senator Warner what he wants

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Recently, Barack Obama made what is actually a relatively non-controversial statement about the state of our Armed Forces: You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 men in a rifle platoon. Ended up being sent to Afghanistan with 24 because 15 of […]

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