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  • July 2008

    • Flip-Flopping Pols Are Just Channeling Inner Hypocrite

      New York Times  |  Jul 1, 08 1:51 PM CDT

      Flip-Flopping Pols Are Just Channeling Inner Hypocrite

      (Newser) - Think all politicians are self-justifying hypocrites? You're probably right, John Tierney writes in the New York Times . As a recent psychological study demonstrates, all of us, given enough time and mental wiggle room, will succumb to the "self-halo effect," justifying in ourselves and our allies moral lapses we readily condemn in anyone of an opposing group. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • politics  • psychology  • hypocrisy  • morality

  • May 2008

    • Mac at 'Height of Hypocrisy' on Hamas, Obama

      Washington Post  |  May 16, 08 1:55 PM CDT

      Mac at 'Height of Hypocrisy' on Hamas, Obama

      (Newser) - John McCain’s effort to link Barack Obama and Hamas—waxing astonished the Democrat could sit down with the violent Palestinian group—is “Nixon-style dirty campaign tactics,” and the “height of hypocrisy,” James Rubin writes in the Washington Post . In a 2006 interview, McCain said the US would “have to deal with” Hamas—and that Palestinians had chosen the extremists for “a decent life and decent future.” More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Hamas  • hypocrisy

  • March 2008

    • Aussies Face Protests Over Kangaroo Cull

      Sydney Morning Herald  |  Mar 17, 08 9:10 AM CDT

      Aussies Face Protests Over Kangaroo Cull

      (Newser) - Australia is planning to cull 400 kangaroos on a military base, and Japan—oft-criticized by Australia for its whaling practices—is jumping at the opportunity to hail its neighbor as hypocritical, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Not so, says Australia’s PM. The whaling issue is subject to "an agreement between many states, and it goes to whether what is occurring is scientific whaling or not," said Kevin Rudd. More »

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      protesters  • whale  • Kevin Rudd  • whaling  • Japanese whale hunt  • kangaroo  • hypocrisy  • cull  • Canberra

    • Teddy Teacher Spurs UK to Kill Own Blasphemy Law

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 6, 08 2:12 PM CST

      Teddy Teacher Spurs UK to Kill Own Blasphemy Law

      (Newser) - Britain's House of Lords voted yesterday to abolish blasphemy laws after an international incident sparked debate over secularism and tradition, the Los Angeles Times reports. With the UK and Sudan at odds in November over the prosecution of a British teacher allowing students to name a teddy bear Mohammad, many pointed out the hypocrisy of having a similar measure on common-law books. More »

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      Great Britain  • Islam  • Sudan  • Christianity  • Jesus Christ  • teddy bears  • Gillian Gibbons  • blasphemy  • hypocrisy

  • November 2007

    • Critics Blast Bush on Pakistan

      Salon  |  Nov 6, 07 7:49 PM CST

      Critics Blast Bush on Pakistan

      (Newser) - Bush is leveling only tepid criticism of Pervez Musharraf’s state of emergency, showing the same “hypocrisy” and “knee-jerk support for authoritarianism” that has always defined his relationship with Pakistan, argues Salon’s Juan Cole. Musharraf’s move shatters even the pretense of a commitment to democracy, but “it changes almost nothing” in terms of US aid because Bush so desperately need its Karachi ally, says Cole. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • democracy  • hypocrisy  • authoritarianism

  • August 2007

    • Cruising Senator Has Been Tough on Gay Rights

      Carpetbagger Report Blog  |  Aug 28, 07 1:07 PM CDT

      Cruising Senator Has Been Tough on Gay Rights

      (Newser) - Idaho's outed senator has long wielded his political power against gay rights, and gay advocates, having heard whispers for years, have been keeping track. Larry Craig, whose arrest for cruising in a Minneapolis airport bathroom was made public yesterday, opposes civil unions, gays in the military, and the extension of hate crime law to prosecute violence based on sexual orientation, the Carpetbagger Report says. More »

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      Mitt Romney  • gay marriage  • Larry Craig  • same-sex marriage  • hate crime  • hypocrisy  • family values

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