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NEWS ABOUT: hypocrisy

hypocrisy stories: 9 news summaries
OPINION

Lily Allen Rode Piracy to Fame, But Now It's Not OK?

Singer ripped others' music for own mixes before she was a star

Sep 23, 09 10:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Singer Lily Allen has caused a stir with recent rants against music piracy (and a blog where she posts opinions from like-minded creative pals), but when she was trying to make it, she was guilty of just that offense. Allen included tracks from Jay-Z, Jefferson Airplane and others on mixtapes... More »

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entertainment • music industry • piracy • digital music • hypocrisy • Jay-Z • Lily Allen • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

 Enough Already: 
 Kennedy Was No Hero 


Aug 27, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - You wouldn’t know it from the tearful plaudits in the "echo chamber of the mainstream media," but Ted Kennedy was no hero, Howie Carr writes for the Boston Herald. Kennedy was actually a ruthless partisan—he accused Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork of wanting "segregated lunch... More »

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Ted Kennedy • Robert Bork • Richard Nixon • partisanship • Senate confirmation hearings • hypocrisy • Gerald Ford • Chappaquiddick • US Supreme Court • senator

(Newser) - Mark Sanford’s affair stemmed from his love of a woman—and his love of the “dashing new version of himself he saw in her molten eyes,” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. Mark, the Sanford we knew, “was the self-righteous, Bible-thumping prig who pressed... More »

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South Carolina • Republican Party • affair • Maureen Dowd • hypocrisy • governor • political scandal • Mark Sanford

ANALYSIS

Flip-Flopping Pols Are Just Channeling Inner Hypocrite

They know it's wrong, but benefits too great

Jul 1, 08 1:51 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

OPINION

Mac at 'Height of Hypocrisy' on Hamas, Obama

GOP candidate far more accommodating just 2 years ago

May 16, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Hamas • hypocrisy

Aussies Face Protests Over Kangaroo Cull

Pro-whaling Japan pounces on neighbor's seeming hypocrisy

Mar 17, 08 9:10 AM CDT
(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 "... More »

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

Teddy Teacher Spurs UK
to Kill Own Blasphemy Law

House of Lords strikes down statute questioned since Sudan teddy-bear case

Mar 6, 08 2:12 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Critics Blast Bush on Pakistan

Bush team can't back up its talk of democracy, writers say

Nov 6, 07 7:49 PM CST
(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... More »

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

Cruising Senator
Has Been Tough
on Gay Rights

Blogs gleefully tote
up Craig’s anti-gay, ‘family values’ record 

Aug 28, 07 1:07 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Mitt Romney • gay marriage • hate crime • Larry Craig • hypocrisy • family values • political scandal

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