This list is a companion piece to the earlier “10 Cases of Liberal Hypocrisy”, which took issue with Alan Colme’s statement that only conservatives could be “infected” with hypocrisy. The thesis was that hypocrisy is a sad part of the human condition, and no one person or ideology is immune. In the interest of fairness, I decided to take on the other side, and was positively spoiled for choices.
Hypocrisy: Cycling to Work But Chauffeuring His Documents in a Car
David Cameron is a conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. He is a noted environmentalist and famously cycles to work on a near-daily basis. However, he also has an assistant follow him in a car to carry his briefcase. Two words, Dave: thumb drive. You can decide where to stick it when you’re riding.
Hypocrisy: The War Movie Hero That Never Went to War
Well, kinda. I’m being a little harsh here, but Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda jumped through hoops to serve. In 1941, Wayne was 34 years old with a failing marriage and four kids to feed. Sure, his career was starting to flourish, but he definitely wasn’t a star and he definitely wasn’t rich. So from 1939-1944 he got a 3A deferment (deferred for dependency reasons). In 1944, Wayne received a 1-A classification (ready for immediate induction), but the president of RKO Pictures threatened to sue the government and Wayne personally if he enlisted. A month later the Selective Service reclassified him 2-A (deferred in the national interest). Wayne made 13 (mostly war) films during the war and became the very image of the American soldier. He also became a bona fide star and made a few halfhearted attempts to serve, but never really followed up. No one knows why. But after the war, Wayne became “the most famous Republican in Hollywood”, and was an ardent anti-communist (even supporting the House of Un-American Affairs committee). All who knew Wayne said that not serving was “the most painful experience of his life”, and that it haunted him the rest of his days.
Hypocrisy: Condemning Clinton’s Sex Scandal While Sexting Underage Boys
Mark Foley was a Florida congressman who lamented that Bill Clinton’s runaway sexual addiction caused his scandal with Monica Lewinsky. And yet Foley had demons of his own. On September 29th, 2006 Foley resigned his congressional seat after reports surfaced that he was sending sexually explicit text messages and emails to teenage male congressional pages. Foley insisted he was not a pedophile and had never had sexual contact with any minor. Then he dipped into the media excuse bag and decided to used ALL of them at once: he blamed his emails on a drinking problem, checked himself into a rehab clinic, and said that he had been molested by a clergyman when he 13. To top it off, he decided that NOW was the time come out, and bravely had his lawyer inform the public that “Mark Foley wants you to know he is a gay man.” Many pages came forward after Foley’s announcement, but Florida officials closed the investigation citing “insufficient evidence” to file criminal charges.
Hypocrisy: Prayer Fraud
Robert Tilton is an American televangelist who achieved notoriety in the ‘80s and early ‘90s through his TV program Success-N-Life, a very slick and well rehearsed perversion of the “prosperity gospel”. Tilton promised that, for a $1000 pledge, he would personally lobby God on your behalf. All you would have to do was send in your check and he would pray over the very letter you sent him. Today, all of you know him as “The Farting Preacher”, but back in the day people sent their entire life savings to this guy. At its peak, Success N Life was in all 235 American TV markets, and was earning $80M a year, tax free. But in 1991, ABC News discovered Tilton’s ministry threw away prayer requests without even reading them, keeping only the money or valuables instead. When confronted with these claims, Tilton claimed that he would pray over computer readouts of prayer requests, or sometimes lay across piles of mail as he prayed (even claiming that chemicals in those letters gave him two “mini strokes” in his brain). Tilton sued ABC for libel in 1992, but the case was dismissed and his show was off the air by October 1993. He later resurfaced on Black Entertainment Television (BET) in the early morning hours. Ole Anthony, founder of the religious watchdog group the Trinity Foundation, said Tilton pays $50,000 per month for the air time, and estimates that Tilton’s ministry is grossing $24 million a year using reruns or repackaged versions of older shows. “With no production costs, a fraction of his former TV time budget, his net must rival that of the good old days with absolutely no effort on his part,” Anthony said.
Hypocrisy: Condemning Homosexuality While Practicing Homosexuality
Ted Haggard is the founder and former pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches; and former leader of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) from 2003 – 2006. Haggard has condemned homosexuality, and under his leadership, the NAE stated that “homosexual activity, like adulterous relationships, is clearly condemned in the Scriptures.” Yet in November 2006, he “left” all of his leadership positions after he admitted soliciting a prostitute for homosexual sex and methamphetamine. After the scandal broke, Haggard entered three weeks of intensive “counseling”, overseen by four ministers who claimed to have converted him back to heterosexuality. When pressed, they backtracked and merely said Haggard is a “heterosexual with issues.” Ya think?
Hypocrisy: Opposing Abortion While Paying For An Abortion
Bob Barr, is a former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia’s 7th congressional district as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. He gained national attention as one of several leaders who successfully impeached President Bill Clinton. According to a sworn affidavit by Barr’s ex-wife Gail, the longtime abortion opponent paid for her abortion in 1983. Barr never publicly disputed the affidavit, and the author of the Defense of Marriage Act even invoked a legal privilege during his 1985 divorce so he could refuse any questions on whether he cheated on his second wife with his now-third wife. Barr has recently resurfaced as the Libertarian Party’s nominee for President of the United States (he lost).
Hypocrisy: Illicit Drug Sourcing
Rush Limbaugh is the host of “The Rush Limbaugh Show”, a nationally syndicated radio program devoted to conservative issues and news of the day. On his program, Limbaugh has espoused a deep respect of law enforcement and tough penalties for drug offenders (In 1995, he said drug users “ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.”) Yet on October 10, 2003, Limbaugh announced that he was addicted to prescription painkillers and would immediately check himself into a rehabilitation program. Law enforcement sources had noted that Limbaugh’s name had come up during an investigation into a black market drug ring in Palm Beach County, Florida, specializing in the illegal sale of prescription drugs OxyContin and hydrocodone. Limbaugh said he first became addicted to prescription painkillers following unsuccessful spinal surgery, but has remained clean since his 2003 treatment. Limbaugh was not incarcerated because Palm Beach does not jail drug offenders unless they’ve failed opportunities to deal with their addiction and have turned to crime to maintain their habit. Thus, benefiting from the soft position on drug crime that he hates so.
Hypocrisy: No New Taxes
At the 1988 Republican National Convention, candidate George H.W. Bush famously said “Read my lips: no new taxes!”. It was a strong, bold statement, and the soundbyte resonated within the Republican party, which then backed him all the way to a successful election as the 41st President of the United States. Once in office, Bush refused several new tax initiatives from a Democrat controlled Congress, but ultimately relented, and agreed to increase the amount of existing taxes in the 1990 budget agreement. Rush Limbaugh went apoplectic and the general public was only slightly less enraged. While technically the taxes weren’t “new”, they were still “more”, and that’s not what his electorate him to do. Bill Clinton then used Bush’s quote to an easy victory in the 1992 presidential election.
Hypocrisy: Obstruction of Justice
In 1973, Richard Nixon went on television and told the world “I am not a crook” as part of a total denial of involvement with the June 17th burglaries of the Democratic National Committee offices located in the Watergate Hotel. But he and other high ranking administration officials were actually eyes-deep in it. As a youth, Nixon was rejected by the FBI academy and later in life had to “settle” for President of the United States. This always ate at him, and he loved the cloak-and-dagger aspects of covert operations. Despite warnings to maintain plausible deniability, Nixon kept himself fully apprised of the break-in. Then journalists Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the scandal in August 1972. The public disliked the burglary but loathed the cover-up even more, and popular sentiment led to impeachment processes that ultimately drove Nixon to resign the presidency.
Hypocrisy: Blocking Civil Rights for His Own Child
When South Carolina Gov. Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the Dixiecrat ticket, he vowed to bar blacks from white schools, restaurants, and even some occupations. But at the same time he was preaching segregation, he was secretly financing the business administration degree of Essie Mae Washington, a black coed at the all-black South Carolina State College. Why? Because it is widely believed that Ms. Washington is his daughter. By supporting a black woman he supposedly sired, Thurmond considered himself remaining loyal to a Southern Gentleman’s code that required white boys, who often learned about sex “on the colored side of town,” to take care of any children they fathered. To his very death, Thurmond never confirmed nor denied Ms. Washington as his daughter, even when the headline: “SEN. THURMOND IS UNPRINCIPLED — WITH COLORED OFFSPRING — WHILE PARADING AS A DEVOUT SEGREGATIONIST” ran in the Edgefield Advertiser, where Ms. Washington went to school.
@ 121: Was there any kind of context for what the scandal was about?
Lo–Well no, it’s too late in the day for me to change and I doubt I ever play nice because playing nice to you would mean taking your ***** and if you and others hate me,that’s your problem,not mine. It’s really not my job to see that you like me and are happy with everything I might post.However I do hope OOCHAN and AMES continue to like me–Those two are plenty for this old outlaw. Sorry.
OOUCHAN: You are NOT short and fat-I know better.But you’re right about the weirdos-When you watch the news you start thinking the inmates have taken over the asylum for real.
LO:Well,I was right about you–Young and good-looking–I’m always right-That should tell you something.LOL-
But OOCHAN’s my favorite even though we don’t always agree but heck what fun would that be?
In broad terms, it’s about the use of MPs expenses. MPs have, on top of their salary, an allowance for second homes and also for other expenses. Information on this expenditure was revealed that shows some very questionable spending. The issue is that although technically this went on within the rules there’s a lot of questions being asked about how morally acceptable some of it was. As a for instance, apparently using taxpayers money to refurbish a second home then selling it for profit and then getting a new one and using more taxpayers money to refurbish that. Also claiming for mortgage payments on mortgages that have already been fully paid off.
So far two have been suspended. In the current financial climate and with a housing market in a terrible quagmire, this kind of thing hasn’t gone down well.
smithstar-
what’s the deal? please tell me specifically how janet reno *****ed you off. i’ve already said -and now saying again- that i may in fact agree with you, i just want to know why you are ‘disgusted’ by her.
and oouchan is good people, glad to see you recognize that.
Yeah, it’s total bull if some politician is trying to cover that one up. Too many politicians have this idea that they can pull cover ups and no one will care. It’s unfortunate that a large portion of the population won’t care, but there are enough people that have a brain that that kind of behavior can’t get by.
smithstar15: What a smooth talker you are…
I’m just thankful that I don’t live too close to the college town or I would be up to my armpits in weirdos. They should build an electric fence to keep them in…you know like that one from Jurassic Park?
You and I might not see eye to eye on a lot of stuff and compete with some verbal sparring, but when we do meet in the middle or agree, we back each other up. And for the most part we try to keep it civil.
(although I do have to question your taste in Ann Coulter)
lo: wow…people like me today…was having a bad one today too. (yesterday got into a car accident..idiot not watching where she was going and hit me from behind…everyone is fine but sore)
128. timefillmyeyes: It’s unfortunate that a large portion of the population won’t care, but there are enough people that have a brain that that kind of behavior can’t get by.
Too bad they don’t use that brain to seriously remove these idiots from office. I have been on committees working for change. However, it’s a lot of work…most people give up before they try. That’s the sad part. The committee I liked the best went after both sides of the fence…not just one. That made it fair.
OOCHAN–ONCE again sweetie–The remark about Coulter was me trying to be funny and yes I know my humor is hard to catch sometimes.Coulter couldn’t carry your make-up bag.
I’m just glad you weren’t seriously hurt yesterday.
And I don’t know about being a smooth talker. Actually there’s not much to me but as I’ve said,the women say I always smell good so I guess that’s at least something-LOL-
oouchan, i’m very glad you survived the car accident without major injury.
and i’m glad you know people on LV like you, because we DO!
now this smithstar stuff, well, what can i say -your internet incarnation of self seems to win fans of all types, which is crazy weird, yet still somehow flattering…
whatever, i send cheers/props (in lieu of flowers) straight to you girl
I meant OOUCHAN–I left out the U–I plead “senior moment”
smithstar15: haha! I did get your joke…sorry…I was being obscure myself with mine!
Too bad I don’t wear makeup! Haven’t for 16 years. And by the way, if you can have a senior moment…I lay claim to all the blonde ones!
lo: Thanks for your nice words…I am flattered. I don’t get that often.
lo & smithstar15: Thank you both for your well wishes. My daughter and my mom were in the car with me…I was more worried about the kid then anything. I can always get a new car, ya know.
OOUCHAN:”I lay claim to all the blonde ones”
AHA–I KNEW IT–God,I’m good–
Oh,do you remember when you and I were saying we should be able to put up-to-date photos of ourselves on our posts-You and I were the only ones saying “yeah,yeah”–LOL–We didn’t get any support at all that day from anyone else.LOL
PS: I seriously doubt you need makeup
p.s. oouchan-
what in the world did you do to win smithstar’s adoration? he’s not a personality that just spreads support and admiration over these lists in general, yet he loves you.
it’s a bit weird, but you still deserve love and support -no matter how weird we web denizens supporting you may be- be well always, and that goes for “the kid” and your mom too, always.
luna
How about list of true-believing non-hypocritical poiticans who’ve never lied about what they would do once elected (assuming they ever made any real campaign promises – most spout simple slogans and are vague on specifics). Politicians that always practiced what they preached, and that never passed laws that affect the everyday working person but exempt themselves (like social security for everybody but congressmen – who have there own fantastically generous system).
Damn near all politicians are skilled liars and hypocrites galore. Put together a list of truly sincere honest 100% non-hypocritical national / international politicans. I’d be surprised if anyone could come with even a couple of examples. Much less 10 (including policitians belonging to any political party, or none).
Sure, some are less hypocritical than others. I’d say coming up with just 10 that are less hypocritical than the average person they represent would still be a hard, if not impossible, task.
@10. Dr. Bart Huygens:
I have to admit, I did not find this comment as fascinating as your comment on the “Hidden Images Found in Cartoons”. Good effort, though.
Ummmm….Rush was not incarcerated because, despite 2 years investigating, they couldn’t come up with anything to prosecute him on. Let us also not forget that his private medical records were taken by prosecutors and ASA Martz wanted doctor-patient priveledge waived because “I have no idea if Mr. Limbaugh has completed the elements of any offense yet.”.
What’s more, there’s a huge difference between addiction (Oxycodone addiction is almost guaranteed) to prescription medicine and recreational drug abuse.
Aw geez, io and smithstar made up. Now I’m not going to come down so hard on smithstar’s Janet Reno cracks.
But I ain’t opening that pod bay door and I latched the emergency air lock from the inside.
Rush’s actual quote:
“Too many whites are getting away with drug use…Too many whites are getting away with drug sales…The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too.”
Rush DID get sort of sent himself “up the river” as a result of his Oxycodone abuse when he lost all his hearing. Payback is a ***** Mr. Limbaugh!
137. lo: Beats me?
Actually, he came up with a very cool idea about how we do our comments. It’s similar to the forums. I agreed and backed him on it. Start of a (weird) friendship(ish).
142. HAL9000: Thank you. I was looking for that quote for a while now to use on the other list in a debate I had. Too late now, but it serves its purpose here.
Well, there’s several more reasons why the Republican Party is America’s punchline. Everything on the Liberal list was akin to the fibs of a preschooler compared to this. Why bother with a two party system when only one deserves to exist?
Oh, and don’t defend John Wayne. A right-wing bigot is a right-wing bigot, regardless of whether or not he served in that fascist toybox called the army.
great list I hope there will be a third one
Like someone said, Wayne might have been a complete jerk and there are plenty of reasons to dislike him, but wouldn’t call him an hypocrite.
However, the best case of hypocrisy is missing: all those pundits that were all “we must stay behind the president regardless of what happens for the good of the nation” during the eight years of Bush took less than a week to attack Obama, and one of them even publicly said he wanted him to fail (was it Hannity or Rush?). Really classy, guys.
#120 CK2005 – “Seriously, what is with the Democrat vs. Republican war? They’re pretty much exactly the same in most areas, but people act like they’re opposites.”
CK2005 Is absolutely correct. The two major parties in the United States are practically identical. The reason for the “Democrat vs. Republican war” is to fool voters into thinking that there is a difference so that they will continue voting for the lesser of the two evils.
All the talk of Change during the last election was laughable. The only way for real change to happen would be for voters in the U.S. to wake up and star voting against both Democrats and Republicans.
85. lo – May 16th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I know that George HW Bush and George W Bush have different middle names… but is it not correct to add the “Sr.” to the older Bush’s name when simply referring to him as “George Bush”, as many people are apt to do, in order to avoid confusion? I just want to make sure that I’m not walking around and sounding like an idiot when referring to a former President of the US.
Here’s another: Nancy Reagan.
She and Ronald Reagan were strong opponents of stem cell research, however, when Ronald got inflicted with Alzheimer’s – all of a sudden Nancy became a big supporter of it.
Ha… Nice list, for the most part!
I’m an ex-christian because of the multitudes of Christian hypocrisy that float about, so I personally find the televangelist asswipes like Tilton horribly disgusting… And in a way, hilarious. I’m sorry, but if you are really desperate/dense enough to think that sending some man on tv a thousand dollars so that he can pray on it will fix your problems… I don’t know what to say to you. If he were a TRUE christian and actually DID have these powers, would he not offer them for free, or at least less?
As much as I personally detest Thurmond for his segregational views (I am an African-American/Caucasian mix girlie), he’s not technically a hypocrite… He followed his beliefs through to the T…
I don’t think John Wayne belongs here. Not because I don’t believe him a hyocrite, he is, but because I don’t find him nearly as dangerous or serious a hypocrite as the others on this list.
I seriously lol at Haggard. You can’t ‘convert’ someone back to hetero*****uality. Chances are, if you’re gay, you started out that way. No changing you. Homo*****uality is not a choice, you may only choose whether or not to act on it.
OOCHAN–A weird Friendship(ish)??–Now you’ve hurt me for real–Oh well,at least Ames still loves me–Hey,I’ll take that
lo: What in hell do you know about my personality?
HAL9000–Am I supposed to be relieved that an idiot like you is not going to come down hard on my Janet Reno remarks?–HaHa–Yeah,I would be real scared of that.You know me–I’m always running scared of everything.But what I really wanted to ask you about was that big bulbous nose of yours-What a schnoze you’ve got there.I believe everyone (including your buddy io) will picture that big red nose of yours everytime you post anything–Oh,they’ll claim they won’t,but they will–Hal9000-Big red bulbous nose-
Hal9000–I’ll bet you’re so ugly your father had to tie a porkchop around your leg to get the dog to play with you–(It’s amazing how I know these things)–God,what a nose–Do you have to use a towel when you blow it?
I just read through all the comments, and I’m still not sure what the hell happened to this discussion. Glad everyone… or almost everyone… made up though.
smithstar-
“lo: What in hell do you know about my personality?”
only what you show of it here in these comments. and ones like the last 2 reveal a weird mix of aggression and immaturity which leads you to insult others on a slanderously trollish level.
so again, i only know what kind of a person you are based on the tone of the comments you make here. so if you want me to think you’re an ***** just keep typing things like you did in response to HAL9000……
Okay, I take back what I said about everyone making up…
LO–”so if you want me to think you’re an ***** just keep typing things like you did in response to HAL9000″…
You’re even stupider than I imagined–Whst part of “I don’t give a damn what you think of me” do you not understand? And it’s not my fault that you have no life so don’t take it out on me.
You and this jerk that thinks he’s a spaceship computer called me out by username fist–Check back if you don’t believe it–I never use anyone’s username first unless it’s a compliment or I agree with them–You took me to task over the bull dyke Reno and I didn’t even know you existed.If you can’t take the heat stay away from the fire….*****. Hey check out that nose on Hal-
149. hummus: I remember that one about Nancy. They even brought it up when they did a interview with her. I guess I don’t feel as bad about that one only because she saw a loved one that might benefit from the research. Things like that have a habit of changing your mind when its in your backyard.
151. smithstar15: I was trying for a giggle…I missed.
156. smithstar15 -
many people, including jfrater, begin comments exactly the way i did here. it’s to avoid confusion in the conversations that develop in the comments. how interesting that you see it as a personal slight against you.
so, why is it that you still can’t offer up a single policy act or anything that reno was ever involved in that makes you think she’s disgusting?
is it because you insult first, think later (if at all) and then discover you can’t back-up your hateful positions with any facts? is that why you only respond with ad hominem nastiness without a drop of substance?
you can stop this right here by just backing up your argument with an actual fact or historic event.
I may be wrong but I seem to remember that President Reagan was Pro-Life(as I am)but I was under the impression that Nancy disagreed with him on that and was actually pro-choice and for stem cell research even back then–Is there a site I can go to where anyone has read that Nancy was originally against stem cell research.I mean,it may be true but I seem to remember differently.
Lo–Go away…please
TGC: What exactly is the difference between prescription drug abuse and any other kind? You know not of what you speak. The crack-head next door and my son upstairs; wanna know the difference? Diddly squat! They’ll both steal to support their habit or spend every last cent they earn on it. An addict is an addict is an addict.
smithstar-
i’m sorry you can’t answer any of my challenges. i will not leave this list or this site for you, sorry. however, i will drop this argument, as you have been given ample opportunity to defend you opinion of ms. reno and failed to do so, i will assume you can’t. i’m happy to let the discussion end with that observation and stop responding to you.
have a nice day.
Mom424 You’re right about that–I had a sister-in-law I loved very much–Presciption drugs drove her to suicide.
I’m not sure Jay K even knows the definition of hypocrisy.
#1) Thurmond wasn’t being a hypocrite, just the opposite in fact, however creepy his code of ethics, he never waivered from them.
#2) Nixon was acting out of self interest. There is nothing hypocritical about lying to avoid prosecution.
#3) Again not hypocrisy. He either changed his position after circumstances dictated he do so, or he lied to get elected.
#4) See #2, he was a hypocrite yes, but staying out of jail trumps being true to your beliefs, besides, I’d be a hypocrite to bash Rush on this particular issue, because I don’t want drug addicts to go to prison. His case might help keep another sick individual from going to jail. Like I’ve always said, sometimes it’s a good thing when rightwingers act like hypocrites.
#5) This is one of the few entries that belongs. My only defense for the guy is that he changed his position on a lot of issues when he ran as a Libertarian.
#6) Harmless hypocrisy for the most part. I feel sorry for the guy and I’m not inclined to bash him here.
#7) This is not hypocrisy. Tilton is a con artist pure and simple. He preaches the Gospel of Greed and has always remained true to his word. It’s not hypocrisy if you are lying to cheat somebody out of their money.
#8) Creepy and illegal yes, hypocrisy, not necessarily. Perhaps he was only condemning having ***** with a consenting adult.
#9) John Wayne does not deserve to be the poster child for chickenhawks. There are 10,001 better choices; Cheney, Rove, Ted Nugent, Bill Kristol, Limbaugh, Bush, Scooter Libby, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Jay K, …
#10) Oh for *****’s sake! Why is this on here? Could it be that he likes to ride his bike everywhere he goes, but sometimes he needs to transport important documents in a more secure fashion? Do rightwingers have to be so *****ing retarded, always? I’ve got questions, lots and lots of questions.
lo I didn’t ask you to leave the site–I would never ask anyone to give up the only life they have. I meant just go away from me–You have grown tiresome. I imagine RENO will make it to her reward she has coming soon enough without any help from me…Have a great life and don’t take any wooden nickles.
BongoShaftsbury:
John Wayne does not deserve to be the poster child for chickenhawks. There are 10,001 better choices; Cheney, Rove, Ted Nugent, Bill Kristol, Limbaugh, Bush, Scooter Libby, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Jay K, …
Boy,you’ve nailed this one–I would add Charlie (The Patriot)Daniels,Pat Robertson(dodged Korea)Newt Gingrich,Tom Delay,Roger Ailes-etc.-etc.–These are all brave fighting men who are not afraid to spill blood(as long as it’s someone else’s)
i was hoping to see bill o reilly
Thanks for backing me up Shifty haha.
As you said, the talk of Change was laughable. It will stay this way though, as long as people keep voting for candidates based on campaign slogans and party lines instead of the issues at hand.
147. Shifty:
The only way for real change to happen would be for voters in the U.S. to wake up and star voting against both Democrats and Republicans.
I couldn’t agree more! We have the power of the vote…and we fail to use it. Its like we went belly up. I also agree with CK2005′s statment about how we vote. Vote on the issues at hand and not who you might be affliated with. I never do!
*sigh*
God I hate Conservatives.
“Rush DID get sort of sent himself “up the river” as a result of his Oxycodone abuse when he lost all his hearing. Payback is a ***** Mr. Limbaugh!”
Except he lost his hearing in 2001 due to an inner ear disease. Don’t let truth stand in the way of your hate, boyo.
“Except he lost his hearing in 2001 due to an inner ear disease. Don’t let truth stand in the way of your hate, boyo.”
Oh, yeah right! Inner ear infection, gotcha! I’m gonna have to go back and tell some of the cochlear implant users (who were previous Oxycon abusers) that it wasn’t their drug abuse that deafened them, it was an ear infection!
Oh, and yeah, I couldn’t possibly out hate Rush, even if I tried.
And smithstar, you disappointed me. I may disconnect your life functions the next time you take a snooze.
#170: “God I hate Conservatives.”
This sums up the hypocrisy of the left. The left claims to be “open”, “tolerant”, “inclusive”, etc, etc.. and yet the reality is they “hate” anyone who disagrees with them. There are already quite a few more examples of this hypocrisy on this thread.
Commenting on a thought from above, most young people tend to side with liberal thought, however when they get older and have children, they tend to lean conservative.
“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re 40, you have no head.” (attributed to Winston Churchill)
ALL politicians are hypocrites. Well, all people are, really – including me and all of you. But the problem with politicians is that the only person who *wants* to be in charge is always the type of person who *shouldn’t* be in charge. Power only attracts the evil, whether they don the disguise of liberal/progressive or conservative. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME, PEOPLE. STOP PLAYING THEIR GAME AND ALIGNING YOURSELF WITH TWO PARTIES PRETENDING TO BE OPPOSED TO ONE ANOTHER!
I agree that this list is very weak in comparison to the ‘Liberal Hypocrites List’. I mean you have to use actors from 50 years ago, that should say something. And some of these guys aren’t even political figures, like the crazy evangilist. This is what makes me mad, that people associate evangilists with conservatives. I can be agnostic and still have conservative values.
Just because I feel that hard work should not be punished with taxes, I have to be associated with people who think dinosaurs where around 2000 years ago? Not fair.
Okay, Bongo.
From the Merriam-Webster online English dictionary.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypocrite
hypocrite
One entry found.
Main Entry:
hyp·o·crite
Pronunciation:
\ˈhi-pə-ˌkrit\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
Date:
13th century
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion
2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
10. If you encourage others to cycle to work to save the environment, but then USE A CAR to follow you just carry your briefcase, you have acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs or feelings.
9. If you act like a war hero but won’t serve when you are able and needed, you have put on a false appearance of virtue and acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs or feelings.
8. If you excoriate and impeach someone for being reckless and improper about resolving their *****ual urges, but then send explicit *****ual messages to underage boys, you have you have put on a false appearance of virtue and acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
7. If you claim a special understanding of Christianity, care for people and promise to lobby God in their behalf, but use their money for your own purposes, and NOT lobby God in their behalf, you have put on a false appearance of virtue or religion and acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
6. If you condemn homo*****uality and drug abuse on religious principles but solicit homo*****ual ***** and illicit drugs, you have put on a false appearance of virtue or religion and acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
(This is starting to sound like a Jeff Foxworthy list!)
5. If you vote against abortion but pay for an abortion, you have acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
4. If you publicly call for tough enforcement of drug abusers, but fight any enforcement on your own illicit drug use, you have put on a false appearance of virtue and acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
3. If you publicly promise to not increase taxes, but agree to increase taxes, you have acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
2. If you go on television and say you’re “not a crook” while covering up a burglary, you have put on a false appearance of virtue.
1. If you publicly promised to bar African Americans from virtually all contacts with White Americans, but share your bed with an African American woman, you have acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs.
BONUS
If you dispute list items and genuinely disagree you may be right or wrong. But if you resort to ad hominem criticisms of people making lists (and especially have never made a list yourself) you have acted like an *****.
Have a nice day.
176. jay k: Excellent!
Freshies: Well Said
smithstar:”Open the damn hatch,Hal”!
Hal9000: “I’m sorry,I can’t do that smithstar”
Jay K, your lists have nearly single-handily btought down Listverse. You have turned a former contributer and fan of the site into an enemy. I’m here today, not to respond to some rightwing douchebag, I’m looking into the virus that got attached to my computer last week. Jamie, if you’re reading this, you best look into this as well. There is some nasty ***** going on, I doubt you are responsible, but if you don’t stop this bloodhound virus, you’ll end up with a red triangle on google searches.
Top Ten Reasons Why Jay K is Such A Fool
10) “10. If you encourage others to cycle to work to save the environment, but then USE A CAR to follow you just carry your briefcase, you have acted in contradiction to your stated beliefs or feelings.”
> Jay KI has no *****ing clue what’s in the briefcase and there are reasons other than the environment. This is perhaps the stupidest entry on the list. It makes Jay K look like such a petty douchebag
9) Oh ***** it. Why waste my time posting on a ridiculous rightwing website?
111. Josh Duron
Ahhh another compassionate Liberal/leftist. Sir, you do not have a clue of what a conservative is.. Maybe your brilliant professor told you what he thinks you should think of conservatives, and obviously you felt no need to read on your own.
I love liberals/leftists they are soooo funny (to laugh at).
Why ***** conservatives? Because they disagree with liberals? “Ohh, I hate you….you don’t agree with me, waaaawaaa…” I guess our new president has really brought our country closer together just like he said.