Republican Hypocrisy category archive
Rand Gestures 0
Warning: Short commercial at the 6:30 mark.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better 0
The editorial board of the Orlando Sentinel points out that
Republicans say they don’t like “cancel culture.”
In truth, they like it just fine when they’re the ones doing the canceling.
Follow the link for their evidence.
Read the Footnotes 0
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel executes a tour-de-force debunking of duplicitous drivel.
“We’re the Victims Here” 0
Seth comments on Republicans’ reactions to the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
Freedom of Screech, Reprise 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson offers a primer on the First Amendment.
The Festering 0
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Susan Benesch makes the case that hate-full speech corrodes the polity, not all at once, but slowly, over time. A nugget:
Every time Trump has made an inflammatory, hateful, and/or false remark since, journalists and Democrats called it out. But not Republicans, with the rarest of exceptions . . . .
Freedom of Screech 0
From the Bangor Daily News editorial board, in considering Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s discomfiture at being held accountable for his actions:
The First Amendment doesn’t say Simon & Schuster shall publish all books
Give it a read.
The Party of Personal Responsibility 0
No doubt you have seen at one time or another one of the Family Circus’s “Not Me” cartoons.*
And, now, once again, we see life imitating art.
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*In case you haven’t, they show the parents questioning the kids about some mess up, as a shadowy figure labeled “Not Me” hovers above.