Hypocrisy Watch category archive
The Eastman Codex 0
Farron looks at a California judge’s ruling that Trump lawyer John Eastman should be disbarred. He starts by noting that the ruling does not disbar John Eastman; rather, that is up the the Bar Association. Nevertheless, the ruling has implications for Donald Trump, as Farron explains.
Misdirection Play: Hot Air about Windmills 0
Rebecca Burns, author and journalist based in Georgia, to discuss her recent piece in The American Prospect entitled “Against The Wind.”
Aside:
I think that this story, which appeared in my local rag yesterday, may be an example of the misdirection play discussed in this clip.
Most of the valid reports I’ve seen of harm to whales involve collisions with boats, not with stationary objects.
If One Standard Is Good, Two Must Be Better, Disinformation Superhighway Dept. 0
The EFF’s David Greene highlights the hypocrisy, A snippet:
Agencies can’t even pass on information about websites state election officials have identified as disinformation, even if they don’t request that any action be taken, they assert.
Yet just this week the vast majority of those same lawmakers said the government’s interest in removing election interference misinformation from social media justifies banning a site used by 150 million Americans.
Details at the link.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
Using the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp court case as a starting point, Rebecca Watson discusses how bots and trolls are debasing dis coarse discourse.
Twits Own Twitter X Offenders
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It looks like the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” is at it again.
Originalist Sin 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock skewers the sophistry of “Constitutional Originalist.”
Deceptive by Definition 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Randy Stapilus notes that, in Right-Wing Wonderland, words mean what they–right-wingers, that is–want them to mean.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Arizona Republic’s Laurie Roberts cuts to the quick:
Follow the link for her evidence.
Lies and Lying Liars? 0
Farron points out the perfidity and perjury are not the same thing.
The Privatization Scam 0
Eric Foster calls out the school voucher con for the underhanded fraud that it is: a violation of the public trust and of governments’ fiduciary duty to the citizenry. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
I comment his entire piece to your attention.
Establishmentarians 0
Chris Satullo challenges the establishmentarian impulse of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. Two tiny excerpts:
1) Your idea that the Bible lays out a comprehensive, clearcut judicial code or policy program for a 21st century civil government does not survive five minutes sitting with the book open on your lap and your mind switched on.
(snip)
2) One thing that is clear as day is that Jesus was suspicious (even contemptuous) of both the temporal and the institutional religious powers of his day, of Rome and the Pharisees.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Establishmentarians 0
Thom wonders why so many they-call-themselves Christians seem to miss the point of what the Bible reports to be Jesus Christ’s own words.
Foxy Shady 0
Emma and the crew dissect the misdirection play.
In related news, PoliticalProf looks at some numbers.
Insincerely Yours 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Dr. Bruce Y. Lee takes a deep dive into fake apologies. You know the ones; he describes them in his opening:
Well, I regret to inform you that such apologies are not only fake but, unfortunately, very common.
Follow the link for some pointers on how avoid being taken in by them.
