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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-25-11 08:38 AM
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Why are right wingers blind to hypocrisy?
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Here are two examples I have noticed in the last 24 hours.

1.) I saw Kasich, the 'man boy' governor of Ohio, on the morning news spouting the anti collective bargaining propaganda for government workers. His line was this. I'm paraphrasing. 'Why should government workers be guaranteed a pension and retirement when people in the private sector have to pay for their own?' Well, how about your guaranteed pension Mr. Kasich? You'll just work a few years and you're set for life. You do damage to your underlings then retire to the golden golf golden in the sky. Also, there are people in the private sector that not have only guaranteed pensions but golden parachutes.

2.) I happened across an ACLJ propaganda piece on TV yesterday. They right wing answer to the ACLU. Jay Sekulow, it's illustrious leader, was interviewing so-called experts on Sharia law. Of course they were all saying the US is in danger of being taken over by Islamic Sharia law. The thing that was obvious, that I don't think Kool Aid drinking wing nuts understand, is that they were making an excellent case for separation of church and state. I always hear these people say that God is being removed from American society yet they argue against religious law being forced on the people and government.

I see 'little' hypocrisies all the time on both sides of the political spectrum. It seems obviously enormous hypocrisies are always on the right yet I rarely see a reporter or interviewer challenge the big ones.
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