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James Carville, back before Mary Matalin succeeded in ruining him as a force for good, once made the following point:
Newt Gingrich, as a young congressman in 1988, was the loudest voice in hounding Jim Wright, the Democratic Speaker of the House during the 1980s, out of office over a $55,000 book deal. Newt then himself went on to not only take a $4.5 MILLION book deal from HarperCollins, a Rupert Murdoch imprint, but went on when he became Speaker to push for the repeal legislation that kept Murdoch -- who was then not yet a US citizen -- from owning any US TV networks. (That's how FOX News came to be, by the way.) Essentially, if a Republican accuses somebody of doing something, you can be sure that the Republican is doing it at least eighty times worse.
Fast-forward to CoupGate, aka the Clinton Impeachment Insanity of 1998-2000. Gingrich was but one of a number of Republican horndogs and adulterers -- Henry Hyde, Helen Chenoweth, Dan Burton, Dick Armey, to name but a few -- wagging their fingers at Bill Clinton for having got hummers from a female to whom he wasn't married.
And let's not forget my own personal favorite Republican politician and malefactor, Philip Giordano, the former mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut -- who if all the votes had been counted in Florida in 2000 would have been appointed by Connecticut's Republican governor at the time, John G. Rowland, to serve out Joe Lieberman's term -- just as the cops were about to bust him for raping prepubescent little girls. He's now in the Federal pen -- though I don't know if it's the same one where Governor Rowland would himself spend some time in the years following Giordano's downfall.
It's not just conservative politicians that are hypocrites: Look at Michelle Malkin, clutching her pearls in front of a fawning Howard Kurtz over a few anonymous comments left on Huffington Post bare weeks after sending her readership out to go after Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan (and around the same time as when she cut loose with some incivility at the CPAC shindig). Or William Donohue, the anti-Semitic woman-hater who attacks people for being "bigots".
Oh, and let's check out some of the prominent politically conservative TV preachers of past and present, shall we? Billy James Hargis. Jim Bakker. Jimmy Swaggart. Ted Haggard.
Going back to James Carville: He wasn't the only one who observed the conservative and Republican tendency for doing the very things they accuse others of doing. Molly Ivins noted this phenomenon, too. In fact, she borrowed a term from the psychiatric lexicon to describe it: "Projection ".
Republicans and conservatives indulge in projection for at least two (2) reasons that I can determine. One is because they wish to deflect attention from their own shortcomings. The other is because the press generally doesn't call them on it. (Contrast the willingness of the US news media to broadcast right-wing media figure Michelle Malkin's accusations of incivility against lefty bloggers -- without noting her lead role in promoting incivility among her fan base.)
Let's collect up the various examples of "Do as I say, not as I do" among the cons. Feel free to drop them off in the comments below.
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PW !!
Hell yeah!
Well - - - there’s Karl Rove building his entire career on gay-baiting, when his gay dad drove his mother to suicide.
Well, let us start with the obvious example:
Perjury is perfectly acceptable if you’re a republican in the service of protecting a republican president. But if you’re a Dem doing it to prevent the salacious details of your marital infidelity from becoming public, it’s high treason!
Dana Rohrabacher–used a high school orthopedic injury (back or knee–I forget which) to get a note from a doctor friend of the family and get out of service in Vietnam.
I’m so f’ing mad about Lieberman having the ‘mike’ this weekend I can hardly think straight. I need to calm down.
My favorite example of projection is when they accuse Democrats of trying to steal elections. They do this whenever Democrats insist on a recount that rightfully should happen, but might catch the *Republicans* in the act of stealing an election.
Rowland did his time in a PA pokey, while Giordano is in a New York federal pen.
Rowland didn’t do enough time. Giordano can’t do enough.
God and Goddess bless Molly…
Lieberman doing the Deme radio thing this weekend has me livid at my political party.
I like this post Phoenix Woman. I couldn’t stop myself from sneaking a peek at JustOneMinute to see their view about today’s trial events. Talk about hypocrits. I read that we won’t like Fitz when we realize he will prosecute terrorists the same way he has Libby. Just one of many many stupid posts.
I also found out he was appointed illegally (??). Didn’t their administration appoint him?
He/her Wilson has “Air Force values.”
Looking forward to Air Force Values on parade tomorrow with Iglesias under oath.
Oh and the gay two faced thing. All over that.
Chickenhawk:
TeddySanFran @ 4
Rove. Descriptive words escape me.
Howie Klein usually keeps us up to date on Republican pedophiles and other pathologies.
http://downwithtyranny.blogspo.....-wing.html
The last paragraph has a nice summary.
William “Mr. Values” Bennett and his gambling come to mind.
Mark Foley
He introduced a bill, coined the “Child Modeling Exploitation prevention Act of 2002″ to outlaw web sites featuring sexually suggestive images of preteen children, saying that “these websites are nothing more than a fix for pedophiles.”
Another thing that ticks me off..the right-wingers where I worked were so excited when Martha Stewart was convicted. Now they think poor Mr. Libby is being persecuted.
ccmask @ 18
Well, he knew this from personal experience!
Related to this topic, I still eagerly await disclosure of the gender of the Watergate hookers provided in the Dusty Foggo/Duke Cunningham cases….
PW,
Before I read your article, I would just like to say that the fact that Carville can sit down to a meal with Matalin, spend free time and vacation with her, and-gag-go to bed with her, tells me this is a man of no convictions. The fact that he can do it on a daily basis tells me he is a prostitute. Of the highest order.
The Republicans ‘project’. My party ‘triangulates’.
Um, too easy, perhaps, but Ted Haggard comes to mind.
The whole “welfare is bad” thing…..unless you’re a corporation.
That goes for bankruptcy too.
And illegal behavior like accounting fraud. And not paying taxes.
I guess I’m equating corporations with ‘pukes.
Terry Olson @ 22
The fact that he can, day in and day out, appear on major 24-hr news networks as a pundit without disclosing which candidate is currently paying for the pleasure of his advocacy is further proof.
Bil @ 10
;0) Molly ;0)
I’ve been saying republicans have been projecting for decades…The following projection should be thoroughly investigated: Ann Coulter is trying to get out of the closet for all her attempts at being a transgender/transvestite ;)
For Molly. Real then, real now.
not a projection.
When does DeLay come to trial?
“The islands are home to classic sweatshops. In 1996 and 1997, Abramoff billed the Marianas for 187 contacts with DeLay’s office, including 16 meetings with DeLay. In December 1997, DeLay, his wife and their daughter went on an Abramoff-arranged jaunt to the Marianas. DeLay brunched with the Marianas’ largest private employer, textile magnate Willie Tan.
Tan had to settle a U.S. Labor Department lawsuit alleging workplace violations. According to the book “The Hammer” by Lou Dubose and Jan Reid, among the violations common on the islands is forbidding women to work when they are pregnant, thus leading to a high abortion rate.
Evidently, DeLay didn’t have time to look into such allegations, since he was busy playing golf and attending a dinner in his honor, sponsored by Tan’s holding company. According to The Washington Post, it was at this dinner that DeLay called Abramoff “one of my closest and dearest friends.” He also reminded those present of his promise that no minimum wage or immigration legislation affecting the Marianas would be passed.
“Stand firm,” he added. “Resist evil. Remember that all truth and blessings emanate from our Creator.” He then went with Tan to see a cockfight.
This is why DeLay’s professions of Christianity make me sick. He was there. He could have talked to the workers. Instead, he chose to walk with the powerful and do real harm to the very people Jesus mandated we especially care for.”
ALWAYS keep your prayers intentions focused on the Golden Rule, never cast an intention, prayer or dark spell.
PRAY, meditate for the Golden Rule and Tom DeLay…Most prayers are dangerous, this one isn’t.
Rush and his various rushes.
Jeff Gannon/James Guckert
Shrub’s every-six-months trips to the Gulf Coast must qualify for some kind of projection of “empathy” as a human value….
I liked the you-tube last night of MMKKKin saying she made a lot of errors and corrected a few of them. Accuracy in media. A winner.
Let’s never forget the Jeff Gannon/Guckert hustler posing as a journalist to bail out the President and Pretty Scotty from a tough spot when a softball question was needed to throw off the press. And all the “ins” but not “outs” from the White House Logs. Imagine if Bill Clinton had a gay hooker trolling the halls of the White House with an assumed name?
Republican hypocrisy? Isn’t this kinda like shooting whales in a keg?
I’m sure there’s a new one today, or probably several, but the one that’s been really pissing me off lately is the Dick Cheney “Pelosi, et. al., are validating the terrorists strategy” smear.
Uh, no, Dick.
You did that when you invaded Iraq.
Pelosi, et. al, are simply trying to mitigate, reduce, and stop your blunders.
Dante was particularly disdainful of the usurers I believe. My distaste is reserved for the hypocrites.
Judy Judy Judy, spy vs: spy.
Congresscreature John Doodoolittle of the Golden State. Good conservofacist, promotes family values, especially when his wife benefits, but seems not to care about enslavement of women from various Pacific Rim countries in the Mariana Islands.
Or are we the hypocrites, saying that perjury is a crime, but it wasn’t in Clinton’s case?
Myself, I think Scooter should rot in prison as a perjurer and a traitor. But I wasn’t all that happy about Clinton’s perjury either.
I nominate the late governor of Mississipi, Kirk Fordice, who used to rant about how America was a “Judeo-Christian nation,” founded on “family values,” and was one of the loudest voices shrieking for Bill Clinton’s impeachment over Lewinsky-gate. He was surprised and wounded when people publicly criticized him for having an affair with another woman, for whom he left his wife of 44 years.
And let us not forget Ronald and Nancy Reagan, who argued for pre-marital abstinence and disapproved of divorce. More of that family values stuff. Nancy was pregnant with Ron Jr. when they got married. Oh—that’s right, Big Ron had previously been married to Jane Wyman, who divorced him.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 36
Hmm. The lowest circle of hell, the ninth, was reserved for betrayers. Like Judas.
I wonder what Dante would make of leaders who betray the principles upon which their country was founded.
More like a handgrenade in a goldfish bowl.
Bush talking about supporting the troops.Walter Reed,cuts to veterans benefits inc. brain injuries and prosethic limbs.
The VP’s criticism of John Murtha which ellicited a response of “Oh, yeah, that’s what I like, criticism from a guy with 5 deferments.”
Not to defend Big Dawg, but um, no one died.
Plus getting to the lie only wasted $80M or so tax dollars. Still did not bankrupt the country.
Former Senator Frist of Tennessee certainly took care of his own in the healthcare sector. Plus, he could practice telemedicine at the sametime.
Ann in AZ @ 31
Of all TradMed’s failings, not investigating this strikes me as the most inexplicable. Truly, I could understand being complicit in the runup to war; I could understand the false choice of having a beer versus earth tones. But — to have a male hooker pose as a journalist in your midst, day after day, and not follow the breadcrumbs wherever they led? How could this happen?
Who was this man? How did he come to sit among them, as one of them? What of his many visits to the White House? What of his daily-pass credentialing?
To me, it is more evidence of the efficient gelding accomplished by the NSA net, cast wide.
The most current one is whining about “a mere perjury trial when there’s no underlying crime.” What’s good for Clinton is not good enough for Libby, apparently.
Fair and Balanced!!!
bberg @ 28
bberg @ 28
Scroll down at http://www.crooksandliars.com/ to get another flavor of the Mann. Women do not sit like this, in this kind of apparel, in polite company.
Joe, Clinton’s lie was not material (or even related) to the alleged crime he was giving a deposition about. Perjury doesn’t normally get charged in those cases. Libby’s lie was very material to this investigation.
Rush Limbaugh is a veritable cornucopia of projection and matchless hypocrisy. Not just the drug/viagra stuff, but the fact that he’s been on welfare, while railing against others on public assistance. There’s almost too much to list.
Teresa @
12
Fitz has participated in prosecuting terrorists - USA v. Bin Laden [scroll down]
And he was appointed legally by acting AG Comey
OH, NEWS!! Wilson just trying to “help” Iglesias.
WaPoo has it:
Wilson also said she was trying to help Iglesias: “If the purpose of my call has somehow been misperceived, I am sorry for any confusion. I thought it was important for Mr. Iglesias to receive this information and, if necessary, have the opportunity to clear his name.”
Pathologically, republicanism is related to syphilitic hebephrenia, but it is more far common and destructive.
Republicanism costs the nation hundreds of billions of dollars per year, saps valuable resources, and is responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands with whom the carrier comes in contact(see: Iraq).
It is possible for your family or neighbors to contract the disease, yet for you to remain immune.
Modern science is working on a cure, but as yet, none has been found.
Please help us stamp out creeping republicanism in our lifetime.
Heather Wilson:
Wilson also said she was trying to help Iglesias: “If the purpose of my call has somehow been misperceived, I am sorry for any confusion. I thought it was important for Mr. Iglesias to receive this information and, if necessary, have the opportunity to clear his name.”
www.dailykos.com/
Teresa @ 51
Plus, the ‘investigation’ that sought to trap Clinton in the first place (”Troopergate”) was a complete pack of lies, as was the subsequent Paula Jones pile o’ crap. He was brought into court on lies.
John in Sacramento - I know…I was just repeating the bulls**t I read at JustOneMinute.
Terry Olson @ 50
SPEW..thought I saw the tapeworm….Now I have to clean the keyboard, thanks
OfT: Local newscast CBS5, reporting John Edwards’ using Ann Coulter’s speech as a fundraising tool, shows the clip on Edwards’ website, and BLEEPS the f-word.
That’s progress, I think. Or knowing your market. Or knowing hatespeech and not passing it along.
AZ Matt @ 46
And don’t forget that he used to go to the animal shelter, “adopt” cats, and take them home to kill them and practice surgical techniques. Apparently even he, in his autobiography, admitted that he had been dishonest about the adoptions.
From the Wiki
Dennis Hastert
Controversies
Campaign contributors
Support for Turkey
Remarks about George Soros
New Orleans rebuilding
Connection to Jack Abramoff scandal
FBI search of a Congressional office
Real estate investments
2006 House page scandal
Joshua Hastert
Ethan Hastert
Tranny jokes are unwelcome here at the lake (for those who missed previous alerts on this topic). There’s lots about Coulter to criticize. Her gender variance, or not, isn’t one of them.
TeddySanFran @
21
Yes, I’ve been wondering about that too.
By the way, Phoenix Woman, thanks for that Billy James Hargis link. In it I read for the first time about the beginning of the Fairness Doctrine. Really interesting.
joe falcone @ 39
*Sigh*
Clinton’s ‘perjury’ was more in the realm of violating the spirit of the law rather than the letter. It was also in the context of a civil suit rather than a criminal investigation over an issue of national security such as outing an undercover agent and her front company. Also, it was about an issue tangential to the civil case rather than about the primary thrust of the suit. Finally, Clinton was reprimanded by the judge and disbarred for several years, which, considering the trivial, and set-up, nature of the charge was probably sufficient punishment.
An arguable case can be made that a blow job several months ago does not constitute a presently active sexual relationshp. So when Clinton was asked “Is there a sexual relationship?”, he said “No”, relying on the fact that his relationship with Lewinsky was over, and that they’d never had intercourse anyway.
Not exactly pristine behavior, but would you really convict someone, beyond a reasonable doubt, for perjury over this?
Mr Falwell selling tapes of Clinton’s drug running
Terry Olson @ 22
I don’t get Carville as a Democrat. Just because you might self-identify as one, doesn’t necessarily *make* you one. Dems should demand a divorce!
Bill Bennet gambling debts
How about Iran/Contra while “just say No” was in the White House?
TeddySanFran @ 2
TEDDY!
AZ Matt @ 46
That scenario sent me over the edge. Especially the democrats who hippity-hopped back to DC to vote along with the nutcases. Anybody have a list of the dems who voted with them?
You bunch of Nazi sympathizers. Why can’t you be good Amerikkkans like Herr Rumsfeld, Karl Rover, Prescott Bush…
How about when Ann “Thanks for respecting my privacy” Coulter posts names and addresses of her critics and then sics her sicko followers on them - many with death threats?
Alicia @ 56
If the false statement was immaterial, I bow to superior knowledge. The troopers were already saying such things in 1991, when Clinton came to Chicago to meet with a woman I had worked for, and his troopers were gossiping with the security detail, who passed along stories.
The ‘phenomenal futures trading ability’ of Hillary remains an unresolved mystery.
I don’t know the particular nature of any of the legal proceedings, and I definitely do not want to create any false equivalence between them and Libby’s crimes, or Gingrich’s corruption.
But when we extend the conversation to any number of GOP hypocrisies, then I feel compelled to point out that we do in fact maintain rather low ethical standards ourselves when we hold up the Clintons as victims. They deserved more scrutiny in 1992, which might have obviated the disaster of 1998.
Is this limited to politicians?
Alicia @ 52
Tell us more.
Peterr @ 17
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And his ‘thought experiments’: “If all black women aborted their babies, then there would be less crime.”
bg @ 69
Oh, yes. And her kids were all doing lines themselves.
Gary Webb had the goods on the CIA’s selling crack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C....._in_the_US
Teresa @ 57
Freeper site? … Must be. What is most amazing to me is that these neocons (they’re not real conservatives, i.e. John Dean) read and listen to that crap with no critical thinking skills whatsoever.
Amazes me.
Gotta run … L8r
Alicia @ 73
Michelle Malkin likes doing that too.
ironyesc8psem @ 75
Nope!
ccmask @ 18
Who’d know better but it goes to the question if he was gay or a pedophile. I thought he was flirting (showering unwanted attentiuon) on the underage boys, yes?
Mr Robertson of 700 hundred club fame:
saying god was going to hit orlando with a hurricane because of gay-day at disney
advocating assassination upon Chavez
destruction of the CIA,
all the while, digging for gold in a country run by a dictator with an atrocious human rights record.
“Culture of Life”
HA!
bdu @ 5
Uh-huh. And if you’re a Democrat, it’s perjury even if 1) the statement was made concerning something that had nothing to do with the matter at hand, and 2) you honestly believe the statment to be true.
OfT:
Have y’all seen this video that Matt Stoller has posted? (OKK, I’m talking to you!)–
in the words of Stonewall Jackson that the fucking rethuglican rednecks understand: Kill ‘em all”
And the purpose of “Privatization” was to SAVE tax dollars?
The old “Liquor Officer” Pat Robertson himself.
I really dislike hypocrites. And when people, say… like preachers, point fingers in church about unsavory behavior; behavior, for which it is later found that the very same preachers have indulged in, I get agitated. Whether it’s preachers or political pundits, I feel the same way.
ironyesc8psem @ 82
Ah, yes. Another charming piece of work, and an example of the religio-political complex in America. Not only are Robertson’s political ambitions plain, he inherited them from his equally-vile father.
The last best refuge of the scoundral is demagoguery. It’s a classic carny con…point the people’s eyes in one direction and relieve them of their watches, wallets and valuables while they are absorbed in what they are observing. Misdirection…it works! That’s why they keep employing it.
TeddySanFran @ 63
Thanks for saying this, Teddy. I agree completely, and this has been much discussed before at FDL. But, since we have so many new commenters, it’s a point worth making again, and again.
p.s. not just jokes, per se, but criticizing someone on that basis.
p.p.s. in case I didn’t make this clear, this is widely felt by those at FDL.
The idiot that said, Paraphrasing, ref NOLA / Katrina: god did in one night what we (rethugs) could never do
TeddySanFran @ 63
Teddy, I agree about the jokes. But I have nothing but contempt for Coulter and her ilk. We don’t know what they are because they lie. Except that you can only lie for so long. Sooner or later, somehow, you give yourself away.
start_beating_around_the_bush @ 88
Did anyone else see that episode of NOW with Pat complaining that he couldnt buy the little oil refinery he wanted because big oil had a monopoly of production?
There were so many things wrong with it, i am still having issues about it.
Bless you for the Giordano reference. An oldie but a goodie.
Phoenix Woman @ 90
then there’s good ole prescott bush
I guess we can’t pick on Beautiful Mind who speaks power to the minions, never failing to remind us of the truth of privilege.
bg @ 45
Ken Starr’s OIC was one great big wingnut welfare project, used to both feather the nests of worthless wingnut attack dogs and to harass anyone the Republican Congress didn’t like. Their favorite stunt was to subpoena people for no decent reason whatsover, just to force these people to go into debt from the travel and legal bills — bills which didn’t get reimbursed for years, if ever. The guy who ran the flower shop nearest the Governor’s Mansion was subpoenaed repeatedly, to the tune of over $100,000.
OK Kiddo—Hey cousin, you still around?
I was looking thru the last thread and counted up your posts, 31 out of 175. I tend to agree with nearly everything you say but wonder if you might be more effective with cutting back a little.
Offered in a spirit of love and concern for your message getting out to people.
Phoenix Woman @ 90
almost forgot this classic
“I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say ‘you helped this happen.’”
PW, nothing like the wingnut welfare that has happened in the last 6 years. . .makes Ken Starr look like a spendthrift.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 36
Dante was most distainful of the wishy-washy or fence sitters. Those that blow with the wind. Today he would use the term triangulars.
Jane Hamsher @ 96
If anyone wants proof that the US media isn’t liberal, one need only look at how that case barely made a ripple in the national press at the time — the same press that was regularly condemning and still condemns Clinton for a consensual affair with a grown woman.
Blue Dido @ 61
How about Frist’s blind trust that wasn’t blind? There were large highly profitable trades made on the family healthcare busniess on his positions, his wife’s position and other family members after the stock had accrued value and just before it started to lose value.
Phoenix Woman @ 99
with help from mr I made my money the old fashion way, I inherited it. scaiffe
Great post, PW.
Valley Girl:
Since we’d compared notes on Cambridge a while back, I thought I’d let you know that I got the interview. I’ll be visiting Jollye Olde England in a couple of weeks, so wish me luck. Heathrow is not my favorite airport in the world…
Phoenix Woman,
I’m really liking your essays. This one is brief, but it has brought out so many stories. I can’t believe how many layers of these creeps there are. There are so many, it taxes an individual’s brain to remember them all, but plenty of people remember a few, and now we’re sharing them. Mwahaha!
Great job at the courthouse today, gang. I just caught up on the posts, and I’m off in a few minutes for the next rehearsal.
eg- good on ya.
Personally, I look forward to Pat Robertson telling Mitt Romney when he comes to speak at Regent that his religion is a cult and, to be honest, he thinks Mitt’s a Satanist.
bg @ 98
Yeah. If Hillary’s allegedly a beeyotch, then Barbara’s a beeyotch sans pareil, but the press is much, much gentler with her than with Hillary.
TeddySanFran @ 86
I’m not sure I’m getting the drift.