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It’s pretty funny to watch the GOP machine be hypocritical and unironically self-negating.

Giving them blogshare, mindshare, timeshare, etcetera – doesn’t help defeat them and can only help them:

even bad publicity is still publicity.

To the audience:

Who do you want to see in the PotUSA office come November?

Well, that’s who you need to be talking about.

If it were the only source of the funny, I could understand, but with nothing more than the title I found what I think is the same video on YouTube in less than ten seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1A0ts88LXE

Please, a little effort on behalf of the rest of the world?

If McCain, for instance, kisses a supporter’s baby, it is not in a vacuum. Why is this not a good thing? He is sharing love for an infant, after all.

It is not a good thing because his motives, as defined by the stated goals of the source (a politician) and context (campaigning for himself or his party, and having a record of doing little for children once they are born) are not really of love but of self-aggrandizement. It is hypocrisy precisely because he is doing one thing while attempting to appear in another light entirely, in this hypothetical instance. If all arguments are to be valued solely on their own merit then there is no such thing as hypocrisy.

I though that was the point of sharing this post. To watch how noted Republicans are reversing their previous stances to fit whomever they are trying to trash or support, based on the target’s affiliations.

As for Crizzel: I wish you would so I wouldn’t have to.

2. Corporate News has the memory of a goldfish – The Daily Show people, like some of us, actually remember more than a few weeks ago.

3. What is most horrifying is that these specific Republicans are PAID by the media stations to give political “analysis.”

Exactly when did these folks talk about Chelsea and or Hillary or Bill’s parenting skills or Algores’s drug abusing son?

Do you really want to bring up Chelsea? I’m not personally aware of any mean thing that Dick Morris or Karl Rove said about Chelsea. But there is McCain’s “high-larious” joke about Chelsea’s appearance and parentage from a Republican fund-raiser in 1998. You can find it if you Google.

Well, can’t see how distance has anything to do with it, but “closer” is technically correct:

Distance
Juneau, Alaska to Moscow, Russia – 4,542 miles
Phoenix, Arizona to Moscow, Russia – 6,022 miles
Springfield, Illinois to Moscow, Russia – 5,152 miles
Dover, Delaware to Moscow, Russia – 4,805 miles

She has a good 263 mile advantage over Sen. Biden.

I love John Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but I really wish they didn’t work for Viacom.

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Exactly when did these folks talk about Chelsea and or Hillary or Bill’s parenting skills or Algores’s drug abusing son? John Stewart is a shill. Too bad because at times he’s high-larious.

1. John Stewart didn’t take over The Daily Show until 1999, and at the time it wasn’t focused on politics.
2. Exactly what are you trying to contrast with? When did The Daily Show talk about anybody’s parenting skills or children? And if you’re talking about politicos beyond The Daily Show there were plenty of mean things said about Chelsea Clinton. Here’s McCain on Chelsea in 1998:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

And Rush Limbaugh on Chelsea in 1992:

Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat; Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?

At which point he points to a video monitor showing a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Making it out as if Democratic partisans are the primary perpetrators of personal attacks against candidates is naive at best.

CRIZZEL@86: When the Dems make such blatant hypocritical statements, I would expect them to be called on it too. Your assumption that readers here will look the other way when / if Dems do the same is idiotic and insulting. Bravo! Your fist post here could not be filled with more failure.

“Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

What people need to realize is that being a hypocrite doesn’t invalidate an argument. It might mean that the hypocrite in question might not be the most personally upstanding citizen, but it isn’t an invalidation of the argument.

I guess my point is that we shouldn’t use hypocrisy as an argument for justifying bad behavior. You can be both a hypocrite AND right.

Protest the media, not the war. Even if we end the war we will have done nothing to prevent the next one.

Rep: “Man I got slammed when I said mean stuff about Hillary”

Dem: “mean stuff about Palin”

Rep: “You’re so mean!”

Dem: “How can you slam me, for meanness, hypocrite”?

Rep: “You told me I was bad then, so you’re a hypocrite too”

I hate all politics. It just causes fights.