Hypocrite Antholgoy!

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each time i see another example of bold-faced public hypocrisy, i try to remember other similar examples, and i am never able to keep them all straight. so in this thread, i hope you will help me compile an anthology of prominent hypocrites (ideally w/ a short summary and cite at least one source).


examples:

Carrie Prejean: miss california, runner up for miss usa. evangelical christian, makes a very big deal of letting everyone know she is a christian, etc. there was a controversy after she made anti-gay marriage comments. her contract was later terminated for breach of contract (there were some semi-nude photos of her, going against the contract, and she did not comply with other obligations). she sued over this, and recently quietly settled the suit after it became known that there is a very graphic sex tape of her.

The Superficial - Carrie Prejean sex tape forced a settlement


Mark Foley: republican congressman from florida. after articles were published in 2003 saying he was gay or bisexual, he held a press conference to dismiss the 'revolting' rumors. in the House, he was a huge opponent of child pornography and led the charge to introduce various acts of legislation protecting children from sexual exploitation. he had advocated for sexual abstinence. he resigned from congress after it was revealed he had been having sexually explicit communication with male pages (highlight: "bo dude"), and other pages stepped forward to corroborate, as far back as 10 years.

Mark Foley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Ted Haggard: american evangelical preacher who repeatedly gave very over-the-top rants against homosexuality and gay marriage and made a big deal about being moral, god this, god that, etc. he was president of the national association of evangelicals and routinely had 10,000 people in attendance at his services. a male prostitute came forward and revealed that ted haggard had paid him many, many times for gay sex and methamphetamines. jones came forward when he realized who haggard was and could not live with the hipocrisy. haggard repeatedly denied the accusations outright saying he had never heard of the man, never used drugs, etc. he then started to backtrack a little, saying he did indeed buy the drugs, but never used them, and only received a massage from jones. he eventually came clean and had to leave the church. he has since been asking people for donations to support his family.

Ted Haggard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Gavin Newsom: douchebag mayor of san francisco, who had been seen as the golden boy for equal rights, due largely to his pro gay marriage stance. he identifies himself as catholic. marriage doesn't mean all that much to him however, considering that the institution did not command enough respect in his mind to stop him from fucking his longtime campaign manager's wife. he managed to sweep this one under the rug pretty quietly though. this guy's a creep and doesn't deserve the accolates people give him. he makes a big show about improving recycling policies while ignoring the ever present and increasing issue of homeless and drug addicted people on the streets of his city.

AIDE QUITS AS NEWSOM'S AFFAIR WITH HIS WIFE IS REVEALED / Campaign manager confronts mayor, who is 'in shock'


mark sanford: republican congressional representative from south carolina. voted to impeach clinton during the lewinski scandal, calling his behavior "reprehensible". staunchly conservative, opposes gay civil unions. used state money to fly to argentina to have an extramarital affair , lied and tried to cover it up, before finally admitting it.

Mark Sanford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


john edwards: former democratic senator and former democratic nominee for vice president in 2004. presented himself as a real honest gee whiz american guy, family man, supporter of women's rights, etc. while his wife was recovering from cancer, he had an extramarital affair with a former campaign worker. he initially denied the accusations outright, but finally admitted to it when there was too much evidence. he had promised the woman that once his wife died, they would marry on top of a building and dave matthews would play the wedding. classy guy, too bad he never made it to VP.

John Edwards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


in the cases of foley and haggard, there's been talk that each were sexually abused as children. while it doesn't excuse their hypocrisy, it does provide some insight into some of the reasons for why it came to be. in other cases, it seems to just be narcissism, unrestrained selfishness, and disregard for others.

anyhow, these are just a few i can think of off the top of my head, please help me add to this anthology, i think it will be useful to have this record in one place.

[deadaswarhol]

i forgot about bo dude haha

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he's the one person on that list i like.

i mostly have white men. surely there are some other non-white male hipocrites? maybe someone more familiar iwth sports can create a brief barry bonds entry or something?

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look 4ward 2 viewing this tape

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we can include frauds in this. i will make one for Uri Gellar

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borrowed from MSN.com: Hypocrites


Rush Limbaugh
“If people are violating the law by doing drugs," Rush Limbaugh pontificated in 1995, “they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.” Eight years later, the radio giant was himself under investigation for violating drug laws, and after three years of legal wrangling, Limbaugh was charged in Florida with fraudulently concealing information to procure prescription drugs. Translation: He allegedly “doctor shopped” to feed an addiction to painkillers. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charge if Limbaugh, now 57, remained in rehab and reimbursed the state $30,000 in legal fees. So much for throwing away the key.





Eliot Spitzer
Jaws dropped in March when the New York Times identified holier-than-thou New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer as Client 9 of a big-bucks prostitution ring. Wasn’t Spitzer, 49, the white knight who vowed to restore ethics to Albany? The guy who, as state attorney general, routed out Wall Street corruption? The same crusading prosecutor who only years earlier had busted up prostitution rings? Indeed it was. Spitzer resigned, the investigation continues, and behavioral psychologists gain a textbook case of hypocrisy.




Marion Jones
Among America’s greatest athletes, Jones, 32, won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and for years slammed suspicions that she had used performance-enhancing drugs. But in 2007, Jones came clean, telling federal investigators that her 2003 denials under oath were lies. “The fastest woman on earth” was sentenced to six months in prison and 400 hours of community service for her fibs (and role in a bad-check scam). So what makes Jones a hypocrite instead of just a cheater? Her moral posturing: “I am against performance enhancing drugs,” she wrote in large red letters in her 2004 autobiography. “I have never taken them and I never will take them.”





Laura Schlessinger
Radio’s Dr. Laura berates callers for premarital sex and cohabitation, and working while raising children. Recently on “Today,” she said wives who don’t focus on their husband’s needs are partly to blame if he cheats. One would assume that Schlessinger, 61, has lived a moral life. Well, except for the time a boyfriend snapped nude photos of her, while she was married to another man. When the pics surfaced in 1998, Schlessinger, who actually isn’t a shrink (she has a doctorate in physiology), denied their veracity before coming clean: “I was my own moral authority,” she said in Newsweek. “The inadequacy of that way of life is painfully obvious today.”





Strom Thurmond
This controversial son of the South led the splinter party Dixiecrats in the 1948 presidential campaign on a pro-segregation platform. After losing his White House bid, Thurmond served a record 47 years in the U.S. Senate, punctuated by his 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster (another record) against the 1957 civil rights bill. Yet throughout this era, he knew he had fathered a child of an African-American housekeeper. The child, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, was 78-years-old when Thurmond died at age 100 and it became public that she was his daughter. As the New York Times indelicately put it, Washington-Williams is "the unacknowledged mixed-race daughter of the Senate's most notorious white supremacist."

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james quall

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Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR

john edwards: former democratic senator and former democratic nominee for vice president in 2004. presented himself as a real honest gee whiz american guy, family man, supporter of women's rights, etc. while his wife was recovering from cancer, he had an extramarital affair with a former campaign worker. he initially denied the accusations outright, but finally admitted to it when there was too much evidence. he had promised the woman that once his wife died, they would marry on top of a building and dave matthews would play the wedding. classy guy, too bad he never made it to VP.

John Edwards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but what about his electability!

also didn't he have a baby with someone other than his wife

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Senator Larry Craig



foot tapper

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Rafael Palmeiro Hall-of-Fame caliber first baseman. On March 17, 2005, Palmeiro appeared at a Congressional hearing about steroids in baseball and, while under oath, denied ever using steroids and stated, "Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids, period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never."

On August 1, 2005, Palmeiro was suspended for ten days after testing positive for a steroid.[5] The Washington Post reported that the steroid detected in Palmeiro's system was a "serious" one.[6] According to The New York Times, Palmeiro tested positive for the potent anabolic steroid stanozolol.[7] In a public statement, Palmeiro disclosed that an appeal of the suspension had already been denied. He released a statement saying, "I have never intentionally used steroids. Never. Ever. Period. Ultimately, although I never intentionally put a banned substance into my body, the independent arbitrator ruled that I had to be suspended under the terms of the program."[8] All of his steroid tests over the previous two years and a test he took just three weeks after his positive test was also negative.[9]

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is that a hypocrite or just a liar

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[sickbadthing]

I am not gay. I never have been gay.... In June, I overreacted and made a poor decision. I chose to plead guilty to a lesser charge in hopes of making it go away.... Please let me apologize to my family, friends and staff and fellow Idahoans for the cloud placed over Idaho. I did nothing wrong at the Minneapolis airport. I did nothing wrong, and I regret the decision to plead guilty and the sadness that decision has brought on my wife, on my family, friends, staff and fellow Idahoans.

Fucking asshole.

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rafael palmeiro

supposedly when he got his 3000th hit and got the standing ovation he already knew he was going to be suspended. i wonder if he felt like a scumbag

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i kind of feel weird saying he's hall of fame caliber, 500 HR and 3000 hits is basically a shoe in for the hall but was he really that great?