Who is the biggest hypocrite

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Jon Tasker, Oxford jonathan. While wrapping themselves in the Union Flag at election times and bleating on jingoistically about warm beer, cricket on the village green, the threat from Europe, 'johnny foreigner' and the virtues of 'patriotism', their policies since the war seem aimed solely at making this country the 51st American state. Their excuse for our lickspittle status is 'the special relationship' which is never defined.

Geoffrey Johnson, geoffj career. So, all in all, it would seem that the biggest hypocrites are those, like Mr Johnson, who blame all our ills on one party while being blind to the prurience of their favoured few.

Paul Keenan, mbi btinternet. Which could also be construed as one of the ultimate ironies. It's because of Voltaire that we're outraged about book-burning and troubled by Chinese Internet censorship. According to him, absolute freedom from censorship was essential for the intellectual growth of society. As we just mentioned, Voltaire and Rousseau didn't see eye to eye. Although they were once on friendly terms, their friendship broke down into an epic philosopher showdown that had both academics flinging scathing one-liners at each other for most of their careers, which all the other French intellectuals of the time probably considered better entertainment than pro wrestling.

Adolph Menzel Moments before he tore off his man-blouse Hulk Hogan style. Rousseau snidely sent his rival copies of his books to read, which sent Voltaire into frothing fits of rage, and Voltaire would often send back reviews laced with enough sarcasm to make Roger Ebert blush.

When Rousseau wrote his book Letters Written from the Mountain , Voltaire was so outraged by its content that he decided censorship might be justifiable after all and, posing as a devout and concerned Christian, lobbied the government to have the book burned and Rousseau punished to the full extent of the law for having written it.

Did we mention that Voltaire was also an entrenched anti-Christian? Yeah, all things considered, he was the Joker to Rousseau's Batman, if Batman had abandoned five illegitimate kids. Walt Whitman was a classic poet with works that emphasized the free spirit of youth, humanism, and transcendence of the infinite colloquialisms of life or whatever A more crude way to put it is that his poems were about boning.

Lots and lots of boning. His best known collection, Leaves of Grass , wound up getting him sacked from his cushy gig with the U. Secretary of the Interior because of its overt sexuality, which basically makes him a precursor to the s "free love" movement by about years. For all his "live free and bang hard" philosophy, Whitman was not that much fun to hang out with in his youth. This was because a big milestone in his early writing career was about the importance of not getting drunk, which isn't something you want on your resume when you're trying to be the architect of libertine self-expression.

In , Whitman published his only novel, Franklin Evans , a shining example of why he's remembered for being a poet. The story follows the title character, an upstanding young citizen with a promising future in the big city of Long Island, at least until some jerkoff named Colby gives him some booze. From there, Franklin takes a huge dive into alcoholism that's so over-the-top, it would be hilarious if there wasn't a body count attached. His addiction kills two wives and a mistress and ruins his life several times over before he finally finds a way to sober up.

This wasn't just poetic license for Whitman, since he was a huge fan of temperance then. Of course, once he became older and cooler, Whitman talked all kinds of crap about the book, claiming he wrote it ironically while trashed on booze and referring to it as "damned rot. American culture tends to mythologize people who die young, especially when there's a political agenda involved.

So maybe it's no surprise that John F. Kennedy's legacy has changed wildly in the 50 years since he was gunned down. For example, popular culture remembers him as the peaceful president who was trying to end the Vietnam War to the point that conspiracy theorists think that's why he was assassinated , but we've pointed out before that this was hardly the case. Likewise, you'd think that if he were brought back to life by a necromancer, he'd be making speeches about bringing peace to America's urban war zones by getting rid of the guns and not just because he'd still have vivid memories of getting shot by one.

After all, today it's the Democrats -- Kennedy's own party -- who push for gun control, and the opposing Republicans are almost universally against it. And the latter is supported by the National Rifle Association, the gun lobby group that screams if anyone suggests restrictions on assault weapons and insists that background checks and waiting periods are a slippery slope toward liberal government tyranny.

Can you believe this pinko crap? The NRA probably cried harder than anybody else on the day Kennedy was shot. In the history of the NRA, they've counted eight presidents as lifetime members, and Kennedy was one of them. But you could argue that the contradiction was on the NRA's part, not Kennedy's.

It might sound unbelievable now, but prior to Kennedy, guns were no big deal. Liberal politicians, like most people at the time, liked blasting shit with the biggest shootin' irons they could get, and flogging their gun love publicly was a common political tool. Meanwhile, the NRA spent way less time longing for a world of universal assault weapon ownership and much more time worried about the rights of hunters and sportsmen.

In fact, when the massive Gun Control Act of was passed which, among other things, banned gun sales through the mail , the NRA signed off on it , with a few minor complaints. It's not that big a deal. You could argue, in fact, that the whole controversy over guns and the polarization of opinion started right there. It was soon after that the NRA became a much more political group they got serious about lobbying in the mids. And why did that law get proposed in the first place?

Because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy although it wouldn't get passed until his brother Robert was also shot. Sam Jackson enjoys music, grouping strange hobbies together, and competitive Zamboni racing. Follow him on Twitter or Facebook.

Follow Sammy on his Tumblr , pretty please. Related Reading: Famous people always get away with being hypocrites, just ask Jimmy Kimmel. Morpheus from The Matrix is a hypocrite too; he fought slavery with an army of child soldiers.

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