How long will the Republicans get away with their blatant hypocrisy?

[NJmaverick]

The Republicans have taken double standard hypocrisy to all new levels. What I wonder about is when or if the public will get wise to them.

Examples:

Sarah Palin screams and whines and demands Rahm Emanuel be fired for using the term "retard". Then she goes on FOX news and explains that it is perfectly OK if Rush Limbaugh uses the same term in the same way to describe the same people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv2G90Xoqu0&feature=related

Dozens and dozens of Republicans have attacked the Dem's and Obama's stimulus plan while later praising the positive affects on their state and taking credit for it. On top of that they were for pay as you go, cap and trade and a deficit commission until Obama was for them then they go in the exact opposite direction.

Clips and facts at this video

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#35322522


Then you have this great example of how Republicans try to call President Obama an elitists for growing up in Hawaii and attending Harvard then turn around and go to a luxury resort in the same state while talking about how they are the ones representing the common man.

here is a nice video on that

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-9-2010/rnc-meeting-in-hawaii

The tea party is suppose to be a grass root movement yet they also held their convention in an over priced resort and charged in excess of $500 to attend, not exactly grass roots or common man

Finally the GOP was fine with the way George Bush handled the shoe bomber but when the Obama administration does the EXACT SAME THING they are all up in arms about how Obama is doing EVERYTHING wrong.

How on earth have the GOP managed to fool the public with their blatant hypocrisy?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. As long as someone's buying, someone'll be selling. nt

[T Wolf]

2. As long as they control the media, they will not be called on their hypocrisy. It's that simple. nt

[dysfunctional press]

15. yep.

[liberal N proud]

3. Until the really is a liberal media in this country.

[NJmaverick]

4. It would help of the news agencies did a bit more than just report what they are told

like actually looking to see if it's a change in position or is even factually correct.

[ashling]

5. In re: your first example

Palin campaigned for Rick Perry in Texas. One of Perry's aides is guilty of using the r word as well, but that was apparently ok.

[classysassy]

6. Until people start thinking for themselves

pull the plug on Rush,Glen and the rest of the paid dis information spin artist.

[NJmaverick]

7. Easier said than done

many people don't like to take the effort to think for themselves. It means spending time to learn the issues and then putting in the effort to form opinions. Being told what to think is much easier.

[backscatter712]

8. Now Keith's got plenty of material for his Hypocrisy Hall of Shame.

That's the kind of thing to get some sunlight on this shit.

[lunatica]

9. I think most Americans have wised up

But the Tempest in a Teacup Party scream like banshees which makes them sound like their numbers are greater than they are.

[chasmj]

10. They're good students of Goebbels

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it... It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Besides, the attention span of the American people lasts about as long as an American Idol show.

[butterfly77]

11. They are nothing but...

a bunch of Damn clowns Kit Bond and Hokestra more specifically..

[branders seine]

12. forever

[lonestarnot]

13. Inculcation of ignorance is difficult to overcome

[Overseas]

14. With our right wing dominated mass media, their blatant lies often go unchallenged.

Just our dear little token liberal shows seem to be calling them out on it.

Sometimes a few of those examples make it through into the mass media, but not many.

And then we had the misguided Democratic posture of trying to be bipartisan with what the Republican party USED TO STAND FOR about 30 years ago, rather than calling them out as what they are-- the big spenders of 1980 forward who run up deficits and destroy our national security with illegal wars.

Democrats trying to be bipartisan could have called them back to their principles, after openly addressing how far their party had strayed from fiscal responsibility and strengthening our national security.