Hypocrisy

The Washington Post reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday questioned whether a San Francisco archbishop who said he would deny her Communion over abortion rights was using a double standard by allowing politicians who support the death penalty to receive the sacrament. “I wonder about the death penalty, which I’m opposed to. So is the church, but they …

Mediaite reports: Campaigning for David McCormick for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) mocked Republicans who suck up to former President Donald Trump to advance their political careers. Really. The senator famously called Trump a “sniveling coward” after Trump made a personal attack against the senator’s wife. Trump also implied that Cruz’s father was involved in the assassination …

“It’s all politics for them. The ends justify the means. It’s complete hypocrisy. You see this in the corporate media, you see this among Democrats. “On Jan. 6 of 2021, you had tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting and yet the corporate media and Democrats slandered them with the made-up term insurrectionist. “And yet in this instance, they are …

From Sean Hannity’s personal website: The optics on this are terrible. According to a report from The Daily Wire, while First Lady Dr. Jill Biden was visiting war torn Ukraine —on Mother’s Day —President Joe Biden was working on his golf swing, hitting the links with his brother Jimmy. Meanwhile, across the world and in a literal war zone, First …

CNN reports: Justice Clarence Thomas, following the leak of a draft majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, said Friday that government institutions shouldn’t be “bullied” into delivering what some see as the preferred outcome. “The events of earlier this week is one symptom of that,” Thomas said. He added that “you cannot have a free society” without stable institutions. His …

Politico reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis vilified the Walt Disney Co. as “dishonest” and hypocritical. He pushed to strip it of a special tax status and punish its leaders for challenging his policies. But DeSantis and most Republicans in Florida, where Disney operates its flagship theme park, won’t return hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash they received from …

Mediaite reports: Laura Ingraham hypocritically mocked adults who still financially rely on their parents after explaining that is exactly what she had done. During the segment with Raymond Arroyo, Ingraham noted a report released this week that shows about half of American parents with adult children financially support them in some capacity. Arroyo asked those in the crowd who still …

“Let me just finally say this. This asinine ‘I wanna pay off student debt’ is an insult to the senior citizens, to the people who pay taxes, to people who decide, you know, ‘Do I wanna buy meat this week or pay for my medicine?’ “That’s hogwash. You’ve got so many jobs, you’ve got a great economy? Let ’em work …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Fox News asked me about the midterm elections and what I think is important for our country. Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are under attack and we need to stand up and defend those liberties—or we will lose them. Our country is in a downward spiral morally, and this impacts everything. I …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): More tonight about our Texas Governor Abbott, he is taking another stand for border security after pledging to send all illegal immigrants to Washington, D.C., so Joe can take care of them. He’s now requiring that tractor-trailer trucks be inspected before they enter Texas from Mexico. In response, the truckers are lashing …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, is taking heat this week for sending out campaign mailers containing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters who are 65 and older. Last year, Texas Republicans in the Legislature passed an elections law that banned local election officials from that very same practice under the banner of protecting election integrity. However, …

The Intercept reports: “Government spending is a HUGE problem,” the conservative video site PragerU tweeted in September 2019. “We must reinvest in Americans by giving them a hand up, not handouts,” the group wrote in another tweet that November. But last year, right-wing groups that have long opposed the concept of increased government spending on “handouts” were the recipients of …

“When we spend everything that’s within our budget, that it should be paid for by taking money from places in the budget from places that are less essential. I think that’s a very reasonable fiscally conservative. But, you know, you watch CNN and you have people who basically all they care about is attack, attack, attack. “We’re trying to bury …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s John Avlon accused Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) of flip-flopping on federal relief now that his state has been devastated by natural disaster. Political observers have pointed out that Paul has a history of publicly opposing relief when other areas of the country were slammed by natural calamities in the past. Avlon made this the focus of a …

Via press release from GOP Rep. Gary Palmer: The newly passed infrastructure bill, signed into law by President Biden, includes legislation introduced by Congressman Gary Palmer (AL-06) and Congressman David Trone (MD-06) that will provide critical funding to help complete the Northern Beltline. The provision in the infrastructure bill was inserted from the Finish the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) …

Media Matters reports: Fox Nation, Fox News’ online streaming platform, is hosting “Patriot Awards 2021” in Florida on November 17 with strict COVID-19 vaccine/testing requirements for entry. At this event, all attendees must show either a vaccine card or a negative COVID-19 test taken prior to the event. The venue holding the Patriot Awards, Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, …

“These are all self inflicted disasters. It’s not a high class problem, it’s an all American problem. Afghanistan was a disaster you caused. “The border is a disaster they caused. The COVID disaster? They’re causing it. And if you think the economy disaster is bad now with talk of inflation, stagflation, you know you think the supply chain crisis is …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY: Right, I mean, our company — like a lot of companies have vaccine requirements — we either had to have gotten the shots, or get tested every day. And when we’re in common areas, everybody needs to wear a mask. There are a lot of companies coast to coast, I was just looking …

“Now, I should tell you, that guy threatening to quit over a vaccine mandate is in fact fully vaccinated. And a part of me wants to give him credit for sticking to his principles and at the very least calling out his employer over its vaccine policy. “Something that as we have noted repeatedly people like Tucker Carlson don’t have …

The Washington Post reports: A Republican group with close ties to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will launch a new front Wednesday in the ad wars over the Democratic domestic policy bill, opening a $10 million ad campaign targeting three vulnerable senators. One Nation, the issue advocacy arm of the Senate Leadership Fund, plans to air television, radio and digital …