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Archduke Russell John
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Post 06 Mar 2012, 8:20 am

danivon wrote:
To me it sounds similar to a person who is on welfare berating others for welfare fraud being caught themselves.
being on welfare is not itself fraudulent, so why would it be hypocritical for a person on welfare to criticise welfare fraud?


Uhm, did you miss the last three words in the sentence, i.e. being caught themselves.
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Post 06 Mar 2012, 8:54 am

Regarding tax cheats, about a year ago I had lunch with a colleague who is a heavily partisan and active Democrat ... he was adamant that racism was behind Charlie Rangel being prosecuted as a tax cheat, even though the evidence is overwhelming. I think the appropriate lesson here is that people who are heavily partisan can be blind to the facts in a particular case, and not just that Democrats can be that way. ;)


This is a slightly different situation to the one Brad and I were discussing thoughin that Rangel hasn't been making public denunciations of other tax cheats (so far as I know) and in any case your friend seems to believe that he was innocent of the charges, and so by definition couldn't be a hypocrite even if he had.
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Post 06 Mar 2012, 9:56 am

Archduke Russell John wrote:Uhm, did you miss the last three words in the sentence, i.e. being caught themselves.

No, I did not miss them, but the way I read the sentence I thought they referred to the person being berated.