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Meh. I doubt the Tories have a clean house in this regard. Every time some politician or other 'moral leader' starts pontificating about moral panic, I get sus
by bhickey 13y ago
Meh.
I doubt the Tories have a clean house in this regard. Every time some politician or other 'moral leader' starts pontificating about moral panic, I get suspicious that they're just trying to ban their vice. Clearly if they're so vocally opposed to it, they mustn't be partaking, right?
Glenn Loury and cocaine.
Mark Foley and the exploitation of children.
Eliot Spitzer and prostitution.
John Ensign and 'family values'.
Larry Craig, Ted Haggard, countless others and homosexuality.
The Conservative Party and Back to Basics.
The list of hypocrites goes on and on and on.
- harrytuttle 13y agoPerhaps we should get together and pay for signage to be made up promoting this? After all, that's what they want for us.
- conroy 13y agoA 2011 survey found that 80% of 18-24 males in the UK had watched porn online[1]. I'm comfortable assuming that a significant percentage of Tories have or do watch it as well. [1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12918531 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/12918531
- shin_lao 13y agoAnd 20% lie about not watching it...
- coldarchon 13y agoDr. Cox from Scrubs:" I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called Bring back the porn!”
- dclowd9901 13y agoSpitzer was a dem who became a target of banks and credit institutions afraid of his cracking down on their anti-consumer business practices. He was Elizabeth Warren before Elizabeth Warren, and deserves more respect than to be pigeonholed as a politician with his pigeon in a hole. From Wikipedia: "Spitzer used this authority in his civil actions against corporations and criminal prosecutions against their officers." Damn shame.
- gojomo 13y agoSpitzer prosecuted people for both prostitution and the same kind of 'structuring' of large cash transactions that he himself did. He deserves his place on the above 'moral crusaders who turned out to be hypocrites' list, even if you happen to like some of his other crusades.
- dclowd9901 13y agoFair points, but on the flip side, it's one thing to prosecute because it's your job, and another to persecute simply because it's your political ideology or fundamental belief. For all we know, Spitzer felt like prostitution laws were stupid, which really wouldn't make him a hypocrite at all.
- jessaustin 13y agoYeah sure, doing evil because it's your job to do evil is very normal, very human. The practice still merits criticism.
- rralian 13y agoI worked for a company that Spitzer went after while he was attorney general, and he seemed more like he was running a political campaign than trying to uphold the law. He very effectively spread FUD through a willing media in order to coerce a settlement (and headlines). To this day, people in my home state are convinced that company did all sorts of things that they were never actually accused of. He was no prince.
- bhickey 13y agoHypocrisy isn't a partisan issue. Sure, I feel some schadenfreude when the other guy screws up, but it's intellectually dishonest to give someone a free pass because you share their politics. Spitzer was going after human trafficking and prostitution as AG and Governor while he was committing Mann Act Violations on the side. I want the folks on 'my team' to have integrity so their agendas don't get derailed.
- gadders 13y agoOne previous Labour MP tried to expense her husband watching adult movies on her cable account.