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The Morality of the Moralists
By: Jim Hightower
Dec 8, 2004
What is it about ultra-right conservatives who build careers as
tongue-clucking scolds?
They constantly preach about the moral failings of the rest of us -
yet they keep getting caught with their own pants down, morally
speaking.
I don't merely mean the Falwells, Swaggarts, and other
publicly-compromised televangelists, but also the right-wing politicos
who prance about so piously on their moral high horses.
For example, how swell to be lectured on family values by Newt
Gingrich, who's now on his third marriage... or is it number four?
Also, how perfect to have Bill Bennett anoint himself as the nation's
arbiter of conservative virtues - while he sneaks around feeding his
gambling addiction.
And who can forget the bombastic moral authority of the airwaves, Rush
Limbaugh, using his housekeeper to score illegal drugs for him, then
trying to lie about it.
Are these people born with an extra hypocrisy gene?
It's not just in America either.
Britain is all atwitter these days about one of its own
especially-noisy tongue cluckers, the right honorable Boris Johnson.
He's the Latin-spouting, Eaton-schooled editor of the right-wing
Spectator, a London newspaper long tied to England's plutocratic
Conservative party.
Indeed, Boris himself is a Conservative party member of the Parliament
- where he has served as the party's official spokesperson on cultural
policies, freely criticizing the personal morality of others.
He's now been removed from that party post, however, since it has been
revealed that Boris the moralist, who is married and has four
children, has been cheating on his wife, having an affair with a
society columnist at his paper.
Furthermore, Boris impregnated the mistress, she had an abortion, and
he tried to lie about it, initially calling the accusations, "an
inverted pyramid of piffle."
What a great phrase!
Right-wingers lecturing us on morality are dumping a pyramid of
political piffle on us.
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