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NYT: Bring Back Hipocrisy! U.S. presidential lies & Russia
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-hypocrisy.amp.html&ved=0ahUKEwj7xqaHtJzSAhVFSiYKHTWWCu8QiJQBCBowAA&usg=AFQjCNHTtM98XjmP9OvxUdZXNeeZUtiI0g&sig2=1yeHDOThTn0lF-GjgOlKbQAll of this has proved too much not only for the shocked public but, it appears, for at least some of the members of the new administration. Ms. Conway was “counseled” after her impromptu commercial for the Trump brand, said the president’s press secretary, Sean Spicer. This was certainly a hypocritical move, considering that Ms. Conway had been following the president’s lead, but a hypocritical nod to decency is preferable to the blatant trampling of decency that preceded it.
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Worth reading twice. "Aspirational hypocracy" is a great term. Puts the moral relativism of Trump (aka "we're killers too"
in perspective.