Something about O'Reilly (and most conservatives) you need to learn:

[Paragon]

In psychiatry, it's called projection -- accusing others of sins that you, in fact, practice. Examples:


Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston, etc...calling Bill Clinton out on his infidelities.

Bob Barr...a strong anti-abortionist.

Rush Limbaugh...going off on "pillheads" on his radio show.

Today, O'Reilly on...eww, don't make me repeat it.

And tonight, it'll be George W. Bush...accusing John Kerry of spending excesses.


To simply call it hypocrisy misses the point; this is something much more sinister. Projection, folks -- see it in your Republican friends and the morans they elect into office.

[physioex]

1. Yea, I can agree....EOM

[Shoeempress]

2. Correct diagnosis Doctor. Well said.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. I agree.

Henry Hyde.."It was a youthful indiscretion" when he was 40 something! Don't forget Dan Burton!

They're all hypocrites.

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

4. I remember something...

from college or just a conversation with someone the following idea...and the more i live the more i see it is true:

"the very things people hate in others...are the things they hate most about themselves"

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

5. Republicans do this all the time

Hypocracy is their calling card. The incredible thing is, their followers never seem to pick up on it.

[Artemis Bunyon]

6. We all do it to a certain degree.

x

[FlemingsGhost]

7. Yes. No one is immune.

Futhermore, to identify a behavior in others, means we see it in ourselves. How else would we know to recognize it?

[Paragon]

9. Recognizing it in yourself is one thing.

Acting on it is another.

Making public policy on it or using it to destroy your enemies (or, in this case, blathering on about it on your Fox talk show) is quite another.

[robbedvoter]

8. Projection. Their accusations are their own sins. ALWAYS.

[dave123williams]

10. There's the old Bill Hicks joke...

About Jesse Helms; after he dies they find the dried skins of children in his attic, his wife on CNN twenty times a day going, "I always wondered about his collection of little shoes."

[depakid]

11. Yep- it's used constantly as a rhetorical device

to innoculate them from being called on their crap. And, unfortunately, most Americans are so stupid that it's effective.

[dave502d]

12. agree