Paul Campos - Law School Hypocrit or Not

Paul Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado writes a blog called "Inside the Law School Scam"

Several of his posts on that site show that law schools have used biased or unrepresentative or questionably information when 'selling themselves' to prospective students or to law school associations or to other organizations.

Several people commented at his site that he was a hypocrite for drawing a salary that is based, at least partly, on the proceeds due to such biased, unrepresentative or questionable practices.

This is pretty obviously not hypocrisy as I define it. Mr. Campos is not practicing the biased, etc. practices, his employer is. If the University of Colorado had an official policy saying, in effect, "We won't misrepresent the job placement of our graduates" and then did so, they would be hypocrites. If Campos did this, then he would be a hypocrite.

In some way, this is similar to the many cases where people say the Government should do (or not do) something and then take advantage of the fact that the Government does not do what they advocate. For example, there are probably thousands of people who feel that the interest for mortgages above a given limit should not be itemized as part of Schedule A of form 1040 but who itemize it themselves.

Basically, you shouldn't be called a hypocrite except for your own actions.

Professor Campos's blog post on the accusations of hypocrisy  is here.

The image on the left is from a Time Magazine piece written several years ago on another subject.

Harry Reid and tax form hypocrisy

U.S. Senator Harry Reid accuses former Governor and presumptive Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney of tax evasion and demands Romney release more tax returns (Romney has released his year 2010 return and his estimated year 2011 return). However, Senator Reid has not released any of his tax returns (fewer than 2 dozen US elected officials has released their returns, however Reid has filed a financial disclosure form which has different information than a tax return).

Does that make Red a hypocrite?

No.

Because a Senator is not a nominee for President.

Of course, this does not mean Reid is correct in that a Presidential candidate should be required to release tax returns nor does it mean Reid is correct that a Senator should not be required to release such returns. Neither action is required by the Constitution, neither action is required by law.  Thus whether someone should do so is a matter of opinion.

A satirical response to Reid has been initiated to the effect that there are rumors that he is a sexual molester and challenging him to prove that he is not.

A source noting that that Senator Reid is not one of the US elected officials releasing tax forms is here.
A story on the accumulation of wealth by Senator Reid during his Senator career is here.
A story on the Reid accusations is here and here. (leftist sources) and here and here (rightist sources)  
The satirical 'Reid is a pederast' campaign is described here.