Radiohead Singer Calls Himself a Hypocrite

Thom Yorke, who is pictured in the image, was on an interview with the BBC a few days ago.

In the interview, Yorke called himself a hypocrite repeatedly for his many air plane trips while he himself is a vocal advocate for the Extinction Rebellion. The latter is a group dedicated to civil disobedience to prevent global warming.

What is a bit different is Thom's justification for the hypocrisy.  He does not pretend to buy offsets or other similar things. He simply says that, 

"The thing I've always struggled somewhat with, is if I'm campaigning on climate change, I'm someone who has to fly for my work so...I totally agree I'm a hypocrite but... what do you want to do about it?"

Interestingly, the next day the EU announced an increase in its budget for private air travel using approximately the same logic as Thom.


 Article on Thom's self identifying hypocrisy here. This article contains the photo used above as well as the quote used above.



Article on Article on EU budget for private air travel here.

Elizabeth Warren and the Philly CheeseSteak Hypocrisy

Back when Senator Warren was running for reelection in 2018 she raised money from wealthy donors at posh affairs. This was also an election in which she was running against token opposition. She didn't spend anywhere near as much money as she raised and was able to transfer over $10 million from her Senate campaign fund to her 2020 Presidential campaign fund. 

For 2020, she has limited campaign contributions to small donations and thus is branding herself the 'people's candidate'. This is deeply cynical but I'm not doing hypocrisy analysis for that.

Instead it is for a microcosm of the campaign. Back in 2018 Warren held a Philly Cheese Steak fundraiser where donors paid $120 for a single cheese steak (it would interesting to know if fries and a drink were similarly priced but I don't have that info). In 2019 former VP Joe Biden held a similar Philly Cheese Steak fundraiser. The Warren campaign denounced the affair as being elitist. 

Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philadelphia and Governor of Pennsylvania organized both the 2018 Warren fundraiser and the 2019 Biden fundraiser. He specifically calls Warren a hypocrite on this. I think he is correct although perhaps the Biden fundraiser was more 'swanky'.  I also think it is a pretty minor hypocrisy.

Although not hypocrisy, Warren is also famous for culinary plagiarism that was also part of her pretense of Cherokee ancestry. Specifically, in 1984, Warren wrote up . recipes as part of a "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook (third image). Several were plagiarized from earlier recipes in the NYTimes (ironically the source of the information on the cheese steak affairs).




The NYTimes has both the first image and also the facts from which my analysis is taken in an article here.
The Culinary plagiarizing story is documented at a website here.