former Sport Reporter defends his apparent hypocrisy

On 29 May 2020, a former sport (mostly NBA related) journalist, Chris Martin Palmer, tweeted an image of an affordable housing building burning in downtown Minneapolis, MN apparently approving the burning of even more buildings.

Then on 31 May 2020, the same person tweeted (without an image) that a Starbucks near his gated community was burned and wanted the 'animals' out of his neighborhood.

He was challenged on this as other tweeters told him it was hypocritical.

I read through some later tweets of his. It seems he justifies it by saying that the people doing the former were protesting and the people in his neighborhood were threatening.  He even thinks this distinction is obvious.  I'm lost as to how he understands motivations of crowds of people just by casual observation.

The image capturing both tweets is by someone named daniel4liberty. 

The reason Mr. Palmer is no longer a reporter, apparently has to do with a dispute between Palmer and Kevin Durand at least per this article.

Palmer has more recently been in dispute with LeBron James.

The Sporting News covered this issue here.

Lawyer admits Hypocrisy in Letter to NY Times

The May 4 New York Times had a number of letters to the editor commenting on a New York Times editorial.  The editorial was about the allegations against Joe Biden and recommended an investigation.

One of the letters to the editor was by a woman named Karen Wilson of Dallas, Texas who describes herself as a 66 year old lawyer and a survivor of violent rape.

She disagreed with the editorial. I am quoting the end of her letter, 

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"...We cannot survive as a democratic society with Mr. Trump in office for four more years. The need to get him out of office overrules every scruple we may have. I will live with my hypocrisy and believe that tens of millions of Americans will feel the same."

So there you have an admission (or claim) of hypocrisy on this issue (although I don't have her previous statements so I couldn't tell if she were being a hypocrite or not).

The source of all the NYTimes published letters to the editor on that subject, that day is here.

An Interesting Bit of Plague Sex and possible Hypocrisy

The first image is  Neil Ferguson who is a mathematical biology professor at Imperial College in London.

He has advised British leaders for two decades on medical issues, e.g., the mad cow disease many years ago.  Basically, his recommendations have been implemented.

In the UK, his mathematical model predicted 250,000 deaths in the UK unless the country basically shut down. The country did shut down and per his advice, social visits were banned.

However, Professor Ferguson had a friend, Antonia Staats (she is 38, he is 51) who has visited him a number of times while the country was shut down.  She visited him for sex, notwithstanding that both she and Ferguson are married to other people. Staats has defended her action by saying that, first, she is in an open marriage and second, that because of this, the visit is actually being part of the Ferguson family or that the Fergusons and the Staats are one family.  

Notwithstanding this defense, Ferguson is being removed from an official advisory position (I'm not sure if this was a paid position).  

I'm pretty sure, based on the reporting of this that many, maybe most, people in the UK are angry about this, maybe for hypocrisy.  However, I've not found the specific advice that Ferguson provided the Government regarding what is social visiting and what is family. Thus, I'm not able to judge whether it is hypocrisy.

anyway, some reporting:

The Spectator's report is here.
The Daily Mail's report (I used their pictures) is here
The BBC report is here.  
The Telegraph's report is here.
The Guardian's report is here.

Donna Brazile says it is not Hypocrisy

Donna Brazile, former chair of the DNC, addressed the Tara Reade allegations against former VP Joe Biden. This was a few days ago (actually May 1).

She sort of addressed the hypocrisy issue.


Here is a piece of the interview (on the Fox News where Brazile is a salaried commentator).

FLEISCHER: -- Do you believe Tara Reade?
BRAZILE: She's given interviews, we've heard from her, but we respect women. That's -- the bottom line is respect women --
DANA PERINO: Donna, Ari is trying to ask you, Donna, do you believe Tara Reade? 
BRAZILE: There's no hypocrisy here. You respect women, you believe women. They have a right to tell their story.

So Brazile is cognizant of the issue of hypocrisy.

Of course, neither she nor her interviewers actually state what the hypocrisy is, which I find annoying. To do so one would have to research previous interviews with Brazile and find out exactly what she said about, for example, the case of Christine Ford or going further back in time, Juanita Broderick. 

FWIW, I worked with Brazile briefly in 1993 in coordinating a report on the Federal response to the great Mississippi Flood of that year. She was an undersecretary in the Dept of Agriculture or special advisor to the President as I recall (although her bio doesn't show this).  I found Brazile to be easy to work with, friendly, responsive, and smart (of course that was then).

The transcript of the interview is here.