White Pants Suit Hypocrisy

Back a few years ago the NYTimes had a news article praising Hillary Clinton for wearing a White Pantsuit.

A few days ago, the NYTimes had a news story criticizing Tulsi Gabbard for wearing a white pants suit. 

It seems like hypocrisy except that perhaps, a white pantsuit worn at an inaugural is, in some way, different 
 from a white pantsuit worn at a debate. 

The images and information come from a tweet by Glen Greenwald and is available here.  Greenwald notes that the NYTimes article criticizing Gabbard is aware that Mrs Clinton wore a white pantsuit and the article's 'logic' is provided in the article.

Tom Steyer, spending campaign money to prevent spending campaign money

Like some other people who have run for President without having served in a previous elected office (George Washington, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower and Donald Trump come to mind), Tom Steyer is counting on name recognition to get him at least partway there

He is using his own wealth to fund advertising himself. Apparently, he is responsible for 67% of all TV advertising for candidates for President in 2020 (almost $50 million). This despite the fact that he is only a recently announced candidate and despite the fact that there were ten to twenty other candidates just in the Democratic party who were running serious campaigns for President.

What makes this interesting to me is that prominently, on the TomSteyer.com website is the following quote, 

" Corporations and special interests have bought politicians and influenced Washington for too long"


I'm not calling this hypocrisy since the point is he wants to change things and has to work within the pre-change system.  It is, however, somewhat laughable because the fact that he has spent so much money and still polls at somewhere around 1% nationally shows that, just maybe, he has overestimated the influence of campaign funding.

The estimate of Steyer's campaign spending is here. 

The Steyer for President website is here. The image above came from that website.

A link to some polling where Steyer was at 1% as of today is here.

Polling Data

Poll	Date	Biden	Warren	Sanders	Buttigieg	Harris	Yang	Klobuchar	Booker	Castro	Gabbard	Steyer	Bullock	Delaney	Spread
RCP Average	10/30 - 11/12	26.0	20.8	17.8	8.0	5.3	2.8	2.3	2.3	1.3	1.0	1.0	0.8	0.8	Biden +5.2
Economist	11/10 - 11/12	23	26	17	9	5	4	2	1	2	2	1	1	1	Warren +3
Politico	11/4 - 11/10	32	19	20	8	5	3	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	Biden +12
Monmouth	10/30 - 11/3	23	23	20	9	5	3	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	Tie
The Hill	11/1 - 11/2	26	15	14	6	6	1	3	2	2	1	1	1	1

Arnold and Greta and Arnold's Cars

 Arnold Schwarzenegger famously feted global climate activist Greta Thunberg by loaning her Arnold's Tesla for some of Greta travels in North America. 




The first image shows Arnold, Greta and the Tesla. The two met in Vienna Austria).


This was part of Arnold identifying himself as a

climate activist. 


It turns out that Arnold's lifestyle is, well, a model of carbon intensity. The man owns many vehicles including the tank (Arnold is in front of it in the second image) and a Porsche (Arnold is driving it in the third image).

The fourth image is Arnold driving something called a Pinzgauer all terrain vehicle.

Is Arnold a hypocrite? Yes and not a very self aware one at that. There isn't anything special about this hypocrisy either but I actually like the pictures of the cars (and the tank).

The image of Arnold and Greta and the Tesla is from an article here.

The images of Arnold and his tank and Arnold and his Porsche from an article here. The article has images of many of Arnold's other vehicles.

The image of Arnold and the Pinzgauer is from an article here. Apparently, Arnold took this vehicle out for some errands.

Michelle Obama Denounces White Flight but look where she lives

In a recent (29 October 2019) speech former first lady Michelle Obama (image on left) denounced White Flight. This is the phenomenon where whites leave areas that have non white people.

An except from her speech is below,

"...  unbeknownst to us, we grew up in the period -- as I write -- called 'white flight.' That as families like ours, upstanding families like ours ... As we moved in, white folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented  ..And I always stop there when I talk about this out in the world because, you know, I want to remind white folks that y'all were running from us -- this family with all the values that you've read about. You were running from us. And you're still running, because we're no different than the immigrant families that are moving in ... the families that are coming from other places to try to do better."

Michelle Obama's speech is reported here.      

The first house image above is the Obama house in Hyde Park, Chicago which they bought in 2005.

The second house image is the Obama house in Kalorama Washington DC which they began renting in 2017.

The Obama's are, per reports, negotiating to buy a house on Martha's Vinyard. This house is in the 3rd house image.

  I find Michelle's speech unseemly but not actually a case of hypocrisy.  In the case of the 2005 house they were fleeing south Chicago but it was a case of black flight since they were black. Also, arguably they wanted to buy expensive houses and there really weren't any in south Chicago. In the case of the Kalorama house, they wanted to be in an area with lots of political connections (Jared and Ivana Trump are neighbors).    In the case of the Martha's vinyard house they are seeking isolation. 

What is unseemly is that Michelle does not admit that blacks engage in flight also, e.g., much of the black middle class left DC for Prince George's county, so much so that the average income of blacks in that county is higher than the average income of whites. Also, while white flight in the 60s and 70s reduced municipal tax revenues in majority black areas and this had negative consequences of those areas, it also lowered property values enough to provide opportunity for home ownership for blacks who would otherwise never have been able to afford homes.   Interestingly, there is a lot of concern in Washington DC these days about gentrification which is when whites move into predominantly black areas.                                               

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.

Tim Kaine and the Muslima Duo non visit

US Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (the duo) requested visas to visit Israel.

At first Israel said it would approve. After President Trump advised against approval and after the visiting schedule for the duo was presented (one of the groups that the duo would have worked with is a notorious supporter of terror), Israel  disapproved the request. Then Tlaib requested to visit her grandmother in the West Bank (in an area without an Israeli security presence) and promised not to engage in BDS advocacy. Israel approved this request then Tlaid said that she would not go.
All this led to some criticism of Israel by a number of people and organizations. This criticism led to charges of hypocrisy.

It's complicated and I'm going to focus in on two cases. One involves Senator Tim Kaine (shown in the first image, from a 2014 visit to Israel, with Senator Angus King of Maine and PM Netanyahu of Israel).  Kaine is one of the more pro Israel Democrats.  He cosponsored, with Senator Cruz, an resolution condemning anti Semitism in 2018, which to some was taken as criticism of the duo. The other case is of former VP Joe Biden who, while he was in the Senate, was another pro Israel Democrat. 

Kaine's criticism of the Israel decision to disapprove the visa (before the approval of Tlaib to visit her grandmother) was via a tweet. His tweet was, 

"PM Netanyahu – Drop your Muslim ban. Congress votes over and over again to provide unprecedented security assistance to Israel. Banning any member disrespects us all."

This has been called hypocritical since the US banned visitation by an Israeli legislator several times and also has banned elected officials in other countries from visiting the US. I don't think Kaine's comment is hypocritical because Kaine considers that because the US provides security assistance, this changes the situation (Kaine's comment about the Muslim ban is either incredibly ignorant, careless or mendacious since each year Israel issues visas to tens of thousands of visitors from predominantly Muslim countries and has a Muslim population of over one million). It also carries an implied threat i.e., to reduce security assistance (a threat I consider despicable and worse than hypocrisy but that's another subject).

Biden (in the second image with Netanyahu) also criticized the decision via a tweet,

I have always been a stalwart supporter of Israel—a vital partner that shares our democratic values. No democracy should deny entry to visitors based on the content of their ideas—even ideas they strongly object to. And no leader of the free world should encourage them to do so.

As far as I know neither Kaine nor Biden (nor most of the various organizations which initially criticized the Israeli decision) revised their criticism after Israel offered the conditional visa to Tlaib.

Biden's comment could also be called hypocritical because the US barred the Israeli legislator but for the fact that Biden is known to misremember or fantasize things (most famously he fantasized his own life mistaking it for the life of a British Member of Parliament and praised the non existent speech by FDR at the time of the 1929 stock market crash). 

Interestingly, one article I found that used the word 'Hypocritical' was in the Israel Times. The article was titled, " The Troubling Hypocrisy of Omar, Tlaib, and AOC ". I can't actually figure out what the hypocrisy is here. In any event hypocrisy isn't as bad as downright vicious hatred. Omar and Tlaib and others have made various statements that, in my opinion, drip with it.  

Omar and Tlaib (who put the cartoon in their instagram posts) and anti Israel groups have conflated visit denial with censorship. See image 3 which is from the works of Carlos Latuff, who won a prize in the 2006 Holocaust Cartoon Contest (Iran has this annually).

Another piece I saw used the word 'hypocritical' in a more global way in that, in that opinion, liberals insist that Israel have a good relationship with the American President when that President is a Democrat but not otherwise.

A story about the banning of an Israeli legislator is here.

The resolution to condemn antisemitism is discussed in this article in the Israel Times.

Article in The Forward (which opposes Israeli's denial of the visas) with various people's opinion and some background is here. It also includes lots of links to various statements.

Biden's tweet is in this opinion piece. The piece from the Intercept (which is sympathetic to Omar and Tlaib) has internal links to the primary sources for statements.

Biden's misremembering of his own life is here. Biden's comments about the non existent FDR speech is here.

The terrorism friendly group working with Omar and Tlaid is discussed here.

Opinion piece about the relationship of Israel and the US president is here.

Story about the cartoon is here.

Another Gulfstream Private Jets to Climate Change Conference

Katy Perry was in an earlier hypocrisy post back in 2017. That was about barriers.

But an event recently gives me another excuse to have her picture (first image) in my blog.



Google is sponsoring a celebrity conference at a resort in Sicily. 

Some 100+ VIPs are attending, including Katy as well as the three people in the second image: Leonardo DiCaprio (who has himself sponsored similar events), Prince Harry and former President Obama.


There are dozens and dozens of private planes going to and from the conference.

Also there are several VIPs who brought yachts - not just ordinary yachts but really, really big ones. One, for example, the Rising Sun is owed by David Geffen (third image). This 400 foot long ship (which requires a crew of 40+ to operate and is not the only mega yacht that Geffen owns) has almost 100,000 sq feet of living space. 

I am pretty sure each of the attendees is sincere and probably believes that carbon offsets or some other magic is making their carbon footprint disappear so I'm not calling this hypocrisy, though a normal person who does not believe in 'carbon offset magic' would surely think it is. 

article on the event is here
NY Post calls the event hypocrisy here. 

Donald Trump and Al Sharpton

Famously, President Trump tweets. One of those tweets impugned Al Sharpton as a con man, anti cop and anti white.

Trump also tweeted that he used to get along well with Al Sharpton.

Is there hypocrisy involved?

Well, let's begin with the character of Al Sharpton.

 In 1987 Sharpton agitated for Tawana Brawley and defamed a county prosecutor.  

In 1991 there was an anti Jewish riot in Crown Heights with one fatality and lots of property damage. Although Sharpton denies it, I don't think any objective person would doubt that Sharpton had a role in provoking the riot. 

In 1995 a riot and arson killed 8 people at Freddie's Fashion Market (FFM). Sharpton was very involved in denouncing the FFM in violence provoking terms. There is lots else.

Trump has known Sharpton since the 80s. The first image, which also includes Boxing

Promoter Don King, is from that era.


Trump also frequently was seen with Sharpton in the 90s as the second image shows Trump with Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

Trump's relationship with Sharpton survived into the 2000s as the final image is from 2006 at a conference of Sharpton's National Action Network. Jesse Jackson is in that picture also as is, (I think) James Brown.

So, what about Trump's twitter comments. 

1. Trump calls Sharpton a con man. For Trump, this is not necessarily an insult as Trump acknowledges Sharpton was a con man during their relationship.

2. Trump calls Sharpton anti police. No doubt there is some truth there but once again, Trump knew this based on, for example, the Brawley case. 

3. Trump calls Sharpton anti white. Again, Trump knew this way back when.


In fact, Trump doesn't seem to let people's bias, inhumanity, etc. bother him that much, for example in Trump's occasional praise of North Korea's leader Kim Il Jung. So his relationship with a con man like Sharpton (arguably, Trump's Real Estate Developer career includes a lot of 'con jobs') doesn't really contradict Trump's denunciation of Sharpton as a con man.

Anyway,
articles supporting the above
2015 article in the National Review about Trump and Sharpton's Atlantic City alliance is here.
July 2019 article in the Independent about Trump and Sharpton in which the Independent calls Sharpton 'A Beloved Civil Rights Leader' is here.
July 2019 tweet by Sharpton which includes the 2006 photo is here.
July 2019 Variety article quoting Trump's recent tweets re: Sharpton is here.
Sharpton article in wikipedia is here.
Senaton Kamala Harris's tweet praising Sharpton is here.

The Onion's Study of Hypocrisy

The Onion's study (the image is Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who is accused of changing his mind on when the Senate would vote to confirm a justice - I haven't analyzed that yer), I liked the Onion's study enough to quote the entire thing.

"Revealing that bald-faced lies and shameless double standards are the most reliable way to outmaneuver one’s opponents, a report released Wednesday confirmed that massive hypocrisy just flat-out gets the job done. “Changing your stance based on temporary expediency has proven time and again to be a slam dunk in terms of advancing an agenda,” read the report, which went on to state that there are no major downsides to doing one thing one year and doing the exact opposite the next because the majority of people do not remember anything that happens in the world for more than a week or so. “Whether you are engaged in a carefully calculated strategy of dishonesty or just spouting the first lie that comes into your head, hypocrisy works wonders. You will never be held accountable and will instead be admired for your strength and pragmatism as a leader. Evidence also suggests the only way to defeat a hypocrite in power is to become an even bigger hypocrite yourself.” The report went on to conclude that not only is brazen, amoral hypocrisy the best way to enact your personal vision, it’s also fun."

Wil Wade case: Is the NCAA Hypocritical

The day before the LSU-Maryland NCAA tournament game, there was an article in the Washington Post. The article was, in essence, a long 'perspective' (which is basically an opinion piece) by a writer, Barry Svrluga, who has been with the newspaper since 2003. 

The title of his perspective was,

"Enjoy Maryland vs. LSU for the basketball. But don’t forget the NCAA’s hypocrisy."

 

I am unable to say for certain what the writer thinks is the hypocrisy . 

However, I think it is because the LSU coach (up until a few days ago), Will Wade aggressively recruited a player and the NCAA ordered him suspended. This while the NCAA has a multiyear contract with with CBS and Turner to broadcast the men’s basketball tournament through 2032. The total tab, over 22 years: $19.8 billion.

In any event, LSU won the game by two points on a shot that a lot of people think was traveling should have been called.

 
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The Washington Post article is here.

AOC Hamburgers and Campaign Finance

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez produces about 10 tweets a day and lots of other output. She has over 2 million twitter followers, more than any other member of Congress.

One of her most famous pronouncements was that people should give up meat (this was part of the Green New Deal, which I sometimes call the Green Leap Forward - second image is AOC announcing this, Representative Markey of Massachusetts is next to her)

The first image is of AOC and her chief of staff. Her CoS is eating a hamburger. The CoS in that image is Saikat Chakrabarti. I'm not calling this hypocrisy because I have no evidence that Chakrabarti opposes eating meat (AOC's response to the charge of hypocrisy was to denounce the picture taker as 'creepy')

However, Chakrabarti is involved in another AOC issue. This one involves campaign finance.  During her campaign, AOC was very much in favor of transparency in campaign finance. However, it seems there were some PACs (controlled by Chakrabarti) buying 'services' from LLCs where the PACs and LLCs had board members in common and other suspicious linkages.  It is all very complicated and without having all the information on the finance and knowing campaign finance law, it is impossible to know if there was any wrong doing. However, I think the case of hypocrisy is pretty solid.  The AOC defense that 'this is all legal and there may some bookkeeping errors' is a decent indicator that she realizes she hasn't been transparent, but does not want to admit it.






Image of AOC and hamburger eating by Caleb Hull at this tweet.
Article on the campaign finance issue (sent me by Irwin) is here.

The College Bribery Case

A number of people have called out 'Hypocrisy' in regards to the news of a college entrance bribery and manipulation scandal.

One such report was at 
 foxbusiness which headlined the article,

College admissions scandal exposes Hollywood hypocrisy

The interesting thing to me is who has become the face of the 'hypocrisy'.  The news consistently pictures two actresses, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin. Perhaps this is because these people are known from their roles on Desperate Housewives and Full House respectively.  Or perhaps because they are photogenic. However neither of them are, near as I can tell, specifically advocates of college admission fairness and thus I can't really call them hypocrites.

A closer-to-hypocrisy case could be made for two other individuals involved in the case. These are Bill McGlashan and Manual Henriquez who are prominent bosses of financial organizations. McGlashan is known for advocating 'ethical' investing. Henriquez is known for advocating 'socially responsible' investing. However neither, as far as I can tell, ever really addressed the issue of college admission. Thus I can't give them hypocrisy credit either.

Of course, I consider their actions to be disgusting and certainly they deserve reprimands and possible criminal prosecution.

 

 

All four paid to get their kids admitted to various prestigious universities. 

Images: Bill McGlashan CEO of  the Rise Fund (without glasses), Manuel Henriquez CEO of Hercules Capital (with glasses), Felicity Huffman (of Desperate Housewives who has 3 gold necklaces in the image) and Lori Loughlin (of Full House). Pictures of the CEOs from a different article in foxbusiness

New Green Hypocrisy

 A twitter exchange occurred involving US Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and Dr. Patrick Moore. Moore was one of the founders of Greenpeace but, as I understand it, left the organization when it began opposing chlorinating water and made other decisions of that type.
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AOC famously is an advocate of the Green New Deal and an audit of her campaign expenses showed she used automobiles far more than the subway, planes more than trains and so forth. AOC tweeted that 'she has to live in the world as it is'.

Moore said that the world as it is has subways and trains and doesn't require air conditioning and that AOC is a hypocrite.

Actually, I don't think AOC stated her case well. She should have said that since there were time constraints on her she had to take the fastest mode of transportation at the time but would be transitioning to a less energy intensive life style. Of course she would then have to carry out that transition and if she didn't, would then be an obvious hypocrite.


The AOC tweet is here.
Moore's tweet is here.

Trumps Emergency Proclamation and EOs

 A few days ago President Trump signed an emergency proclamation regarding border security (first image is from PBS and it also contains the text of the proclamation).

During his campaign, then candidate Trump criticized then President Obama for excess use of executive orders (second image is from a tweet by NBC news).

Is this (the EP after criticizing EOs) hypocrisy as opposed to doing EOs after criticizing EOs. 

No.
 Obama had similar changes of heart about how to work the government. I addressed this a few years ago here regarding signing statements. Basically I think Obama didn't understand the issue; I think Trump didn't understand the issue either.

I worked to implement several EOs and several EPs* during my 30+ years in the federal government; sometimes this seemed to me to be 'good' and sometimes 'bad'.

Executive Orders (EO) and Emergency Proclamations (EP) are different.  An EO is supposed to be used to direct the Executive Branch on the priorities and methods of executing statute. Sometimes they even do this, sometimes they are mostly empty feel good puff pieces and sometimes they actually contradict statute and are illegal.

Unlike the EO, the EP may suspend statute. An EP is authorized by 50 USC 34. Current statute has evolved over time since a major change was made in 1976. The most recent major amendment was made in 2009 (when the Democratic party controlled the House, the Senate and the Presidency). Here are two things to remember about an EP,
1. Congress can, by joint resolution, cancel an EP.
2. The statute does not define 'emergency'.

While on this general subject, I think the danger of federal government excess is great. However, it is not just EOs and EPs that are a problem. In the Obama administration, changes to the execution of Obamacare were announced once in a blogpost by HHS and another time via a 'dear colleague letter' written to Governors regarding school discipline policy (both without any notice and comment period). I don't know if something similar has been done in the Trump Administration but it wouldn't surprise me if it has.

* about a month ago was the 25th anniversary of the disaster proclamations subsequent to the Northridge earthquake (both California and the US Govt issued disaster proclamations). The highway damage was severe but the proclamations allowed work to begin without going through various planning, environmental, contracting and administrative procedures (my part in this was documenting various steps and recommending data to collect). The repairs were finished on time and under budget and have held up relatively well as I understand it.

Senator Warren and a Hypocrisy Not About Native Americans

To the left (pun intended) is an image of Senator Elizabeth Warren from her event announcing her candidacy for President (from Rolling Stone).

 

Although she is famous for other things, this is about her statement and actions on dark money.

In April 2018 Warren made an impassioned speech praising teachers and criticising corporate money in politics and warning of a new threat 'dark money'.  This dark money are contributions to organizations that do some minimal non partisan work (and don't declare their donors) but then also do some partisan work (complicated rules - I don't pretend to understand them).

Well, it turns out that also in 2018, the organization "Elizabeth  for MA, Inc." sent a $10k check to Fair Fight, a dark money fund (a non profit non partisan and a PAC both named Fair Fight had USPS post boxes at an identical UPS store in Atlanta) whose executive director was Stacy Abrams, a candidate for Governor of Georgia.

Of course, Warren could say, "I'm against it but since they exist I have to use them" as a defense. However, as of this date she hasn't taken that defense.

As a bonus, the group that Warren was praising, teachers, are a major lobbying force and, though various other means, e.g., PTA, teachers probably are one of the most powerful political groups in the country at the local level.


Warren's April 2018 speech is here.
Disbursements of Elizabeth for MA are here.

Linda Sarsour Not a Hypocrite but is somethng worse

Linda Sarsour is an activist and one of the 'leaders' of the Women's March. She is a consistent and egregious critic of Israel and supporter of Sharia (image is from an AP news report).

below is a screen shot of one of her tweets from Jan 2017

below that is a screen shot of a tweet from a few days ago (images, including the screen shots of the tweets may be enlarged  by clicking on them).

The accusation of hypocrisy is based on her 2017 tweet calling President Trump an anti-semite for not mentioning the Jewish victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day and her subsequent 2019 commenting on the Holocaust without mentioning the Jewish victims. 

But this is not hypocrisy as she hasn't said people should do something and then not done it. It is however antisemitism by her own definition.

Also, her many other statements demonizing Israel, promoting BDS, etc. also qualify her as an anti Semite under other definitions of the term.

Alderman Edward Burke may be a Hypocrite but that's just the frosting

ay, January 07, 2019

Alderman Edward Burke is, in some sense the quintessential Chicago politician. His father was an alderman in the same part of SW Chicago. He has been an Alderman (14th ward between Midway Airport and I-55) for almost 50 years. His wife is an Illinois Supreme Court Justice.

He has recently been charged with a long list of extortion related crimes (see stories linked below). 



He is also a vigorous advocate of gun control and spokesman for a gun buy back program. During the FBI's search of his office they found 23 guns, none apparently registered or declared as local Chicago law requires. He was not charged with any crime related to possession of firearms since, as an elected official, Chicago law makes him an officer of the law and, apparently, allowed to possess lots and lots of guns without the protocols that ordinary citizens of Chicago have to obey.  This is arguably hypocrisy but comparatively very small potatoes compared to the extortion.

local cbs news article on Ed Burke is here

local Chicago Tribune article on Ed  Burke is here

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