{"id":107,"date":"2006-03-09T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T09:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-12-05T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:48:50","slug":"inconsistent-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/107\/","title":{"rendered":"Inconsistent hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charge of hypocrisy is one which is levelled at anyone and everyone by anyone and everyone these days, yet seemingly few of its users seem to know the meaning of the word.\u00a0 One such example is Dr P.N. Kirstein in a letter to today&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulfnews.com\/opinion\/letters\/10023297.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf News<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The George W. Bush administration should be condemned for its hypocrisy. The regime is demanding that Iran bury its nuclear ambitions but is silent on Israel&#8217;s nuclear weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?r=2&amp;q=hypocrisy\" target=\"_blank\">dictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>hy\u00b7poc\u00b7ri\u00b7sy<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>n.<\/em> <em>pl.<\/em> <strong>hy\u00b7poc\u00b7ri\u00b7sies <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 An act or instance of such falseness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Dr Kirstein means is that the George W. Bush administration should be condemned for <em>inconsistency<\/em> in this instance, not hypocrisy.\u00a0 You&#8217;d have thought a doctor, not to mention the letters editor of a national newspaper (who entitled the letter <em>&#8220;What a hypocrisy!&#8221;<\/em>) would have known that, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charge of hypocrisy is one which is levelled at anyone and everyone by anyone and everyone these days, yet seemingly few of its users seem to know the meaning of the word.\u00a0 One such example is Dr P.N. Kirstein &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/107\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}