Hypocrisy - liberal style

During the whole Weinergate Sextcapades, one of the recurring themes about the the pass liberals were willing to give Weiner was that he wasn't a sexual hypocrite. Presumably meaning that if you are against same sex marriage your "hypocrisy"is what costs you your job.... not the sin.

Forget for a minute that toe tapping in a department store bathroom and support for gay marriage is a big time non sequitur, I want to know why liberals gave a pass to other liberals for their hypocrisy.

How about caring for the poor? Joe Biden says he's a champion for the poor, yet gives less than 1% of his income to charity.

How about the environment? The leader of the Branch Gorvidian movement, Al Gore, owns how many homes? (nine). Or how about his disciple, Tom Friedman, who squeezes into an 11,000 square foot home while preaching to us about limiting our carbon footprint.

Let's not forget the champion of women who have been accused of rape (Clinton) or death (Kennedy).

Or how about Bono who's always hitting up governments to support African relief causes all the while dodging taxes himself........

Last year, Bono's nonprofit ONE foundation was at the center of semi-scandal when it was revealed that in 2008 the organization raised $14,993,873 in public donations — of which only $184,732 (or just over ONE percent) was distributed to charities. Where did the rest go? Well, more than $8 million went to salaries for executives and employees at ONE. In response to the fusillade of criticism following these revelations, ONE spokesman Oliver Buston explained, "We don't provide programs on the ground. We're an advocacy and campaigning organization."

Much of the "advocacy" is directed at governments; organizations like ONE aggressively lobby world leaders to contribute "aid" (read: tax dollars) to anti-poverty and environmental causes. Yet the U2 organization has gone out of its way to reduce its own tax burden — in 2006, the band moved part of its business operation from Ireland to take advantage of generous tax breaks offered to artists in the Netherlands.

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But I guess it's all OK as long as they're not republican.