more Faux News
This was a gimme, but once again illustrates points.
"Can anyone even imagine how the press would have reacted if Fox News hosts and conservative personalities had stopped by the Bush White House to discuss policy? They would have been rightly outraged."
-- Laura Ingraham newsletter on MSNBC anchors meeting with Obama
"The New York Times reported in October 2006 that Bush hosted a group of conservative personalities including Ingraham, Fox News host Sean Hannity (who also met with Bush at the White House the following year), and Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher.
-- Erik Hananoki of Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/05/laura-ingrahams-newsletter-doesnt-remember-when/191698
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!" - Polonius, Hamlet, Shakespeare.
Laura Ingraham is true to this statement as Shakespeare intended from the platitude spouting Polonius. To be "true to one's self" means to engage in activities that are to your benefit and avoid those that are not, for how else can one be in position to do good for others. Ingraham, much like Polonius, spouts platitudes and righteous indignation deceiving oneself into moral superiority.
The quest for self enlightenment, that is the opposite of Shakespeare's Polonius, faces me with the obvious truth that it is easy to point out the hypocrisy and hyperbole in others, but unerring difficult to see it in oneself. Who am I to gainsay someone for such a obvious deception while I might be engaging in worse?
"Can anyone even imagine how the press would have reacted if Fox News hosts and conservative personalities had stopped by the Bush White House to discuss policy? They would have been rightly outraged."
-- Laura Ingraham newsletter on MSNBC anchors meeting with Obama
"The New York Times reported in October 2006 that Bush hosted a group of conservative personalities including Ingraham, Fox News host Sean Hannity (who also met with Bush at the White House the following year), and Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher.
-- Erik Hananoki of Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/05/laura-ingrahams-newsletter-doesnt-remember-when/191698
"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!" - Polonius, Hamlet, Shakespeare.
Laura Ingraham is true to this statement as Shakespeare intended from the platitude spouting Polonius. To be "true to one's self" means to engage in activities that are to your benefit and avoid those that are not, for how else can one be in position to do good for others. Ingraham, much like Polonius, spouts platitudes and righteous indignation deceiving oneself into moral superiority.
The quest for self enlightenment, that is the opposite of Shakespeare's Polonius, faces me with the obvious truth that it is easy to point out the hypocrisy and hyperbole in others, but unerring difficult to see it in oneself. Who am I to gainsay someone for such a obvious deception while I might be engaging in worse?