Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Ones in trouble

Ones can get in trouble for being too righteous or by flipping their righteousness into hypocrisy. Ones are vulnerable to hypocrisy because they have high standards they don't/can't live up to.
We happen to have several public example. Lou Dobbs is coming back on the air after having been publicly exposed as hypocritical in his fulminating against illegal aliens and at the same time hiring them. (Lou they aren't aliens - they're just hungry people from across the river).
Keith Olbermann got suspended for being too angry about right wing nonsense. The ostensible charge was giving money to democrats, but it was all legal. The real reason he was slapped was more likely his boss didn't like his vituperative defense of the reality principle in the face of the triumph of fantasy.

Lou D and Keith O are both pretty clear style Ones. If you want to study Ones, they'd be good examples. The other strong political media One is Bill Maher.

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