Hypocrisy - Part 3

Glenn Greenwald presents us with the laughable image of Bill "pro-censorship" Bennett hoisting the banner of freedom of the press when it comes to publication of the Mohammed cartoons that so many find offensive but not for publication of reports of criminal NSA wiretaps (whistle-blowers should be prosecuted) or the Abu Ghraib torture photos (treasoness support of the terrorists). Truly their hypocrisy knows no limits.

... of all the free-press-attacking Bush supporters, the very last one who has any basis for masquerading as a free press advocate is Bill Bennett, who has built a bloated career over several decades waging war on free expression and a free press, while attempting to compel suppression of ideas he finds offensive.

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These demands by Bush followers that ideas be freely expressed without restraint are extremely selective – they want the ideas they like to be disseminated widely and aggressively but ideas which they dislike to be suppressed. In general, when one espouses standards and principles which one applies only selectively and in a self-interested manner, the result is just garden-variety hypocrisy. But when principles of a free press are applied selectively -- such that one urges some ideas to be vigorously safeguarded while other ideas be aggressively suppressed -- it is not merely hypocritical, but incomparably pernicious, because what is really being sought, by definition, is a system of laws and rules which exist to propagandize.