Video: Behar says only right-wingers can be hypocrites, or something

Somehow, this would be more compelling coming from anywhere but Hollywood, where infidelity floats a significant portion of the entertainment medium — which brings us right back to Tiger Woods. Joy Behar tries to make a point that isn’t entirely out of left field, or Left field, for that matter: family-values politicians who commit infidelities, such as hiking the Appalachian trail, are most definitely hypocrites when they do. That doesn’t let liberals off the hook for hypocrisy when cheating on their spouses, though, as Elizabeth Hasselbeck points out in this clip from The View — nor does it apply to those who don’t participate in the political process at all despite having a huge media platform (via Greg Hengler):

Most of the Tiger Woods commentary is nonsense, and this is possibly the nadir of the cottage industry. Tiger doesn’t do politics anyway, which has already earned him criticism from African-American athletes such as Jim Brown and Bill Russell for selfishness, if not hypocrisy. If he did, then it would make sense to discuss the public exposure of infidelity in a political context. As it is, it’s about as political as any celebrity having gotten caught cheating on a spouse.

That doesn’t let Tiger off the hook for his (apparently) multiple “transgressions,” of course, and he monetizes his squeaky-clean image
for enormous personal gain, so public discussion of it is not out of bounds, either. However, it hardly seems like news that multi-millionaire athletes have groupies, and that they let temptation get the better of them. What’s news is that we let that squeaky-clean public relations image take root so deeply that we feel betrayed, where with other athletes we’d probably just shrug and chalk it up as typically bad behavior.

Meanwhile, Behar wants to use it as a way to beat up on conservatives who don’t cheat while letting Tiger off the hook for his “transgressions.” If one can find a better example of hypocrisy, be sure to forward it to us.

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