As far as I can tell, this is not yet a commonly used phrase. Yet it seems to be true in so many cases doesn't it? You know how religious fundamentalists and politicians who preach about morality and honestly are often caught lying or engaging in immorality and then lying about it to save face? They are the loudest preachers of virtue and yet they are terrible at practicing it.
Another example is Al Gore. He preaches about saving the environment and living green, but his home uses FAR more electricity and his carbon footprint is likely multiple times higher than the average American's.
I don't think I even need to get started on celebrities who speak out against bullying while simultaneously talking shit about people who don't like their music, writing, or opinions on certain subjects. *cough*DanSavage*cough*BloodOnTheDanceFloor*cough*DemiLovato*cough*
For people like this, I've coined a neologism that is also the title of this blog post. "Those who preach it the loudest, practice it the least." If this saying takes off, I want it copyrighted.
Another example is Al Gore. He preaches about saving the environment and living green, but his home uses FAR more electricity and his carbon footprint is likely multiple times higher than the average American's.
ReplyDeleteTeeny problem - Gore also claims to buy carbon offsets covering his energy use. There's a tendancy on the right-wing to think of carbon in terms of "sin" and "indulgences"; they are not. This is a right-wing projection of their own mindset.
Carbon is a fungible pollutant. If everyone covered their carbon use, there wouldn't be a problem.
Now, the report that he part-owns the company selling the offsets is worrying, but not actually a valid criticism. What would be a valid criticism is if it was shown that the offsets didn't remove carbon from the system.