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Yet charges of hypocrisy are not so often directed against practices as against people. It is not that the critic really opposes "catering to special interests", but that they just want that particular politician to be silenced or removed from office.

Yet charges of hypocrisy are not so often directed against practices as against people. It is not that the critic really opposes "catering to special interests", but that they just want that particular politician to be silenced or removed from office.

* A mere accusation of hypocrisy can halt a debate by silencing the accused, forcing him off-topic to defend himself against the tangential charge of hypocrisy.  This is how and why so many talking-head shows quickly degenerate into everyone accusing everyone else of hypocrisy, with nothing of substance actually discussed.<ref>[http://www.communistvampires.com/articles/hypocrisy.htm The False and Lazy Charge of Hypocrisy]

* A mere accusation of hypocrisy can halt a debate by silencing the accused, forcing him off-topic to defend himself against the tangential charge of hypocrisy.  This is how and why so many talking-head shows quickly degenerate into everyone accusing everyone else of hypocrisy, with nothing of substance actually discussed.<ref>[http://www.communistvampires.com/articles/hypocrisy.htm The False and Lazy Charge of Hypocrisy]</ref>

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