Beyond Hypocrisy

CNN's Piers Morgan has been lately displaying one of the biggest ironies of modern liberalism:  Talking about "tolerance" and "civility" in theory but then in practice doing the exact opposite of that teaching.  Case in point: Morgan had on Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America, shortly after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.  Displaying deep understanding and tolerance, Morgan went on to say that Pratt was "sham[ing] your country" and that he was "an unbelievably stupid man" who doesn't care about the gun murder rate in America.

If you think that was bad, read on.

Morgan, not done displaying his ignorance on the national stage, said a week later in an interview with Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church that the Bible should be amended.  I'm not joking.  Here is the clip:

As Paul Mirengoff points out,

The Bible isn’t like the U.S. Constitution. It does not have the force of govenrment law behind it. If one ignores a particular prohibition or teaching — because it is “out-of-date” or, what is often the same thing, because one would rather not follow it — no government penalty attaches and no government enforcement mechanism comes into play (unless the law contains the same prohibition). But, of course, one assumes all other risks.

Nevermind that believing in a "living constitution" does away the need for amending the Constitution since the Courts essentially function as an on-going constitutional convention.  But, the best part comes at the end of the interview when Morgan says the following about the need for respectful exchanges with people of differing opinions (courtesy of Pete Wehner):

“The debate should always be respectful,” according to Morgan. “By the way,” he added, “it applies to politics, too. The moment it becomes disrespectful and discourteous and then rude and then poisonous, you never achieve anything.”

To call this hypocrisy would do a disservice to the word.  I think a new word needs to be thought up to fully capture what just took place here.