Ian St. John Quotes

I think the media are so hypocritical a lot of the time in the way they chastise something just so that they can print it again.

Everybody's out there to make a case and sometimes a little hypocrisy gets involved with that case.

For a profession that holds dear both the ability to vivisect politicians in prose and the expectation that these carved-up subjects will not complain, the media is horribly thin-skinned and vengeance-seeking when on the receiving end of criticism.

It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath

The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.

The very men to whom the whole country looks to set an example …to accept … the personal inconvenience, are doing exactly the reverse …. They are cackling like wet hens to hold their special privilege.

We in the media have glass jaws. We throw punches at everyone else, and the first time that they hit back, we go down.

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

It's easy to make jokes about Donald Trump. There is such a difference between what he says and his behavior. It's not 180 degrees off with him. It's some sort of oblique angle.

Don't get me started about the media double standard.

Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

All the Left and the media attack dogs can dish it out, can't they, but they sure can't take it.

Sean Hannity is a hypocrite!He's blasting anonymous sources and saying journalism is dead when he uses an anonymous source in the form of President Trump.

I just don't like when you preach one thing and do something else.

One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird. Then, at the same time, you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

People who give off about fat-shaming and body-shaming are often the same people who talk about Trump's hair or how fat he is, or how old he is. The size of his hands and his fingers - that's the big one: let's all have a big laugh at his hands.

If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions?

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Publicly, we say one thing....Actually, we do another.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!