If you want a good example of Right-wing hypocrisy, there is MARTHA STEWART. On AOL (I know, I know) they asked the question:
How would you describe Martha's image?
It's better than ever
It's in pretty good shape
It's in need of serious repair
The American Taliban (my term for the Religious Right-- because they are not religious and not right) have no objection to the lovely Martha. She willingly duped stockholders by selling her shares based on insider information and was convicted by a jury.
She was found Guilty, sentenced to brief prison time (sorry Tommy Chong selling bongs on the internet got him more time than bilking people out of tons of money) and has been serving that meager sentence (like the wealthy white elite will ever get tough about 'white collar crime').
At no time did she admit to her guilt, she has done nothing but proclaim her innocence, regardless of all the evidence and the jury's verdict.
She should be Pariah number 1 with these people because she brazenly broke the law costing countless investors a ton of shares of plummeting stock. When she and her broker were exposed and testimony given, she would not admit to the truth. She played like Leona Helmsley and wontonly flaunted her wealth and privelige giving us the impression, yet again, that only 'little people' pay taxes (and in turn only little people buy stocks that tank because they aren't smart enough to play cards only when the deck is stacked).
The huge majority of people don't hold Martha accountable in any way, 'forgiving' her for something she hasn't even bothered asking forgiveness for. To me this says much more about 2 things: America's obsession with Fame and Wealth (the Robin Leach syndrome) and the fact she is a wealthy white heterosexual (paging Paris Hilton). The Fundamentalist movement is basically racist and the whole right-wing faction is up against the wall these days because they see the end of the White American Majority and have moved to the suburbs and Exurbs to 'batten down the hatches' or live in the center of urban America in gated enclaves. On top of that they are giving tax breaks galore for the rich and abolishing inheiritance taxes so they can make a permanent white wealthy upper class.
Here by the way are the answers to that Poll on AOL (a very conservative polling group) about Martha:
It's in pretty good shape 40%
It's better than ever 33%
It's in need of serious repair 27%
So 73% of these people think that defrauding the basic American investor and not showing any contrition merits re-entering society with her credibility intact! And only 27% feel her image needs repair. These are the same people that think media should pay the FCC millions and be watched like a hawk for the baring of a pasty-covered breast at the Super Bowl and that 2 loving people of the same sex defile the sanctity of marriage as well as support the invasion of Iraq regardless of the fact that they had no WMD's. And these are the same people who think we should be putting our Social Security in private accounts, the very same accounts that the next batch of Martha's will be selling to.
The American Taliban is all about rules, but they are the rules of hypocrites.