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I hate the RIAA every bit as much as you guys, but the double-standard here is …. wow.
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YOU are the one with the double-standard Sarah ... you can throw the punches but you can't take the hits.
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So WHY are these HYPOCRITES allowed a free pass on their "double-standard" hypocrisy.
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“THAT was my point with the Nancy Cartwright thing, and thatâs my point now: the blatant double-standard … How nobody âgetsâ this, is frankly beyond me.”
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A 10-year-old could point out the double-standard at play as the U.S. intervenes in Libya yet sits idly by while Western-backed dictators and monarchs violently repress popular uprisings in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen.
Michael Hughes: Libyan Regime Change: U.S./NATO Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds Michael Hughes 2011
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That kind of double-standard is exactly why the rest of the country isn't particularly interested in Southern Conservative Values.
Vitter defends Southern influence in GOP, slams Voinovich 2009
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Namely, language or conduct that demonizes, delegitimizes or imposes a double-standard on the Jewish state is anti-Semitism.
Hannah Rosenthal and U.S. efforts to combat anti-Semitism Jennifer Rubin 2011
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Stiglitz: America's double-standard on economic crises infuriates the poor world
Boing Boing 2009
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Obviously all of you Democrats who somehow imply (or come right out and say) that his infidelity is somehow connected to his being a Republican political leader have quickly and conveniently forgotten (or is that a double-standard I smell???)
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The double-standard is the latest chapter in a 15-year-old story in the currency markets, where investors assume inflation won't pose a problem in places like Britain and Germany but could spin out of control in developing economies with a checkered history of dealing with price pressures.
Euro, Pound Face Growing Inflation Threat Neil Shah 2011
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