It just can't get any better than this

An interesting study of power and hypocrisy from Andrew Sullivan.

How Power Increases Hypocrisy

"The researchers found that compared to participants without power, powerful participants were stricter in judging others’ moral transgressions but more lenient in judging their own: 'power increases hypocrisy, meaning that the powerful show a greater discrepancy between what they practice and what they preach.'

Nothing new there.

My favorite line from Andrew, though, is this one:

"Power corrupts. Always has. Which is why we need more assholes in the press and fewer people, like Mike Allen, annotating and revering every word that drops from the platters of the connected and the powerful."

Yeah, that's been a plan of pure genuis. Get back with me about how that's workin' for ya, fellas.

Cause from here, to quote the advertisers for the beer of choice for assholes, it just can't get any better than this.