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The "Hypocrite Strawman".
These conservative thinkers love to throw around the "hypocrite strawman". i.e. "Al Gore has ten houses, a yacht and a gazillion giant computer screens, so he can't be an environmentalist. You drive a car with oil and turn on your lights at night, so you have no standing to talk about conservation or the environment." etc.
Nice.
The logic at work here is to equate the quality of information inherent in the message vs. the medium of it's delivery.
I mean, if a guy dying of lung cancer after smoking a pack a dady tells you not to smoke, sure you could say "You fucking hypocrite.." but in reality the truth and useful content "don't smoke" is real regardless of who utters it. This works just as well for environmental causes, etc.
Just because someone drives an SUV doesn't mean if they utters something factual about conservation of energy sources that the inherent truth in that statement is suspect.
But, you know, continue to lie comfortably asleep in your rhetorical tricks. Serves you all well, let' you sleep at night, etc. But don't think you're doing anything close to facing reality.