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La Rochefoucauld Has the Last Laugh
Well, it's almost as good as an old-fashioned morality tale, isn't it-something from the Grimm brothers or La Rochefoucauld?
That's what La Rochefoucauld said about the old Letterman show when the generic air crash joke Dave told at the 5:30 p.m. taping turned sour by the 12:30 a.m. broadcast, due to an actual air disaster around 9 p.m.: "But if it was now wrong to mock the charred remains of the dead, surely it was wrong a week ago, and would still be wrong a week hence when Dave resumed airline ridicule.
The moral of the story, à la La Rochefoucauld: Trying to have it both ways usually gets you neither.
The French philosopher François La Rochefoucauld famously praised hypocrisy as the socially useful "homage that vice pays to virtue."