He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then, when sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln (Gross, Lincoln's Own Stories.
A wry illustration of shameless hypocrisy, likened to an orphan pleading mercy after murdering his parents.
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