The Black Snob Sounds Off: The 7 Kinds of Men Who Make Life Miserable For Everyone

3) Mr. Contradictions, aka “The Master Illusionist:” He says one thing, but does another.

Example? Newt Gingrich.

Who is he? The guy who always gets you in trouble. He tells you he’s a “moral” person, introduces you to his third wife (that he met while cheating on wife No. 2). He says he’s getting his life together … as he gets high. He swears he’ll pay you back. Eventually.

Who does he affect? Everyone. Mr. Contradictions believes everyone is just like him – that they’re all lying. When you accuse him of cheating, he accuses you of cheating on him first. When you say how you thought it was wrong that he told a lie on you, he tells you how he never got over something that you did two years ago to him, but he won’t tell you what you did. Mr. Contradictions is a manipulator. He manipulates the women he dates into thinking they can’t do any better than his inconsistencies. He manipulates his male friends into thinking he’s a “nice guy” who “just can’t catch a break,” so that they end up looking like fools as they defend him (or get ripped off by him), only to later learn he lied to them too. But even when faced with evidence of the truth, he’ll always hold onto “it wasn’t me.” And sorry is just another word not in his vocabulary.