User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Concerned... o O/@comment-3092491-20110208060952/@comment-3419317-20110211181420

In my opinion, Freddie is NOT being hypocritical by hiring Ashley. Not even a little bit.

The episode hasn't aired yet, but from what we can see, it looks to me like Freddie only hires Ashley to make a point about how stupid it is to hire people for their looks. Not because he actually thinks hiring her is a good idea.

"Hypocritical" would be if Freddie asserted that it was okay for him to hire Ashley but it wasn't okay for the girls to hire Cort.

But he's not. He's asserting that EITHER it was okay to hire both Ashley and Cort OR it was wrong to hire both of them. And he's leaving it to the girls to decide which.

Freddie is basically throwing the ball back into Carly and Sam's court. If the girls try to say that Cort should stay but Ashley should go, then THEY would be hypocrites. So they have to either keep both (which they all know is a BAD idea because Cort and Ashley are both completely incompetent) or fire both, in which case Freddie gets what he wanted from the start.

Freddie isn't "stooping" to anything. In fact, if anything, it's Carly and Sam who are FORCING his hand. Because trying to REASON with the girls obviously isn't working, Freddie hires Ashley to force them to fire Cort.

I actually like the fact that Freddie is standing up to Carly and Sam. As opposed to the earlier seasons, when Freddie pretty much let the girls walk all over him.

In my mind, that would actually STRENGTHEN their friendship. A true friend will tell you to go to **** if they feel you need to hear it. That's something that Freddie that has seldom done with Carly and Sam.