Within hours, a fast-growing number of decidedly unusual suspects were admitting to having been shocked, insulted and offended by what Mr. Polanski had done. Among them was Eugene Robinson, one of the Washington Post's most liberal columnists, who declared that Mr. Polanski's crime "deserves harsher punishment than three decades of gilded exile." Katha Pollitt, a columnist for the Nation, a journal of left-wing opinion, went further still. "The widespread support for Polanski," she wrote on the magazine's blog, "shows the liberal cultural elite at its preening, fatuous worst. . . . No wonder Middle America hates them." Even in France, the public was so outraged that the French government hastened to change its official tune on Wednesday, sternly proclaiming Mr. Polanski to be "neither above nor beneath the law."
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Bubble brains ...
... Hollywood Justice. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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ReplyDeleteCORRECTION: Atlanta's Cynthia Tucker has also surprised me by violating her staunch liberal doctrine and throwing Polanski to the wolves. Poor Polanski. He is running out of friends. Perhaps he will find some new friends in prison. The warm embraces he will receive will be splendid irony.
ReplyDeleteFrank, maybe I'm misreading or misunderstanding - or both! - but I resent the suggestion that one can not be liberal AND 'law-and-order.'
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jeff. It's part and parcel of the conservative/right-wing hubris that none but they have any moral sense, patriotism, or ability -- or, indeed, right -- to govern.
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