–For anyone wondering about the moral gulf that separates ordinary Americans from the liberal elites who dominate the entertainment industry, the Roman Polanski saga is instructive. The facts are not in dispute: a then 44-year-old Polanski drugged, raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl, and went on the lam for 30 years. Apparently for Hollywood types, the passage of time, no doubt coupled with artistic ability and wealth, equals “all is forgiven,” and any attempt to prosecute a child rapist equals a “miscarriage of justice.”
More than a hundred film industry figures have signed a petition calling for Polanski’s release. One can only wonder: do any of them have a 13-year-old daughter?
–Barack Obama May 18, 2008: “Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don’t pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.” Hmmm. Anyone think the president would like to have that one back, considering the current circumstances? Maybe not. Maybe our narcissistic, anti-nuke president really does inhabit a “virtual world” as French president Nicolas Sarkozy derisively noted after Obama’s pie-in-the-sky U.N. address.
–With regard to the above item and his own speech at the U.N., is it possible that Benjamin Netanyahu has become the leading voice of moral clarity in a wilderness of Western, multiculturalist cowardice? Mr. Netanyahu challenged Holocaust deniers: “Have you no shame, have you no decency?” Perhaps the same question should be posed to the aforementioned Hollywood petition-signers.
–Dan Rather’s court case against CBS was dismissed completely. Too bad. When an ethically compromised journalist sues a hopelessly biased network, it’s hard to root for a winner. Here’s hoping both sides spent a ton of money on legal fees.
–Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi have come together in an effort to get the world to redefine the word “terrorism.” These two would have far more credibility if they were working with the word “crazy.”
–Al Qaeda has apparently come up with a creative new way for would-be suicide/homicide bombers to ply their trade: an explosive device hidden in the rectum. The newly dubbed “butt bomb” makes the relatively non-intrusive X-ray equipment used by airport security ineffective. One can only wonder what privacy-invading levels of personal humiliation are in store for future air travelers–and what level of depravity it takes for some terrorist to allow himself to be “fitted” for action. Someone who would do something like this is a terrorist, isn’t he? Perhaps we should consult “experts” Chavez and Gaddafi for the definitive answer.
–Some questions for liberals and their media sycophants: is Afghanistan still the “right war?” If the president follows the advice of Gen. McChrystal and puts 40,000 additional troops in that country, will the media refer to it as a “surge?” Will Senator Harry Reid declare the war “lost” before the troops arrive? Where are the anti-war marchers, ostensibly against all war per se, who dogged the Bush administration? Now that Barack Obama is president, is the use of military force still a “neo-con” strategy?
atahlert@comcast.net
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