The Hollywood glitterati (At least, those who signed that petition to “free Polanski”) don’t seem to grasp the fact that if this were some other man (like, say, a priest or beloved teacher) doing the same thing to a minor (girl or boy), they’d be demanding that he be hanged by his testicles at this very moment, and the institution that allowed such a crime to happen shamed into a multi-million-dollar settlement.

However, this is Hollywood. Apparently, they seem to believe that the laws of this country, not to mention common decency, don’t apply to them. “Tolerance” is their morality code – for “do whatever your heart desires, as long as you don’t dare to criticize our idols.” And Harvey Weinstein dares to say that Hollywood has the “right moral compass”! Right. Sure. Who is he trying to kid?

There was a quote from one of those newspaper advice columnists from long ago that fits Polanski and his supporters to a tee. “Morals are what separate human beings from animals. If anyone here is having a problem in that department, please consult your veterinarian.”

And, how dare they place themselves above the laws the rest of us assume we’ll have to follow. These are the people who complain about salaries of others, while making up to 20 million dollars a shot to play “make pretend” for a month or two (something the rest of us outgrew at about the age of 10)…all the while, more dedicated to spreading socialist/liberal agenda than entertaining anyone with their drivel. Where is Joe McCarthy when you need him?

Uh, Jonathan, did you have someone else check up on her a day later? My own experience is that the liberal mind is not just nimble, it’s stuck in taffy. You can move it out of position, but if you look again at it 24 hours later, it’s right back where it was before you shifted it.

I call it the “Liberal Reset Button”. At night, during sleep, the LRB gets pushed, and all newly received data is vetted against The Officially Accepted Liberal Positions®, and, if it is found to work against or even repudiate any of them, the new data is rejected as inconsistent with Undebatably True and Accepted Liberal Dogma®. Thus purged, the liberal mind is free to return to its prior state of ignorance and bliss.

Test that sometime. Find a vaguely reasonable liberal, get them into a discussion and show how, starting from their own positions, they can be led step by step to a conclusion or end point which shows the desired result is impossible given their starting point, or some similar totally mutually exclusive result derives from what they believe in. At the end, they will agree with you that they are wrong.

Within a day or two, you engage them in discussion on the matter once again, it will be as though the first discussion NEVER HAPPENED. They literally will have no recollection of the whole discussion, of the obvious falseness of their presumptions, and will still retain those notions they had before you ever brought the matter up.

The LRB has been activated!. All is back to its proper liberal state.

I had lunch with a very liberal friend of mine who insisted that Mr. Polanski is being railroaded by zealous conservative prosecuters. I reminded her that Roman has already confessed to the crime and was awaiting punishment when he fled.

“Oh, I didn’t know that…” was her first response.
“He drugged her? Why, I had no idea..”
“She told him to stop and he kept going, I never heard that before..”
“He had anal sex with a thirteen year old, OMG! That’s sick!”
She finished by saying, “he’s psycho, and I hope he rots in hell.”
How nimble is the liberal mind. From poor persectued artist to rotten fiend bound for Hades, in all of five minutes.
It’s a remarkable thing to witness.