What This Guy Said

Sometimes the nail was struck before you could reach for the hammer:

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I don’t know what the Pope did or didn’t do – that’s for the police to deal with, along with the Catholic Church and even God Himself. The chips will fall where they may. But I know what Roman Polanski did, because he confessed to it and then ran away. And no matter how wonderful and transcendent an artist he is supposed to be – I think he’s generally a hack – the same standard applies to him that applies to everyone else.

Rape a child, go to jail.

No matter who you are, and no matter how many Hollywood celebrities think a child is just acceptable collateral damage, a fair price to pay for the chance to bask in the glow of the artist’s unique vision.

Now, this dreadfully unprogressive, black-and-white, unnuanced, single standard philosophy goes against everything the Hollywoodids and their supplicants like Wells believe. But for too long we’ve tolerated too many double standards – not just in Hollywood but throughout the progressive realm. And it must end. It’s time to call people like Jeffrey Wells and the rest of the excuse machine on those double standards. Relentlessly.

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Certainly, the spectacle of the doddering Dawkins and the perpetually pickled Hitchens (who is not a dumb guy, is a tireless advocate against dictators and thugs, and really ought to know better) trying to cuff and stuff the pontiff would be amusing – especially watching the Pope’s unforgiving security team go to town upon them. Advantage Hitchens – he’d be unlikely to feel a thing.

Certainly Dawkins could put up a fight using one of his tedious anti-deity diatribes as a weapon. You haven’t been bored until you’ve been militant atheist bored – what do people at atheist organizations talk about after the first five seconds in which they all agree there’s no God? And Hitchens could fall over on the guards – and the dude’s probably got a weight edge on the security team. But in the end, the conclusion is kind of forgone – Pope Benedict will jet back to Rome and the atheists will pat themselves on their collective backs, assuming the efficient Swiss Guards somehow failed to break their arms.

That is all.