Posted on 12/13/2010 6:03:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In April of 2009, Huffington Post blogger and Columbia professor David Epstein wrote an editorial entitled “It’s the Abuse of Trust, Stupid.” Ironically, the same Huffington Post blogger and Columbia professor was recently arrested for having sex with his 24 year old daughter.
Mr. Epstein’s editorials for the Huffington Post covered a wide range of topics from Dick Cheney and torture to Sarah Palin and the 2008 election cycle. His posts are full of leftist vitriol and sanctimonious drivel. He is a Columbia professor, after all.
Mr. Epstein’s articles are good for such biting rhetoric as “so when Dick (aptly named) Cheney…”
Salon.com rushed to offer a defense of sorts stating that, “the relationship in this case allegedly began after Epstein’s daughter reached the age of consent. It isn’t a clear-cut case of child abuse, and there are no allegations that the three-year-long relationship carried on without the daughter’s consent.” Leftists will do that for each other. Ask anyone at Salon.com what they think of hillbillies living in West Virginia. A joke about incest and inbreeding won’t be far from the surface.
However, when it comes to a Huffington Post blogger and Ivy League professor (Mr. Epstein also taught at Stanford and Harvard), bigger philosophical questions must be raised. He is a Columbia professor, after all. The fact that Salon.com didn’t automatically condemn Mr. Epstein’s alleged actions wholesale, in itself, speaks volumes about the web-rag. (Later Salon did admit grudgingly that a child will almost always be considered a “protected class” in issues dealing with parents.) Salon also left out the fact that Mr. Epstein is a Huffington Post contributor. Oh, imagine if he were on Sean Hannity’s Great Pompous, er I mean American Panel over at FOX….
I call on the Huffington Post to publicly end its relationship with Mr. Epstein. He hasn’t posted a piece in 14 months (Mr. Epstein’s Twitter feed goes silent as well around this time) at Arianna Huffington’s temple of doom and gloom. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Editor’s Note: To the Huffington Post’s credit they covered the story here.
Ping to Paleo Bob.
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Just keepin’ it in the family.
Is this his biological daughter?
Daddy is a sicko...and so is daughter if she consented.
I don’t know how this works-—either he raped his daughter or she consented. At age 24 (unless she’s really retarded), I don’t see any other way he could have sex with her.
Does he hang out with Woody Allen?
Is he related to Woody Allen? This is so gross.
Oh, those Republicans! It’s all about SEX, SEX, SEX!!! /S
Well this time maybe it is. Sex with his own young daughter.
I would say this at least indicates the man has a serious deficit in judgment. The man surely should not be teaching.
Normal parents have something built in that prevents them from being attracted to their offspring.
Who says he is normal - well, maybe normal for a HuffPo blogger.
We can expect more of this as we continue to finance these Universities, and give all such tenure! We are continually exhorted (and exigent) to save up and give moneys’ from all sources while such educated leeches snob the regular honest working peoples.
Sicko sexual behavior is usually defended by leftists as “freedom”. This dude is bizarre, but the leftist defense of him is to be expected.
holder of the Woody Allen chair at Columbia?
LOL. Maybe a fan, ya think? Sick- ken - ning.
What? Incest is still illegal?? What happened to the hope and change?
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