Posted on 10/03/2009 8:27:42 AM PDT by neverdem
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Scathing Steyn!
Insightful, comprehensive, funny, lethal.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Steyn is regarded in 100 years much as we see Mark Twain today.
When I hear the word culture I reach for my Browning. Hermann Göring
Wow! This is one of Steyn’s best. And he’s had an awful lot of superb stuff in the past. This is brilliant.
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Problem is that most of Hollywood exudes a several orders of magnitude stronger personal moral magnetic field that would make anyone's compass spin at at least a couple of hundred rpm.
rape-rape-rape-rape, lol hits it on the head
RE: Whoopie G’s “wasn’t rape-rape”
The Vagina Monologues, Lesbian Date Rape, and the case of Robert Swope
In 2000, Robert Swope, a conservative contributor to the Georgetown university newspaper, The Hoya, wrote an article critical of the play. He suggested there was a contradiction between the promotion of rape awareness on V-Day and the monologue “The Little Coochie Snorcher That Could”, in which an adult woman recalls being date-raped at 13 by a 24 year old woman as a positive, healing experience, ending the segment with the proclamation “It was a good rape.” Outcry from the play’s supporters resulted in Swope’s being fired from the staff of the Hoya, before the piece was even run.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vagina_Monologues
Well written piece! It needs to be read. By many...
They just don’t get it. They think they are privileged over us common folk and don’t have to obey the law because of their “art.”
I’m with Steyn. J.S. Bach shouldn’t be given a pass to drug and sodomize 13 year olds.
Once Steyn tackles a subject, that subject stays down and does NOT get up!
No columnist or commentator alive can bring that level of scathing wit,direct that penetrating moral beacon to illuminate an issue in such scarily vivid ways,or conjure comparisons that will stay with you forever, than can Mark Steyn. Hell, he even quoted Susan Estrich, herself a rape victim!
Oscar Wilde didn't get a pass for boinking other guys.
Ah, the great Steyn at his true greatest! He’s so good at pointing out the moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy of the Hollywood elite. This is one of his best.
Wonderful essay, in that Steyn has taken the soft pornography of Polanski's tortured odessy and Hollywood's defensive exculpation and elevated it into a useful discussion of substantive principles. Here, however, I do disagree, not in whether the property he's discussing is true, but to the degree of its causality.
That tension between temptation and revulsion he so wonderfully cites, is indeed what is communicated. What happens when its subject delves into depravity to express the attendant torment, is that upon repetition succumbing necessarily distills to obsession. Once there, the object is no longer to communicate that anguish but to finance alleviating the demands of the increasingly desensitized addict. Art then, necessarily devolves to distracted attention as a paean to commerce.
This effect is exacerbated when the perp is rolling in dough. The declining marginal value of money makes financing obsession not a necessity, but a habit. One cannot produce a quality product when neither art nor survival is the objective. There's your cause of Hollywood's demise.
When Mark Steyn writes, increasingly, America listens! His pen always has an edge to it, which makes his essays pithy to say the least. This bit on Polanski shows exactly what Hollywood is all about...and it “ain’t” a classic film with staying power. The so called “date rape” incidednt Polanski committed, is just as front page today, as it was 30 years ago when this rapist committed the act. Here Here, Mark...out of the park!!!
Machine gun? Or poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett?
German Kultur was important to the Nazis, so I presume Hermann reached for the poets.
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Roman Polanski knew she was 13 years old and, when she declined his entreaties, drugged her with champagne and a Quaalude and then sodomized her. Twice. Which, even on the Whoopi scale, sounds less like rape, or even rape-rape, and more like rape-rape-rape-rape.
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ROTFL! I about sprayed my coffee on that one!
Steyn nails it again!
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