[MrB]

We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons.

WE haven't. Only those with an elitist mindset have. Even those who don't consider themselves to be "elite" can have an elitIST mindset, wherein they believe that the "special people" can live by different rules.

[Louis Foxwell]

My sense is that cultural icons deliberately promote the acceptance of immoral behavior.