Bobo is a despicable man

Driftglass smacks down the loathsome David Brooks for his latest abomination [NYTimes - behind subscription wall] wherein he complains that Liberals are hypocrites because they like plays and hate child predators.

Brooks writes:

The first predator, of course, is Mark Foley, the Florida congressman. The second predator is a character in Eve Ensler’s play, “The Vagina Monologues.”

Driftglass responds:

And having “established” somewhere in the depleted nimbus of brain cells that still scurry around in his soft head that a FICTIONAL CHARACTER from a play is somehow exactly the same as a real child predator, notice how his next paragraph begins (emphasis added)

“Foley is now universally reviled. But the Ensler play…”

And off we go on a dissertation on vile, lefty art and how “cosmopolitan culture” has just gone and ruined the social fabric.

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Artists make their living making us uncomfortable. That is their function, and if they work their magic right, 150 years later we will remember and revere them. If they don't, they disappear into obscurity.

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Congressmen, on the other hand, are not hired to peel the skin off of the human soul and show us the miracles and murder that contend in our hearts.

Congressmen are hired to do a job of work much like house painting and pothole-filling.

Congressmen are not hired to molest children.

Congressmen are not hired to cover up for the molesters of children.

This is a concept which is not beyond David Brooks’ comprehension, but beyond his honor. He is not actually dumb enough not to know better, because he is not a stupid man, but a despicable man.

When he dissembles to deflect judgment away from child sex predators and their enablers in his Party, he does it by choice.

Because he is a Good Republican and not a Good American.

Because it does not matter how many times Republicans hits your grandma upside the head with a shovel, Bobo will forever waddle onto the crime scene, pick up the bloody weapon and screech, “But the Liberals…”