Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Hilarious: watch Charlie Rose interview Kevin Spacey on Bill Clinton’s sex accusations

Thomas Lifson  "Savor the irony, folks. It just doesn’t get much better than this. Except that with all the media figures accustomed to pontificating on air now exposed as harassers themselves, and with all those video recordings archived in the vaults of broadcasters and YouTube, there surely will be more gems like the short video embedded below coming along. Charlies Rose, after all, has been in the business of condescending to us for decades.


"Virtue signaling* has never been more dangerous than when applied to the sexual behavior of others.  Add in the magic of video tape, and you have what must be called SchadenfreudeFest 2017." . . .



"My favorite Spacey line:
“ 'I was always there… I was a true friend. I never doubted him. I never stopped believing him.' ”




Why Have Liberals Been Such Horrendous Hypocrites on Women's Rights?
. . . "What moral narcissism!  Only a couple of weeks ago Rose was inveighing against the other newl -unmasked sexual predators, as was Al Franken.  There's a lesson in that. Beware most of all those who pompously tell us  how to live.  It's usually a dead giveaway.  Call it the Jimmy Swaggart-Elmer Gantry syndrome.  Something's up behind the scenes. Rose and Franken are guilty of that, in the secular sense, as is and was, to be honest, Judge Moore, in the religious sense.  For that reason, among others, I have to say I suspect Moore's accusers are truthful as well.  I wish Trump had cut him loose." . . .

Sex, lies & excuses: Partisan madness on predators
. . . "But they both insist that the rules should be different from the very rules they would impose on everyone else in America — because, well, Franken is a Democrat and America needs to be saved from Republicans. 
"Harding says Franken should be saved and should then go on a listening tour of far-left Democrats and become their frontman as penance for his rotten behavior." . . .  
"Or as Woody Allen. . .  said in the movie he made celebrating an affair with a 17-year-old girl: “I’m a bigot, but for the left.' ”
*Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values done primarily with the intent of enhancing standing within a social group. The term was first used in signalling theory, to describe any behavior that could be used to signal virtue—especially piety among the religious. In recent years, the term has become more commonly used as a pejorative characterization by commentators to criticize what they regard as empty, or superficial support of certain political views, and also used within groups to criticize their own members for valuing outward appearance over substantive action.

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