This is almost beneath comment, but sometimes you just cannot ignore it. From Better Midler fretting about the hateful, dangerous Glenn Beck to Whoopi Goldberg defending Roman Polanski on the ground that what he did to his 13 year old victim wasn't really "rape-rape", sometimes you have to notice.
I can understand why the Hollywood airheads think anyone cares about what they think: It is what they are all about. As Sir Lawrence Olivier famously said, acting is all about "Look at me!". Still, you might think they would have smarter publicists and business managers. I guess they make enough money playing to their choir that they are not concerned about how they come off outside the echo chamber. And perhaps, even though you can't bank it, the moral conceit is priceless.
It is one thing to dislike Beck. Even some conservatives have made a minor career out of that. But to excuse the forcible rape of a 13 year old child.... A thirteen old child. Raped by a 44 year old man. What depravity.
The real tragedy is that in the process, real suffering, real atrocities, real oppression are diminished to a point where they becomes almost trivial and commonplace.
