Mark Steyn: Beyond Transgression - You can’t make a Hamlet without breaking a few chicks?

National Review Online ^ | October 03, 2009 | Mark Steyn

[goldstategop]

You cannot be a great artist without forcibly deflowering a young virgin. Or so we are told in Polanski's defense. Art is above elementary considerations of right and wrong. Polanski's flouting of bourgeois convention only heightens his appeal to his supporters. The defiance of the man is why they have rallied around him. It says a lot more about them than it does about his critics who want to see him pay for his crime.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[goldstategop]

Yes, it was rape of the worst kind. There is no statute of limitations on a felony. Polanski's achievements don't excuse his crime. To the contrary, they condemn him by reminding us mortals of the fact life is fleeting - especially fame and privileged impunity. Sooner or later, the most detestable man is laid low before God.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

[GVnana]

“Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,”

Didn't the NYTimes just praise Obama today because of his "moral compass"?

I must have missed that one in the new lefty lexicon.

[Night Hides Not]

Dang, he’s good.

Steyn's so good, he makes all of us amateurs look like rank amateurs.

Speaking mostly for myself, of course.

[MaggieCarta]

Scathing Steyn!

I think this is one of his best columns I've read (well...ok...until the next one)
/end Steyn sycophancy

[neverdem]

Hawhaw—has Steyn written one of his delightfully stinging pieces on the O-Stooges Excellent Copenhagen Adventure?

IIRC, that was the subject that I was expecting. I can't say I'm disappointed with this essay.

[Old Professer]

Great back-story, when will the script be done?

[Carry_Okie]

Great back-story, when will the script be done?

Lol, it's been written. The first press release goes out this week.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Göring would have been referring to the 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol manufactured by Fabrique Nationale whose plants were seized by the Germans when they overran Belgium in 1940. The pistol was adopted by the Waffen SS. The American version is the Browning Hi-Power. There is no proof Göring ever spoke the words quoted. The line may have been concocted by the same Allied propaganda office that said Hitler was demented by late stage syphilis. The “culture” I was alluding to is Hollywood.

[GladesGuru]

“You cannot be a great artist without forcibly deflowering a young virgin.”

Might this unenlightened one ask when “deflowering”, a word traditionally used to refer to the breaking of the virgin’s hymen during first intercourse, became a substitute for forcible sodomy?

Perhaps “debauched” would have been a better choice of words?

In any case, I am unaware of any artistic tradition of buggering fair young maidens as a milestone on the road to artistic greatness.

[Poe White Trash]

Probably referring to Twain’s “angelfish.”

[50cal Smokepole]

That’s-gonna’-leave-a-mark-BUMP

[Poe White Trash]

Look here:

http://rbhardy3rd.blogspot.com/2007/09/research-journal-mark-twains-angelfish.html

Not in the least comparable to Polanski’s perversions.

[GladesGuru]

His first guests at the new house were two of the Angelfish, Louise Paine (left) and Dorothy Harvey (right), who arrived on June 20 for a week-long stay that involved chaperoned walks in the woods, billiards lessons, charades, romping with Tammany the cat, and storytelling in the inimitable Mark Twain style. Both girls were thirteen (born in 1895). Louise was the oldest daughter of Twain’s official biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine, who also lived in Redding. Dorothy was the daughter of Twain’s publisher, Col. George Harvey, the president of Harper & Brothers and editor of the North American Review.

For the dirty minded revanchists of the ‘Critical Theory’ school, please note the phrase “chaperoned walks in the woods”.

“Chaperoned” is the rebuttal word which destroys the nasty implication floated against Clements.

[Poe White Trash]

Yah. Clemens had chaperoned walks in the woods with “angelfish” who were the daughters of close associates.

Polanski took photos of topless, anonymous teenyboppers at his swimming pool. And raped that poor girl.

There’s only one pervert here, and its not Clemens.