Angelo DeCodevilla
The elites feel that they can dispense with ordinary morality. What’s not so clear is why these elites have hangers-on in the media to enable them in their depredations. After all, one of the foundational myths of journalism is that they are “The Fourth Estate,” “The People’s Watchdog,” and other such tripe.
For an excellent take-down of the trainwreck that is our secular Ruling Class, please read this humorous editorial by Mark Steyn, the Chronicler of the End of Western Civilization. For a take-down of the Mainstream Media that supports them, please stay tuned to the blogosphere.
The Unzippered Princeling and the Serving Wench
By Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn
A man is innocent until proven guilty, and it will be for a New York court to determine what happened in M Strauss-Kahn’s suite at the Sofitel. It may well be that’s he the hapless victim of a black Muslim widowed penniless refugee maid – although, if that’s the defense my lawyer were proposing to put before a Manhattan jury, I’d be inclined to suggest he’s the one who needs to plead insanity. Whatever the head of the IMF did or didn’t do, the reaction of the French elites is most instructive. “We and the Americans do not belong to the same civilization,” sniffed Jean Daniel, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, insisting that the police should have known that Strauss-Kahn was “not like other men” and wondering why “this chambermaid was regarded as worthy and beyond any suspicion.” Bernard-Henri Lévy, the open-shirted, hairy-chested Gallic intellectual who talked Sarkozy into talking Obama into launching the Libyan war, is furious at the lèse-majesté of this impertinent serving girl and the jackanapes of America’s “absurd” justice system, not to mention this ghastly “American judge who, by delivering him to the crowd of photo hounds, pretended to take him for a subject of justice like any other.”
Read the complete article on the Orange County Register website.
It’s all about access to information, mind you. Hence, the symbiotic relationship.
George, have you forgotten a former president, George W. Bush, who waged war on a foreign country because he believed a mythical report of weapons of mass destruction? I believe his family would consider themselves to be a part of the ‘ruling class’. At least they acted that way.
This is exactly correct. In general, I stand to the right of the liberal (if “moderately” so when compared to the Democrats) Bush family, but let’s call a spade a spade. This family is every bit as “aristocratic” as the Kennedy family. On the other hand let’s be clear that no member of the Bush family ever left a girl to drown…