{"id":5470,"date":"2009-09-30T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/09\/nice-to-see-that-not-all-our-chattering-classes-are-complete-fools\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T00:49:50","slug":"nice-to-see-that-not-all-our-chattering-classes-are-complete-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/09\/nice-to-see-that-not-all-our-chattering-classes-are-complete-fools.html","title":{"rendered":"Nice to see that not all our Chattering Classes are Complete Fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Kate Harding labors to bring our Polanski-adoring elites back to the central point:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/broadsheet\/feature\/2009\/09\/28\/polanski_arrest\/index.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roman Polanski raped a child.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hate being right all the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/markshea.blogspot.com\/2004\/02\/fascinating-discussion-going-on-below.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">but I predicted exactly this years ago<\/a>.  The reality has never been that our elites much care about victims of sexual abuse: they care about having a useful tool to bash the Church, which some pervert priests and (far more) some spectacularly bad bishops have handed them.  But the fact remains that, when the Right Sort of Roman rapes a kid, the people who were cursing and swearing about sexual abuse <a href=\"http:\/\/go2.wordpress.com\/?id=725X1342&amp;site=newsrealblog.wordpress.com&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediamatters.org%2Fblog%2F200909280030\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">will turn themselves into pretzels to justify it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsrealblog.com\/2009\/09\/29\/even-media-matters-disgusted-by-polanski-apologists\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kathy Shaidle is quite right <\/a>(she agrees with me!  How could it be otherwise) to note that our chattering classes have been quietly laboring to mainstream pedophilia for quite some time now.  Mark my words: the Church will one day be condemned for forbidding what some of her neglectful and corrupt ministers are presently condemned for having allowed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Harding labors to bring our Polanski-adoring elites back to the central point: Roman Polanski raped a child. I hate being right all the time, but I predicted exactly this years ago. 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