| | A plague o' both their houses, say I, channeling the Bard. Both on the self-congratulatory Hollywood narcissists — and on Breitbart.
That these celebrities trot out their civic action, or what's alleged to be such, only when the White House matches their personal politics is itself hypocritical and nauseating. Being a supporter of such actions only when the climate suits you is to not have it mean much at all.
Breitbart careens to the other extreme. That Bush's imperial apparatus, at "our" behest, did anything whatsoever to supposedly keep "us" safe, is hotly and properly disputed.
That Breitbart should praise, in any context, any such politician as having "demonstrable goodness" — when the slaughter of uncounted innocents, wanton torture, and gross and shameless looting are on his hands — borders on obscene.
That he should nonetheless extend his blank check of full cooperation and support, to whatever Bush's successor might do, crosses the line into moral obscenity.
Bush did not, in that all-excusing general phrase of our times, "mean well." Neither does Obama. Nor do 534 members of Congress (exempting only one sane man representing a district in southern Texas). To "mean well" would entail wholly repudiating the Welfare and Warfare States, and the currency looting and imperial forces undergirding them.
That may be far beyond the comprehension of 90 percent or more of the American public, including that self-selected passel of celebrities. But those remaining 10 percent, and usually far fewer, move the world.
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Unfortunately, what happens in Hollywood does not stay in Hollywood.
