A Moral Compass…..

….Pointing straight to Hell. Mark Steyn on the Hollywoodenhead defense of Roman Polanski:

One sympathizes. Except that there are millions of children of the Holocaust struggling under the burdens of the past – and only one who deals with them as Roman Polanski does. Working on the film “Chinatown,” the writer Robert Towne found it hard to concentrate at the director’s pad, what with “the teenyboppers that Roman would run out and take Polaroid pictures of diving off the f***ing diving board without tops on. Which was distracting. With braces.”

Braces. Cute. Harvey Weinstein, the man behind the pro-Polanski petition, rejects the idea that Hollywood is “amoral”: “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion,” he told an interviewer.

Let us agree that Hollywood bigshots have “compassion” for people in general, for people far away in a big crowd scene on the distant horizon, for people in a we-are-the-world-we-are-the-children sense. But Hollywood bigshots treat people in particular, little people, individuals, like garbage. To Polanski, he was the world, you are the children; now take your kit off and let’s have a “photo shoot.”

The political class is beginning to recalibrate. In Paris, President Sarkozy’s government withdrew its initial enthusiasm for Polanski after it emerged that even the boundlessly sophisticated French aren’t eager to champion creepy child rapists just because they’re celebrities. As Susan Estrich wrote, “Yes, he’s made some big films in those years. So what?”

Polanski entered a guilty plea to a reduced charge – but he very, very surely raped and sodomized a 13-year old girl. In his own autobiography, Polanski admits to another sexual relationship with an underage girl. Hollywoodenheads like Weinstein defend this twisted behavior.

That should tell you just about all you need to know about Hollywood’s great moral compass. And exactly where it points. Trust me, if that is true north, we, as a society, do not want to go there.