Shit From Shinola

Sully, in the course of discussing the Predator's chief female apologist and the apologist's unqualified defender:

During that period, and especially during the Clinton wars, I gradually realized that my early support for sexual harassment laws was too crude, and that the consequences of such laws - the legal asault on privacy - were far worse than the evil they were trying to prevent or ameliorate. By that time, of course, I loathed Clinton, but I realized a limited defense of his sexual privacy (if not his perjury) was actually a truly conservative position. We all learned something in that decade, I think.

Bullshit.

What Sully means to say is that now that his hero, the Predator, is charged with sexual assault, he will no longer pretend to be a feminist. (Not that anyone believed he was.)

Laws prohibiting sexual harassment don't involve a "legal assualt on privacy" or a threat to "sexual privacy." Sexual harassment and sexual assault involve unwanted sexual abuse, something which is never private because the victim doesn't consent to the abuse. The Jones case was a bullshit case, funded by the President's enemies, and the Starr investigation was beyond contempible, but the abuse of the legal system by unethical attorneys and judges doesn't invalidate the need for laws against sexual harassment. By Sully's standard, laws prohibiting murder "are far worse than the harm they were trying to prevent or ameliorate" because corrupt prosecutors and law enforcement officials can convict an innocent person for a murder he or she did not commit.

The only things Sully learned during the 90s was how to cover his current prejudices and biases with false front of reasoned thought, and how to convince his employers that shit was shinola.

And has Sully ever heard of a little thing called the Pentagon Papers? Apparently not.