Codpiece Redux

Seems I missed a couple of very pertinent details on the “Hottie” issue.

First, per Tim Noah, I find that the author of the WSJ piece, Lisa Schiffren, also wrote that famous speech scolding the fictional character Murphy brown, for having a child out of wedlock. She is a big believer in traditional values. As she wrote then (on behalf of pin-up boy Dan Quayle):

When we were young, it was fashionable to

declare war against traditional values. Indulgence and self-

gratification seemed to have no consequences. Many of our

generation glamorized casual sex and drug use, evaded

responsibility, and trashed authority. Today the “Boomers” are

middle-aged and middle-class. The responsibility of having

families has helped many recover traditional values.

Ultimately, however, marriage is a moral issue that requires

cultural consensus and the use of social sanctions.

[…]

It’s time to talk again about family, hard work, integrity, and

personal responsibility.

[…]

I know it is not fashionable to talk about moral values, but we

need to do it. Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood,

network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at them, I think

that most of us in this room know that some things are good, and

other things are wrong. Now it’s time to make the discussion

public.

A panting “public discussion” about lusting after another woman’s husband is apparently one of those “good things.”

However, it would be wrong to categorize her statements about how “hot”, virile”, “powerful” and “sexy” she finds the POTUS as hypocritical because she didn’t specifically say that you shouldn’t call President George W. Bush “hot”, “virile”, “powerful” and “sexy” on the pages of the Wall Street Journal. Obviously, anyone who would construe from her statements about a fictional television show sending “wrong” messages about morality that making lascivious comments in a national newspaper about a married politician would be similarly wrong, are just trying to play “gotcha.” She never said anything about that. Publicly expressing your libidinous desire to schtupp the President of the United States is completely different than a fictional character setting a bad example. Completely.

And as to the codpiece itself, it has come to my attention from various sources, including Buzzflash, that the Flyboy in Chief didn’t release his parachute harness as any pilot would automatically know to do if he wanted to preserve his Top Gun.

Which makes me ask a question that has occurred to me numerous times in the last couple of years. How often have you ever heard of someone who qualified to fly fighter jets never flying a plane again? It’s a very special club. Yet, it seems that Junior never even flew a piper cub in the 30+ after he went AWOL. Odd.

It makes me wonder if he ever really checked out on jets. It takes a modicum of brains to do it and there is little evidence elsewhere in his life that he has them.