Is
this the worst diary entry ever?
At first, I did not think so.
But on second thought:
Yes.
Oh, my freaking God yes.
The diary entry linked above is the worst diary entry ever.
It can't see the forest for the trees.
It shows that the devil is not in the details, but in the man who can't see the problem for the details.
It is -- and I hate to say it -- Lee Siegal bad. It really does sink to that level.
I can't believe that we have a recommended diary debating whether or not Mark Foley is -- medically speaking -- a pedophile.
If allegations are true, the man is a sexual predator. He stalked teenager in a sexual manner over the Internet. This is extraordinarily serious stuff. You cannot mess with kids this way.
You just can't.
Mark Foley, potentially, harmed these young people in a way that I find terribly distressing.
These are very serious charges.
And -- I would say -- it's even more serious how frequently these charges come up with GOP elected officials. And even more serious than that is the complicity of others in authority when it comes to excusing or enabling this kind of behavior.
The recommended diary in question, which says, basically, that Mark Foley is a bad guy ... but don't call it pedophilia! ... is misguided.
It is misguided in that it attempts -- by will or not -- to distract the readership here from the real issues at hand and pretty heinous crimes that Foley is accused of having committed.
Just awful.