CNN's laughing rape enthusiasts 
by DC Larson

David Gergen may be thankful few watch CNN's Erin Burnett Outfront.

During a recent appearance on that program, the clay-footed Beltway dinosaur wheezed his usual tedious twaddle. But then, his disgusting inclination threw off its ebony cloak. 

Remarking on the possibility of Roger Stone serving time, Gergen said: "Roger Stone must also worry that if he goes there -- you know, he's seen as something of a dandy -- will he be physically safe? Will he be subject to rape? There must be a lot of things going through his mind."

And also through the twisted sludge-tunnels of Gergen's fetid imagination, it would seem.

"This is the second time a CNN leftist has planted the seed of Stone's prison rape in the public's mind," reminded Breitbart's John Nolte.

In January, CNN host Jake Tapper and guest Jen Psaki (formerly an Obama advisor) joked together, on camera, about Stone being a victim of prison rape.

"No one's going to cry if Roger Stone goes to jail, or when he goes to jail," chirped Psaki. 

"He might like it," Tapper creepily speculated.

"He might," Psaki laughed.

Nolte noted another who recently made light of potential Stone assaults was creaky Never-Trumper and Commentary writer John Podhoretz. Podhoretz infamously tweeted that "The thing is, given his proclivities, Stone would enjoy prison."

Podhoretz later deleted that tweet. But a screenshot was captured, and yet more proof of mainstream political commentators' real-world sickness was thereby preserved.

The hideousness of Gergen's apparent enthusiasm for rape had been preceded by his wretchedness of other nature. Also on CNN, Gergen once defended late Senator Robert Byrd against charges of racism. That Byrd had in earlier years recruited members to the violent Ku Klux Klan, and in later times voiced related unpleasantness, gave Gergen no pause.

(In 2004, Alex Jones confronted Gergen about the Bohemian Grove,  an 'occultish' annual gathering at which unclothed elites romped and that the obsequious White House advisor attended. Caught-out scoundrel Gergen's near-teary declamations are deliciously risable.)

Gergen was previously an adviser to Presidents Ford, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton. And, like Tapper, Psaki, and Podhoretz, he exemplifies an elite that regards moral matters like sexual assault and race hatred as mere tactical devices, ones to be grabbed up or tossed away however suits momentary imperative.

Shakespeare warned of opportunistic, cretinous counselors who burrowed deeply inside chambers of influence. And those vermin of centuries ago doubtless have contemporary counterparts, some as nearby as cable television or fast-shrinking newspapers.

They plot deviousness against the people, and whisper dark ambitions into the ears of those who wield authority. They author (or, at least, claim to) bland, New York Times bestsellers few real people completely read. 

And they loll and chuckle in shadowy banquet halls, giving one another plaques and praises without genuine significance, and for which they had done nothing that advanced genuine public interest.

They are the full opposites of high-minded, principled statesmen every country desperately needs but rarely actually receives.

Since American voters booted the Democrat Party from the White House and rallied beneath Trump's banner, that party's stalwarts have been exposed as charlatans of miserable description. Whereas they once inveighed against slurring people for skin color, sex, or girth, they now freely rail against "white men" and attack the president as "obese." 

Newspaper doodlers like Steve Benson, David Horsey, and Andy Marlette seem unashamed to daily rise as the bigots against whom their sort once railed, depicting President Trump in monstrously exaggerated and unflattering aspects. 

Yes, I grasp the point of caricature. But the malicious scrawlings rendered by them and their inky ilk are more puerile smears than reasoned opinion expression.

Liberals including late night host Stephen Colbert, and those at Saturday Night Live and the New York Times, freely framed criticism of President Trump's dealings with Putin as anti-gay accusations. That sort of thing was once beyond the liberal pale. But it no longer is.

And now, sadly, we can add anti-Trump media figures' rush to threaten ideological adversaries with sexual assault (in the #MeToo moment).

I have my own reasons for disliking Roger Stone. I've written of them at length, before. (Several examples are collected here.) But I would never suggest, as some now horribly do, that Stone suffer perverted physical attack.

That CNN has repeatedly ballyhooed that moral ugliness, from Gergen, Tapper, and Psaki, speaks uncharitably about owner Jeff Zucker's heart.