No Fluke--Steyn's Extremely Smart and Incredibly Clever Column

I don't watch much fake news on Jon Stewart's fake news show: these days I prefer to get my fake news from other sources. However, at dinner last night, my brilliant, adorable nephew, who's off to get his head filled with Marxist tommyrot and egregious Zionhass at university come fall, regaled us with Stewart's response to the Rush/Sandra Fluke kerfuffle. You know--how a longish-in-the-tooth coed just wants Joe the Plumber and every other taxpayer to pick up the tab for her contraception, and Rush--the beast--goes off on a tear about her well-rounded heels? Well, anyway, the gallant Stewart rushed to the fair maiden's defence, lambasting Limbaugh for being "extremely loud and incredibly gross." (In case you don't get it, that's a reference to the title of a book by Jonathan Safran Foer that nobody read, and a movie featuring Sandra Bullock that nobody saw.)

How funny is that?

There are many far droller lines in Mark Steyn's column on the affair, but I don't want to ruin the pleasure of reading them yourself. Instead, I will quote this, the paragraph that pretty much nails it to the wall with no wiggle room:

No, the most basic issue here is not religious morality, individual liberty or fiscal responsibility. It's that a society in which middle-age children of privilege testify before the most powerful figures in the land to demand state-enforced funding for their sex lives at a time when their government owes more money than anyone has ever owed in the history of the planet is quite simply nuts.

And that's the way it is, as a late anchor of a non-comedic news show used to say.

Update: Fun with Democ**ts