For a mob who disdain religion – well, Christianity, anyway – “progressives” can be as cult-like as any bunch of nutbars singing the praises of Jesus, Allah, Elvis, or Mr Spock. One of the weirder outbursts of progressive fanaticism over the last few years was the Cult of RGB. Beaks, even Supreme Court judges, aren’t as a rule the sort of folk to inspire slavish devotion.
Certainly, you never saw folk on the right prancing about in imitation William Rehnquist robes. But we were treated to the unedifying sight of whole pride parades of non-gender specific persons playing dress-ups in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s trademark frilly lace vestments.
The Cult of RGB really kicked into fever-pitch on the eve of the venerable judge’s passing. Faced with the imminent departure from this mortal coil of their wizened idol, the progressives went progressively nuts. Fancy-dress fashion parades were the least of it.
Like any cult, of course, the left were sent into fits of gibbering frenzy at the thought of an imminent apocalypse: namely, that, should Ginsburg run down the curtain and join the bleedin’ choir invisibile, the wicked orange beast would be in a position to send a conservative anti-Christ to the Supreme Court. So they practically nailed the rapidly deteriorating old bird to her perch and pretended that all was well. There was simply no way the Cult would admit that their saviour was on her last, wobbly legs.
The last thing they wanted, either, was to hear a non-narrative-approved peep out of the old bird.
So, when Ginsburg said less-than-correct things about the other current leftist cult, the Cult of the Knee, the only thing to do was expunge the truth.
Thus, journalist Katie Couric lied by omission – but it was to “protect” the old dear, you see.
As it turns out, Ginsburg was less than a fan of the whole “taking the knee” malarkey.
Ginsburg bluntly stated that not standing for the national anthem is “dumb and disrespectful”. Got that, all you millionaire athletes?
Ginsburg certainly wasn’t holding back. “Not standing for the anthem shows a contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life … Which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”
Even worse (for the progressive narrative), the elderly judge hinted that the kneelers are not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed.
“That’s why education is important. I think it’s a terrible thing to do, but I wouldn’t lock a person up for doing it. I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act.”
But there’s an even more ominous undertone to Couric’s unconscionable erasing of the whole truth.
Couric’s excuse for censoring Ginsburg is that she “was elderly and probably didn’t understand the question.”
So what was she doing still on the Supreme Court bench, then? If Ginsburg was too mentally feeble to understand an interviewer’s simple question, why on earth was she allowed to pass judgement on the most serious legal matters in the American republic?
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