Jonah Goldberg likes controversy!

Jonah's column at JewishWorldReview.com has this about Polanski and the rallying cry to Free Roman that resounds from apologists and elitists and intelligentsia - you know, Our Betters:

The arguments in Polanski's defense range from lawyerly red herrings to intellectual piffle to horrendous affronts to human decency.

Roman Polanski is a pig - with apologies to the 4-footed animal. He LIKES teenagers. Let me rephrase that - he likes to have sex with teenagers, and he doesn't seem to care if they disagree with that idea.

It all boils down to the fact that Polanski is famous and talented and an Olympian artist, living above the world of mortals. Indeed, if he didn't rape that girl -- and he did -- Polanski would still be considered a pig in most normal communities. This is the man who, after all, started dating Nastassja Kinski when she was only 15 and he was in his 40s. His taste for teenage girls is an established fact.

I remember some things about being a teenager. I was just a bit older than Nastassja Kinski when she started "dating" Polanski. I thought it was pathetic, that she must have some sort of real problem if she could find someone my father's age sexy and interesting enough to "date." (I dated - and I DATED him, not "dated" him - a man who was 9 years older than me, when I was 17, but he wasn't old enough to be my father, fercryinoutloud. After a few weeks I realized he was still FAR too 'old' for me, and I broke up with him - in a typically rude teenager way.) My attitude about that huge age difference, then and now - ick. And my boyfriend never broke the law.

His defenders don't care. They are above and beyond bourgeois notions of morality, even legality.

And that's the main reason I am grateful for this controversy. It is a dye marker, "lighting up" a whole archipelago of morally wretched people. With their time, their money and their craft, these very people routinely lecture America about what is right and wrong. It's good to know that at the most fundamental level, they have no idea what they're talking about.