Liberal apotheosis in New Jersey, cont.

Proving my point about the consummate liberalism at work in the McGreevey scandal, after posting the previous entry, I learned the following. Steve Adobado, a long-time reporter covering New Jersey politics on the local PBS station, was interviewed this evening on the O’Reilly Factor. He told the host (someone substituting for O’Reilly) that all the reporters in Trenton knew that the governor had those tendencies, and everyone was also concerned about the governor’s appointing a completely unqualified person for the state security job. Why, then, the host asked Adobado, did he not pursue the story?

Adobado answered:

“I was afraid to approach the governor and ask him, ‘Why have you hired this person?’ I thought I would be seen as homophobic.”

Isn’t it amazing how, along with modern society’s liberation of the human being from all moral, ethical, and cultural constraints, comes the opposite of freedom—a paralyzing fear of even hinting that there may be anything wrong with the liberation? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at August 13, 2004 08:21 PM | Send