Adam Schiff, Steele dossier and the death of shame in American politics | Fox News
The Russian collusion scandal was not some harmless political ploy. Lives were destroyed. Carter Page, who was never charged with a single crime, was labeled a Russian agent and pilloried across networks and print media. A fortune was spent on investigations by Congress, two special counsels, and inspectors general investigations. Hundreds of people faced questioning and many spent their savings on legal representation. A presidency was derailed, agencies like the Justice Department and the FBI were whiplashed by scandal, and Congress dropped a myriad of other issues to focus on various investigations.
In the wake of those costs, Schiff offers little more than a shrug.
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Many have long marveled at the incapacity for shame in politicians. That missing emotion was most famously captured by lawyer Joseph Welch in the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954: “Have you no shame, sir, at long last? Have you no shame?”
The answer is that we now live in a post-shame era where the only shame is yielding to the impulses of decency or decorum. The Russian collusion scandal served its purpose and Adam Schiff would be the first say that there is no shame in that.
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No, there is no shame. Whether there ever was any, I do not know. There certainly has not been any in politics since I have been conscious of it. Certainly there was none in those who defamed Judge Bork or Clarence Thomas, which notably included our current President, whose role in those debacles was, strictly speaking, beneath contempt. I do not recall any instances of those on the right doing anything similarly shameless to those on their left, but I’m sure they are capable of it.
In this respect, however, the Left is at a permanent advantage. Taking the cause of no-morality against morality and no-God versus God, they are free to do what they will, and so they do. This is not to say there are no moral actors on the Left. You can see them every day. Or any amoralists or immoralists on the Right. It has been my misfortune to know some much better than I ever should have wanted to. But being a left-winger means you can act consistently with your creed and have no shame, while a right-winger must play the part of a moral fraud.