New York City’s 2013 summer of deviancy has finally drawn to a close.
I hate these blurred lines/I know you want it/I know you want it/I hate them lines.
Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” could have been pulled from the New York political headlines.
Yet the pornographic Thicke/Miley Cyrus performance at the Barclays Center turned out to be the crescendo of this summer’s sex follies.
On Tuesday, voters put an end to it. In one fell swoop they rejected a quartet of disgraced politicians — Vito Lopez, Micah Kellner, Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer.
The summer of the pervs got rolling when Brooklyn Assemblyman Lopez resigned after being censured by his colleagues over sexual-harassment claims — then immediately ran for City Council.
In June, news surfaced that the Assembly had ignored sexual-harassment allegations against Upper East Side Assemblyman Kellner, an avowed bisexual said to have harassed both female and male staffers. Since the Assembly had actually paid off some Lopez accusers in the course of hushing up his wrongdoing, it seemed like more of the same.
The age of gender equality and the blurring of lines have produced unintended consequences.
Then ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner seemed to sense an opening, slinking out of the shadows to announce that he was cured and ready to lead New York City. Oy!
As Weiner met early success, former governor and whoremonger Eliot Spitzer popped out of his hole to declare a last-minute candidacy for city comptroller.
Public outrage and rebuke seemed absent as New Yorkers rubbernecked to gawk at the political wrecks suddenly crashing onto our sidewalks and TV screens.
Early polls had New Yorkers embracing the political comebacks of Weiner and Spitzer. But as the summer haze waned, so did support for the pervs.
Despite their record of effective constituent services, Lopez and Kellner were denied seats in the City Council, while Weiner and Spitzer also went down to defeat.
The clear message to them and future miscreants: “Pervy Pols Need Not Apply.”
On the other hand, deviancy also touched the camp of the man who beat Spitzer, Scott Stringer — via his own spokesperson, Audrey Gelman.
Gelman, best known for her friendship with HBO star Lena Dunham, dates pervy fashion photographer Terry Richardson, a Stringer backer.
And Terry Richardson’s sordid past and penchant for deviant acts with barely legal teen models was recently exposed on the Catholic League blog, which asked, “What kind of man would choose to have a person like Richardson on his team?”
Gelman was Stringer’s initial surrogate in attacking Spitzer for his whoremongering and law-breaking. She later ducked that role after media queries about Richardson arose.
Apparently, accusing Spitzer of sex trafficking becomes awkward when your boyfriend’s proclivity for barely legal sex toys becomes known.
So Tuesday’s results don’t really end the deviancy. The “outed” degenerates may have lost this time around, but the trends that made it acceptable for them to run for public office are still going strong.
In the name of political correctness and civil rights for all, the elites have defined deviancy down. And our society continues its long retreat from personal responsibility.
How long before convicted murderers, rapists and child molesters dare run for public office, too?
Media, academics and voters grouse that government is dysfunctional. Yet deviants, degenerates and thieves openly run for public office.
In many ways, we are getting the government we deserve.
The voters who on Tuesday rejected deviancy have a long way to go, in November and beyond, to restore decency and personal responsibility.
If you can’t hear what I’m trying to say/If you can’t read from the same page/Maybe I’m out of my mind/I hate these blurred lines.
Otherwise, Robin Thicke will run for mayor next.