Why mocking Weiner is worth it

I’d like to associate myself with the remarks of my colleague:

I think there’s an important point in the comic value: The people who think they’re smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else’s lives are risible. They’re not smart enough to run their own lives competently, and they’re actually, overall, morally inferior — I mean, John Edwards, DSK, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barney Frank, Tax Cheat Tim Geithner, just go down the list — and mocking them is inherently valuable. They pursue power, and they exercise power, as much for deference as anything else. Deny them that, and make it painful for them whenever possible. That’s my take.

Indeed. I was watching an old Seinfeld the other night, the one in which Kramer and Newman are playing Risk. At one point Jerry is on the phone and mentions them, saying “You know, Risk, the game of world domination. Which in this case is being played by two guys who can barely run their own lives.”

I can’t help by think of politicians every time I see that scene. Nobody is perfect, and most have the humility to admit it. But it’s the height of arrogance for politicians the likes of Anthony Weiner to go around regulating other peoples’ lives.