Judge: Mr. Crayhill, can we have your first witness?
Moriarty’s Defending Barrister: Your Honour, we’re not calling any witnesses.
Judge: I don’t follow. You’ve entered a plea of Not Guilty.
Moriarty’s Defending Barrister: Nevertheless, my client is offering no evidence. The defense rests.
Judge: [with Sherlock at home miming his words at home] Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. James Moriarty stands accused of several counts of attempted burglary, crimes which – if he’s found guilty – will elicit a very long custodial sentence; and yet his legal team has chosen to offer no evidence whatsoever to support their plea. I find myself in the unusual position of recommending a verdict wholeheartedly. You must find him guilty.
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall 2012
I’ve been re-watching the excellent series Sherlock staring Benedict Cumberbatch in the role that made him an international star as Sherlock Holmes, the excellent Martin Freeman as Watson and Andrew Scott as his arch enemy James Moriarty.
One of the interestingly odd things about the series is how Scott plays Moriarty as a boarded genius with a death wish who occasionally takes the time to demonstrate to others that anything and everything in the world is his at any time he wants it. Which is why he’s so board.
The image above is from Season two when Moriarty is arrested after he breaks into Bank of England, Pentonville prison and Tower of London where he is arrested with the Crown on his head and the scepter in his hands.
At his trial he makes no defense and the judge directs the jury to find him guilty. And they to the surprise of everyone but Sherlock and Moriarty, acquit him in minutes because both knew the fix was in, Moriarty because he fixed it at Sherlock because he’s smart.
And that’s what came to mind as I read the liveblog of the Kamala interview with reactions like this:
Aug 29, 2024 9:54 PM ET Ed MorrisseyOkay, a few thoughts. Bash failed to press Harris on the Biden cover-up, but she did at least kinda-sorta bring it up. Walz may have just as well stayed home, frankly. Harris’ answers on policy flip-flops and Day One agenda were complete dodges. She doesn’t have any substance.
I may write more tomorrow. I’m not sure this really gave us much to work with, which is probably what Team Kamala wanted.
and clips like this:
and this:
and this
and reactions like this:
and this:
Here is a situation where she had every advantage, every prop possible and he has completely tanked. This leads to the obvious question
Why is the left not panicked? Why are they as cool as Moriarty when he rested his case?
Could it be that they do this because they believe they can? Because the fix is in, because there is nothing that can be done to stop them and they want us to know it?
Or could it be that they are not Moriarty, but are in fact Zack Johnson from the Big Bang Theory
Howard: Preparing to fire laser at the moon.
Sheldon: Make it so.
Howard: There it is. There’s the spike!
Leonard: 2.5 seconds for the light to return. That’s the moon! We hit the moon!
Zack: That’s your big experiment? All that for a line on the screen?
Leonard: Yeah, but, uh, think about what this represents. The fact that we can do this is the only way of definitively proving that there are man-made objects on the moon, put there by a member of a species that only 60 years before had just invented the airplane.
Zack: What species is that?
Sheldon: I was wrong. Penny can do better.
I must confess I’m not yet sure if it’s the former or the latter but we will find out in 70 days.
Update: Townhall has issues too, the best line:
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