Keller @ Large: Something For Everyone, Except The Truth

BOSTON (CBS) - Let's face it, there's nothing most of us like more than a good crime story. If it's racy, and involves a celebrity, great. If the celebrity is a foreign politician who loves to finger-wag at the United States, even better.

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But the juicy details surrounding the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund who is accused of assaulting a chambermaid who walked into his Manhattan hotel suite thinking it was empty, don't end there.

Strauss-Kahn was the frontrunner in the forthcoming French presidential election, and his high-roller personal life had already been a target of his critics, so the bust has immediately generated conspiracy theories, with high-ranking French officials adamant that this had to be a setup.

Of course, the arrest also prompted other women who've allegedly been assaulted by him to come forward, which raises questions about what kind of behavior the French may have been enabling from Mr. Strauss-Kahn over the years.

And the details of the alleged crime put this guy in the running for hypocrite of the century, a socialist who talks a big game about protecting the weak and poor from the predations of the rich, while acting that scenario out behind closed doors.

Yes, everybody with a political or social axe to grind has eagerly hurled themselves through the window of opportunity offered by the Strauss-Kahn bust, despite the complete absence of something you would think would be the price of admission for such strong opinions - uncontested facts.

We have no idea yet what the evidence is or how credible the accusers are.

Believe me, if this fellow is proven guilty, I think a good long stretch in a maximum security prison is a good idea that will make the working women of the world that much safer.

But if he's innocent, too bad -- he's already consigned to a lifetime of stigma as a symbol of vile behaviors he may never have engaged in.

Oh well, that's show business, right?

If we believe that, maybe we're enabling a form of assault ourselves.

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