"Jimmy Savile Fingered My Hamster!"

"Jimmy Savile raped the Loch Ness monster and buggered the abominable snowman!"  I'm confidently expecting to see that as a headline very soon, as the media feeding frenzy and Savile hysteria continues to grip the press.  With every passing day the papers seem to be vying with each other to see who can work up the most indignation and print the most shocking headlines, (as if what Savile is alleged to have done isn't shocking enough without such embellishments).   What bothers me is they way that 'everyone' seemed to know what he'd been up to but, amazingly, nobody said anything during his lifetime.  I know all the arguments about Savile using his wealth and fame to suppress allegations and his popularity meaning that victims weren't believed when they tried to speak up, but I really would have hoped that, if his alleged crimes were so extensive, somebody would have had the courage to stand up - with evidence - and expose him.  That said, there were plenty of rumours during his lifetime.  Although, interestingly, they tended to focus on his supposed predilection for necrophiliac activities in the morgue of the Leeds hospital he did volunteer work at, rather than the sexual abuse of living underage girls.

Still, the allegations coming out after Savile had died has been a boon for the media - the fact that you can't libel a dead person means that they print pretty much what they please.  I'm sure that, even now, Fleet Street editors are busy trying to decide which dead celebrities to accuse of appalling crimes next.  Mind you, some people seem to be ahead of them in that respect.  I've been looking at today's visitor stats for The Sleaze and there has been a surprising amount of traffic generated by search queries linking various (mainly dead) celebrities with various forms of sexual misconduct.  The most amusing one was 'Arthur Mullard sex offender', (which got a hit purely because he's mentioned in a story entitled Confessions of a Sex Murderer).  The idea of wheezing and overweight 1970s sitcom fixture Mullard engaging in any form of sexual activity, legal or illegal, really doesn't bear thinking about.  I mean, he surely couldn't have been a kiddie fiddler - he'd never be able to catch any children, we was so out of shape.  He'd have had a heart attack if he'd broken into a trot.  There was also someone trying to link the very much still alive Paul Daniels with bestiality, (again, a story that merely mentioned his name and also included the word 'bestiality' in a different paragraph, got the hit).  Where does that come from?  Are there people out there who think the slap headed magician fancies his pigeons in the wrong way?  I'm surprised Jimmy Savile hasn't been linked with bestiality yet: 'Jimmy Savile Fingered My Hamster', perhaps?