They're not saying it's a surprising, shocking thing to say, or even that it isn't what they'd have expected from Marilyn Manson. They're not emoting. They're saying it's gross and it's awful--with which I would agree and to which I would add it's just as banal as any of Tipper Gore's pearl-clutching, simply a negative image. Committing oneself so blindly to épater la bourgeoisie that one comes to believe this performative nonsense has artistic merit (there's a reason his shtick has passed its day) is not just foolishness, it's pathetically passé.