It’s not often that someone on the Right actually agrees with Glenn Greenwald, but, in this case, I have to say that he is dead on
Post editors should read their own columnists
The Washington Post Editorial Page today lashes out at “Roman Polanski’s apologists,” a group it says is “typified by the comments of Swiss filmmaker Otto Weisser, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, film and TV celebrity Whoopi Goldberg” and includes “a number of Hollywood luminaries — Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, David Lynch, to name but a few” as well as “European political and cultural authorities.”   This hodgepodge of Limbaughian Demons — Hollywood celebrities and decadent Europeans — “don’t let basic facts, or even simple decency for that matter, get in the way of their defense of this notorious director.”
What a righteous stance. For some reason, though, Fred Hiatt’s brave editorial crusaders overlooked two of the most wretched defenders of Polanski:  their very own columnists.  The Post‘s Richard Cohen announced that “it’s alright with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities” and disgustingly used the word “seduced” to minimize Polanski’s act of child rape. The Post‘s Anne Applebaum called Polanski’s arrest “outrageous” and invoked virtually every defense scorned today by The Post Editors, and thereafter, when responding to critics, spouted outright falsehoods to suggest that the 13-year-old girl consented (while arguing that the real victim was Applebaum herself, who had to endure mean emails in response to her column).
In a sane world, both Anne and Richard would have been canned for their defense of a man who drugged, liquored up, performed cunnilingous, then vaginally and anally raped (that would be rape rape, as in, she said “no” many times, rather then “statuatory” rape, Whoopi, you idiot) a 13 year old girl. Again, without consent. In a sane world, the people who approved those opinion pieces would have, at a minimum, been demoted to inter-office mail delivery.
This is not a sane world, though. It seems to be a world where a major American newspaper coming to you from the heart of our nations capital can print disgusting pro-rape pieces blaming the victim, then conveniently forget about those same pieces. One where entertainment idiots can back a child rapist because he has been so artistic. It’s times like this that I wish we still had some of the same frontier justice we had a few hundred years ago.
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How is that Hollywood always lines up behind the most liberal/socialist individuals no matter how dispicable the crime and do so in the most blatant possible manner.
Teach was it intentional to list a much higher percentage of JEWS supporting Polanski than exist in the general population. ? Polanski barely survived the rightwing Nazis both his parents were sent to concentration camps Polanski survived by escaping from the Krakow ghetto when he was 10 years old.
The victim has now said that she forgives him and wishes no more punishment for him. She also has repeatedly stated that she has felt more victimized by the media continually bringing up an unpleasant time in her life.She hopes for the sake of her family and children that all of this would cease
The victim has now said that she forgives him and wishes no more punishment for him. She also has repeatedly stated that she has felt more victimized by the media continually bringing up an unpleasant time in her life.
SO you are saying that as long as the victim forgives the perpetrator, why bother exacting justice? This is the same argument battered women make when the police are called. A day or two later, they forgive the louse and want the charges dropped. Fortunately our society doesn’t give people like that a pass and they are charged regardless of the intentions by the victim to press charges.
And if you want to get technical, as a minor, is deemed as not able to make those decisions, it is left to the adults, her parents and the authorities, to decide the extent of the crime committed.
A local radio host here has developed this theory: Rationalization is the second strongest human drive. This is proof that as long as you agree with someone or want something bad enough, you can rationalize it away regardless of the moral or ethical convictions.