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HuffPo Goes All In to Defend Polanski, Readers Revolt
Big Hollywood ^ | 11/23/2009 | Christian Toto

Posted on 09/30/2009 7:22:40 AM PDT by tje

The Huffington Post has made it crystal clear where it stands on the news that director Roman Polanski may have to answer for his 31-year-old crime of child rape: “Move on, everyone. Nothing to see here. Keep on directing, Roman. Love ya!”

The popular liberal site has posted numerous essays since news that Polanski was arrested in Switzerland broke over the weekend, each arguing vehemently against the Oscar winner’s persecution.

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But HuffPo readers aren’t buying it. And boy, are they angry.

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: goldberg; notraperape; rape; whoopi; whoopigoldberg
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1 posted on 09/30/2009 7:22:40 AM PDT by tje
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To: tje
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: "It's not RAPE rape..."
2 posted on 09/30/2009 7:24:53 AM PDT by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: tje

Looks like a job for Chris Hansen

3 posted on 09/30/2009 7:25:51 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: tje

Hell, if I heard right, even the nearly unanimous panel of
THE VIEW was divided on this.


4 posted on 09/30/2009 7:25:59 AM PDT by supremedoctrine (The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.)
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To: tje

Roman Polanski’s a dumbass. If he had just served his time back in the 70s and 80s, rather than fleeing the country, he’d be out by now.


5 posted on 09/30/2009 7:26:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: tje
A man who drugs a 13 year old girl and has sex with her is not a rapist anymore. - sarc
6 posted on 09/30/2009 7:27:34 AM PDT by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: tje

I wonder how many of them are regular visitors to the Glenn Beck raped a child site.


7 posted on 09/30/2009 7:28:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: tje

Thirteen years old. And he met the mom, etc. He knew she was 13 and he buggered her. Imagine had it been Bush, or like someone wrote yesterday, “Father Polanski” Catholic priest.


8 posted on 09/30/2009 7:28:39 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn thi title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: tje

Obviously, there is a schism here.

Racists feel that actions have consequences, if you rape a child - you should be punished. Whether you are famous, or not, has no bearing on either your crime, nor your punishment.

The ‘Enlightened Liberals’ feel that if you are a regular person, then you should go to jail or get a good ‘talking to’ for raping a child; but if you are famous then there is no crime. The child should consider herself lucky to have been blessed with the unwanted attentions of the famous person.


9 posted on 09/30/2009 7:29:37 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: tje

Polanski is a fugitive from justice. He plead guilty and skipped town during the sentencing phase. He needs to do his time.


10 posted on 09/30/2009 7:29:39 AM PDT by frogjerk (Obama Administration: Security thru Absurdity)
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To: frogjerk

Whoopi is an idiot that should return to her former job of working as a makeup artist at a mortuary and ... STFU!!!!

The Left wants no restrictions on sex. They can’t even figure out what rape is. There is a reason, Whoopi, why many states have laws saying that taking advantage of ANYONE when they are intoxicated constitutes rape. It is particularly glaring with the person is 13 years old.

Liberals are like bad debate team members who feel compelled to defend any deviant issue and never realize the damage that they do.


11 posted on 09/30/2009 7:29:51 AM PDT by whitedog57
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To: tje

The Huffington Post has made it crystal clear where it stands.............................. Where is the surprise? I bet they’re OK with 13 year old prostitutes too. They’re OK with even providing them with a house via ACORN.


12 posted on 09/30/2009 7:30:43 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (DON'T BLAME ME I VOTED FOR "PALIN"!)
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To: supremedoctrine
The ol'gals on The View know what they like, and now we know what they like.

Who'd a thunk it eh?

But Ariana? I thought she drove her husband to homosexuality, not that she was a tuity-fruity herself ~ with a penchant for the kiddies ~ well, guess I was wrong on that.

I figure this will be the end of Huff-Po ~ and who's "Po"? Somebody's pet or a 3-year old maybe?

13 posted on 09/30/2009 7:31:15 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: tje

Goes to show that we have long been correct in calling them LibTARDS.


14 posted on 09/30/2009 7:32:07 AM PDT by cranked
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To: tje

time for Moms and Dads and other relatives to handle the sexual deviates ... since the people hired to put these people out of business don’t see a problem with ruining a child


15 posted on 09/30/2009 7:33:19 AM PDT by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: tje

A real leftist is debased at the center. How else can you really justify hiring (a politician) to steal from one person what they earned honestly to give it to someone that YOU have decided is deserving? They frame it as helping the poor, but no matter how you slice it, it is THEM deciding how to spend money someone else earned. Just because they spend it for “good” doesn’t change the basic reality. If I rob a bank and give the money to charity, keeping some of it for the purposes of administration, it is still not okay.


16 posted on 09/30/2009 7:35:35 AM PDT by Anima Mundi (The trouble with trouble is it starts out as Utopia)
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To: tje

The idiots at HuffPo ought to try reading the transcript of the girl’s testimony.

Anyone who can justify what that pervert did is just as sick as he is.


17 posted on 09/30/2009 7:35:42 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: tje
Justice delayed is justice denied. The Libtards are learning that even they cannot ride roughshod on moral issues, ESPECIALLY when they make so many and continuing efforts at every Conservative lapse. The idiomatic phrase, "Hoist by ones own petard", resounds mightily here.

According to what I heard on Fox News yesterday, it was Polanski and his lawyers that initiated this latest round when they sought to have the charges dropped. Los Angeles felt that the fact that he FLED JUSTICE and especially after having PLED GUILTY, it was a bit much to ignore and renewed their efforts. Stupid man and lawyers but then I repeat myself.

18 posted on 09/30/2009 7:37:43 AM PDT by SES1066 (Cycling to conserve, Conservative to save, Saving to Retire, will Retire to Cycle.)
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To: xtinct
time for Moms and Dads and other relatives to handle the sexual deviates ... since the people hired to put these people out of business don’t see a problem with ruining a child

Vigilantism occurs when those we appoint to do certain jobs fail in doing those jobs and the populace gets fed up.

19 posted on 09/30/2009 7:37:56 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: frogjerk

And Whoopi’s not a LESBIAN lesbian...


20 posted on 09/30/2009 7:38:50 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: cripplecreek
I wonder how many of them are regular visitors to the Glenn Beck raped a child site.

How did that particular rumor start? Because, as far as I know, Glenn isn't sitting in prison with his unit chopped off.

21 posted on 09/30/2009 7:40:27 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: frogjerk
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: "It's not RAPE rape..."

She sidelines as a Biden speech writer.

22 posted on 09/30/2009 7:40:47 AM PDT by This_far (Mandatory insurance! I thought it was about health care?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; frogjerk

I should have been more clear: she merely looks like one.


23 posted on 09/30/2009 7:44:21 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Hussein Obama: the country's greatest firearms salesman!)
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To: Hodar

Actually “Enlightened Liberals” feel that if you are a famous conservative or Republican you should be punished and your reputation destroyed. If you are a famous liberal or Democrat there is no need for punishment. In fact the act enhances one’s reputation for creativity and understanding.


24 posted on 09/30/2009 7:45:46 AM PDT by Soul of the South (When times are tough the tough get going.)
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To: DesertRhino

Imagine had it been... “Father Polanski” Catholic priest.


Wow, no kidding! It would have been the Demjanjuk treatment!


25 posted on 09/30/2009 7:50:08 AM PDT by Beelzebubba (Socialism: The sin of envy, masquerading as a political movement.)
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To: tje

Violence against women.........priceless.


26 posted on 09/30/2009 7:53:16 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: frogjerk

And it was anal rape BTW.


27 posted on 09/30/2009 7:54:55 AM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: tje
That doesn't surprise me. Liberals have a different way of looking at things than most people in this country. Among the limousine liberals, artists are in a special class, just as limo liberals view themselves. The rules of morality don't apply to them. They are the Ubermenschen. It's is only us little people that are under the law.
28 posted on 09/30/2009 7:56:30 AM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: Soul of the South
Yeah, just ask David Vitter:

Investigate [Louisiana Senator] Vitter, legal group is told. His "crime," being on a madam's list [and being Republican].

29 posted on 09/30/2009 7:57:06 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: PJ-Comix

HUffie Alert!


30 posted on 09/30/2009 8:04:31 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson
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To: tje

And,,,,, as a poster in the comments section reminds us

“Polanski has a track record of pedophile rape with young girls.
Samantha Gailey was THIRTEEN when he drugged and RAPED her.
Nastassja Kinski was FIFTEEN when he RAPED her.”

I’d forgotten those..........


31 posted on 09/30/2009 8:05:35 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: stockpirate
And it was anal rape BTW.

Technically, it was both. He was vaginally raping her when she pleaded that she was not on the pill, desperate to stop him. He switched to her anus. What a MENSCH!

32 posted on 09/30/2009 8:10:01 AM PDT by Free State Four (a)
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To: Free State Four

These liberals need to ask themselves this question: Would they be so quick to forgive Polanski if it was THEIR OWN DAUGHTER THAT HE RAPED?

But then maybe they would since a majority of liberals are homos and degenerates anyway.


33 posted on 09/30/2009 8:12:58 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Free State Four

While he is a Golum.


34 posted on 09/30/2009 8:16:31 AM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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To: frogjerk

“A man who drugs a 13 year old girl and has sex with her is not a rapist anymore.”

Well, not according to Whoopi Goldberg. I always wonder how people like her would feel if the victim had been their daughter/grand-daughter/niece...


35 posted on 09/30/2009 8:20:27 AM PDT by spaced
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To: tje

Liberal elites are always ready to excuse ANYTHING of the other liberal elites.


36 posted on 09/30/2009 8:24:02 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"And Whoopi’s not a LESBIAN lesbian..."

But, she is an IDIOT idiot, or a MORON moron if you prefer.

37 posted on 09/30/2009 8:27:44 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: frogjerk

A LIBERAL ELITE that drugs a 13 yr old girl & rapes her is not a rapist, according to the left.

They will excuse ALL behaviors of their own [self-perceived] elite class.


38 posted on 09/30/2009 8:29:23 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: tje

Guess they’re finally getting the stars out of their eyes and realizing that liberalism is elitism, and they’re the serfs.


39 posted on 09/30/2009 8:30:18 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Resident Obama: Not a President, not a Citizen, living here but from somewhere else...)
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To: frogjerk

Actually it was not merely “statutory rape” or “molestation.” It was honest forcible rape. He drugged the girl. She resisted physically. He forced his way with her. He got an actual conviction on “”lesser charges.” He merited to be shot by her daddy.


40 posted on 09/30/2009 8:32:32 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: spaced
"Well, not according to Whoopi Goldberg. I always wonder how people like her would feel if the victim had been their daughter/grand-daughter/niece..."

I happened to catch the first few minutes of the View this morning. The very first words out of her mouth was her reading from the teleprompter, walking her statement back. She said she didn't mean it how people are taking it - which of course is BS. I saw the tape, and she certainly meant it the way I took it.

She did read off the charges that Polanski was initially indicted on. "Rape by use of drugs" and "Sodomy" (which got a little groan from the audience) were two of the charges she read. She then recounted how the original charges were dismissed in lieu of a plea bargain to a lessor charge.

Of course, what she nor anyone pointed out was that the plea was negotiated to keep the 13 year-old girl from testifying in open court - again, she'd already recounted her ordeal to the Grand Jury. This is not at all uncommon, even now, to plea bargain rape cases involving children, if only to spare the children more grief. If Polanski plead guilt to his plea bargain agreement today, he would be registered as a life-long sex offender. That's how serious "sex with a minor child" is, despite Whoopi's protestations to the contrary.

41 posted on 09/30/2009 8:35:45 AM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

I don’t understand the support for this troll bait. He raped a 13 year old girl and Sigourney Weaver is on the radio saying “We are really trying hard to help Roman, a wonderful human being, from this terrible situation”. sic

Terrible situation?

I have not read one iota of reasoned support for Polanski.

He drugged and raped a 13 year old.


42 posted on 09/30/2009 8:35:53 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Ev Reeman
Would they be so quick to forgive Polanski if it was THEIR OWN DAUGHTER THAT HE RAPED?

Many of them, yes.

43 posted on 09/30/2009 8:38:10 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: Vendome

And then he compounded the error by breaking a federal law when he ran to avoid prosecution and sentencing for a major crime.


44 posted on 09/30/2009 8:40:03 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Vendome

And then he compounded the error by breaking a federal law when he ran to avoid prosecution and sentencing for a major crime.


45 posted on 09/30/2009 8:40:11 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Vendome
Sigourney Weaver is supporting Polanski?

Frag! I like Sigourney. Changing my mind rapidly over this dumbass statement of hers though.

Hey Sigourney, even Xenomorphs with acid-for-blood wouldn't do this to a 13 year old girl. Get your head right.

46 posted on 09/30/2009 8:47:13 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Anima Mundi

You have it exactly right, sir. After all, if the fundamental premise of the Left is that your life doesn’t belong to you, but rather to the State or your neighbor next door, then all else follows from that.

Denial of the worth of individual life opens the floodgates of control to whatever particular demon of desire chooses to ride you at that particular moment.

It’s how we arrive at politicians whose cold-eyed justification of the murder of the unborn simply isn’t open to question without charges of hate and intolerance blown back in your direction with the very hate and intolerance with which they brand you.

The point of all this is that the worldview of the Left is fundamentaly evil. And if you think it through, this is precisely why they resort to the most transparent sort of sophistry and pretzel logic to deny the very existence of evil.


47 posted on 09/30/2009 8:56:42 AM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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To: tje
“Move on, everyone. Nothing to see here. Keep on directing, Roman. Love ya!”

secular humanist liberal ethics of permissiveness and psychology of self-actualization

48 posted on 09/30/2009 8:57:24 AM PDT by mjp (pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, independence, limited government, capitalism})
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To: agere_contra

Debra Winger came out in support of Polanski the other day as well in a press conference. These people are real hardcore trash.


49 posted on 09/30/2009 9:03:42 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: frogjerk

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: “It’s not RAPE rape...”

Yes, I am waiting for some liberal to say that it would be perfectly OK for Polanski to drug and rape one of the Obama daughers... Afterall, he is so, so talented!

But, that would be racist...


50 posted on 09/30/2009 9:06:03 AM PDT by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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