[Travis McGee]

One woman recalled Savile sexually assaulting her when she was 16. Even decades later, she told investigators, she remembered it vividly. After he was done, he turned an imperial eye to her. “You won’t talk about this,” he told her. “Nobody will believe you. I’m Jimmy Savile. I can get you.”

The girl said she told her mother, but she didn’t believe her. The girl never talked about it again.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It illustrates not just wickedness, but that celebrity is the American equivalent of untouchable royalty.

Well how DO you think people are going to act, if they have been convinced to idolize you? You can get away with murder.