Posted on 10/06/2009 11:37:10 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
WaPo TV critic Tom Shales has come up with a creative new defense of Roman Polanski: Hollywood thirteen-year olds aren't really thirteen.
NB reader FT pointed us to an online exchange between a reader and Shales today that included this:
Tom Shales: Hello, Dunn Loring, I didn't want to sign off without trying to answer your question. I didn't realize I had written a column defending Roman Polanski and minimized his crime - are you sure it was me? I mean, I? There is, apparently, more to this crime than it would seem, and it may sound like a hollow defense, but in Hollywood I am not sure a 13-year-old is really a 13-year-old.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Shales outrageous defense of Polanski ping to Today show list.
Pulitzer Prize winner.
I guess Fat, Drunk and Stupid really is a way to go through life.
Shales today also came out with a long defense of Letterman and his sexcapades.
Wow...Billie Jean King has really put on some weight.
But even if he wants to say 13 year olds in Hollywood are somehow older, how do you justify forcible rape including use of drugs on a victim? That is still “rape rape” no matter the age of the rape victim.
what planet do these people live on?
I shouldn’t laugh but I did.
Lunatic society
“Wow...Billie Jean King has really put on some weight.”
Now that you mention it...he does favor her.
Yes, and State Senators from Chicago are different too, and don't need to prove they are constitutionally qualified to be president either.
Leftist Twit.
Looks like a NAMBLA member in good standing.
Even if Shales point were true, this was a case of forcible rape, not merely statutory rape. Polanski drugged the girl, despite being physically helpless she said “no” and he penetrated her anyway. That’s forcible rape, regardless of the victim’s age.
Hollywood 13-Yr. Olds Are Different...
Lardo is right, in Hollywood, tweens live in areas where there’s a very high ratio of pervs to nons.
The “planet” or actually, the time of history where the serfs had to submit to all the whims of the “nobility” because there were different laws for the two classes of people.
“even if he wants to say 13 year olds in Hollywood are somehow older, how do you justify forcible rape including use of drugs on a victim? That is still “rape rape” no matter the age of the rape victim.”
GMTA: from the NewsBusters item: “Judging by the victim’s grand jury testimony, what Polanski did might well have been “rape-rape” even by Whoopi Goldberg’s standards, and regardless of the victim’s age.”
If Shales wants to argue that “Hollywood kids” grow up faster than average, that is only a further indictment of the sewer culture in which they’re raised, not a defense of the twisted “adults” who prey upon them.
Apparently in Hollywood, that constitutes "foreplay".
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