October 20, 2009
Polanski/Goldberg/rape posts/videos
Ms Goldberg: “It wasn’t rape rape” (video/text)
Ms Goldberg, what is “rape rape”?
Yes. It’s taking me a while to post these because each time I think about that pedophile I start off on a rant. This is short and sweet. Cokie Roberts says take him out and shoot him. Where has she been hiding? I don’t recall seeing or hearing a single thing from her throughout the entire election.
Green Room of George Sephanopoulos’ This Week
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OFF CAMERA:
We have a little bit of time left. There were two issues slated to talk about on the roundtable. Two sordid issues. Roman Polanski and David Letterman. Talk a little bit about those two..and why do people care?
COKIE ROBERTS:
Well, they’re very different from each other. I mean, I think that the David Letterman situation is not a good situation. You know, there’s an inherent power imbalance in a boss versus his employees.
But, Roman Polanski is a criminal. You know, he raped and drugged and raped and sodomized a child. And then was a fugitive from justice. As far as I’m concerned, just take him out and shoot him.
[Laughter]
I don’t know who this next woman is – the cameraman wasn’t interested either – but watch the body language of Cokie Roberts and George Will. There’s a big space separating the two from KVH to begin with, but as KVH begins to speak, Roberts’ leans toward Will. Will looks up when KVH mentions the documentary, takes a stance and crosses his arms. Then he looks at the cameraman and scratched his cheek. (1:19) Check out how Will and Roberts have closed themselves off to her.
KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL:
Oh, no. Cokie. Now, we’re both mothers of daughters and I think, Roman Polanski, there should be no dual system of justice in this country. He should not be privileged because he’s a famous director or even because he was a victim of the Holocaust.
The judge died decades ago – documentary made recently. How can they prove what was in the judge’s mind?
BUT. I think one needs to see the documentary that was made that I thought was very powerful in showing judicial and prosecutorial misconduct. That doesn’t mean that he should have fled the country. I think he needs to come back – not fight extradition – but find an appropriate way of serving time and doing justice at this stage. But, I think to say shoot him is obviously not a polite response in a Sunday morning-
MATTHEW DOWD:
To me- To me, this is reflective of- To me, the whole Roman Polanski thing is reflective of a huge segment of Hollywood that somehow thinks because you’re part of their clique and you’re successful in their clique, you stand outside the law. And they wouldn’t have that view of anyone outside this country. Someone from rural Alabama or from rural Mississippi that did something, they would be like, “Go after them. Go after them. Go after them.” In this case, it’s a commentary on Hollywood that they would allow him to not be held accountable, think it’s okay after the heinous crimes he committed for him not to be held accountable for it.
GEORGE WILL:
Yes. The Hollywood view is Chinatown is a good movie. Therefore, the fact that he used a Quaalude and Champagne to drug and rape a 13-year-old is, in the words of Harvey Weinstein, a representative of Hollywood’s monochrome culture, it is a so-called crime. Now, if Chinatown had not been a good movie, we might have to rethink this.
