Thursday, October 1, 2009

Polanski Sympathizers Against Middle America

You would think Roman Polanski just jaywalked to hear how Hollywood and others defend him:


  • Whoopi Goldberg says the director didn't really commit rape.

  • Debra Winger complains "the whole art world suffers" in such arrests.

  • "My personal thoughts are let the guy go," said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "It's bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It's crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things."

  • More than 100 industry leaders and prominent authors -- including directors Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Michael Mann, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen and Neil Jordan -- have signed a petition asking that Polanski be released from Swiss custody.

  • In an opinion piece in London's the Independent, Weinstein Co. co-founder Harvey Weinstein, who is circulating the pro-Polanski petition, wrote: "Whatever you think about the so-called crime, Polanski has served his time. A deal was made with the judge, and the deal is not being honored. . . . This is the government of the United States not giving its word and recanting on a deal, and it is the government acting irresponsibly and criminally."



I would like to point out a couple of quotes:

"Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion," Weinstein said. "We were the people who did the fundraising telethon for the victims of 9/11. We were there for the victims of Katrina and any world catastrophe." So you can do whatever you want, including raping a 13-year-old girl, just as long as you help victims of catastrophes?

"My personal thoughts are let the guy go," said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "It's bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It's crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things."

This is a feminist speaking. If there is any better condemnation of feminists as not really being interested in women, it's this. There is something else behind the feminist agenda. It is not about women.

You can see the original article here.

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