The Boston Herald’s Margery Eagan and the Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout got it exactly right:
Roman Polanski is a rapist.
Despite what his Hollywood posse might want to think is a “so-called crime” (thank you, despicable Harvey Weinstein), Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
And he should pay the price for what he did.
Period.
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Why is there any disagreement on this issue? I just don’t understand it.
It’s too bad justice and revenge are inseparable. TOB
Steve, go ask Whoopi Golberg. She’s defending Polanski.
John, I recommend checking out Robert Jensen’s take on Roman Polanski. He’s a journalism professor at UT-Austin.
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009104002/hollywood-rape-why-polanski-getting-free-ride
mmmm
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