We love Roman Polanski’s work as much as the next guy, but didn’t realize that being a great filmmaker morally exonerates your having drugged and raped a 13 year-old. And then plead guilty to it. And then fled the country because you were afraid of jail.
But people are falling out of the woodworks to claim just that. Hollywood types like Whoopi Goldberg, who argues that drugging and sodomizing a child wasn’t exactly, like, “rape-rape”. Even the usually sober scholar Anne Applebaum calls Polanski’s arrest “outrageous“.
But the best defense of Polanski we’ve read is at the (humor) site HolyTaco.com. Money Quote:
Anyway, while they were taking pictures, he fed the girl champagne, quaaludes, and some kind of sedative, because that’s the kind of guy he is; he’s a gentleman. He’s gonna get you nice and numb before he rapes and sodomizes you against your will. Good move, Romie. The girl was apparently telling Roman things like “No” and “Stop” the whole time, but because she was so shitfaced from being force-fed drugs and alcohol, it probably came out more like “Numflkdggh” and “Stlmpfghh”, so it’s really not Roman’s fault for not picking up on the cues.
Hmm. True. That’s almost enough to make us reconsider!
Whoopi is ridiculous as always but most people protesting Polanski’s arrest (i.e. all the famous names that signed that petition) do have pretty valid reasons for doing so. Hint: it’s not about justifying rape.
LEAVE THE MAN ALONE….ENOUGH U BIGGOTS…………
Roman Polanski is guilty of abusing a minor and he really deservers to be in jail.