Hollywood’s rush to the defense of Roman Polanski has left us awash in idiocy. 
What can one say about Whoopi Goldberg’s assertion that it wasn’t “rape-rape” other than what Joan Smith said? And how about that call to make the film industry immune from arrest at its film festivals? Debra Winger is outraged that the Zurich festival has been “unfairly exploited.”
Even the French — even the readers at Huffington Post — are shaking their heads over the knee-jerk defense of a child molester. Roger Simon notes:
And yet those people are defending a man who drugged and sodomized a thirteen-year old!
In the name of what? His art? One creepy character on the Huffington Post even went so far as to say Polanski had suffered enough because he didn’t get to work in Hollywood. How dumb can you get – multi-million dollar productions such as Polanski directed for years are financed internationally and distributed world wide. The only “suffering” Polanski had to endure in all this is he had to live in Paris instead of Beverly Hills. Quelle tragédie.
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