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Of course Woody Allen would support Polanski, because he's in the same pedo league as he is.

Don't leap to conclusions that "the left", supports Polanski.

So far as I'm concerned he should be handed the jail sentence he would have received had he not skipped the country.

If a "genius" or anyone else is found guilty of a crime, they do the time, there are no excuses.

Lao, at the DU, it's about 80% in support of Polanski. There are also those who, shall we say, aren't willing to dance on the grave of John Chuey. That would be "judgmental."

DU? Ducks Unlimited??

John Chuey??

Karin, that's because liberals naturally identify with criminals and deviants. Professional courtesy, and all that.

Don't leap to conclusions that "the left", supports Polanski.

I believe the point is that Polanski's supporters are, AFAIK, all on the left. Hollywood, HuffPo, etc. That's not to say every Red supports him, but the converse: all (or virtually all) those who support him are Reds.

Your point is partly valid but, supporters on HuffPo? Sorry, all the opinion articles I found were anti-Polanski.

Nothing surprising since a few years ago a bunch of these hollyweird suck faces ralleyed behind a convicted murder and support cop killer ABDUL JIMMAL TINSLE TOWN is realy beging to look like SEWER CITY

Have you ever been to Hellyweird? It is sewer city.

I had a look at that petition. They were not supporting Polanski. They were attacking the US for a breach of an alleged tradition. The petitioners claim that when a Polanski is at a cultural event he should be free from worrisome things like extradition.
To quote:"It seems inadmissible that ... a cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him....

The arrest of Roman Polanski in a neutral country, where he assumed he could travel without hindrance, undermines this tradition: it opens the way for actions of which no-one can know the effects."

There is no reference to the seriousness or otherwise of any crime by anyone so protected by this tradition.

So get it straight. They are not saying it was fine to rape if you are a celebrity. No, definitely not, absolutely not. It is simply a warning that, if celebrities can be extradited at a FILM FESTIVAL, heaven alone knows where it will all end.

Is there anything that is still considered to be indefensibly malignant anymore?

So the guy that sleeps with his own step-daughter is defending the guy that slept with a kid? Good job Woody.
I'll betcha that if a Republican had done the exact same thing they would be willing to use "Extreme Rendition" to get him back.

@forest: religion, duh.

Karin, that's because liberals naturally identify with criminals and deviants. Professional courtesy, and all that.

and Conservatives naturally identify with prescription drug abuse, gay prostitution, and cross-dressing?

Hey, Lao. You should tell alexis and Goatse Wellstoned to stop defending child rape. They're making the rest of you lefties ... ie. you... look bad.

V the K your attempt at logic is flaky.

By that should I assume you support every statement by every right leaning blogger here?

I stand by my own statements. Other people can stand by theirs.

Ah, so, just because almost everybody who supports Polanski is on the left, you don't think we should condemn leftism as a whole by their actions.

However, one lone nutjob shoots up a church, and you use it to smear the entire right-wing, as you've been doing in previous threads.

Today we pay tribute to the nation’s biggest nepotistic, outright thieving, politically comatose, ethically devoid, rape-loving, cousin-kedoodling, inbred, overpaid, under-thought, hump of artistic mediocrity monarchic family that the world has seen since the advent of the conscience… Hollywood!

I can honestly say I miss the times when they were just a heap of drug-addicted and silently tormented scoundrels… At least they were interesting…instead of just a cabal of incestuous pseudo-intellectuals with their faces pulled tight and their testes and tummies tucked to tensions for which a Gucci Bag feels envy…

Ahhh ShowBiz! All the rape, dope, and power you can fit into one meaningless life spent feigning emotions that you don’t really feel… for cash…

Hollywood

If by "smear" the right you mean I suggested they accept some responsibility for inflammatory talk - guilty.

I have already indicated where I stand re Polanski. I think those on the left who are attempting to defend his behavior are completely misguided. As I have already pointed out, many on the left, including blog writers at Huffington and The Nation, feel the way I do.

Of course, V the K, condemning leftism as a whole is what you do daily. Understanding that the left is not a monolithic threatening entity with a carved in stone agenda and point of view, is apparently beyond you.

I won't be around until much later to respond.

Here's a few more from the list:

Penelope Cruz
Michael Mann
Buck Henry

And, supposedly:

Harrison Ford
Jeremy Irons
Salman Rushdie (WTF?)
Diane von Fürstenberg

"It is simply a warning that, if celebrities can be extradited at a FILM FESTIVAL, heaven alone knows where it will all end."

Where will it end? Arresting child rapists at dinner theaters? Apprehending pedophiles at comedy clubs? Won't somebody please think about the children!

Last time I checked, you couldn't apply for asylum at a movie theater. Who gives a shit what they think about this "tradition".

Whoops, that was me.

"Seamus at October 1, 2009 4:46 PM"

Dillenger was killed outside the Biograph theater and Oswald was arrested inside a movie house. So they haven't a leg to stand on.

There is a simple solution to this problem that will only cost the taxpayers a few cents. As should happen to anyone who harms a child.

and Conservatives naturally identify with prescription drug abuse, gay prostitution, and cross-dressing?

Oooh, a tuo quoque, albeit misdirected. All of those things are Democrat habits as well.

(Gay prostitution? You have the nerve to charge Americans with that, when you Reds want to legalize prostitution and faggotry and Bwaney Fwank is on your side of the aisle?)

The list of Polanski supporters would be an excellent start on a proscription list, a la Sulla.

It's only natural that anal astronauts should support one of their own.

What! Hollywood reads from a script, just like Obama.