Whoopi Defends Polanski: ‘It wasn’t rape-rape.’

[bijou]

“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and and when they let him out he was like ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me a hundred years in jail I’m not staying,’ so that’s why he left.”

Video here: http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/09/28/whoopi-defends-polanski-it-wasnt-rape-rape/

Just when you think the left can't sink any lower.

[jinxmchue]

The one thing about Whoopi is that you always have to remember that whenever she says something, she's talking with her anus.

[Lord Undies]

I think Whoopi Goldberg perfectly captured the mindset behind Polanski's run from the law.  Where Miss Goldberg goes awry is in her thinking it was a reasonable reaction by Mr. Polanski.  Ordinary normal people would be repulsed. 

[Chump]

Wow.

Just when I thought we had happened across an issue where left and right could find consensus - that drugging and raping a 13-year old girl and then fleeing to Europe to escape punishment is morally reprehensible - I'm proven stunningly wrong.

FOAD, rape apologists.  ES, then FOAD.

[jtyangel]

What I never understood in all this is how they can jive with their beloved feminism where a man even blinks an eye at a woman and she has been raped, however if a good leftist director who suffered tragedy in his life drugs and has sex with a 13 year old girl, it's not 'rape-rape'.  Quite the contrary, if ever there was a case for a prosecution of rape; this is it. She was THIRTEEN! 16 I can see them arguing, but 13? A lot of girls haven't even started menses at that age.

[IassaFTots]

Using the same mentality, she should be ok with Afghanistan, because it isn't "war-war?"

Good GAWD!

[THA HOUSTON PIMP IS IN DA HOUZ!]

"rape-rape"???   What is that?   Clinton-speak?

These people make my stomach turn.

wonder how Whoopi would feel if it were her daughter that got violated.

Sheeze
 

[Celtic Rose]

What I never understood in all this is how they can jive with their beloved feminism where a man even blinks an eye at a woman and she has been raped, however if a good leftist director who suffered tragedy in his life drugs and has sex with a 13 year old girl, it's not 'rape-rape'.  Quite the contrary, if ever there was a case for a prosecution of rape; this is it. She was THIRTEEN! 16 I can see them arguing, but 13? A lot of girls haven't even started menses at that age.

That is what kills me about their logic twisting.  If a college girl decided to drink in excess and sleep with a guy, then regretted it in the morning and called rape, all the liberal feminists would be up in arms in support of her. But when a liberal director gets a young teenager drunk, gives her drugs, then has sex with her against her wishes with no consent at all, even if she had been able to give consent, it isn't really rape 

[debk]

I watched this yesterday.

The clip has sort of been taken out of context and ends before the whole thing....what Whoopi was trying to get across, was that Polanski was not found guilty of rape. Her point was that they (the women on the show) could not say - on tv - that Polanski was "found guilty of RAPE" ...when that was not true.

He was found guilty of improper behavior with a minor child or something like that....she had a earpiece that was telling her exactly what it was he was found guilty of....and I can't remember the exact wording. That what he did...while it was rape....it was done with the mother's knowledge. Sick yes....disgusting yes. So yes is was rape....but it wasn't a rape that was the type of rape where some beast grabs a woman as she's walking to her car, knocks her around and rapes her. And apparently the California court thought that because the mother agreed to it, the kid was drugged and SUPPOSEDLY didn't protest or seem upset about it....it was more a "statutory rape" which is consensual.

If someone says something like that (on TV)----"Polanski was found guilty of rape" ----- and he actually wasn't...they can be sued for slander. That's why whenever someone is talking about someone who has been arrested....they must say the person ALLEDGEDLY did such and such.

Whoopi also said that the girl was there with her mother's permission and that she thought the girl's mother should have been arrested for endangering her child, too. She was not excusing Polanski in any way....

[IassaFTots]

Ok.  Glad you cleared that up.  Still doesn't make me like her, but I don't feel that she was as much of a lunkhead yesterday as I originally thought.

[Celtic Rose]

Whoopi also said that the girl was there with her mother's permission and that she thought the girl's mother should have been arrested for endangering her child, too.

I agree with Whoopi on something!  Is the world coming to an end?

I think Polanski pled guilty to Unlawful Sexual Contact with a Minor, or something along those lines.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Rape-rape? WTF?

Just as an aside, does anyone know if Polanski is actually a lib?  I wouldn't defend him no matter what his political leanings are, I'm just curious.

[bijou]

Rape-rape? WTF?

Just as an aside, does anyone know if Polanski is actually a lib?  I wouldn't defend him no matter what his political leanings are, I'm just curious.

I expect so judging by his pals.

Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries
Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese add their names to a petition urging the immediate release of the director from detention in Zurich


Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese today added their names to a petition demanding the immediate release of Roman Polanski from detention in Zurich. The director was arrested on Saturday over a three-decade-old underage sex case when he arrived to receive a lifetime achievement award at the city's film festival.

"Film-makers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision," says the petition, which is co-ordinated by the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques (SACD), a film industry organisation which also represents performance and visual artists.

"It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary film-makers, is used by police to apprehend him," it adds.

The petition has now been signed by more than 70 film industry luminaries, including Polanski's fellow directors Michael Mann, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodóvar, Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam, Julian Schnabel, the Dardenne brothers, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wong Kar-Wai, Walter Salles and Jonathan Demme. Actors Tilda Swinton, Monica Bellucci and Asia Argento, as well as producer Harvey Weinstein, have also put their names on the petition. Yesterday, Weinstein stated he was "calling on every film-maker we can to help fix this terrible situation". ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition

[formerlurker]

What I never understood in all this is how they can jive with their beloved feminism where a man even blinks an eye at a woman and she has been raped, however if a good leftist director who suffered tragedy in his life drugs and has sex with a 13 year old girl, it's not 'rape-rape'.   Quite the contrary, if ever there was a case for a prosecution of rape; this is it. She was THIRTEEN! 16 I can see them arguing, but 13? A lot of girls haven't even started menses at that age.

What are you talking about?  she wanted to have sex.  Did you see the way she was dressed?   She was "experienced."  

He did nothing wrong.   Quaaludes, alcohol, 13 year olds and adult men?  happens everyday in the land of la-la.   Get with the program sister.    *





*yes, this was sarcasm, and yes I will never stop throwing up that ANYONE would defend this total POS -- he HAD SEX WITH A 13 YEAR OLD!!!  WTF is wrong with people if they aren't disgusted to the core by that????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

[formerlurker]

1977: Roman Polanski charged with rape
Film director Roman Polanski has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl at the home of Hollywood star Jack Nicholson.
The 43-year-old, who is out on bail, will appear in a Los Angeles court next week.

He could receive a prison sentence of up to 50 years if he is found guilty.

Polanski is facing four charges including rape, sodomy, child molestation and giving drugs to a minor.

According to Los Angeles Police, the rape took place after a photograph shoot at Mr Nicholson's home.


Polanski was later arrested at a hotel in Beverley Hills after the child's mother went to the police.

She said that her daughter had been taken to the Nicholson home on the understanding that she was being photographed for the French edition of Vogue.

But the mother later revealed that her 13-year-old child had been raped.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/11/newsid_4265000/4265617.stm

[Ralph Wiggum]

I expect so judging by his pals. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition

Thanks, bijou.

I generally assume that anyone from Hollywood is a lib unless I hear differently.

[DixieBelle]

I vaguely remember reading the court docs on thesmokinggun and it was pretty hard to read and it made my blood boil. I'll have to go back and see if I can find it.

[lastparker]

As I was getting ready for work, I saw a clip of Debra Winger, who is "president" of some film industry organization, defending Polanski, using phrases like "thirty years ago" and "technicality".  I was SO CRAZY MAD that all the way to work in my car, I wondered what would happen if someone created a website, posting pictures of the children and granchildren of all the Polanski apologists in Hollywood and making it a sort of "Match.com" for pedophiles.... after all, their parents and granparents think its fine if they have sex with older men.  I would like the shoe to be on their collective feet, and see how they feel about it then.

Then I got to work and shook off the rage.  Hollywood Asshats.

Oh, and some Swiss official said that he appreciated the artisic talents of America, but this was "her dark side".  For him, I wish a painful bout of food poisoning.

[Chris]

If Roman Polanski was a Catholic priest instead of a Hollywood insider, liberals would be screaming for his head.

[Ptarmigan]

Whoopi is a nutcase. What has Roman Polanski done since 1977? Hopefully, Global Warming and/or a massive earthquake will flood out and destroy Hollyweird.  

[asdf2231]

If it wasn't really "Rape-Rape" then I would like to commit "Not Really Assault-Assault" on this dumb bitch with a blow torch and an aligator.  It would be okay because she is kind of asking for it, right?  

**** Whoopi with a dumptruck fulla broken bottles.

[Chris_]

She must never seen what rape does to a woman or girl I hope it is never on her door step

[Ralph Wiggum]

What has Roman Polanski done since 1977?

He won an Oscar in 2002, Best Director for "The Pianist".

[Chris_]

I just watched Whoppie on the View if you would have seen her trying to defend what she said it was quite funny.

[Mustang]

I've seen all of Roman Polanski's films. He's not that great of a director.
Hope he gets what he deserves. Great director or not.