Even if you add the 'ridiculous' and the 'revolting', it's still 65% - 26% in favor of the arrest. I'm not saying that's the national average but I bet the majority understands why this is happening. The biggest outrage seems to come from the Swiss who feel their traditional neutrality and independence is in tatters and who tend to opine on that more than on the merits of the case.
― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn those ballsackless Frenchies with their uncontroversial opinions on the administration of law.
― France Sprouting a Balzac (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
They eat cheese, y'know.
they ROLLED OVER for the NAZI REGIME and now they're ROLLING OVER for OBAMA SOCIALISM
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Got their asses handed to them in Vietnam too oh wait
― France Sprouting a Balzac (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
WAKE UP, LIBTARDS
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
traquenard fromage
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for surrender monkeys
― velko, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://206.47.170.43/channels/images/panther2.jpg
EXTRADITE THIS
― France Sprouting a Balzac (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
too late
― a misunderstanding of Hip-Hop and contracts (HI DERE), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
based on my extensive knowledge of sentencing garnered from years of watching law and order,
max, you just won yrself a free beer
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
HUMBURGER
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Polanski made What? since the rape, and it's an awesome flick.
― Mordy, Thursday, October 1, 2009 3:50 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
what? is pre-chinatown so you're wrong on both counts
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
what?
― steamed hams (harbl), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
My bad about the date. What's the other count I'm wrong on?
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
probably it being awesome. this thread made me get chinatown out of the library, btw
― steamed hams (harbl), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i hope you can live w/yourself
― velko, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess you could say that the petition signers want Polanski to be free
really free
really really really really free
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
harbl is going on the list
― Cousin Larry Soetoro (jeff), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
good work giving MONEY to a PEDERAST, "HARBL"! maybe when you're in HELL you'll realize the MISTAKE you made!!
― omar little, Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
life of money life of sex
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
life of money life of hex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGz9WTqCOj0
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 1 October 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
is that where my $1.50 borrowing fee went?? o_O
― steamed hams (harbl), Thursday, 1 October 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, I see why Eric hates you guys
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius)
You've already known why for at least a decade longer than I have.
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It must be torment posting here for you two. We all really hurt for you.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
we all really butthurt for you, surely
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, misread that "guys" as "gays."
― boring movies are the most boring (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 October 2009 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
morelike roland marotmin
― baby girl lemme snrub up on you (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 October 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
http://campbellbrown.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/01/commentary-hollywood-is-clueless-when-it-comes-to-polanski/
We all really BUTThurt for you.
― Alex in SF, Thursday, October 1, 2009 7:48 PM
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
ILX = Fox News = Democratic Party base
QED
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 October 2009 07:49 (fourteen years ago) link
buttwhy?
― Mark G, Friday, 2 October 2009 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Friday, October 2, 2009 2:49 AM (4 hours ago)
most compelling defense of polanski i've read yet
― goole, Friday, 2 October 2009 12:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Trust me, I'm a proctologist.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 2 October 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Jonah Goldberg, tickled:
I am delighted by the Roman Polanski controversy. Don’t get me wrong: I am horrified and disgusted by what the acclaimed director did — and admitted to — but there is an upside.
Just to recap, Polanski drugged a child put in his care for the purposes of a photo shoot. He tried to bully her into sex. She said no. He raped her anyway. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse but fled the country before sentencing, allegedly for fear the judge wouldn’t keep his end of the plea bargain. He spent the subsequent three decades living the life of a revered celebrity in Europe. He never returned to America because there was a warrant for his arrest. In a bit of ironic justice, he was apprehended en route to Zurich to receive a lifetime-achievement award. That ceremony will apparently go on without him.
So what do I like about the controversy? Well, for starters, that there is one at all. I think it is fascinating beyond words that this is open to “debate.”
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 October 2009 13:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty appalling to be "delighted" by this issue.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 2 October 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Says the guy who has helped contribute to the obfuscation over whether waterboarding, stress positions et al. are torture.
xp
― a wicked 60s beat poop combo (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 2 October 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Kinda hard to rape someone unless they say no, isn't it?
― Niles Caulder, Friday, 2 October 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
puts a new spin on 'if you have to ask....'
― Brewer's Bitch (darraghmac), Friday, 2 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice that Jonah can find an "upside" to this.
― The ever dapper nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
every cloud has a silver lining
― steamed hams (harbl), Friday, 2 October 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Chris Rock OTM as usual:
http://jezebel.com/5372888/chris-rock-on-roman-polanski-its-rape-rape
― thirdalternative, Friday, 2 October 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz @ the OJ line
― the taint of Macca is strong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 2 October 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
This is amazing:
"My personal thoughts are let the guy go," said Peg Yorkin, founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "It's bad a person was raped. But that was so many years ago. The guy has been through so much in his life. It's crazy to arrest him now. Let it go. The government could spend its money on other things."
Where was the support for Gary Glitter? Where?!
― thirdalternative, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry dude: Rosemary's Baby > Rock n Roll Pt. 2
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 2 October 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
^OTM
― Nate Carson, Friday, 2 October 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to "Roman P" again now on Spotify, it really is a thing. "Little girls... caused you... your GREATEST MISTAKE". It was always >>>> "Godstar" btw.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 3 October 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/10/the-polanski-affair
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Sunday, 4 October 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/gm09100220091003115729.jpg
― am0n, Friday, 23 October 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link