SORRY, SISTERS, IT'S NOT A MALE/FEMALE THING:

National Organization for Women attacks Polanski (Jennifer Harper, 9/30/09, Washington Times)

"He's a criminal. He is a convicted criminal pedophile," said Terry O'Neill, president of NOW. "How dare Roman Polanski think he could get away with this. I believe he has banked on men -- powerful decision-makers -- who are more intent on protecting rapists than children. This is the world Polanski is exploiting. It's outrageous."

Whoopi Goldberg defends Roman Polanski: 'It wasn't rape-rape' (Lucy Jones, September 30th, 2009, Daily Telegraph)

Speaking on television show The View, Goldberg said “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.”

It's your own allies on the Left excusing child rape.

MORE:
Polanski's defenders lose sight of the true victim: The grand jury transcripts of the sex abuse case paint a far more damaging picture of the events that allegedly unfolded between the director and a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's home in 1977. (Steve Lopez, September 30, 2009, LA Times)

Q: Did you resist at that time?

A: A little bit, but not really because . . .

Q: Because what?

A: Because I was afraid of him.

That's Roman Polanski's 13-year-old victim testifying before a grand jury about how the famous director forced himself on her at Jack Nicholson's Mulholland Drive home in March of 1977.

I'm reading this in the district attorney's office at the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building, digging through the Polanski file to refresh my memory of the infamous case, and my blood pressure is rising.

Is it because I'm the parent of a girl?

Maybe that's part of it.

But I wish the renowned legal scholars Harvey Weinstein and Debra Winger, to name just two of Polanski's defenders, were here with me now. I'd like to invite Martin Scorsese, as well, along with David Lynch, who have put their names on a petition calling for Polanski to be freed immediately.

What, because he won an Oscar? Would they speak up for a sex offender who hadn't?

To hear these people tell it, you'd think Polanski was the victim rather than the teenager.

And then there's Woody Allen, who has signed the petition too.

Woody Allen?

You'd think that after marrying his longtime girlfriend's adopted daughter, he'd have the good sense to remain silent.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 1, 2009 7:33 AM