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The Spectacle Blog
Reading this remarkably sane column in the L.A. Times, two thoughts struck me:
First, given what we know about Roman Polanski’s abhorrent and deviant behavior, how is it the Obama Administration couldn’t find a role for him in their child safety program? He appears to be remarkably qualified and no doubt would pass the White House vetting process.
Second, Hollywood’s defense of Polanski — and let’s be honest, this isn’t just a couple of washed up made-for-TV-movie actresses doing the defending — is one more piece of compelling evidence of just how out of touch the “artistic” community is with the rest of America. These people see no moral disgrace or criminal behavior in Polanski’s physical and mental abuse of a child, yet lecture us on the morality of “universal health care”? I don’t think so.
Then I remember all those videos online with kids singing those “Dear Leader” songs about Barack Obama, and the gleeful smiles of the Hollywood parents as they watched their kids being indoctrinated, and it all makes sense.
When you live in a community that is so willing to exploit just about anything in life, how can you possibly relate to a world where such exploitation — particularly the violation of a child — is almost universally reviled?
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Oldefarte| 9.30.09 @ 11:19AM
I will never understand Americans' ignoring of this Hollywood brainwashing, lewd & lacivious behaviors, disgusting liberalism, etc; and NOW this acceptance/defense of Polanski who pleaded guilt to raping a 13 year old girl. Where is the moral outrage and indignation over this? A TV program or movie cannot be viewed today with being exposed to extreme nudity, vulgariety, liberal propaganda, violence,etc; and yet parents and families continue to allow their children to view such Hollywood produced garbage. Do they not understand that this is all subliminal brainwashing designed by Hollywood's liberal producers of such filth? This indoctrination is occurring not only on TV/movies but also inside our public schools. When will parents/families wake up and see what is happening to them and their children with this garbage, and begin to fight this problem? What can anyone do, you ask? Simple-----stop yourselves and your children from watching TV/movies and subscribing to/reading the newspapers of the MSM for 6 months; and sit back and observe the panic from the sales loss from Hollywood and the liberal propagandists that produce them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 3:57PM
I feel ashamed of having been liberal. My family thought, "whatever feels good."
But drugging a 13 year old with quaaludes, and whatever else was ingested, might be beyond even a criminally degenerate illiberalism
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 4:11PM
No, Alan--liberalism always results in degeneracy.
Roman Polanski is just the latest poster-boy for both.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:12PM
libertarians have low moralities, too.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 5:05PM
So? Does that make you feel better?
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 6:47PM
No, worse, Summer.
the good news is sex isn't dirty or wicked anymore;
it is commercialized (what used to be called tawdry) and vulgar.
Empty.
Obtaining happiness from it today is like getting love from a prostitute. See, it is more than you think, you think it is someone else, but what about YOUR relatives and friends who are wild?
I'm not trying to stick a pin in you, moral dissonance is not something to enjoy.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 7:10PM
Alan, I am not responsible for the actions of others, including those of my relatives; I am only responsible for mine. So, put your pin away; I, and many people like me, do not live a morally dissonant life--we try to emulate Christ's.
A. Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 11:01PM
no, you are not responsible for our relatives' actions.
But neither are we responsible for Polanski's. If we criticize animalistic sexuality on his part 32 years ago, then why not criticize our kinfolks' animalistic behavior today. As a Christian you know legalism is not all there is. Adultery is legal, and very common, but not Christian.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 11:52PM
I don't know about you, Alan--but if one of the men in my family pulled that Polanski crap with a 13 year old little girl, I'd help string him up myself!
The State does have a responsibility to punish criminal behavior; and I sure hope L.A. gets another crack at the little pervert.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:02PM
Worst of all, since he is elderly, Polanski will get a slap on the wrist-- extradition will be dropped, or he'll be forced back to LA and do community service.
Only Madoffs get real punishment.
OJ will spend only about 8 years in prison.
Justice is dead, long live Justice.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:25PM
"[Polanski, 1979]:
If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… f—ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f— young girls. Juries want to f— young girls. Everyone wants to f— young girls!”
Thirty years have passed since Polanski said those words, so he’s had time to reconsider them. Whether he’s actually done so, we don’t yet know. Perhaps he still thinks it’s true that everyone fancies little girls, and that the press was exaggerating the enormity of his crime, and that all this somehow excuses his behaviour."
Actually, most people fancy children, as shrinks know, and that is the problem.
Or, say, violence. What would the color of the streets be if you legalized murder?:
Red.
I think we'd do well to ingest saltpeter.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 5:12PM
The "Problem" is we're human and, therefore, fallen; but not all of us give in to the dark side of our nature. That's the difference between Liberals and Conservatives: Liberals celebrate vice and debauchery and Conservatives don't. That is why I am a Conservative.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 11:05PM
"Liberals celebrate vice and debauchery and Conservatives don't. That is why I am a Conservative."
Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the "problem" of what to do in legal and moral matters. Not at All.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 11:58PM
Alan, I don't worry too much about moral matters; I know evil when I see it, and I'm not afraid to judge it when I do. I just don't have your gray area when it comes to morality: I was raised in a strong Catholic family and my conscience was formed when I was young.
Good and evil, right and wrong; they're not a close call for me.
Cindy | 9.30.09 @ 12:24PM
Boycott these idiots now, focus on politics for the next 6 months and refuse to watch or pay for anything with these hollywood elite who continue to act like thier opinion matters to us.
We need to keep a list and boycott . I explain to my children, no you can't go to that concert, or buy that song because that artist is destroying your future. I show them the evidence and they are willing to boycott as well.
Ammo Guy| 9.30.09 @ 12:36PM
Why doesn't Obama just pardon this guy and get it over with? He'll be the toast of tinsel town and all the swells around the world...what more could the man want? All of which makes me wonder - if Obama loses in 2012 (I know, I know...that can't happen, but let me ramble a bit), can you imagine a pardon orgy in Jan 2013 as his payback to the country that scorned him? Mumia first and who knows else afterward. Just speculating, that's all.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:34PM
"- if Obama loses in 2012 (I know, I know...that can't happen, but let me ramble a bit), "
it can't happen-- we might as well admit-- because the dignity of Reagan's sort is almost entirely finished. That's what most of you don't get: we deserve Obama, just as we deserved Clinton.
And we don't know what we have until it is gone. Even the wild man Hunter Thompson said, "Reagan was the last great American. Bush [41] was just the afterbirth of Reagan [sic]"
Daisy| 9.30.09 @ 2:14PM
Liberalism is a mental illness: Hollyweird's perverse defense of Polanski proves it.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:37PM
If only that were the case-- there are more turds in our punch than you think; for instance libertarianism.
But 21st century morality is brave new world morality.
You might doubt this still, but by 2020 you will not.
Daisy| 9.30.09 @ 5:28PM
Alan, have you read the Bible? I have and I don't have any illusions about the future; there's nothing new under the sun here, you know?
There has always been evil among us, but I choose to focus on those who are good and decent because that's what I want to be.
I believe good will triumph over evil--I believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Hollywood and Vile [spe links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Kathy| 9.30.09 @ 2:23PM
Whoopi's statement "not rape-rape" is just plain stupid-stupid! Whoopi has a 13 yr. old grandaughter. Ask Whoopi if it would be considered "rape-rape" if Roman had touched her
grandchild!
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:44PM
exactly, Kathy, that is the most obvious facet:
You touch Whoopi's, or Polanski's, or Jacko's young kinfolk, and the older folks will become your mortal enemy.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:45PM
... enemies;
plural.
Tim| 9.30.09 @ 2:46PM
The rise and fall of Roman's empire.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:49PM
no, he wont fall-- he'll get off easy. Sexual crimes are considered less important than Madoff- type crimes. Polanski will get nothing more than two years of community service.
If he is even extradicted.
Alan Brooks| 9.30.09 @ 4:51PM
extradited, not ' extradicted.'
but it's an interesting word, extradicted. it has ... connotations.
JP| 10.1.09 @ 11:13AM
Alan,
Polanksi was sentenced to 42 days in a California jail. He left the US before serving it. I suppose he broke a ton of US federal laws by fleeing; however, I wonder what the LA DA was thinking when they cut him this deal?
I'm betting that the Swiss courts will rule in favor of Polanski.
Rebecca Kinworthy| 9.30.09 @ 2:57PM
Liberals can believe and behave the way that they do because they do not believe that they will die one day and face the Creator of the Universe. Having a "millstone around their neck and being thrown into the sea" means nothing to them (Mark 9:42, Luke 17:2, Matt 18:6), therefore they feel no responsibility for what their movies, music, statements, lifestyles, etc. are doing to the health and well-being of our children.
Summer| 9.30.09 @ 4:08PM
Liberals are sociopathic, too. They do not have a conscience.
billiam Clinton| 9.30.09 @ 6:01PM
How would hollywood react if Polanski was a priest or religious official and raped a 13 year old??? I bet they would be calling for his head.
DLB| 9.30.09 @ 7:21PM
Roman Polanski is the new Bill Clinton.
D.R. McBurney | 10.1.09 @ 10:06AM
To Polanski's supporters: thank you for signing the sex offender registry also known as the "Free Polanski Petition". I'll post around the neighborhood so we can all keep watch....
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Mike B| 10.1.09 @ 8:56PM
Alan might be on to something here (although I have some libertarian tendencies myself and don't consider myself amoral). "We" have gotten ourselves into this fix. True enough. Whether its the devolution of democracy or the fall of the American empire or prophecy fulfilled, it is fascinating as hell. That being said, I have a responsibility to my family, my community, my country, and my God to do what I can to see that this "agenda" does not go forward. Sure, it may be too little too late for "us" as a culture, but I still have to sleep at night. I still live in America and I'm not yet powerless. I hope to stand before the Lord someday and make a reasonable accounting for myself. "...I have conquered the world" needs to be fully understood.
Mike B| 10.1.09 @ 8:57PM
Alan might be on to something here (although I have some libertarian tendencies myself and don't consider myself amoral). "We" have gotten ourselves into this fix. True enough. Whether its the devolution of democracy or the fall of the American empire or prophecy fulfilled, it is fascinating as hell. That being said, I have a responsibility to my family, my community, my country, and my God to do what I can to see that this "agenda" does not go forward. Sure, it may be too little too late for "us" as a culture, but I still have to sleep at night. I still live in America and I'm not yet powerless. I hope to stand before the Lord someday and make a reasonable accounting for myself. "...I have conquered the world" needs to be fully understood.
Mike B| 10.1.09 @ 9:00PM
My apologies for the repeat.
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