Cokie on Polanski: ‘Just Take Him Out and Shoot Him’

I could not agree more. He’s admitted his crime tho claims consensual but children cannot consent to be the victim of a crime. He’s disgusting – as are his sympathizers.

The producers would do well to remember that THIS WEEK has a long and distinguished record as a program in which issues are illuminated with informed opinion. Every time that Ms. vanden Huevel makes an appearance in the program she unfailingly diminishes this record. I have watched TW for many, many years with satisfaction undiminished except for the instances in which she appears. You can do better than to invite someone who, as is the case of Ms. vanden Huevel, obscures issues by personalizing them and who cannot stop herself from drafting other panel members into her sparring web: “I know, George, you won’t agree with me” (repeatedly), or “Matt, you’re wrong ,” or the many times in which the constitutional sky falls (today’s instance was on the subject of civilian oversight of the military). And that was just today (Oct. 4, 2009). If Ms. vanden Heuvel would apply her considerable talents to issues without the indicting asides, she would be a contributor to TW’s luster. So far, I see little evidence of this potential. In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a registered Democrat, voted for Mr. Obama, and remain supportive of his presidency, which I suspect puts me on similar sides of issues, but I would hope without self-righteousness and a demeaning tone.

The punditarati should always emphasize that Polanski pled guilty, and fled when he heard that the bargain was being nixed by the judge. You should infor the public that the judge does not make the deals, but can always disapprove them! And, in law, you can’t appeal a judicial decision as a fugitive.
You have to appear before the judge. So even if Polanski had a basis to appeal, he still must appear in the U.S.
before a U.S., or California judge

And since when has George Will ever added anything to the discussion on This Week? The problem I have with Mr. Will is that his responses are entirely predictable and always drawn from the Heritage Foundation book of talking points.
Lets talk about the compitition for the Olympics for a minute. Chicago is a place with a beautiful lakefront, but nothing to compare to the beaches of Rio. America put put forward the popularity of Barack Obama. Brazil put forward the popularity of their president, known internationally simply as “Lula”.
Brazil rightly pointed out that summer Olympics have never gone to South America. Plus, the Olympic committee was well aware of how the restrictive visa policies of the U.S. would make it difficult for visitors to the games. The later was in fact probably the deciding factor.
Obama did what was expected of the American president and took a day to make the pitch for having the games in America. The theories I heard from your panel today were drival.

LM,
That is really, really sad of you even to think that. You’re blaming the 13-year-old girl whose expectation was that she was getting photographed by a major director for a national magazine?
Even if she did want it (she cannot consent — a concept you seemingly cannot comprehend), Polanski would certainly deserve more than the 43 days he served. His acting like he’s the victim is truly disgusting.
Since you think this is okay, please tell us when you believe child rape or even unforced (again, there is no consent) pedophilia should be okay?

What everyone is missing is what the victim herself is saying – that matters most as she feels it should be over now because she is constantly being victimized by the DA in Los Angeles by constantly reading and re-reading the court transcript of what happened to the press. She said she is over it and wants it over for her family. She has forgiven him and her mother. This tells me the DA should just drop it and let him remain a fugitive. In these economic times why are we costing taxpayers millions of dollars to extradite and then prosecute (yet again). Polanski never wanted to return to the U.S. so just let him live and die in Europe and let this poor woman alone to live her life happily with her family in Hawaii. I’m not condoning what happened and yes think it is disgusting, but if we can let Bin Laden off for what he did to thousands of people and not make him pay by truly hunting him down and making him stand trial then quit spending our taxpayer dollars on something even the victim wants dropped. Cokie, who I normally admire, made a very stupid comment today that added no value to the conversation. It was a comment more fitting to Peggy Noonan’s normal annoying drivel.

LM–
Seriously, you’re questioning why a 13-year old girl made an iffy decision? Because she’s a thirteen year old girl who has been taught that adults are trustworthy people! She wasn’t an ADULT, not that you could blame an adult woman in that situation either–it’s a disgusting attempt to deflect blame that you have engaged in. I heard the same tripe from Mike Tyson’s lawyers–”well, she shouldn’t have come up with him”. Fine. But he shouldn’t have raped her. One of those things is a bad decision. The other is a felony. Guess which one.
Yes, her parents also made a bad decision–I made a bad decision earlier to have pizza instead of soup for lunch. It doesn’t mean that this decision should have led to this young woman’s complete & utter violation. Roman Polanski is nothing but a child molester–he’s admitted a liking to “very young girls” in the past, going so far as to “date” Nastasha Kijinssky (I’m sure I spelled that wrong) at age 15. If he hadn’t made flippin’ “Chinatown,” he would be another scummy old man rotting away in prison…

Way to state your opinion Ms. Roberts, my sentiments exactly!

PLEASE say you’re joking! In this day and age do we still blame the victims … Even the THIRTEEN year old ones … For the crime of rape? Shame on you!
What’s even more disgusting and disturbing to me is that media LIBERALS, who are supposed to be championing the causes of women, children, and victims of injustice are rushing to Polanski’s defense! Shame on you!
And then there are those who think the victim’s forgiveness means we shouldn’t prosecute the crime! Even Republicans know that the rule of law is not only for the benefit of the victims but for the benefit of society. Shame on you!

I’ve worked with thirteen year old girls who would come on to any man and have more sexual experience than most grown women. I’m not saying what he did was right but thinking these young girls are so innocent is not facing the facts. Obviously her mother was thrilled with the attention she was getting from someone who might be able to start a career for her. Her mother is culpable too.

I don’t watch This Week; it’s hard enough to read the transcript without having also to deal with the fatuous condescension of the commentators — even those with whom I agree. And this week’s version is more obnoxious than usual. Why ANYONE listens to these ill-informed idiots is beyond me. I seriously doubt than any of them has a clue as to what’s going on outside of Washington DC, and I don’t care where they actually live. Apparently, no opinion within the borders of the US matters if it is also outside the borders of the nation’s capitol and/or conflicts with theirs. I think the capper was Cokie Roberts’ suggesting Roman Polanski should be killed — which is about her normal level of surface babble. Never mind the details of the case, Cokie, since they might not jibe with your childish understanding of it; it’s just “Off with his head.”

What a double standard. He did what he did………drugged her, raped her…a child and here comes the Hollywood crowd to “pity” up for him. I am going to puke. Cokie Roberts has her head on straight…..as for Whoopie, again, I could puke. Not “rape-rape”…why of course not……….he drugged her first…and that is not “rape”. Good old Hollywood, always showing its true colors. If this was a child or racial minority…raped by a right wing conservative…..oh yeh. Picture it.

“And then there are those who think the victim’s forgiveness means we shouldn’t prosecute the crime!” It’s not that she forgave him, it’s that she said that every time this gets in the press, she and her family have to suffer humiliation and harassment by the media. So basically we are punishing her for reporting the crime. Obviously it was horrible that he did what he did, but why punish the victim more by making a huge media spectacle about it? And if he had any decency, he’d come back and get this over with.

There was failure on all parts in this situation. Polanski’s judgment is the most obvious. Girl’s parents letting her get into that situation in the first place. Justice system reneging on its plea bargain for Polanski. And although I don’t agree with Cokie’s tongue in cheek assessment, I do agree that justifying the rape of a child deserves punishment under any circumstances. I have nothing but sympathy for Polanski’s pregnant wife’s murder. But you don’t get a pass for a casting couch call on a thirteen year old under any circumstances.
That having been said, the victim has requested that this be dropped. I think we should take that into consideration along with the broken plea bargain agreement from the late judge.

This is appaling. Who the hell is Cokie Roberts to make such a judgment? She has a voice only because of her Southern gentry roots, and seems pretty well bent as a male bashing feminist. For God’s sake is it that important to make a blood sacrifice of this old man to make a political point? The girl was underage in America, but not in much of the rest of the world. Her mother placed her in a risky situation to make money and she just happened to encounter a man who has just undergone a trauma most of us will never encounter. Does that exonerate him? Certainly not. But neither does it justify a hanging… or a shooting as Cokie would have it. Give her the boot, already! She obviously has an axe to grind.

No problem with that, take him out and reagy the fireing squad and while were at it line up all these horney school teachers men and women, all the cheating senetors, representives, govenrs and everyone lese who molests a child be it parent, family memember what ever.

Roberts was right. I can’t believe the outcry from the Hollywood Left and assorted morons that defend this garbage.

Oops $825K

Jayce,
I imagine you’re just trolling. However, as child rape is still a capital offense in some states, and as execution by firing squad is still in effect in Utah, I see nothing wrong with her statement. Rather, those in the media who are treating that dirtbag as the victim are the ones most of us see as ridiculous.

I’m not familiar with the details of the Polanski case, but it is remarkable to see this kind of response from Cokie. She fires away like David Brinkley in his later years. Must feel at this stage of her career she’s earned the right to rip away.

What’s to debate ? The guy committed a felony on a 13 year old. Bring him to the U.S. and throw him in the slammer for at least 5 years.

They should shoot him. He raped her in every possible part that can be raped, whilst she said no and was drugged. That is rape.
Oh, and she was 13? Well, god, that’s child rape.
But he did the Pianist. That’s a wonderful movie. Yeah, that’s fine, let him go.
By the by, I’m a libertarian. More conservative fiscally, but tend to side with the liberal perspective on social matters such as gay marriage, stem cell, environment, etc.
Our political opinion should mean nothing. It’s rape. It’s child rape. It’s wrong. She should be punished for saying shoot him? Anyone who is justifying what this man did should never be interviewed on any matter of importance ever again.

Can somebody please tell me where exactly she’s is residing, specifically which DA office would be responsible for prosecuting her on charges of “felony charge of inciting injury to persons”.
I’m serious. I want to personally refer this for prosecution.
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Parenthetically the best place to shoot him would be on Umschlagplatz in Warsaw. One more Jew, who cares, right Cokie? Get her a gun and ship her there with Polanski.
What a piece of human you know what!

Cruella de Vil reporting. “Ah, it’s good to be queen!” (or at least high and mighty Cokie.) Rolling those syllables graciously to her colleagues. Then yelling down at the cowering peasants. When at last the dreaded shudders had closed. And once again the townspeople would try to live happily ever after.

13 years old people. THIRTEEN. He was found GUILTY and CONVICTED. The fled before the sentencing.
There is not defending that and the fact he is successful after is an excuse!?!?
DRUGGING and RAPING A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL? Its no wonder people have such revulsion for elites and their arrogant ‘different rules apply to us’ attitude.
Hollywood types that would defend this man, as well, show, once again, how morally bankrupt many in that industry can be. And some of them think THEY are morality superior? Those that would defend his actions only show themselves to be the ones that are delusional and morally inferior.
No wonder middle and rural America (among others) thinks the coast elites have questionable values and lack moral direction.
DRUGGING and RAPING A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL PEOPLE.

Cokie, you go, girl! And to those of you who disagree, the penalty for rape was execution for over a century. Because there are false accusers, the penalty may be unduly harsh. In this case however, the sodomite plead guilty but was unhappy to serve a prison term.

Why are they always the SAME talking heads? DC is full of pundits, why not shuffle the deck a little, instead listening to the same predictable opinions all the time?

Had the person accused been a Roman Catholic priest or bishop, those asking for leniency for Mr. Polanski, would be screaming at the top of their lungs for extradition and a trial.
I guess, as usual, the much touted open-minded sharing of opinion and insight, stop where law and opinion disagree with their opinions.
What he confessed to was criminal, so now it’s time to pay the price he has so handsomely avoided for the past 30 years. The $500,000 forgiveness from the unfortunate victim and her mother have no bearing on the rule of criminal law.

I totally disagree, ljsteere. She was quite reasonable and articulate. Who has to give a crap about a pedophile, a sexual predator? No one.
She’s just expressing what a lot of people watching have expressed. Polanski is a waste of space and should have been in jail decades ago.
Rape is rape. Rape of a child, especially heinous. I don’t care what they do with Polanski as long as he faces justice in our courtrooms and ends up in prison.
His ‘art’ wasn’t worth the crime he committed. And considering his comments a year on the lamb, I’m sure that this child wasn’t his only victim.
He got away with it with money and power. If he was Joe Shmoe, he would have been immediately incarcerated and you wouldn’t be crying over him.

I for one would like for the US government to bring Polansky back,but not to be sentenced in California,bring him to Texas for sentencing.

Moral relativism is alive and well in the United States; Polanski pleaded guilty and fled justice 32 years ago. Our legal system is not based on Germanic law and the state must punish Polanski for his despictable crimes against a 13 year old girl. Those defending Polanski must not be parents or are just ethically dead.

In this day and age, the child would have been taken away from her parents for being allowed to hang out with an older man unsupervised and this sort of thing happens.

Polanski needs to be taken out and hung as a criminal. He pled GUILTY people and then fled the country. He admitted to the rape and druging of this 13 YEAR OLD. The crime was committed when she was 13!!!! The hoolywood so called elete who think they are like gods and want him freed probably did the same thing and want him cleared so when they are caught can get the same treatment.

I am disappointed with Cokie Robert’s comments. The last thing we need in American is vigilantism inspired by the self-righteous. I am not on Polanski’s “side”—I am simply against emotional diatribe and projection (as in, “The Bad is in the Other, Not in I”) when what we need most from Americans is compassion and empathy. We are on a slippery slope here. America can blast its way out of power with all of this projection, or retain it’s ability to empathize and try to understand opposing points of view, such as that of the French.

If we allow Whoopie and all her Hollywood idiot friends s to say what they want on TV why shouldn’t Cokie Roberts have a turn. I think she speaks for the general public – Whoopie and Debra Winger certainly don’t.. Of course, if it was an animal that was mistreated, they be all over the TV saying “string up the abuser of animals; they don’t deserve to live!!” A little perspective from Hollywood would be a nice change. This guy is a pedophile, plain and simple. He ran from his punishment and has been living the good life. It’s way past time for his punishment to take place.

Actually, I thought Cokie Roberts was being quite reasonable and articulate. Roman Polanski has exhibited such a high degree of arrogance and absolutely no remorse for his actions in all of the years that have passed. And surely his attorney at the time of the original plea agreement must have advised him that the judge is under absolutely no obligation to accept a plea agreement if he finds that the agreement does not sufficiently punish the defendant.

Well, I wonder where Cokie really stands on this issue.LOL.

i agree with cokie. shame on hollywood for supporting this pedophile

Oh, please, ljsteere. Cokie Roberts is the most sensible panelist on This Week. Thank, you Cokie, for your sensitivity to the widespread abuse of girls and women. It is truly shocking to see celebrity women defending a man who raped, drugged, and sodomized a thirteen year old child. For women to be on the same side of this issue as Woody Allen is mind boggling. The fact that Polanski is a successful director is no excuse for judging him with a different standard. If he were simply John Q. Public, how would he be judged? How can women EVER expect to curb the crime of sexual abuse that scars its victims for life if they are going to give a pass to some of these criminal perpetrators depending on their profession? What if this thirteen year old had been you, your daughter, sister, or mother when they were that age?

J Robinson,
What does this have to do with male bashing? And by the way, feminists are not male bashers. As Sally Kempton said, “I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.” Feminism is literally the belief that women should have the exact same rights as men. That’s it. So if you have a problem with that, maybe it’s because you’re insecure with your masculinity. This isn’t about “angry dike feminists.” It’s about the rape of a 13 year old child by a 43 year old man. You try to defend Polanski because of the hardships he endured, but that’s no excuse. A normal person doesn’t go out and rape children because they are “traumatized.” He’s always been a pervert and has even spoken about his penchant for “very young girls.” I don’t care how old he is now. He needs to finally pay for this crime. If he had served his time when he was supposed to this wouldn’t be an issue, but he ran away like the coward that he is. By the way, have you read the little girl’s testimony? (He plead guilty). It’s pretty difficult to read, but I think you’ll gain some new perspective. What if it was your daughter? He needs to be punished not to prove a political point, but to show victims of sexual assault everywhere that they matter and that they deserve justice.

SMO: just b/c the victim wants to let it go does not make it okay to let it go. It is a crime against all of us when things like this happen. Plus, you are setting up a dangerous precedent to allow one man to go b/c he is a fugitive and not others.

Much better hearing it on video than reading it. Thanks Cokie for saying what most of us feel.

Why not just castrate him, which should be the standard punishment for any and all men sex offenders! This to take place in short order, meaning immediately! I bet my paycheck were that the case, this crime would quickly decrease. I also suggest that it would be a greater deterant than the death penalty, especially so, here in the USA where guys sit in jail while the lawyers milk the system dry! Yes, I am speaking as a male, and please you ladies outhere, start a campaign for that punishment to become law! Besides, how can America with a good conscience, have its military all over the fighting, at the cost of trillions of dollars to liberate people from a live of depravaty while every few seconds a woman is raped in the “good” old USA? Yes, this from and by the Nation under God? America, for God’s sake stop making Christianity look more evil that paganism, please? Yes, generally speaking America is more and more the spectacle of and to the world of a nation almost completely unhinged going down a step hill, ever faster as one hears a civil war going on all over America especially right there in DC! Let me suggest additionally, America will fail all over the world simply becasue its own house is in complete disarray! God Almighty will see to it tht America fails, even though that there is a constant demand of God to bless America. That is not how my God of Scripture operates, right? America, wake up as the hour is way past, yet, still a window of opportunity to turn around and do the right “thing”

One of the most rational quotes I’ve read regarding Polanski’s arrest was from the famous French director & producer Lus Besson, “This is a man who I love a lot and know a little bit,” Mr. Besson said in a radio interview with RTL Soir. “Our daughters are good friends. But there is one justice, and that should be the same for
everyone. I will let justice happen.” He added, , “I don’t have any opinion on this, but I have a
daughter, 13 years old. And if she was violated, nothing would be the same, even 30 years later.”
(Try & argue against that, Woody Allen)

Hooray for Roberts! Polanski’s type of person should not be allowed to continue his raping of underage girls. He is a pedophile.How many did he rape in Europe? I do not want to feed, house, clothe, entertain, or support in any way, a sexual predator of children. The Manson killers are also still being supported by us. They have no redeeming values. They should have been exterminated long ago. Our jails are overcrowded because we believe they can be redeemed. Stupid.

As a recent film school graduate, I find I am forced to go against many of my peers and agree with Cokie that Polanski should be punished for his crimes. I lean more toward putting him in prison for the rest of his life than her suggestion, though.
I don’t give a damn that his victim forgave him, either. That is her choice, but the law is still the law. If Roman Polanski is let off the hook, it will set a dangerous precedent for future criminals who victimize children.
I also have to wonder, what would Hollywood be saying about him if he wasn’t a filmmaker.

In my opinion, Cokie Roberts should issue an apology for her “take him out and shoot him” comment. But the apology shouldn’t be to Roman Polanski. Rather, it should be to the American people for legitimizing hyperbolic, inflammatory rhetoric that appeals to the basest emotions rather than reason and intellect. And since “This Week” is a reflection of ABC News it’s important that the focus be on facts and information, not on fueling a feeding frenzy. Yes, I think Roman Polanski should be extradited to face judgement according to establish U.S. legal principles. And I think the reaction of the French government and media has been repulsive. I think Cokie Roberts and I agree on where we should end up with this. I just hate to see contributors to This Week treading ever closer to the kind of garbage that flows so freely from the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olberman, Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow.

Polanski pled guilty, he said what he did was wrong, when he found out that the judge didn’t agree with the sentence the DA agreed to he left. He did this because he could not change his plee. He has been trying to work out a deal with the DA for years but they were unwilling unless he came back and went to jail first. It’s the same as working out a deal with a burglar at your front door. If you let him in he promises he’ll only take twenty dollars from you and won’t shoot you. Would you take that that chance?

I agree with her completely. Polanski is a criminal and he should be shot, or at least he should spend the rest of his life in jail. Pedophiles and rapists deserve no mercy. I applaud Cokie Roberts for expressing her opinion!

Cokie made an overstated sidebar comment and “somehow” it is deemed as crucial enough to surface on the ABC web portal! Why does ABC even bring such off the cuff remarks to the attention of the general public when made during the pre-program commentary?
If ABC is desperate to cover timely news events – re-focus on such crucial topics as the economy, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, health care reform, environmental concerns, drug addiction and rampant violence, etc. etc. rather than the constant flow of idiotic ENTERTAINMENT TRIPE over and over and over???

Cokie Roberts did not cross the line, Polanski did!

It is now six days since this blog was first posted. Have just learned that Polanski is “depressed” in jail, and his attorney is concerned. Well, Whoop de Do…”the mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine”. Maybe he should be “sentenced” to depression for each of the 30 years he has been running away to Opulence and World Adoration!!!

Right on, Cokie!

Thanks God! that she is devoted catholic, other wise, she will be decapitating all pedophiliacs including
Catholic priest, with Popes included.

What Polanski did was horrible. And while it is fun for the talking heads to pontificate and emotionalize about it, what about the thousands of children that are still being abused every day by unrepentant molesters? Should we shoot them all?
I’m personally in favor of it… I just want to know how liberals can demand that everyone give up their guns so we can have Utopia, and then shriek, “Shoot him!” when they get a tiny glimpse of the evil underbelly that is in all walks of society, from the ghettos and trailers to the mansions of the elite.

Not to defend the guy, but if i was told that my sentence would be spend 40 days in jail and then probation, and I completed that time only to have the judge then change his agreement due to peer and public pressure, then I might decide that there really isn’t any justice and hit the road too. The state of California made a firm deal, then reneged on it, and they should be willing to honor their agreement no matter who likes it or not

This is probably not the right thread, but I agree with the previous posters about Katrina Vanden Heuvel. I tend to vote Democrat, but I can’t stand her self-righteous, prosecutorial style. She’s a left-wing Rush Limbaugh without the sense of humor.

Cokie is right to demonstrate outrage. Roman is a fugitive and admitted rapist, an adult man who used drugs, position and flattery to sodomize a child. Surely, he had his pick of opportunistic legal aged women who would have loved to have used the jacuzzi at Jack’s place. His is a planned act of predatory defilement.
He is not excused by his craft or his associates. I do hope justice is served.

I have no emphaty for all the perverts, I think because of this Polanski the Japanese child pornography became more popular in Japan.

I live and work in Hollywood. The list of 100 sympathizers is not the general consensus in Hollywood, not even close. Almost everyone wants to see Polanski in jail.
The majority of the 100 Hollywood sympathizers on the list are washed up and not relevant anymore. If they were real men or women of substance they would go on cnn,msnbc or fox to explain their defense of a child rapist.

Cokie Roberts hasn’t crossed any line and what she said wasn’t vicious. She was spot on. In fact, she was very articulate. I understood her position perfectly and I agree with it. No 13 year old can be held accountable for a situation of this nature. The burden of this crime falls solely on Polanski. This may be justice delayed, but it will be justice served.

Yes George, SMO is a liberal and she CRINGES everytime this woman is on your program, so PLEASE STOP! Well, we all know that liberals rule and her orders should be followed! Do you hear me? NEVER do it again!
Can’t wait until this administration is GONE! Send George and his libs along too!

I agree with Cokie. People who abused children should received the death penalty. Period.

Do people honestly still watch This Week? Goodness, I stopped watching right after watching George and Charlie (Gibson) sabotage the final debate between Obama and Hiliary.
Remember that debate? Both candidates wanted to discuss the issues but, were prevented because George and Charlie only allowed comments on rifts and barbs highlighted during ABC’s coverage.

What Polanski did is despicable. But–why so much time, money and energy is devoted to it –while –as we write–thousands of babies and children are abused, starved and murdered in their families while the law and children protective services claim to be understaffed and ovewhelmed by number of cases.
CA has no money for anything–but found resources to chase an old man ==76-for ancient crime.
Same about the ballon family. Yes, stupid–but again–their ‘crime’ is talked and talked about–but not the tens truly neglected kids in some slumses.It is all to keep moronic public busy (same for Idol, Dancing of the Stars, reality shows)while the thieves of Wall Street are stealing our money.

Child abuse is often linked to animal abuse. In one of his earliest films, Polanski stoned a kitten to death. So if he spends his remaining years in prison, I won’t lose any sleep for him.

To those of you that say leave it (him) alone……….
It was not your 13 year old daughter (or neice or friends daughter) that was drugged, raped and sodomized.
If it were, do you truly believe you would be for “leaving him alone” or “letting it go” or just continue to let him live out his life (in high style) in another country?
Do you really believe we believe you would?

Perhaps Cokie was sniffing something unusual, but we should expect something more even-handed from someone in her position. Perhaps she should be just taken out – to a desk job.
This has nothing to do with Polanski, although, having worked in Hollywood back then, it was certainly an untamed period and 13 year olds who were dressed up to look like 20 year olds were known to be enticing. They still are. Our society wants it both ways: Puritan and oversexed. That ain’t real!

Why is there still a discussion on this? The man broke the law and made the problem worse by fleeing to Europe
and we are suppose to act like nothing happen? He is a grown man, was a grown man when he chose to break the law and was convicted but decided he did not like the sentence he was going to get, so he chose to flee. Just put his sorry butt in jail and get on with life.

Cokie Roberts lost me as viewer when she said social security was a tired old issue (the only issue Democrats had in the 2004 campaign.) Has Polanski been charged or convicted of any other offenses? Seems to me the girl was pimped out and charges should have been brought against her parents. I say , if he hasn’t done anything else, leave him alone.

I agree with Ms. Roberts.

Wow, very professional Cokie Roberts .. “Just take him outside and shoot him” .. doesn’t take much to be an analyst these days huh…

I couldn’t agree with Mark’s comments more. Ms. vanden Huevel is a sarcastic, arrogant person who acts like her word is gospel. She does not belong on THIS WEEK, I think MSNBC with Keither Obermann & Chris Matthews is more her style. All of them are sarcastic know-it-alls.
I can’t stand vanden Huevel and don’t know why she’s invited on, who cares what she says.

Yes, what were her parents doing? She was a child.

Much rape, even the really violent stuff, goes unreported. The victims don’t want the event to become the one indellible part of their identity – the only thing they’ll ever be known for even among friends and family. I can see it.

cokie roberts disgusts me. this UTTERLY entitled WHITE FEMALE has had it easy since birth; all because of a man, her father, who was political royalty. she has lived a life filled with abundance; yet all she seems to do is trash men and continually victimize women. she has ZERO idea as to what real life is about and has gooten what she has because of a man; her father and her mother and her name; not because she ever had to do anything on her own.
that said, while roman polanski may have done a bad thing; his own victim has for decades been through with whatver happened. oh, and by the way, her own MOTHER left her alone there with multiple grown men for a “photo” session. uh huh. now that’s normal.
aside from that, roman polanski’s life had been filled with unimaginable horror from birth, including losing his mother in the holocaust, having his 81/2 month pregnant wife, sharon tate, so gruesomely murdered, that 40 years later, she and those who were also so gruesomely murdered that night are remembered as among the victims of the most gruesome crime in america.
meanwhile, cokie roberts has managed to breeze along in her life, with her requisite minor bout of breast cancer (of course- such a female victim), yet due to her profound sense of entitlement, she, apparently, acting as god, has summarily dictated what should occur with polanski; his own victim’s wishes be damned. you know, cause “women’s victim advocate” and empress roberts deems it so.
she is truly a rotten person, who needs to get off the throne. as kathy griffin so aptly said about oprah winfrey “no, oprah, that’s not a stigmata, it’s a paper cut.

I think Ms. Roberts comments are totally right. I don’t care how old the girl is, how good she looks, he tried to get her drunk, gave her drugs, raped and sodimized her. But yet you judge Ms. Roberts comments about a man who thinks very little of women and his “right” to persue them by any means necessary. Some of you people are sick too.

I agree 100% with Cokie Roberts comment on Roman Polanski. He is a fugitive from a horrific crime against a child – drugging, raping & sodomizing a 13 yr old girl.

Cokie Roberts told it like it is! I’m sick of hearing about these perverts raping children. Time to bring the hammer down!

This is ridiculous. It’s been over 30 years.The man’s wife had just been savagely murdered. He paid the girl a settlement.Doesn’t the American judicial system have more important uses for the taxpayers dollars.Let him go , slap him on the wrist and be done with the whole sorted misunderstanding!!!

Hollywood needs to be shot for supporting this rapist all these years.

I am a male of middle age, and I think it is repulsive, for a human being to lure in such an innocent , vulnerable , female, and intoxicate, the poor thing, and perform perverted sexual acts…
He should be fed to the lions..
The animal kingdom does not engage in such heinous practices…
I am a liberal, and whats right is right…
Wrong is wrong, and he committed an egregious crime against a minor, and society….
Put him a the same cell with Madoff, or the sickos from guantanmo bay Security guards, who humiliated the Ahfgans, or Iraqis…..

Posted by: SMO | Oct 4, 2009 2:13:17 PM:
“…if we can let Bin Laden off for what he did to thousands of people and not make him pay by truly hunting him down and making him stand trial then quit spending our taxpayer dollars on something even the victim wants dropped.”
No one’s advocating letting Bin Laden off. When we lay hands on him, he’s going to die, with or without a trial. So with that roofie-using little bugger in Switzerland. The press covered for him back then, but now even they have to admit that what he did is something we don’t let people get away with. It doesn’t matter if he paid that girl and her parents off… what he did was something that we don’t want people thinking they can buy themselves off of going to jail for. Cokie Roberts finally slipped and said something sensible. The law of averages dictated it, I guess.

Ms. vanden Huevel’s response to the governors races is all too typical. Just snarky, Liberal pap. C’mon George, the show already oozes Liberalism, is she really needed??!

Do you hve a daughter? Actually, Carolee, he did want to come back to the U.S. to be “honored” in the film industry, to receive an Oscar etc. . So, while I do agree that it has to be horrible for the victim to see and hear it publicaly again,–HE COMMITED A VIOLENT PERVERTED and COWARDLY CRIME on a child. And, just because she “says” that she doesn’t want him brought to justice doesn’t mean that she trully feels that way—more likely its just that she does not want herself or her family to be publicly talked and wrote about. You obviously do not understand that a victim of this type of crime truly never “gets over it”. And yes the parents should take some responsibility as well for letting her go there and be by herself with him, but come on…let him go with a pat on the back. I don’t think so. And, as for all the celebrities who “support him and praise him” I am extremely disappointed and disgusted in people who I thought had some type of morals and sense of justice. He has not incurred any type of punishment for his crime. Granted, after what Charles Manson did to his wife, and that fact that he was in a concentration camp–I personally believe that he needs extensive therapy and then sentenced to do comuunity work. But, he has to be held accountable for the crime he committed. And how do we know that he did not do this to someone else–who was so afraid of being in the public eye (and after seeing what happened to the victim in the press, I dont blame them) that they never told of what he did to them. Really, just let him be free??

Like George Will or not…I think of him as the ultimate conservative….an honest man, intelligent enough to actually understand what is meant by conservatism….though a difficult doctrine there are fewer and fewer people in the United States who understand its implications…instead we have Rush Limbaugh spewing his lungs out telling us that he is a conservative.
I kind of wish George Will’s methods were adopted by conservatives than Rush Limbaugh’s..Will is a real conservative, Limbaugh is a real idiot.
I am not a conservative.

Who in the hollywood crown has defended him?.

Ms. Roberts..you go girl. tell them like it is. Some people don’t like the truth.
He is a criminal and should be charged as such. What is wrong with some of you people? He raped a child then fled the country. He should serve time.
I can’t believe that some of Hollywood elite are backing him. Let it be their Mother, daughter, sister, friend. They’d change their tune.

I think Cokie Roberts was absolutely correct. Maybe if we used the “one bullet” theory more often we could simply get the message across, rather than the bland justice we hand out these days.

Cokie Roberts was thinking her statements were in line with the audience. Most have a more critical thinking process and don’t indulge the emotional side of this case. Hopefully, Cokie is never on a jury. She could never take any information without adding her own opinions. Roman Polanski made lots of money starting early in his career. He is arrogant, not very likable as a person, but the most important person is the victim. She still counts! If she doesn’t want a trial then so be it. Well, almost. I would fine him for not paying her years ago 10 times the original amount plus interest and her attorney fees, college for her children, pay all her bills off and if he has anything left donate it to charity and he can get a job like millions in this country have done. That is much better than putting him in prison. We are too eager to imprison a person. That is cruel and mostly excessive to warehouse people. He will be free and he has many friends. Now he can have them take care of him.

Only if Cokie stands behind when he’s fired upon! Her comment, no matter how one feels about Polanski, is unprofessional and in bad taste. Come to think of it, so is she.

Well if people who molested kids got shot it would sure cut down on repeat offenses.

When you find yourself being swayed politically by Hollywood types just remember they are the same ones who are the most vocal in support of Polanski and demand his freedom.

I wonder if the French people would be so supportive of Polanski if he had raped a young French girl instead of an American.

Polanksi would have gotten 45 days if he had just stayed and done the time originally. Now it’s a global flap, and people want to take his life, if not by firing squad, then by imprisonment until death. I find this ludicrous. He should just do his 45 days and be done with it.

Polanski is a movie director, so I’m SURE Cokie Roberts merely meant he should be shot by a camera!
But personally, I think he should be shot by a firing squad, and I suspect there would be plenty of volunteers.

What Cokie needs here is to exercise wisdom, not kneejerk reactions. Yes, Polanski is disgusting and deserves to be put away. It’s disgusting that people defend him. But to say that we should take someone out and shoot them implies that you don’t care about the law…that’s vigilante justice. It also implies that such criminals can never be rehabilitated, which is not true. The solution doesn’t begin when you shoot someone. It begins when they learn right from wrong, which should be in the home or at the church, synagogue, or mosque, etc…admittedly, not after they’ve committed child abuse. But no one is beyond hope…even Polanksi.

Rape is rape. Eaven if the guy is a talented Hollywood director.
I wonder if the folks in H’wood would feel differently if Polanski fed their daughters some drugs and raped them?
I guess it would depend on who did the raping and how that might help their careers.

Ms. Robert frequently makes angry remarks about men. Advocating violence is definitely over the line and is no better than the loose talk of right wing radio hosts. But I think even people like Roberts, probably of minimal intelligence, should be able to say dumb things without reprisals. It is still just speech.

These pundits express moral outrage, rightfully, that a minor would be subject to a sexual attack. Yet, they never express dismay that we put our children at risk of death in wars (US enlistment age is 17), or send our adult troops to areas where they will inevitably kill children who are either forced into combat or casually dismissed as “collateral damage.” Surely the latter types of child abuse deserve at least equal moral outrage.

Polanski admitted guilt and paid $ to the victim. Yes?
The justice system reneged on it’s deal. Right?
The parent(s) of the child failed to responsibly supervise their teen daughter.
Why isn’t Roberts saying that the justice system and the child’s parents should be taken out and shot?
Because it’s easy for angry feminists to blame everything on the man. It’s their reliable, boring M.O.
She’s playing to the camera and looking for attention/publicity.
Her words are irresponsible but predictable since Hollywood and D.C. are indistinguishable. The Politics Of Publicity.

I’m pretty sure Cokie Robrts has had second thoughts about being so frank in stating what many other people would agree with.
Polanski should be shut up in a very dark place for a very,very long time

Amen, Cokie! I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who saw this disgusting rapist pedophile for what he is! It sickens me to hear the Hollywood elite do nothing but make excuses for this rapist. We give this guy awards? We praise his artistic “genius”? I guess because he’s a filmmaker, and North American’s are so star-struck and celebrity obsessed, his criminal behavior can be excused. And is it any wonder so many ridicule France? They harbor this loser and act as a place of refuge for all manner of human garbage.

pervert polanski still hasn’t slithered out from under the rock that he is hiding under in europe. today is 25 nov 2009. VINCE above gets my vote with: “Give him a “radical bobbittization”….then….”
why don’t they have a jury of the VICTIM’s peers to decide what happens to childabusers? the VICTIM’s peers KNOW things, and are not the stupid nut jobs who whine around on behalf of the vicious perpetrators because he looks nice in his suit today.

This does bring up the point of trying children as adults for crimes. I agree that minors cannot be considered as giving consent for sex with adults. How is it then that we try young children “as adults” for some crimes? It’s a disgrace.

I believe Cokie Roberts got it right, Roman Polanski is a sexual deviant, a rapist, and a pervert who deserves to be jusged in the United States for his crimes. As soon as he is extradited to the United States, justice will be served when he is properly sentenced.

Mark, If TW stops having Katrina vanden Heuvel on the panel, I for one (but I’m sure there are many) will stop watching TW.

And, Jayce, what “line” would that be, and who writes it, exactly? Did I miss part of the first amendment that establishes this “line” you speak of as an abridgment? She’s speaking in something called “hyperbole” — and I’m sure you’ll excuse the lady for being angry when she hears a little girl was drugged, threatened, and raped by a pervert ignoring her cries of, “Stop! Stop! Stop!” Go and read the transcripts of this little girl’s testimony. Maybe you’ll have some understanding of it — or maybe you’ll wish you were in Polanski’s shoes.

Amen Cokie!

Easy cokie
You may not be invited to many celebrity parties with that tone!!

I remember some of her interviews a few years back. She seemed like a half-wit back then and I guess that first impression holds true from what we see here.
Apparently her elitist parents, a Congressman and an Ambassador/Congresswoman, got her her the gig on the news. She is the typical elitist media hack that loves to hear herself talk – babbling about something and thinking she is making sense. Whatever, they all give themselves awards and such and we’re supposed to be impressed. Well, we’re not.

I am with Cokie on this one. If he raped my child in this fashion I would shoot him myself. He knew what he was doing and he thought he was above the law. (Not unlike some of our celebrity athletes and politicians.) This man is a fugitive from justice. He is the type of man often profiled on Americas Most Wanted. Has anyone wondered if he stopped this perversion while on the lamb in Europe for the last 30 years? Chances are that he continued his life style, perhaps paying for sex with children in this lucrative global industry. If so, what happens to these kids to keep the story quiet? The only reason Polanski is defended is he is accomplished in other areas of his life. But you dont get off the hook because you made some good movies and lots of people liked the movies. It says something dark about us that we did not boycott his work, or that we allowed him to continue his work.

Right On! It’s time someone in the media said what should happen to these people that hurts kids.

Polanski deserves the same treatment on his broken ass. Bubba is waiting at San Quentin and there won’t be any discussion about ‘art’ as in cinema.
There may be a brief discussion about quality control of petroleum jelly based products. Polanski will eventually become a spokesperson for Jonhson & Johnson.

Jayce – Cokie Roberts crossed a line? The problem with the US is people like you. We should give child molestors ZERO warning. If you violate one time, you should be killed. Anything less is ACCEPTING AND PROMOTING child molestation. You would rather we let these people go, and rehabilitate them? I swear if I heard you say this in public I would take off my belt and beat u in the face til you couldnt talk no more. He admitted his guilt, skipped sentencing, and now u want to give him another shot? I will give him 3 shot right to the cranium. SHOOT ROMAN POLANKSKI NO APOLOGY.

EVERY PEDOPHILE SHOULD BE SHOT! There is NO excuse for abusing children in any way, shape or form, regardless if it is sexual, physical, emotional, etc. in nature. Perpetrators & parents alike MUST be held accountable for their actions or lack thereof! Children are innocent and need to be protected by society as a whole and not just in THIS country, but world-wide. We should just let Polanski stay in Europe?? I wonder how many victims he has there? He is a SICK individual and so is ANYONE who comes to his defense.

Were you self righteous folks to actually read the transcripts as I have. You would realize that the victim had already engaged in sex as well as recreational Quaalude us in times prior.
While intercourse with a child is wrong, of course. Angelica Houston who came to the door that night said that she neither looked 13 nor did she look scared but rather “sullen”.
The way the victim’s mother found out was the older sister overheard the 13 year old retelling this to her boyfriend over the phone. The same boyfriend she had been having sex with for over a year.
Again, not saying what happened was right but at some point one must look at the facts. Roman Polanski served the court ordered term. He only fled when the judge stated that he was now going to tack on more time and then deport him.
It was a misconduct, period. The issue of ‘double jeopardy’ comes in to play. He has already been tried, convicted and served the *original* prescribed term.

Cokie is of course correct.

This “child” had done the same drugs before, and had sex before with an ongoing boyfriend when she went to the photo shoot with Polanski. He was then subjected to a mistrial that makes the Amanda Knox trial look like a judgment of Solomon. Some of you should stop hating foreigners long enough to look at the facts in some of these cases. Some people, including Cokie Roberts, should read up on what actually happened before shooting their mouths off.

My fifteen year old niece has been having sex with her boyfriend for months. We might not like it, but it really is not uncommon. Some of you need to get out more. And why was this kid’s boyfriend, with whom she had already had sex, never accused of rape? Could it be there wasn’t enough publicity in it for the judge?

Well said, Cokie. Well said.

She did cross the line, words spoken from public person should be chosen more carefully.

I always did like Cokie Roberts! Now, I remember why. She got it 100% correct. Take him out and shoot him!

Hey, do what she said…

I am very surprise that Ms. Cokie Robert will make such comment. I think, she was having a bad day for some reason.
I think Ms Roberts is Catholic, do Catholics shoot people who have committed sex crimes? By that logic, what should happen to all those Catholic priests who have committed sexual offenses. I do not think even George Will will make such sorry comment.

Even if this child wasn’t 13 but an older woman of 20, 30 or 40- that creep Polanski still drugged her and then raped her. RAPED HER WHILE DRUGGED! That is against the law! However, she was 13 and unable to legally consent to the sex even if she hadn’t been drugged and given alcohol. He fled the country and that is against the law, too. A Nation of law cannot allow such behavior to go unpinished… Period.

Strange how Cokie wants a summary execution for Polanski — don’t you think her beloved ACLU would have a problem with that? — but was critical of the Bush administration’s kid-glove treatment of Guantanamo detainees.
ABC is reporting that
• Al Qaeda in Yemen radicalized the young man who attempted to murder the 300 people on Flight 253, and provided his bomb
• Two of the four top leaders of al Qaeda in Yemen were detained at Guantanamo until November, 2007 when they were turned over to Saudi Arabia and then set free after supposedly being rehabilitated.
• Now U.S. officials say these men have shown they pose a much greater operational threat than al Qaeda in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Clearly, Bush’s policy on releasing Guantanamo detainees was too lenient.

drop the whole thing because the victim says so? i don’t think so. if that were the case, then domestic abusers everywhere would get off without punishment when the wife/gf forgives him. ridiculous.

In a just world for what he did, and the 8th amendment notwithstanding, Polanski would be whipped till unconscious. Through malice aforethought, he defiled and victimized a young girl for his own personal amusement and pleasure. A decent society cannot abide such horrific abuse. While I will be pilloried for the above, in essence a variant of Hamurabi’s Code (an eye for an eye), if enforced, would drastically reduce crime overnight. We should start with Roman — aptly named for both the crime and punishment.

This lady is just a JERK! Everything that Romie did is AOK with me. He should not be shot. Unless it’s for one of my favorite mags. If it is, Then Shoot away!

If Charlie Manson had escaped to Europe after the butchering of Polanski’s wife, Sharon Tate, he might well have gone on to marry and become an upright member of his community. Would Polanski and his Hollywood friends be arguing that it all happened 40 years ago and we should all just move on? After all, what good would be served by dragging poor Charlie back to LA after all those years….

Jayce has it right (left?) – how on earth can a legitimate human be outraged by what Roman Polanski did to this 13 year old girl. We have to look for the nuances that makes this behavior “reasonable”, like the 9/11 attacks. If you look hard enough with the proper glasses on you can see that the perpetrator is really the victim and black is white, etc. Shame on you “little people”!~!

It is OBVIOUSLY the girl’s fault – Roman is after all a leftist liberal icon. It wasn’t “rape rape”, that only happens when the sicko is NOT a leftist liberal. You know, like Che, Castro, Mao etc are not “murderer murderers” – their intentions were noble. And hey, the “jihadists”, they hate Bush, so whatever they do can’t be toooo bad. I think Cokie just had a delusional moment of sanity and decency – damn her!

jayce, Roberts should be angry, we should ALL be angry that a pedophile has been living free for so many years in France. If I ever go abroad, I will NOT visit France! Goldberg’s films are off my list. How dare she? How dare you? Yeah, I’m pi**ed that having wealth gives felons a free pass. Polanski needs to face the court in CA, have an added charge because he fled, serve his time and if he is still alive, register as a sex offender.

I agree totally. It is about time that someone speaks candidly about the injustice in this country.

Cokie Roberts did not crossed the line she is 100% right vicious no and ridiculous no she knows how to control herself she does not have any anger she is all but reasonable and articulate.

One thing extra…related to what the “Victim” said.
“The best revenge is to forgive your enemies…it screws with their head”
Americans always want revenge for the “victims” but ignore the ones that don’t want that…we have no business deciding what should be done about this. It is a matter for her to decide.

There’s something disturbing about people who claim to want to execute child molesters in a country where it’s very often difficult to execute even convicted murderers and yet our far from perfect legal system has probably executed innocent people. The comment by Cokie Roberts is just flippant and stupid.

Right on, Cokie! I’ve been a lawyer for 30 years and I couldn’t agree more!

The imposed sentence that Polanski fled from was only 90 days, I believe. Now Cokie thinks he should be executed?! I find that hilarious.

I might agree to that,
IF you FIRST shoot EVERY LAST child murderer in our prisons.
Shoot them first, THEN we’ll talk.

Ok liberal press and Hollywood defenders of Polanski.
Let’s turn this around and say that it was YOUR 13 year old daughter that was raped by this “artist.”
Would you still feel that he has “done enough suffering?” and should be dropped of all charges?
I didn’t think so.

I like my newscasters to at least try to remain objective. BTW, when did Cokies’ opinion matter?

All Cokie did what echo the sentiments of most (90%) of the public. That leaves the other 10% of bleeding hearts to criticie her. Guess what, most people belive ALL pedophiles should be shot. We’ve seen enough “politically correct” treatment of them, especially when they have some kind of notariaty.
RAPE is RAPE. SHAME on Whoopie,I’ve lost ALL respect for you. Hurrah for Cokie.

Frankly, Robert’s comments appears to mirror the mentality of many people in the country that still believe in back wood’s justice…”lynch the #$@%$$@#. And that’s the kind of person allowed to appear on national TV as a political commentator.

I went through just about all of the comments and haven’t really found one that has told me much. Does anyone know what the plea-bargain deal was or why the judge backed out and planned to send this guy up the river – before the trial? I will admit that I have opinions just like everybody else. Like folks are saying, protect the victim. I get the feeling most of these people complaining just like to hear themselves talk.

Hey George, good luck getting that job at the White House. I might agree with some of the sentiments, but you know the government. They plan to spend $1B of my tax money on a trail of the 9/11 guys that have confessed. They ‘may’ be convicted and then will appeal for about 20 years. Then, either we will let them go or feed them. Now, clarify what the difference in this and the Polanski thing. Oh yeah, Polanski ‘may’ have done things to a young girl, while these guys murder children and folks from 60 countries. Good call.

Randomly advocating extrajudicial execution for crimes where no state in this country applies the death penalty is irresponsible and unprofessional. Roberts should retract the remark. Recommending that people you simply don’t like be killed is no way to conduct yourself on television.

Polanski is a fugitive from the U.S. judicial system. He is accused of raping a child. These facts are not in dispute.
His “brilliance” as an artist or his admirers’ belief in his innocence is irrelevant. He needs to be extradited and tried, plus any applicable time for his jumping bail.
That being said, it would be less expensive to simply shoot him.
The Council has ruled.

Go Cokie

Polanski was found guilty by a court of law.
Polanski fled the US to avoid sentencing.
Why does everyone debate whether or not he was guilty? HE WAS FOUND GUILTY BY A US COURT OF LAW.
It is offensive that people offer justification for his fleeing — and try to make this a debate over whether or not he was guilty. EVERYONE in prison is not guilty. Guess they should all run away too.
The real embarassment here is that the US let him run around Europe for years without trying to extradite him.
The American Legal system may not be perfect, but it should be respected. If the situation was reversed, and he was found guilty in a French or Swiss court and fled to the US, there would be no end to the angry demands that we respect their legal system and send him back.

It is commendable that the victim has forgiven the perpetrator and her mother. However, what does this have to do with the State’s need to punish the admitted offender, a 40-something offender who had sex and gave drugs to a 13 yr old? The Prosecutor often charges crimes where the victim does not wish prosecution. And if this same event happened today, Polanski’s punishment could be life in prison. An adult must be treated as someone who can control his own actions; the 13 yr old is not an adult and does not have the facility to consent. Most parents of such a 13 yr old would agree with Cokie Roberts; wouldn’t you??

Roman Polanski should face the same justice as somebody doing the same crime but without much money and fame faces. Why doesn’t the US go drag him by his feet out of Switzerland and throw him in the same cell as other child rapists in California. He sure will have plenty of company.

Oh, if only they could have panned to far left Nation editor Van Den Huevel after that shocking statement from her fellow leftist, albeit one not as Marx-y.
Darn.

Polanski is a pervert and should be given the same opportunity to experience the depraved actions he visited upon a thirteen year old girl. Namely, a drugging and raping and sodomizing. A ten or twenty year sentence in one of our better country club prisons like Leavenworth, ( a little facetiousness here), should provide that opportunity very well.

Well LM….nothing like blaming the victim. She was a child. A child. He was a grown man with drugs and a sick mind. No…the blame is all his. He is the one that chose to take advantage of a young girl. He should take his consequences. BUT…do NOT blame the victim. How archaic of you!

Roman Polanski, did a horrible thing a LONG time ago. His victim does NOT want this all stirred up.
THE basic problem is all the HIPOCRITES that Can’t FORGIVE.
This world of Perfect credit and Perfect lives does not exist.
YOU can’t take the 1960-1970′s and act like all was normal because it was not.
Anymore than you can compare your life to yoru parents. Different time’s wrong is wrong and riht is right.
BUT this system of “perfect” must go away.
Even though I believe he should pay a fine and do good community service.
Putting everyonein jail is what is wrong with our justice system.
Put them out on a farm and you will see mor good come from that then the GREED our system has developed. Amen

Interesting. I’m not one to normally read anything about entertainment though.