For the past 30 years, Roman Polanski has been not just a convicted rapist but a fugitive from justice.
Yes, he’s made some big films in those years. So what?
Yes, he’s traveled freely across Europe during those years, living a very fancy and famous life without being arrested. So what?
Susan Estrich, Rasmussen Reports.
October 1st, 2009 at 13:03
Looks like a systemic memory failure across the universe on Estrich. This detestable shill is coming quite late to the outrage party and her outrage only extends so far. Doesn’t anyone remember that Estrich founded her talking head career as a serial appologist for the serial rapist Bill Clinton? Doesn’t anyone remember the vicious bile she heaped upon Juanita Broaderick whom Clinton raped when he was AG of Arkansas? Estrich reviled and derided any such assertion by Broaderick, likewise she did not merely dismiss Paula Jones; she attacked her in the most vile terms for committing the crime of being exposed to Clinton’s penis at her place of work. Kathleen Willey was likewise a victim of both Clinton and Estrich. When it came to light that Clinton sexually assaulted this woman in the Oval Office on the day she became a widow Estrich declared that even if this were true, which she claimed it was not, this would not constitute workplace harassment since it was only a single incident. This is the kind of moral outrage this flack demonstrates, practices and is lauded for. Big, big mistake. By next Mon Polanski will have hired her as a PR flack and all will be fine and dandy. Estrich constantly used her status as an alleged victim of “rape†to excoriate any and all women who fell before the sexual appetites of her hero and benefactor, Bill Clinton. Every Polanski defense she now declaims she practiced daily on cable television for years. The only thing more disgusting than this fraud masquerading as a caring human being is that so many people who should remember her role in the Clinton rapes and assualts, over years, have forgotten. Shame all around.
(Eric responds from the editor’s chair:)
Why sure, we remember. All of us wrote about it rather a lot, back in the day, on GT and on USEnet. But what are we to do when she, as she has here, gets it correctly?
October 1st, 2009 at 14:54
I don’t mind reading Ms Estrich, but I sure have a tough time when I have to listen. She’s right on with this one.
October 1st, 2009 at 15:14
Ms Estrich has a fine mind and is a fine read provided she does not moo her gender feminist victimhood. I have panned her in the past, and expect I will so again.