{"id":191059,"date":"2009-09-29T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/29\/before-i-put-polanski-on-my-list-of\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:02:00","slug":"before-i-put-polanski-on-my-list-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/29\/before-i-put-polanski-on-my-list-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I Put Polanski on My List of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/this-is-oj-and-britney-free-zone-too.html\"> <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">They Who Must Not Be Named<\/span><\/a>, like he cares about whether or not I write about him, let me repeat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2009\/09\/every-time-i-try-to-get-out.html\">what Atrios Said<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>I really was going to try to avoid Polanski blogging, but then Richard Cohen referred to drugging and raping a 13 year old over clear objections as her being &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/postpartisan\/2009\/09\/let_polanski_go_--_but_first_l.html\">seduced<\/a>.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with these people?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was never seduction.<\/p>\n<p>You can argue that he is a talented artist, and he is, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Chinatown<\/span> is brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>You can argue that his trial was ineluctably tainted, by virtue of prosecutorial and judicial misconduct, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Polanski#Charges_and_guilty_plea\">the trial was ineluctably tainted<\/a> by those actions..<\/p>\n<p>You can argue that the time has passed for this, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2009\/09\/29\/crimesider\/entry5349005.shtml\">the victim has<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the coercion, drugging, and penetration of a 13-year old girl is not a &#8220;seduction,&#8221; <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">it&#8217;s a rape<\/span>, and the only reason that moral pygmies like Richard Cohen call it seduction is because they profoundly believe that there should be no consequences for people that they deem consequential.<\/p>\n<p>I do now know whether Roman Polanski is a monster, or a sick victim, but I do know that Richard Cohen is a monster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Who Must Not Be Named, like he cares about whether or not I write about him, let me repeat what Atrios Said: I really was going to try to avoid Polanski blogging, but then Richard Cohen referred to drugging and raping a 13 year old over clear objections as her being &#8216;seduced.&#8217; What is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,969,974,972,1082,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-evil","category-hack-journalism","category-justice","category-they-who-must-not-be-named","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}