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Posted on 10/17/2009 6:17:02 PM PDT by ventanax5
Three times in the past several weeks, fortune has seemed to beam on conservatives, in unexpected and unprompted ways. Not that they've won much, but their tormentors keep losing. Three days in fall 2009 damaged or neutralized three liberal institutions, whose powers have now been curtailed.
Break number one came on September 26, when Roman Polanski, on his way to collect a lifetime achievement award from the Zurich Film Festival, was intercepted by Swiss police and tossed into prison, pending extradition to the United States, which he had fled 30 years earlier to avoid a jail sentence for drugging and raping a girl of 13 (a crime he had pleaded down to unlawful sex with a minor). This outrage--the arrest, not the rape--stunned the global artistic community, which quickly drew up a petition in protest, signed by la crème de la crème of stage and screen, including Salman Rushdie, Mike Nichols (Mr. Diane Sawyer), Martin Scorsese, Isabelle Huppert, Diane von Furstenberg (Mrs. Barry Diller), and Woody Allen, famous for having married his former flame's daughter, whom he seduced when she was still in her teens. The excuses were many, and flew very fast. Whoopi Goldberg exonerated the French-Polish director on the grounds that it wasn't "rape-rape" and thus not important. French sage Bernard-Henri Lévy, who organized a petition of support, called it a "youthful indiscretion" (Polanski was 43 at the time). Debra Winger, the Zurich festival's president, called the arrest "philistine collusion" with puritanical America and typical of the persecutions that beset
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Great pic.
I love self-made boycott lists.
Really, it’s been a fascinating summer & fall.
Don’t forget also about the townhall meetings that stopped the healthcare rush, Ted Kennedy, WH-vs.-Fox, Rush-vs.-NFL, Joe Wilson, Kanye’s interruption, Khaddafi’s translator giving up ....
Who needs TV anymore??
Long, but well worth the read.
Thanks.
Okay, now that’s just uncalled for.
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