Shorter BHL: "Nobody will stop me from defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn against the many conveniently uncited people who believe that he should be convicted without a trial or due process protections. I also don't understand that the presumption of innocence is a legal concept that doesn't...
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Scocca on BHL: [I]f your goal is to push back against the tide of public opinion condemning your friend as an arrogant, hopelessly entitled sexual predator, it's maybe not wise.
As appalling as the reactions to the rape sexual assault* of Lara Logan that Mary Elizabeth Williams discusses are, the comments are actually worse. [via] ...see also. And also. *Corrected,.
One of the keys to interpreting reactions to the arrest of Roman Polanski is understanding that, culturally speaking, a lot of sexual assaults aren't considered crimes by the men or.
Shorter Verbatim Bernard Henri-Levy: "I am mostly thinking about him: Roman Polanski, who I don't know, but whose fate has moved me so much. Nothing will repair the days he has spent in prison. Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected...
"A. She Was A Who-were."I'm surprised Farley -- whose contempt for the man of letters in question might exceed my own -- didn't beat me to this. But via Edroso,.
This NYT story argues that the American legal system and the culture in general have become far less lenient toward adults having sex with minors since the wild and crazy.
Guy whose primary work in film involved casting soft-porn flicks calls rape of 13-year-old "a little thing" in rising to the defense of Roman Polanski. Further commentary is presumably rendered superfluous.
In today's edition, Anne Applebaum attempts to further explain the many complexities that make it "outrageous" that someone who raped a 13-year-old and fled the authorities after pleading guilty was.
Greenwald, on Fred Hiatt criticizing "French" and "Hollywood" defenses of Polanski while ignoring the defenses of Polanski on his own op-ed page:But the last thing that ought to be surprising.