Phase I: A number of outspoken, incensed jews, dismayed at the arrest of Roman Polanski, spring to his defense peddling patently lame arguments. Their op-eds as well as hard news accounts emphasize Polanski’s status as a holocaust survivor. His crime and flight are minimized. It’s “ancient history”. The expense too great. “We demand the immediate […]
On 9 July 2010, Steven Zeitchik writes Mel Gibson’s mainstream Hollywood career is over — for real, this time: …as sad as it is that someone with all this experience could walk the world in his own bubble of hate, it’s perhaps sadder that it took so many of us this long to realize what […]
Curiouser and curiouser! A defense of Applebaum’s defense of Polanski. Doug MacEachern : Polanski, “Patterico” and Applebaum: Personally, I don’t think Ms. Applebaum wrote a very good column in the first place. And her self-defenses against [Patterico, AKA Patrick] Frey’s increasingly contemptuous attacks were weak. And, for that matter, Frey dug out a legitimate news […]
What a difference a day makes. I underestimated the relevance of this story when it first broke, then miscalculated the direction it would break. Last night at this hour the most self-righteous Polanski defenders were still waxing hyperbolic, issuing demands, acting as if by sticking Polanski’s jewishness in everyone’s face they could ride roughshod over […]
When news of jewish director Roman Polanski’s arrest broke two days ago I excerpted the following details from an early article, Festival says director Polanski in Swiss custody – Yahoo! News (* – see endnote): A native of France who was taken to Poland by his parents, Polanski escaped Krakow’s Jewish ghetto as a child […]
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