September 2009

Whoopi Goldberg: Polanski’s Child Victim Wasn’t Raped

by La Shawn on 09.29.09

in Liberals

I’ll admit it. I like some of her movies, but I loathe her politics. Her portrayal of Guinan on one of my all-time favorite series, “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” always gave me a she’s-not-so-bad impression every time I watched an episode with her in it.

But using her national platform to excuse the rape of a drugged 13-year-old, and even saying it wasn’t rape, is the proverbial straw that broke this camel’s back.

The question is, will more feminists in the blogosphere speak out against Whoopi Goldberg, or will they defend and excuse a fellow feminist the way she defends and excuses child rapist Roman Polanski?

Get her, Sherri!

And get a load of Melissa “Laura Ingalls” Gilbert. Good grief.

Why the hair-trigger urge to defend Polanski instead of bringing the full weight of your defense for the child? Unless you’re his defense lawyer, it’s misguided. Is it an effort to be “fair” or “objective”? Don’t get it at all.

Update: People are focusing on Goldberg’s “it wasn’t rape-rape” comment. Bad enough, yes, but the really awful parts are when she said straight out the drugged 13-year-old was not raped, and her rationale for saying so. Watch the first video in this post.

Previous post: WP Columnist Defends Roman Polanski

WP Columnist Defends Roman Polanski

by La Shawn on 09.28.09

in Liberals, Media Bias

…and fails to disclose that her husband is lobbying for his release.

In 1977, 44-year-old movie director Roman Polanski pled guilty to raping a drunk and drugged 13-year-old girl. After plea-bargaining the drug/rape/sodomy charges down to unlawful sexual conduct with a child under 14 and serving 42 days for the evaluation period, Polanski fled to England, then France, to avoid extradition. He’d been on the run ever since. Until September 26. Polanski was arrested in Switzerland.

Anne Applebaum, Washington Post columnist, defended the child rapist, writing that he “can be blamed, it is true, for his original, panicky decision to flee. But for this decision I see mitigating circumstances, not least an understandable fear of irrational punishment. Polanski’s mother died in Auschwitz. His father survived Mauthausen. He himself survived the Krakow ghetto, and later emigrated from communist Poland. His pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered in 1969 by the followers of Charles Manson, though for a time Polanski himself was a suspect.”

Got it? That Polanski and his family were in concentration camps and his wife was murdered are “mitigating circumstances” to his avoiding serving time for drugging and violating an intoxicated child. This was a column Applebaum should have written just to get it off her chest, then deleted. I’ve done the same many times myself.

Blogger Patterico found out that Applebaum’s husband, Radoslaw Sikorski, is a Polish politician who’s lobbying for the dismissal of Polanski’s case, and Applebaum failed to disclose this fact.

Uncovering this kind of thing is one of the reasons people blog. Back in the day, you had to find undisclosed conflicts of interest going through hard-copy documents (if you lacked personal knowledge), then calling the newspaper and/or sending a letter to the editor. Nowadays, a few minutes on Google and a blog will do.

Addendum: In a child rapist’s defense, Applebaum said it’s possible Polanski didn’t know the victim’s real age. Not likely, since he had to obtain the mother’s permission for the so-called photo shoot. Forgot to mention that part, and was reminded reading Hot Air.

Check out Polanski’s grand jury testimony.

Jew Boy Comment: Real or Hoax?

by La Shawn on 09.28.09

in Liberals, Lunacy

Have you heard the latest? Alex Rosenwald, media outreach director for Americans for Limited Government (ALG), says an NBC producer named Jane Stone got nasty in response to the group’s e-mail critical of ACORN. As you may recall, ACORN’s the organization that advises people how to cheat the government and set up whorehouses.

Rosenwald claims Stone responded to his e-mail this way: “Bite me Jew boy!”

Stone and NBC are denying she sent that particular response. She says her response was a simple, “Take me off this list!”

From: Stone, Jane (NBC Universal)
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:57 PM
To: ‘arosenwald@getliberty.org’
Subject: Re: ALG Calls on Congress to “Put Up or Shut Up” on Defunding ACORN

Take me off this list!

————————–
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

From: Stone, Jane (NBC Universal) [Jane.Stone@nbcuni.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:57 PM
To: Alex Rosenwald
Subject: Re: ALG Calls on Congress to “Put Up or Shut Up” on Defunding ACORN

Bite me Jew boy!

————————–
Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld

Newsbusters’s Matt Sheffield asked ALG for the message’s header, which the group is supposed to send today. Until that happens, it’s he said/she said, so I’ll reserve comments until then. But I will say this: I hope it’s not a hoax. Liberals bloggers, reporters, and everyone else will jump all over it, and rightly so, and try to discredit conservatives.

I have doubts about Stone’s alleged response, because I can’t imagine a producer being that stupid. Wait a second…yes, I can.

A couple years ago, a cable news producer e-mailed and asked for my comment on the Don “nappy-headed hos” Imus mess, which I’d intended to ignore. Later that day, I got an e-mail from someone from a Yahoo! account with the same name. The man called me an a**hole and a self-hater because I criticized Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, for promising to repeal a 1913 law that prohibited out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if the marriage would be illegal in their home state.

I e-mailed the dude at his work (twice) and Yahoo! accounts, trying to figure out what was going on. I received no reply from either account. I concluded that I’d caught a cable network producer red-handed sending hate e-mail from his work computer. I figured if he were not the Yahoo! person, he’d quickly e-mail back to set the record straight. He didn’t.

I could’ve turned his stupidity into a big ruckus but chose not to, though I’m sure he was sweating bullets. That was revenge enough for me. I still have both e-mails. Maybe I’ll shoot him an e-mail just to say, “Hi!”

Lila Rose Is Getting Things Done

by La Shawn on 09.22.09

in Child Killing

Young, full of energy, and passionate about protecting unborn life. I raise my cup of lemon ginger tea to “Lila Rose” of Live Action Films, Planned Parenthood-butt kicker.

This woman is making things happen. Compared to all the ruckus she’s causing, awareness she’s raising, and great things she’s accomplishing, I’m walking in place, staring at the wall! Sheesh.

As you may recall, she goes undercover posing as a girl knocked up by her adult boyfriend, and catches employees on tape advising her to cover up statutory rape. Her undercover videos have resulted in pulled Planned Parenthood funding. By the way, I put her name in quotes because I always assumed it was a pseudonym. Might be first and middle name.

Listen to her 2009 Values Voter Summit speech, given on September 18. To make women feel less guilty killing their babies, abortion mill workers dehumanize the life growing inside. Watch the video for details about “first trimester matter.”

Living Colour in Living Color

September 22, 2009

Update: My bad! I assumed the band only recently got back together, as others have. Not true. Lead singer Corey Glover said, “People need to know we’ve been back together for nine years. This new record should help people get the facts straight.” No, he didn’t tell me personally, but I hope to personally get [...]

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Twilight of Bloody Music

September 17, 2009

A brief interruption, if I may, from blogging about ACORN employees with “contacts” in Tijuana advising a “pimp” and his “whore” how to operate a whorehouse without getting caught and smuggle girls into the country to turn tricks. (And claim the child tax credit!) I developed a weird fascination with how digital technology has changed [...]

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ACORN Worker Has Contacts in Tijuana Re: Child Prostitute Smuggling

September 17, 2009

Update II: Ha! The old “English isn’t my first language” trick. Update: ACORN guy with “contacts” in Tijuana fired. Congress cuts off ACORN funding. *** I kiddeth not. Instead of calling the police, an ACORN employee (probably former now) who works on “immigration concerns” listens casually as the “pimp” and “whore” talk about smuggling girls [...]

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New York Times on ACORN

September 16, 2009

Update: Mission almost accomplished? ACORN suspends new-client operations. More videos to come? Check out Big Government. *** This story should have been on the front page above the fold, not on page 14. But I suppose one should be “grateful” the Gray Lady covered it at all. Need I say, if this were a conservative [...]

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Tiller v. Pouillon Murders

September 15, 2009

When infant killer George Tiller was gunned down on May 31, pro- and anti-abortion groups condemned the murder. Planned Parenthood issued a statement. The President of the United States issued a statement. The U.S. Attorney General issued a statement. Within hours. On a Sunday. Contrast this with the murder of the pro-life Jim Pouillon, gunned [...]

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ACORN’s Intelligence Deficiency – Updated

September 15, 2009

***Scroll for updates*** You’ve got to be pretty stupid to fall for this. It’s old news (in blog-time), but I’m doing five things at once these days. Anyway, so you’ve heard about ACORN, the leftist, taxpayer-supported group involved in voter fraud and acquiring mortgage loans for people who can’t afford the loans, and then shouting, [...]

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Retro: A Religious and Unconventional War

September 11, 2009

Excerpted from September 11, 2006: Conventionally, countries fight wars against other countries. Territory is well-defined, and the objective — unconditional surrender — is clear. World War II is always a good illustration. Adolf Hitler’s desire for power obviously consumed him. As he marched through Europe, plotting, conquering, and destroying, weaker or just plain cowardly countries [...]

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Retro: Meeting John MacArthur

September 11, 2009

From November 10, 2008: “Keep that blog going!” John MacArthur said after signing my Bible and adding the citation Joshua 1:8: “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. [...]

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Thomas’s Struggle

September 9, 2009

Update: A Facebook commenter writes: “Friends of mine were advised by Yale medical to abort their baby because he had a heart defect. He’s doing quite well in a graduate program at Purdue University right now.” Wow. *** Last year I listened to a pregnant caller on Dr. Laura’s radio show, who carried a baby [...]

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Slouching Toward Tyranny

September 9, 2009

Some people can’t hack it in a free society. They want the government to manage every part of their lives, from the time they realize they have to work for a living until they’re ready for the grave. Such people are afraid of “cold” capitalism and the “rugged individualism” upon which the country was built–two [...]

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All Work and No Play

September 3, 2009

…makes La Shawn a dull girl. All work and no play makes La Shawn a dull girl. All work and no play makes La Shawn a dull girl. All work and no play makes La Shawn a dull girl. All work and no play makes La Shawn a dull girl. All work and no play [...]

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