ABC: The View - Season 13, Episode 15 (September 28th, 2009)
Whoopi Goldberg defends child rapist Roman Polanski shortly after he was arrested in Switzerland.
video posted by 'Hayes Thomas' (August 21st, 2012): https://www.youtube.com/wa…
ABC: The View - Season 13, Episode 15 (September 28th, 2009)
Whoopi Goldberg defends child rapist Roman Polanski shortly after he was arrested in Switzerland.
video posted by 'Hayes Thomas' (August 21st, 2012): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZskUvAGyjQ
"Hollywood has rallied behind Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland over the weekend, with the actor Whoopi Goldberg suggesting that whatever he was guilty of it wasn't 'rape-rape'."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-whoopi-goldberg
"Whoopi Goldberg, in a condescending rant ostensibly about clarifying exactly what Roman Polanski was charged with (as if that matters, when nobody is denying that he drugged and had sex with a child), can't seem to find them. She seems obsessed with the actual charges to which Polanski pleaded guilty (sex with a minor), and refers to the case as a 'suit,' as if it's a civil lawsuit about a roach in a box of french fries."
https://jezebel.com/whoopi-on-roman-polanski-it-wasnt-rape-rape-5369395
"Whoopi was trying to create different categories of the rape experience, when she was actually trying to zero in on the correct legal term for the crime Polanski plead guilty to."
https://www.mediaite.com/online/whoopi-goldberg-on-polanski-crime-it-wasnt-rape-rape/
"Second up in the disappointment stakes is Michael Mansfield, QC who on Radio 4’s morning programme today argued that Polanski should be treated 'compassionately' and because his crime wasn’t as bad as genocide in Guinea and Darfur it shouldn’t be prosecuted."
https://thefword.org.uk/2009/09/polanski_part_i/
"Polanski was convicted of unlawful sex with a minor, but only because he struck a plea bargain in exchange for the dismissal of charges of rape, sodomy, molestation, and giving drugs to a minor."
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/lachlan-markay/2009/09/29/views-whoopi-goldberg-polanski-it-wasnt-rape-rape
"Polanski then fled the US to Switzerland in 1978 before ever being sentenced for the crime and was then pursued around the world by prosecutors."
https://nationalfile.com/flashback-whoopi-goldberg-defends-roman-polanski-suggests-it-wasnt-real-rape/
"Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen are among a group of people in the film industry who have signed a petition objecting to the 76-year-old director's arrest...More than 100 people - including Tilda Swinton, Monica Bellucci, David Lynch and Terry Gilliam - have put their names on the document, which calls for Polanski's release from the Swiss jail where he is currently being held."
http://archive.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2009/09/30/whoopi_goldberg_defends_polanski/
"The director's lawyers have made a legal petition asking the Swiss Criminal Court to release him from custody and block his extradition to the US."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10600710
