Cokie Roberts On Polanski: "Just Take Him Out and Shoot Him" (VIDEO)

jus_the_facts

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:11 PM
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Cokie Roberts On Polanski: "Just Take Him Out and Shoot Him" (VIDEO)

"Roman Polanski is a criminal," Roberts said on ABC's "This Week." "He raped and drugged and raped and sodomized a child. And then was a fugitive from justice. As far as I'm concerned, just take him out and shoot him."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/04/cokie-roberts-on-polanski_n_309084.html

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scheming daemons

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:19 PM
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1. I agree with the sentiment... though not the punishment

I'm anti-death penalty.

I say lock him up for the rest of his natural life.

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anonymous171

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Tue Oct-06-09 12:48 AM
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17. Agreed. nt

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Cleita

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:19 PM
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2. All this public talk of killing people

worries me. Polanski is a douche bag, but it isn't up to us to pass judgement. That's for our legal system to do. I think Roberts need her head examined or at the very least a nice talk from her superiors about appropriate language over the air waves. Talk like that sets off nut jobs like Jack Ruby into acting on it.

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Forkboy

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:43 PM
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10. Blood and death...the American way!

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proteus_lives

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Tue Oct-06-09 02:32 AM
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22. Well, he admitted it. So I do pass judgment on him.

But I don't want him dead. I want him in prison for the rest of his days.

"Talk like that sets off nut jobs like Jack Ruby into acting on it." That kind of talk worries me. Sometimes I think that meme is used to absolve people of personal responsibility.

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Barack_America

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:20 PM
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3. Yikes! She's one tough Cokie!

:eyes:

Can you remind me of the last time she added something useful to a debate?

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DavidDvorkin

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:23 PM
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4. Gosh, I hate to think what she wants done to Dubya!

Oh, wait.

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Barack_America

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:24 PM
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6. Psst.

Those were brown children.

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Forkboy

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:45 PM
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12. +1

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DavidDvorkin

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:59 PM
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14. Oops. Right you are.

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kestrel91316

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:23 PM
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5. Sorry, Cokie, we don't live in Stalinist Russia, Perhaps you could

move to Saudi Arabia or Iran if you want to dispense with THE RULE OF LAW and Constitutional rights.

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:27 PM
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Forkboy

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:42 PM
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8. You're almost as much a charmer as Polanski.

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abelenkpe2

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:42 PM
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9. WTF?!

This talk of shooting people, passing the judge and jury part of law is not the path this country should take and not the type of thing public figures should say or encourage.

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Forkboy

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:44 PM
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11. I would expect nothing less from Cokie.

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DBoon

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Mon Oct-05-09 12:56 PM
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13. when someone decides Cokie should be taken out and shot

there will be no laws left to defend her.

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saltpoint

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Tue Oct-06-09 12:41 AM
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15. Lucky for Cokie that the law does not sanction taking crap journalists out

and shooting them.

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Forkboy

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Tue Oct-06-09 12:43 AM
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16. As she's no journalist she'd be safe.

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saltpoint

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Tue Oct-06-09 12:49 AM
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18. : ) Yep. She really has not added one iota of substantive analysis, IMO,

to either those early-morning NPR stints or to the ABC roundtable.

I've had to tune her out altogether just to avoid being bored to bits.

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The Midway Rebel

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Tue Oct-06-09 12:50 AM
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19. And to think I used to admire the old bag. n/t

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Ikonoklast

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Tue Oct-06-09 01:02 AM
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20. Good idea. She can pull the trigger, since she thought of it.

See how easy it is to spew bullshit platitudes about justice compared to actually carrying out those very same judgments.

Just like I believe every judge that hands down a death sentence should be the executioner, and every jury forced to witness the carrying out of their verdict.

It would be different up close and personal.

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fujiyama

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Tue Oct-06-09 02:01 AM
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21. Polansky's a piece of shit IMO

but frankly, I wouldn't mind if Cokie accepted an invitation to go hunting with Dick Cheney.

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ConsAreLiars

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Tue Oct-06-09 03:15 AM
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23. All that faux outrage, and yet when Iraqi and Afghan children

are blown into pieces, mutilated for life, and traumatized in ways that none here can even imagine, these self-aggrandizing rabble-rousing moralizers remain utterly indifferent and silent. Disgusting.

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seabeyond

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Tue Oct-06-09 07:19 AM
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24. cause really, one cannot be outraged with a rape AND concerned with others lives in other situations

at the same time. :sarcasm:

it just MUST be false outrage and condemnation of rape must be moralizing

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marmar

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Tue Oct-06-09 07:23 AM
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25. I feel the same way about the Washington Press Corps, Cokie......

nt/

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