Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a 'hooker'

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Source: Fox News

Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski’s rape victim, whom he dubs a “hooker.”

In an interview with The Atlantic, the controversial 83-year-old author of such books as “Myra Breckinridge” and “1876” says of the director’s sex scandal, “I really don’t give a . Look am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s being taken advantage of?”

The young woman to whom he is referring is Samantha Geimer, who was a 13-year-old aspiring model in 1977 when she was drugged and raped by Polanski.

Vidal went on to say that the media pushed an inaccurate image of Geimer, painting her as an innocent victim as opposed to what he believes to be her true identity.

“I was in the middle of all that,” he says of the scandal. “Back then, we all were. Everybody knew everybody else. There was a totally different story at the time that doesn’t resemble anything that we’re now being told.”

Worse, Vidal claims that it is the media’s vehement “anti-Semitic and anti-fag thing” that led to the persecution of Polanski, who is Jewish and was born in Poland....

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Jaw meet floor.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. His legal counsel should get it through to him to STFU.

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2. Could he have been drunk? nt

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3. Link to the actual interview....

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal

To say it's disturbing would be an immense understatement.

"I really don’t give a f***. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?"

[Bicoastal]

4. "See, back in the 70's, ALL women were hookers and we could rape them as much as we pleased..."

Don't bother making a "context" defense--the stuff he says AFTER the title comment is even worse.

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5. Reading the interview is a horrific experience.

It's just too bizarre.

[maddezmom]

6. locking

Not latest breaking news, it's a repackaged news story from Fox from 10/28.