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Cokie: 'Take Polanski Out and Shoot Him'

He 'drugged and raped a child,' says journalist

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 5, 2009 3:59 AM CDT

(Newser) – It wasn't hard to figure out yesterday where journalist Cokie Roberts stands on the Roman Polanski case. "As far as I'm concerned, just take him out and shoot him," she declared on ABC's This Week. "Roman Polanski is a criminal. He raped and drugged and sodomized a child, and then was a fugitive from justice." Polanski is battling for his freedom from a Swiss jail while he fights US extradition on a 31-year-old Los Angeles rape case.

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AdaptAndOvercome

Oct 5, 2009 12:23 PM CDT

You go Cokie. That S.O.B. has been living high on the hog for 31 years and for 31 years that child has had to live with scars, both mental and physical of what happened. He should rot in jail and that way he'll have plenty of time to think over what he did because he certainly hasn't given much thought to it since and quite frankly if the asshole did it once, bet he did it twice or more, the victims just haven't come out. Sick fucks that like don't just change overnight.

divetrader

Oct 5, 2009 11:40 AM CDT

There goes Cokie...all coked up again. Blabbering away with nary a thought. Not that this is unusual for her. Let's take her out back and shoot her.

Thinker

Oct 5, 2009 11:32 AM CDT

Yes, let's kill them all. Kill them all, Polanski, Letterman, Goldberg ... kill them all! They're criminal and sinful and sexual and black, by god, they all deserve to die! In the meantime, let's erect an homage to Erik Prince of Blackwater/Xe for his contribution to the rape of children and murder of Muslims. After all, the children were just prostitutes so it wasn't rape, and Muslims are almost black, so it's a good thing, right?

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Cokie: 'Take Polanski Out and Shoot Him'