Bill Maher weighs in on Roman Polanski at 6:55 or thereabouts. “I’m certainly not rallying behind him…if you give a 13 year-old girl a quaalude and then do her in the naughty place against her will…if that’s not a crime then I don’t know where we draw the line. This is a case where, yeah…we are too permissive. I don’t want any part of [being behind Polanski]. If you can get away with doing that to a child, I guess you can get away with anything.”
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