So, Roman Polanski, rapist and film director, was let out of prison for the time being. Because, apparently, it’s perfectly acceptable to drug and rape a thirteen-year-old girl, and then flee the country, so long as you’ve directed a couple of good movies.

From Deux Ex Malcontent, here’s Bernard-Henri Lévy’s commentary on Polanski’s release. Levy, by the way, is the asswipe who has been championing Polanski in the press.

The decision to free Roman Polanski is a wise decision. It honors the people who took it. It shows that the arguments developed by the movie director’s partisans — including those published on the French review’s website of ‘La Règle du Jeu’ — have finally been fruitful… At this very moment, I am thinking about Emmanuelle, his wife. I am thinking about his two kids who saw their dad’s name ignominiously dragged through the mud. I am mostly thinking about him: Roman Polanski, who I don’t know, but whose fate has moved me so much. Nothing will repair the days he has spent in prison. Nothing will erase the immense, unbelievable injustice he has been subjected to. Nothing will take away the hysteria of those ones who have never stopped pouring contempt upon him, hounding him through hatred and asking for his punishment as if we were living the darkest and most ferocious hours of the McCarthy era all over again. At least the nightmare is about to end. At least the end of the hell is looming. And this, for the time being, is what does matter.

My brain hurts. Seriously, y’all. Polanski rapes a kid and flees the law, and we finally catch his ass and put him in jail for it, and this jackass, who doesn’t even know the man, is all, “Poor Roman! How he’s suffered! What a terrible injustice!”

Really? Jesus Christ, you insane fucktard, the guy drugged and raped a girl and fled the law. I don’t care how goddamn good his movies are! And you! Standing up for the bastard! Migawd, this man must be the worst kind of attention-whore, fame-seeking, dick-drizzle I’ve seen in the news in ages! How can you look yourself in the face after protesting the punishment of a practically pedophiliac rapist? How do you get to sleep at night?