True, Leftists don't care about such things unless it is a rightward leaning politician. Then wiping your hand under a toilet stall or sending text messages becomes part of the culture of corruption mantra of these supposedly disinterested Leftists. In matters of forced criminal sexual encounters Leftists merely shrug off the event and degrade it to mere sex scandal status.
But as I posted, Leftist Euronews is frantically attempting to cover for their boy wonder over here saying that the defence for what is looking more like a sexual predator of the worst kind is that he was not even in the hotel when it happened but this story has changed to consensual sex, leaving such stations looking ever so confused as to what to do for their socialist icon. Plus it is a tad convenient say the breathless Leftists that a few days before a very important meeting for the EU and IMF, then suddenly he gets arrested in the US for attempted rape. Of course this is a set-up say the Leftists and claiming it is not the first time such a thing has happened... and point to wikileaks as their defense. Leftists of course are willing to believe some evil party decided to put their entire political foundation on the line by using a maid from a hotel in NYC to engage and defile this great Frenchman.
Of course you have proof that this leisurely lunch took place right?
It seems that the liberals posting are almost willing to give the guy a pass, and say that nothing happened, or the "innocent til proven...." line.
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well in that case it was only the anal rape of a child, so it's more understandable...
Oh ok, I was wondering why you posted it as if it were fact.
Usually this is done when the content is factual.
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The allegations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who stepped down as chief of the International Monetary Fund after being charged with seven counts including attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment, are just that, allegations. He's been indicted, not convicted. But half the French establishment knew about what they called his woman problem, and at least one previous accusation of harassment. It was an open secret. "Everyone knows that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a libertine," said Gilles Savary, a member of the European Parliament Socialist party. He "doesn't try to hide it."
DSK, as he's known, is almost a classic villain—elegant, august, satyrlike in his multithousand-dollar suits and his multithousand-dollar suite. He is the perfect "champagne socialist," as they're now calling him, who preys on the weak—for who is less defended and more at the mercy of the world than a 32-year-old hotel maid, a widow, a West African immigrant working to support herself and her daughter?
But what is most startling about the story is not the charge that a powerful man did a dreadful thing. It is the utter and profound difference between the U.S. response to the story and the French response.
America was immediately sympathetic to the underdog. The impulse of every media organization, from tabloid to broadsheet to cable to network, was to side with the powerless one in the equation. The cops, the hotel's managers, the District Attorney's office—everyone in authority gave equal weight and respect to the word of the maid. Only in America (and not always in America) would they have taken the testimony of the immigrant woman from Africa and dragged the powerful man out of his first-class seat in the jet at JFK.
In France, the exact opposite. There, from the moment the story broke, DSK was the victim, not the villain. It was a setup, a trap, a conspiracy. He has a weakness for women. No, he loves them too much. Hairy-chested poseur and Sarkozy foreign-policy adviser Bernard-Henri Levy sneeringly referred to "the chambermaid," brayed about DSK's high standing, and called him "a friend to women." Jean Daniel, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur, sniffily asked why "the supposed victim was treated as worthy and beyond suspicion."
Why wouldn't she be treated as worthy, buddy? One is tempted to ask if it's the black part, the woman part or the immigrant part.
As David Rieff wrote in The New Republic, to French intellectuals, DSK deserves special treatment because he is a valuable person. "The French elites' consensus seems to be that it is somehow Strauss-Kahn himself and not the 32-year-old maid who is the true victim of this drama."
Americans totally went for the little guy. The French went for the power.
Lafayette would weep.
Someone once sniffed, "In America they call waiters 'Sir.' " Bien sur, my little bonbon. It's part of our unlost greatness.
Peggy Noonan points out the difference between the American response and the French response.
Yea, I know, that stupid constitution that the right constantly quotes in their never ending quest for gun ownership would have no relevance when it comes to the judicial system. "Innocent until proven guilty" is stupid. If the man was arrested for it, he did it, right? :roll:
Goodbye conservative party, I'm glad I left you in the dust. I happen to think the constitution, all parts of it, are equally important and valid. Go cling to your guns.
Marc Semo, foreign editor the French newspaper Libération, confirms this perception. ...With Strauss-Kahn it was a joke around the newsroom. We’d say, ‘If you want to get a good interview, send a young female reporter.’ ”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s open secret - World - Macleans.ca
The above is from a sick mind... 15 minutes alone with this perverted predatory jerk, and he'd be a bloodied mass of protoplasm.
The incredible level of arrogance pisses me off to no end... and then we have the French and many in the International press, for they knew the score... these folks are accomplices, they're equally callous too, as the following line reveals...
So, this ethical journalist knew he was a pervert, and the best way to get an interview was to use women as rape bait. Gotta hand it to those Europeans, they've got morals and ethics.
What a disgusting lot.
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People dance to the magic wand. Rarely know is that he was arrested for not funding bankrupt USA.
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ROTFLOL... that's a hilarious website. :lamo
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Arnold Schwarzenegger 'mistress' claims she was just one of many women who shattered his 25-year marriage
By Daily Mail Reporter
17th May 2011
After announcing his separation from wife Maria Shriver this week, a woman has alleged she was just one of many mistresses that shattered Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 25-year marriage.
The 63-year-old Terminator actor denies an affair with Gigi Goyette, but the 52-year-old woman has said: ‘There were so many other women. About 13 have come out of the woodwork.’
She claims she met Schwarzenegger in 1975, when she was a 16-year-old child actress on Little House On The Prairie.
Arnold Schwarzenegger 'mistress' Gigi Goyette claims she was just one of many women | Mail Online