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(Strauss)-KAAAAAAAAAHN!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by UPChip, May 14, 2011.

  1. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    What Bubbler said.

    Power corrupts, absolutely. That's true in a capitalist or socialist environment, or any shade in between.
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    French media name the accuser:

     
  4. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    Everbody panic! The French are "outraged" at Strauss-Kahn's treatment!
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/french-outraged-u-treatment-strauss-kahn-123012695.html
     
  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    France's extradition policies are what bit DSK in the ass. If they hadn't let Roman Polanski hide under their cloak all those years, and flaunted a policy of never extraditing one of their own (particularly when it is an American court of law asking), DSK wouldn't be sitting in Rikers Island right now.

    Their delicate sensibilities -- seeing him unshaven and subjected to a perp walk. So, so undignified. The "death by media" quote from the death penalty opponent was especially sweet.

    We get it. France is the self-proclaimed home of human rights. Of course, the self-rightous bullshit doesn't hide the fact that there isn't a French jail that doesn't make Rikers look like the suite DSK was in at the Sofitel. And Rikers is a hell hole.

    They have a law barring showing someone in handcuffs before he's convicted. They do those kinds of laws so well. They love to proclaim how much more sensitive to human rights they are compared to the rest of us. Of course, then the guy gets sent to a place the European Court of Human Rights has continuously labeled inhumane. But it's OK, I guess, because they guarantee your right to a shave on the way over to court.

    The French are dying to point out how dignified and discrete and fair they are compared to us barbarians. Unfortunately, it's a lot like the leader of a political party that claims it is committed to social justice having a taste for champagne and caviar and luxury hotel suites paid for by the people whose welfare he's committed to looking out for.
     
  6. Killick

    Killick Well-Known Member

    Personally, I'm outraged of the treatment of the victim — who the French have now named in the media. So concerned about the suspect (with the track record of sleeze), so much less concerned about the victim. How dare she expect to do her job without dodging the sagging, wizened nutsack of an aged lothario.

    Vivre le France!
     
  7. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    Yeah, damn them for actually suggesting the presumption of innocence! He obviously did it! Who needs a trial?! Lock the perv up!
     
  8. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    Ben Roethlisberger, John Edwards, The Govenerator, Elliot Spitzer and Kobe Bryant all agree with you.
     
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

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  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    You forgot the clubhouse leader -- Slick Willie. His would be a more apt example, given the similar circumstances with Paula Corbin Jones and Juanita Broadrick.

    When it comes down to it the only difference between Clinton and Strauss was that neither Jones or Broderick called the police.

    Clinton was also helped by NOW staying mute.

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  11. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Depending on what he did to her, this should at least have DSK freaking out as he sits in his jail cell:

    The article also describes in great detail that there is DNA available for testing. No wonder they're going with a "consensual sex" defense.
     
  12. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Leave it to the Post.

    Eric Ripert, the French-American chef, has tweeted his objections to this headline:

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    @ericripert -- Eric Ripert

    NY POST Your headline is so intolerant & unacceptable! I m no socialist & surely no fan of IMF guy but CmonThis is low! yfrog.com/h23zqaivj
     
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