The Conservative Pussy Posse is charging full speed ahead with their latest pack of smears and lies. They have really got the bit in their mouths on this one. What there really needs to be is "Zero Tolerance" for this kind of lying media garbage and character assassination spewing all over the public airwaves. The airwaves belong to the public, and our nation is being woefully short-changed by these Right-Wing media charlatans.
From Media Matters for America -- October 8, 2009
Yet another outrageous smear of Jennings: Conservative media compare Jennings to Polanski
http://mediamatters.org/items/200910080016
As part of their smear campaign against Obama Education Department official Kevin Jennings, conservative media figures including Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter have compared Jennings to film director Roman Polanski, stating -- in the words of Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers -- that "there needs to be zero tolerance for this kind of stuff," specifically citing Jennings and "the Roman Polanski stuff." Thus, media conservatives are smearing Jennings -- who counseled someone who was of age at the time and who has said he did not have a sexual relationship -- with the outrageous suggestion that he is comparable to Polanski, who was charged with rape and pleaded guilty to having sex with a girl who was 13 at the time after allegedly plying her with drugs and alcohol.
Polanski pleaded guilty to sex with 13-year-old; Jennings counseled someone who was of age
Polanski pleaded guilty to sex act with 13-year-old. Polanski fled the United States after pleading guilty to a charge of having sex with an underage girl. According to grand jury testimony by the victim, Polanski had plied the girl with pills and alcohol before having sex with her. According to her grand jury testimony, the victim said she was "afraid" of Polanski, and repeatedly told him "no" and asked to go home.
By contrast, Jennings counseled a person who was of age. As Media Matters for America has documented, Jennings' attorney stated in 2004 that the conversation conservatives have focused on was with "a sixteen-year-old student" -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts -- and that there "is no factual basis whatsoever for" the "claim that Mr. Jennings engaged in unethical practices, or that he was aware of any sexual victimization of any student, or that he declined to report any sexual victimization at any time." On October 2, Media Matters published a statement from the student in question, who said he was "of legal consent at the time" -- a statement confirmed by his driver's license -- and that he "had no sexual contact with anybody at the time, though I was entirely legally free to do so."
Powers echoes Hannity's calls to fire Jennings, cites Polanski and calls for "zero tolerance for this kind of stuff"
Powers: Jennings "should be fired" because "there needs to be zero tolerance for this kind of stuff ... like the Roman Polanski stuff." Asked by Sean Hannity on his Fox News program about "our safe schools czar," Fox News contributor and New York Post columnist Kirsten Powers stated that "the reason I would say he should be fired" is that "there needs to be zero tolerance for this kind of stuff. Because when you start saying, like, the Roman Polanski stuff was so disgusting, you know, and just -- and just appalling." Hannity stated, "He raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl that he pumped full of drugs." [Hannity, 10/7/09]
Limbaugh says to understand "libs" reaction to Polanski, you have to look at Jennings
Limbaugh: "So if you wonder why the libs are really ticked off that Roman Polanski might be extradited," look at Jennings. From The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: So if you wonder why the libs are really ticked off that Roman Polanski might be extradited to face the music on that long-ago act with the 13-year-old girl, Quaaludes and rape, understand that Obama's safe schools czar is a guy promoting homosexuality in the schools and encouraged a 15-year-old kid to have a homosexual relationship with an older man, and even facilitated it. [9/28/09]
Hannity repeatedly brings up Polanski while discussing Jennings
Hannity: Jennings "[j]ust like with the Roman Polanski thing." During a discussion of Jennings on October 7, Hannity said: "Do you think I am wrong to demand he be fired and stay on this? And when you now get into the NAMBLA, the praise of this guy Harry Hay, it throws me over the top. Just like with the Roman Polanski thing. This is about children. This is about -- he's a sophomore in high school."
Hannity: "[L]et me expand the argument" about Jennings to Polanski. After a falsehood-laden discussion of Jennings and other Obama administration officials on October 1, Hannity said on his Fox News program, "Let me ask -- let me expand the argument in this sense. We've been dealing with the issue of Polanski for the last number of nights here on this program, and I'm shocked. You know, here's a guy, he pumps a 13-year-old girl full of Quaaludes and alcohol 30 years ago. He's 44, she's 13. He -- he sodomizes this girl, and more than a number of Hollywood liberals are saying we should not put him in jail." Guest Rev. Jacques DeGraff responded, "In New York City the hero of the Super Bowl two years ago is sitting in a prison cell right now because actions have -- actions have consequences." Hannity then interjected: "Except if you're Kevin Jennings."
Hannity "dovetail[s]" discussion of Jennings into discussion of Polanski. On September 30, Hannity said: "I want to get into this Roman Polanski issue. But I want to start with some news that we -- we have tonight. ... We have the safe schools czar, a guy by the name of Kevin Jennings, OK? And he -- he writes this book, and he gives information to a 15-year-old. ABC News and Jake Tapper write about this tonight. A 15-year-old sophomore, and his advice to him when he -- when he's having a gay relationship is, you know, 'Did you use a condom?' He knew it was an older adult. Now, as The Washington Times said, at the very least, statutory rape occurred. And he didn't report it." After discussing Jennings for several minutes, Hannity said, "Let me dovetail into the Roman Polanski issue."
Coulter compares Jennings to Polanski "anally raping a 13-year-old girl"
Coulter compares Jennings writing the forward of a book to Polanski "anally raping a 13-year-old." On October 1, right-wing commentator Ann Coulter said to Hannity during a discussion of Jennings: "I liked your list at the beginning of all the problems [President] Obama has had with all the czars and appointees and cabinet nominees, but I have a slightly different list. You have ACORN encouraging and counseling these -- these two, well, actors as it turns out, how to avoid taxes, how to bring Salvadoran sex slaves into the country, underage girls. You have all of Hollywood and -- and media elites defending Roman Polanski for anally raping a 13-year-old. And now you have this guy who's written the introduction to Queering Elementary Education. I mean, that is the issue here. And you mentioned Bill Ayers. This -- can't you just let kids be kids? No, they want to sexualize -- sexualize kids. And forget the homosexual aspect of it; just sexualizing kids generally and teaching them about how to come out or how to deal with homosexuality in kindergarten. It's monstrous what they're doing." [10/1/09]
American Spectator contributor: "Pelosi to Polanski to Jennings: Why Sean Hannity Is Right"
Lord in American Spectator: "a left-wing philosophy that doesn't blink about adults sexually preying on kids" is "showing up" in Polanski petition, "placement of Mr. Jennings." American Spectator contributor Jeffrey Lord wrote an October 6 piece headlined, "Pelosi to Polanski to Jennings: Why Sean Hannity Is Right." In the piece -- which Media Matters for America senior fellow Eric Boehlert noted advances the false assertion that Jennings was "sought out by a 15-year-old boy asking for advice about an affair with an older adult male" -- Lord said of Jennings and Polanski:
It is this sentiment that manifested itself with San Francisco honoring Harry Hay, knowing full well he was famous for his advocacy of adult male sex with "thirteen, fourteen and fifteen year old " boys. It showed up with Nancy Pelosi and the entire San Francisco political establishment happily marching behind Harry Hay, never uttering a peep of objection. And now it is showing up in arenas as diverse as the petition demanding the release of Mr. Polanski and the placement of Mr. Jennings in, of all places, the United States Department of Education -- where Jennings is laughably charged with the issue of school safety.
What's really going on here is the slow-motion injection into the American political and social mainstream of what might be called "Hayism" 8 -- the core idea that sex between adults and children is just no big deal. Not for the boys of Harry Hay, not for Nancy Pelosi and the San Francisco political establishment (she wasn't marching alone, you know), not for Roman Polanski and his rich, famous, and powerful friends in Hollywood and the international film community, and -- more to the point -- not for the Obama White House, which has appointed Mr. Jennings.
Polanski comparison one of several smears against Jennings
Conservative media falsely claim Jennings covered up statutory rape. As Media Matters has documented, Fox News and its websites Fox Nation and FoxNews.com repeatedly advanced the falsehood that Jennings, in the words of Fox News host Bill Hemmer, knew of a "statutory rape" and "never reported it."
Rove falsely claimed Jennings advocated for NAMBLA. On October 7, after Hannity introduced his Fox News show by asking, "Does Kevin Jennings support the group NAMBLA?" Karl Rove falsely claimed that Jennings had engaged in "high-profile, in-your-face advocacy of things like NAMBLA and gay rights and queering elementary school curricula." Neither Rove nor Hannity provided any evidence that Jennings has ever "support[ed]" -- let alone engaged in "high-profile, in-your-face advocacy" of -- NAMBLA, and Rove's suggestion that support for "gay rights" is somehow related to support for NAMBLA is a smear.
It is truly about time to start getting some of these Conservative libel and slander artists off the public airwaves.
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Here we go again. Rationalizing a defense for a man who was "INSPIRED BY A PEDOPHILE". Let me ask you CJP because I want to know if your bias blinds you. Is there a liberal that you have denounced because they were so far over the top that you just couldn't go along with it?
HOTR:
Strom Thurmond was a racist and a segregationist. He lived to age 90 and served many years in the United States Senate.
During the course of his long life, I'm sure that Thurmond did many good things -- so much so that, when he died, many members of the U. S. Senate were able to make speeches praising him for his positive accomplishments.
Does that make those Senators racists and segregationists? Does that mean that they endorsed Thurmond's segregationist positions?
If that were so, then most of the U. S Senate would have had to resign. Most of those senators found good things to say about Strom, not because of, but in spite of, his racist views.
The same thing applies here. Kevin Jennings had good things to say about Harry Hay -- that Hay "inspired him" -- because Hay did do good things. Hay founded the Mattachine Society in 1948, which was the first major gay civil rights organization in America.
Do those words of praise mean that Jennings supports Hay's other organization, NAMBLA, or that Jennings is in favor of pedophilia? Nonsense. No more so than a senator praising Strom Thurmond is thereby showing his support of segregation.
Only a charlatan would try to make that connection, and only a fool would believe him.
"Let me ask you CJP because I want to know if your bias blinds you. Is there a liberal that you have denounced because they were so far over the top that you just couldn't go along with it?"
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it. You're ok with Jennings being inspired by a pedophile. Can you answer my question please?
CJP are you receiving money or any product or service or rent from a leftist defense fund. Or is it blind party devotion. Or maybe you like being the Devil's Advocate. On this issue though you end up being more than an advocate.
CJP you get paid to smear neocons, but its bad if someone does it to your side. That is your job why is it bad when others get employment doing the same to your side.
Anonymous:
I don't get paid to smear the Neo-cons. It's a Labor of Love.
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