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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Not sure doubt is the right word here, they knew.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

It's the same with Jimmy Saville, everybody knew. I remember chatting on a forum in a thread about celebrities who are absolute assholes. I'm not from the UK, so I didn't know him before somebody in that thread told us about this lady from his little town who was given a small book store by Saville, alledgedly because he had abused her when she was a girl, and threatened to go public. Granted, Sinnead O'Connor took it to another level. And Joe Pesci showed his true colors. What an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He said he wanted to give her a good smacking or something. And he hasn't apologized yet as far as I know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, because tearing a picture is worse than the sexual assault of countless children. What a pos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Totally. I always think of this when people say Muslims overreact about drawings of their prophet or people burning their holy book. There were protests in the streets and famous Catholics like Pesci and Madonna attacked O'Connor in the press. Madonna, it seemed, was even more frustrated because this thing completely removed the attention from her new album that came out around the same time.

Edit: Madonna playing the prude was a nice touch.

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