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Kevin Spacey faced nearly as many MeToo accusations from men as Bill Cosby did from women. This is why he probably thought that, unlike Cosby, he had gotten off scot-free when the only criminal case against him fell apart. Prosecutors in Connecticut filed felony assault charges against him in 2019 for allegedly getting an 18… Read more.
I was already on record expressing dismay about Bill Cosby’s relatively lenient sentence. As I noted when he got off easy, 3-10 years was a joke from the start. Now comes this dramatic reversal – courtesy of Wednesday’s edition of The New York Times: __________ Bill Cosby was released from prison Wednesday after the Pennsylvania… Read more.
Bill Cosby was just escorted out of the courtroom after being sentenced. He was seen leaving in handcuffs after Judge Steven O’Neill denied him bail. ‘This is a serious crime he was convicted for …,’ the judge said. (CNN, September 25, 2018) Predictably, some black people are crying racism. But they are the same black… Read more.
A jury found Bill Cosby guilty Thursday of [three counts of] drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home near here 14 years ago … each punishable by up to 10 years in state prison, though the sentences could be served concurrently. … The case was the first high-profile trial of the #MeToo era.… Read more.
Sorting through a jury pool already exposed to the blaze of publicity over allegations against Bill Cosby, lawyers and a judge on Monday selected the first five jurors, all of them white, who will weigh whether he committed a sexual assault. The challenge of finding an impartial panel was on full display as jury selection… Read more.
Trump bragged during that now-infamous hot-mic moment on Access Hollywood about being entitled to kiss women on the mouth and grab them by the pussy … because he’s a star. That was just the latest outrage that should have disqualified his presidential campaign. But as I wrote about evangelicals worshipping Trump like a golden calf,… Read more.
Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby received bad tidings of arrest and woe this Christmas season. They arose from a confidential agreement he struck in 2006 to settle a sexual-battery lawsuit. Here, in part, is how I commented on that settlement back then – in “Bill Cosby Pays Off Woman Who Accused Him of Rape,” November 23,… Read more.
Actor/director Judd Apatow and comedian Hannibal Buress made denouncing Bill Cosby, for his sexual predations, a cause celebre this year. But my commentaries — from “Cosby Escapes Sexual Harassment Charges,” February 25, 2005, to “Bill Cosby’s (all too Belated) Fall from Grace,” November 18, 2014 — attest that I’ve been denouncing him for years. A judge has now… Read more.
Last February, Bill Cosby – ‘America’s favorite TV Dad’ (and faithful husband) – escaped prison when prosecutors investigating allegations of sexual assault concluded that they did not have sufficient evidence to convict him, beyond a reasonable doubt, at trial. But no one thought that was the end of the story… Lawyers for his accuser filed motion… Read more.
I find it pathetic when relatively obscure people say outrageous or offensive things just to generate media “buzz.” This, of course, is standard fare on Twitter. Even more pathetic, though, is when social and mainstream media lap it up like Pavlovian dogs, causing that outrageous and offensive blather to go “viral.” I suspect this tail-wagging-the-dog… Read more.
