Emmy, Grammy, & Peabody award winning entertainer Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to 3-10 years in prison for sexually assaulting one Andrea Constand a number of years ago.
The problem ye scribe has with this is the fact that a lot of the allegations raised against Cosby, shattering forever his image as a wholesome, family friendly entertainer, stem from incidents that took place 30, 40, even 50 years ago. Where is the statute of limitations on cases like this? In the wake of Constand coming forward with her story, more than 5 dozen women followed suit, and with those kind of numbers, it's hard to tell who's telling the truth, or who's jumping on the bandwagon just to get their 15 minutes at the expense of a shamed star?
Lawyer Gloria Allred, whose attempt at being a TV judge apparently wasn't paying enough of the bills, is representing many of these women, and with Cosby going away, likely for good, given his age (81), and the fact that reportedly, he's now legally blind, that doesn't mean the shaming is over. Stay tuned.
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That brings us to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of assault on Christine Ford some 35 years ago, when Kavanaugh & Ford were in high school. Again, where is the statute of limitations to define whether or not this case is valid? The Republican sheep will try to tell you the Democrats are doing this because they don't want Kavanaugh on the bench. Just as both Ford & Kavanaugh are about to testify before a Senate committee, separately, I might add, two more women have come forward against Kavanaugh, one of whom is represented by the same attorney representing actress Stephanie Clifford (Stormy Daniels) against President Trump.
Cynthia Tucker, writing for The Washington Post, reminded us earlier this week of a similar scenario that played out 27 years ago, when Clarence Thomas was accused by Anita Hill. Thomas was still confirmed by the Senate. The GOP sheep think the result will be the same with Kavanaugh, but if it is, then Cosby's supporters will complain about a double standard, invoking the race card in doing so.
No, the smart play here is for Kavanaugh to be denied his seat on the Court. Of course, President Trump will whine and complain, as little boys are wont to do when things don't go their way, and the nation's oldest spoiled child will not be happy unless Kavanaugh is confirmed.
Here's the reality of it. Let's say Kavanaugh is denied. Then, the heat turns back toward Trump, and his alleged affair with Clifford. He's running out of options to deflect attention from the various issues that conceivably could turn his administration inside out. The only saving grace he has left, realisitically, is the one thing he should be using to guide his path, and that is the Bible. For a man who reportedly became a born again Christian through then-Indiana Gov. (now VP) Mike Pence and evangelist James Dobson two years ago, Trump is behaving like anything but a Christian. That needs to change.
Trump has appeared on Mike Huckabee's TBN chat-fest. His next stop should be another TBN talk show. Praise The Lord. And he should take Kavanaugh with him.
2 comments:
These are dangerous times - especially if you're a male.
It's dangerous to have these accusations made decades after the fact, with no proof and a complicit media and Congress determining guilt in the court of public opinion. Worse still these statute of limitations supposedly being extended for such cases. What if some ex girlfriend decided to get back at you years later and sullies your name out of some form of revenge?
Should your wife or children have to endure such public humiliation even if he claims weren't true? Should you be denied a job or anything else because some political enemies had it in for you? All they need is someone with a finger to point and announce, "J'accuse!!".
I'd be very worried. People like Sen. Finestein and Gloris Allred belong in a special place in Hell for the things they do or have done.
The funny part is, Kavanaugh is a moderate and before this, had the approval of several Dems! He's not a Scalia or a Thomas as far as justices go.
Much of the above goes for Cosby as well. I don't know if he raped those women (as I don't have access to all the jurors did) but I don't doubt he had affairs with them. His wife was willing to tolerate it for over 50 years and apparently is at peace with trading her dignity for Cosby's money and celebrity. The women could have reported the rapes (if they occurred) long ago. The fact that they can just pop out of nowhere and have charges brought against Cosby (or anyone else in the future with the precedent this set) with no actual evidence decades after having become a memory, then AMerican law is official invalidated. It's no coincidence the sentencing and more Kavanaugh chicanery appeared at the same time.
And all I hear from the GOP sheep is that the Democrats are engaging in a smear campaign against Kavanaugh.
Well, as I wrote, Thomas was confirmed for the Supreme Court despite the Hill case, and President Trump has waffled on the Kavanaugh case, a sure sign the man, in his advanced age, doesn't know what he's doing or thinking from one day to the next, or one hour to the next.
You look at what happened to "Guardians of The Galaxy" director James Gunn. He got booted because Disney bowed to pressure from a couple of conservative "muckrakers" because Gunn dissed Trump. This is a crazy world, and it's only going to get worse.
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