Commentary: Bill Cosby in handcuffs, Brett Kavanaugh questioned: Why this is more than a #MeToo moment

Television Critic In the most visually stunning moment of the #MeToo era, former American icon Bill Cosby was led away from a Pennsylvania courtroom in handcuffs Tuesday. Judge Steven O’Neill referred to Cosby as a “sexually violent predator” while sentencing him for the 2004 assault of Andrea Constand on three counts of aggravated indecent assault, which he was convicted of in April. The time has come.” Accuser Victoria Valentino, center, a former Playboy playmate who accused Bill Cosby of slipping her pills and raping her in the late 1960s, appears with a protester Monday in Norristown, Pa. PERSPECTIVE: Bill Cosby and the complicated heartbreak of a hero’s fall from grace » Call it a sea change, a groundswell or a seismic shift, but whatever this new and powerful phenomenon is, it’s more than just a #MeToo moment. SCOTUS hopeful Brett Kavanaugh may or may have not been listening when the Pennsylvania judge addressed concerns over Cosby’s decimated legacy in a few short words: “Fallen angels suffer most.” But allegations against the nominee to sit on the highest court of law in the nation are mounting, and he’s set to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee along with his accuser California professor Christine Blasey Ford. » Simultaneously, attorney Michael Avenatti, who represents adult star Stormy Daniels in her case against President Trump, was on a media blitz of his own, appearing on CNN and MSNBC to announce he’s now representing another alleged victim of Kavanaugh and promised to release several witnesses’ names and claims within “the next 48 hours.” And we weren’t even half way through the week.