Mushroom Soup Friday

As you've probably heard, hyphenate Harvey Weinstein (I believe he's a mogul-swine) turned himself in today and was charged with rape in the first degree, rape in the third degree, committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree, and doing a very bad imitation of a human being. He is currently developing a new movie — a jailbreak caper film to star himself, Bill Cosby and Jared from the Subway commercials. And featuring a score produced by Phil Spector.

Bail for Weinstein was set at one million dollars. When the amount was announced, Weinstein was heard to shriek, "Jesus Christ! A whole week's salary?"

Weinsten's attorney Benjamin Braffman said — and the rest of this is real, not me being silly — that his client would plead Not Guilty and that any sex acts which transpired were consensual…

"Mr. Weinstein did not invent the casting couch in Hollywood," Braffman said. "And to the extent that there is bad behavior in that industry, that is not what this is about. Bad behavior is not on trial in this case. It's only if you intentionally committed a criminal act, and Mr. Weinstein vigorously denies that."

Weinstein's in that much trouble.

Aren't all criminal trials about someone's bad behavior? And no, Mr. Weinstein did not invent the casting couch in Hollywood; no more than O.J. Simpson invented the idea of stabbing people to death. "A lot other people did this and got away with it" is a pretty lame defense.

And what all this "consensual" stuff is about is that Weinstein not only pressured women into having sex with him, he also pressured some of them into pretending they wanted to. He will not have to do that with anyone where he'll be going.