{"id":93143,"date":"2024-10-20T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93143"},"modified":"2024-10-21T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:58:00","slug":"more-menendez-machinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/10\/20\/more-menendez-machinations\/","title":{"rendered":"More Menendez Machinations"},"content":{"rendered":"

We forget that the world was a different place in the \u201890s.  Back in 1996, the idea of men being sexually assaulted or raped was impossible for most people to imagine.  More than one pundit claimed that if Erik <\/strong>and Lyle Menendez <\/strong>had been the Menendez Sisters<\/em>, they\u2019d be free today (the case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard <\/strong>springs to mind).  After watching the Netflix <\/em>and ABC<\/em> News <\/em>documentaries, it became clear the issue wasn\u2019t about sexual abuse.  After all, the boys were both over 18 and could have moved away from home at any time.  They had to convince the jury that they felt they would be pursued and killed if they even tried to leave.  In fact, Erik claims that when he was 12, he tried to run away.  His father said, \u201cIf you ever run away…I will find you and I will kill you.\u201d  It didn\u2019t help that the judge didn\u2019t allow any of the sexual abuse charges or the family testimony to be admitted in the second trial.  Also, the second trial only allowed the jurors to rule on the charge of first-degree murder (the first trial also had second-degree murder and manslaughter as options).  DA <\/em>Gil Garcetti <\/strong>needed a win, and fewer options meant more chance of a conviction.  Now that the suppressed evidence has been reviewed \u2013 along with newly discovered corroborating documents \u2013 the Los Angeles District Attorney <\/em>is reviewing the case by today\u2019s standards.  Numerous reports seem to indicate that the boys could get a new trial \u2013 or perhaps simply be freed.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve extensively reviewed Ryan Murphy<\/strong>\u2019s colorful \u201cadaptation\u201d of the Menendez story.  My \u201cadmiration\u201d for Cooper Koch <\/strong>as Erik has been duly noted.  But it\u2019s interesting \u2013 the more I see him interviewed, the less taken I am.  Nothing against him, but he\u2019s no Erik \u2013 I like my men with a body count!  But there\u2019s one story he wants swallowed (which is the name of one of his previous flicks).  You\u2019ll recall the shower scene in the docudrama between Erik and a fellow inmate.  In previous reports, it was stated that Cooper was sporting a \u201cprosthetic penis\u201d.  However, during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live<\/em><\/strong> last week, Koch made a startling revelation.  \u201cAlso just to say, mine was not a prosthetic,\u201d said Cooper.  \u201cThat was going to be my next question!  Congratulations to you, Cooper.  You\u2019re very blessed, aren\u2019t you?\u201d said Andy Cohen, who happily gobbled it up.  While I\u2019m inclined to believe Koch, my follow-up question would have been, \u201cAnd did you fluff yourself or did someone give you a hand?\u201d  Because the penis in question was most certainly at half mast \u2013 as you\u2019ll see on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We forget that the world was a different place in the \u201890s.  Back in 1996, the idea of men being sexually assaulted or raped was impossible for most people to imagine.  More than one pundit claimed that if Erik and Lyle Menendez had been the Menendez Sisters, they\u2019d be free today (the case of Gypsy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93153,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93143\/revisions\/93153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}