I think the FIRST mistake is to equate Cosby with Herman Cain. Secondly, Cosby’s persona is a portrayal perpetrated by Hollywood and the media. Two sects of which I don’t really hold any regard, frankly.
I actually don’t know, nor care to know exactly why Cosby and his wife have been ‘out there’ in the limelight trying to do whatever, promoting this or that, or anything. Yes, he has made statements that traditional liberalism does not agree with. Yet, my basic question in this is “what are his personal finances like at this point in time?”
I never liked him after I became of age, actually. His schtick thereafter weighed heavy on my smarmy bullshit scale. I remember back to his days on “I Spy” and think THAT character was more like what these eight women are claiming now. Not funny, cold and calculating..
Personally, I think it is entirely believable this man found out how to use whatever the then-equivalent of Rohypnol was to meet his needs..
“I never liked him after I became of age, actually. His schtick thereafter weighed heavy on my smarmy bullshit scale.”
ditto. I heard some of his early comedy records and laughed when they came out, but tuned him out totally after seeing him on his show and the ads he did. The phoniness of his act just jumped off the screen for me, and I was pretty young then too. Possibly you had to actually see his face to realize just what a phony Cosby is, unlike the records where you heard only his voice.
I’ve always been amazed at how the bulk of people in this country fall for such obvious phoniness. Jim and Tammy Feye Bakker are perfect examples. I’ve never seen two more phony people in my life on TV and yet they were collecting tens of millions of dollars from fools who thought these pathetic idiots walked on water.