Posted on 12/02/2014 5:40:43 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Bill Cosby has been accused of rape by 25-30 women. The alleged rapes follow a similar storyline. These women knew Cosby, some casually dated him. Many of the women appear to have been starstruck or otherwise looking to get into show business through Cosby. Eventually most of the women claim they were drugged and then raped. In some cases women claim to have been drugged and raped repeatedly. Most of the allegations of rape stem from events that happened in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. This isn’t the first time Cosby has been accused of rape, a lawsuit was filed in the early 2000’s that resulted in an out of court settlement. One should never read too much into out of court settlements. It’s often cheaper to pay a plaintiff to go away than to pay an attorney to try a case. In Cosby’s case, he likely hired a hoard of high price lawyers to defend him. That can get expensive quickly.
I have no idea if Cosby is guilty of rape or not. On one hand the fact that there are 25-30 women with the same story suggests in the very least that something is going on that isn’t right. Whether it means that Cosby is a serial adulterer or a rapist or that some casual acquaintances see an opportunity to make money, something isn’t right here. The media has more or less convicted Cosby. It’s popular these days to convict men of rape without any evidence. These days America’s college campuses are convicting men of rape when women decide weeks later they didn’t want to engage in sexual relations. The media is cheering on efforts on campus to call just about every act sexual assault. In California, each stage of a sexual encounter must be consented to lest a school have the ability to charge a man with sexual assault. In that atmosphere, Cosby has been convicted by a media desperate to make an example of someone.
What is curious about the Cosby accusers is that none of them went to the police after they allege they were raped. No police department has ever had the opportunity to investigate their charges because they never bothered to inform the authorities. All physical evidence has been gone for decades. Some of these women claim that they didn’t think anyone would believe them, after all they were accusing Bill Cosby. No doubt in the 80’s Cosby was a major star, even in the 90’s he was a substantial celebrity. One of his accusers is supermodel Janice Dickinson. Are we to believe that a loud mouth like Dickinson was so afraid that the police wouldn’t believe her because of Cosby’s fame that she didn’t bother to report a rape? You might be able to make such an argument in the case of a star struck kid, you can’t make that case with a famous supermodel.
We’ll obviously never know if Cosby is actually a rapist because he’s never going to be tried in Court for rape. Even if the statute of limitations was limitless, there isn’t any evidence available that would convict him. The Michael Jackson child molestation case is a good example of how difficult it is to convict someone years or even decades after an alleged incident happened. With all physical evidence destroyed, a prosecutor has to rely on witnesses to the events. Generally a prosecutor isn’t going to win if the only witness is the victim. There has to be more whether it’s testimony from friends she spoke with immediately afterward or testimony from people who saw the accused put something into a drink.
As a society, if we allow the media to convict someone we’re creating a very dangerous precedent. There’s no doubt that the evidence out there doesn’t look good for Cosby. Maybe he really is a rapist. However, we can’t decide that he’s guilty based on one sided news reports, no matter how many of them there might be. This is the danger of the modern 24 hour news cycle. We hear an emotional interview or two and decide someone is guilty. We saw the same thing in Ferguson over the summer, Officer Wilson was convicted by the media based on faulty evidence. The rush to judgment cemented the riots we saw last week. The media is doing the same thing with Cosby, they’re rushing to judgment without the full story. Cosby lost a new sitcom on NBC and all of his sponsors as a result of this media lynching. To date, Cosby has never been charged with rape. He hasn’t even been investigated for rape despite 25-30 women claiming he raped them. It is the responsibility of a raped woman to contact the police after a rape has occurred. If she doesn’t do that, her claims 30 years down the road ought not carry much weight. Especially so when she has the potential for financial gain from her claims. For those of us watching these events unfold, we would be wise to withhold judgment.
The Media lynches or covers-up as promotes its agenda. It’s a propaganda machine that Joseph Goebbels would have envied. Truth is not even a consideration. And the American people tolerate this sorry scheme of things.
Does Leo believe that it is only a media lynching when a probably guilty Black is the target or did he also protest about what they did to Zimmerman and Wilson???
Indeed. This entire situation is highly suspicious to me.
Bill Cosby has been quite outspoken on the topic of responsibility. He is a living example of a black man who stepped off the liberal plantation and achieved success through his own hard work. He is a threat to the race-baiters, to those who feed the destruction of black culture in order to create generations of parasites who feel entitled to everything without earning anything, because those parasites guarantee political power to certain people.
And now, Bill Cosby is being lynched. All of these women stepping forward with nearly identical stories, not one of whom contacted the police at the time of the supposed incident(s)? That’s highly fishy. I can’t help but think that someone really wants to quash Bill’s message of responsibility.
There is no penalty for a false accusation. In fact, the false accuser gets her face on the cover of mags and gets invited to TV talk shows.
You know, Cosby’s been an outspoken critic of gang culture and poverty pimping for years, as well as a figurehead for the classic family among blacks. In other words, and attractive target for the Left.
None of the women who accused Clinton of sexually inappropriate behavior ever went to the police.
I guess they all should have said nothing, according to your logic.
Dad always had a saying on the farm: “When one pig squeals, the rest gang up on him.”
If you watched pigs, you would know what he meant. What you are observing is animal behavior.
I’ve been wondering about how the Cosby allegations surfaced just at the time of the Ferguson unrest. He represented the positive, even Republican values of race relations, which have gone to hell in Ferguson. Is the media ganging up on him, just as the new show was coming out, just to discredit those values of working hard, getting a good educations, treating others with respect, etc.?
It seems to me as if there is an underlying manipulation that may be too calculated to be coincidental. It reminds me of the adultery charges of Herman Cain, just as he decided to run for president, and those ridiculous charges against Clarence Thomas. I am sorry that the media had such success stirring things up against Thomas, because I sense that may have been the first time such actions worked, and the media have taken off with those tactics. (I say the tactics worked, even though Thomas was confirmed, just by the “successful” muddying of his name.)
And now, Bill Cosby is being lynched. All of these women stepping forward with nearly identical stories,
Andrea Constad went to the police and filed a suit albiet a year after she claimed to have been raped. No forensic evidence by that time, but otherwise was investigated and eventually settled out of court.
I'd like to believe otherwise, that all of these women were not assaulted, but too much smoke hear for me to assume there is no fire and this is all politically motivated.
I'm not buying that. Cosby is rich, incredibly rich. It would seem to me that an innocent rich man would spend money in order to defend his honor and his reputation.
Cosby chose to settle, not to defend. Just like Michael Jackson did.
That muffled sound you hear is Ted Kennedy yelling from Hell, "Amen, bro!"
Despite Cosby’s political shortcomings, he has been outspoken in his rebuke of the “black community” for their obvious shortcomings and failings.
My suspicion is that these rape accusations, whether or not based in fact, are surfacing at this time to assure that Cosby is silenced before he says anything about the Ferguson debacle.
On the sole face of this statement, it does not automatically follow that the conclusion has to come down on the side of Cosby. It could well be that his modus operandi, like that of a serial killer say, was rote in execution, therefore the similarity of the claims.
Additionally, to conclude that statutes of limitations now bar trying the many plaintiffs' contentions does not automatically prove there is NO evidence to show cause. Discovery, depositions, cross-examinations under oath, the whole magilla has not even been started nor will it be. How could, then, one claim NO EVIDENCE as this screed does?
The stories are far too identical. That raises the suspicion level.
I’ve seen far too many black men who have stepped off the liberal plantation and been media-lynched for it. As posters above mentioned, both Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas were recipients of such lynching.
I see a clear message here. If you are a black man, and you dare to work hard and achieve honest success, the media and liberal elites will destroy you.
“In some cases women claim to have been drugged and raped repeatedly.”
Really?
Clinton was know for throwing something against the wall, hoping that eventually something would stick. For Crosby, I believe this be the case. He has money and these numerouos “accusers” want some of it. Unfortunately for Crosby is that he has been accused and it is now a “she said, he said” issue. IMO Crosby needs to say, “PROVE IT”. Unfortunately, no matter what the outcome will be, he will always be “GUILTY” because someone SAID he was.
It is entirely possible that these so called “victims” have been paid to make such a claim since Crosby has made controversial statements against blacks and of course, these statements go against the odumbo administrations efforts to show how great the blacks are. I believe its called revenge.
Pedophiles find a formula that works and use it over and over again to lure children. That the stories are “far too identical” doesn’t mean anything in the real world.
I keep eagerly waiting for the news story.
EVE ACCUSES ADAM OF RAPE, SAID THERE WERE DRUGS IN THE APPLE....
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