Substitute Jessie Jackson for Bill Cosby in your version and tell me it would be the same story.
Jesse Jackson has *always* shown himself to be a worthless,phony,piece of excrement....as have Roman Polanski,Al Sharpton,BillyBob Blythe,William Kennedy Smith,Mike Tyson and many others.To me that means that I would not dismiss,out of hand,any allegation of this sort made against them.Bill Cosby has never seemed to me to be anything but decent and respectable.And I'm instinctively skeptical of allegations of serious wrongdoing made against people that I perceive in that way.
Until it's proven otherwise to me Jackson and Cosby don't even belong in the same conversation when it comes to basic character.