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Whoopi Goldberg sides with Bill Cosby as she expresses skepticism of sexual assault claims:
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 17, 2014 | Michael Zennie

Posted on 11/17/2014 12:43:52 PM PST by C19fan

Whoopi Goldberg is rising to Bill Cosby's defense as claims he raped more than a dozen women begin to mount. The View star expressed skepticism today about allegations by Barbara Bowman that the 77-year-old comedian drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1985. Ms Bowman said that she went to a lawyer, who laughed at her when she tried to say that Cosby had sexually assaulted her multiple times when she was an aspiring actress and model. Goldberg asked why Ms Bowman didn't go to the authorities for proof that she was raped.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: billcosby; cosby; goldberg; rape; raperape; waronwomen; whoopigoldberg
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To: cripplecreek

And the evidence is?


I doubt if there would be any after all this time.


41 posted on 11/17/2014 1:41:04 PM PST by ravenwolf (` Does the scripture explain it in full detail? if not how can you?)
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To: cripplecreek

Evidence that more than a dozen women have accused him and that he paid off a settlement in 2006?


42 posted on 11/17/2014 1:41:51 PM PST by ansel12 (The churlish behavior of Obama over the next two years is going to be spellbinding.)
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To: C19fan

Well, now he definitely did it.


43 posted on 11/17/2014 1:56:25 PM PST by servo1969
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To: C19fan

I think Cosby has pi$$ed off the administration and a legend of self-proclaimed black leaders (race hustlers). Joan Rivers outed Moo Obama as a tranny (transgender) and was killed within a few weeks by an alleged botched excruciatingly simple outpatient procedure. Breitbart and Clancy were poisoned while working together on a fiction book with a plot similar to His Arrogance’s mysterious and hidden background.

Cosby and Gruber better be very careful in the coming weeks.


44 posted on 11/17/2014 1:57:23 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

....legion...


45 posted on 11/17/2014 1:59:08 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Put lipstick on a Communist and call it a Progressive, but it's still a Communist with lipstick.)
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To: All
This current firestorm started because of a 'joke' comedian Hannibal Buress made during a set at the Trocadero in Philly on October 16 of this year.

Buress mentioned Philly native Cosby - whose early humor often mentioned his football days at Philly's Temple University - and said, in part:

"“He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”

Some of Philadelphia's media took note of this the following morning; Buress was invited to appear on Howard Stern . . . and here we are, back in 2005, when anyone paying attention knew that thirteen women, black and white, were accusing Bill Cosby of essentially the same thing: drugging and sexually abusing them.

Cosby paid a settlement to at least one woman, and had been paying others of them for years. Doesn't mean he did it, but had been paying some of the accusers, who had never gone public, and were only listed as John Doe witnesses in a lawsuit, for years. Some of them later became involved in sexual relationships with him, but said the first encounter(s) came about as a result of drugging. Sounds weird to me.

Bowman wasn't even the first woman to accuse Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her.

Cosby's former publicist said he drugged her and sexually molested her, IIRC.

However, if this is all about 11/4's election result and Cosby's 'pull up your trousers' message, then Hannibal Buress was part of a conspiracy to target Cosby.

46 posted on 11/17/2014 2:00:26 PM PST by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
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To: C19fan

Skepticism may be appropriate, as long as you will let the evidence persuade you. You don’t condemn merely on allegations.


47 posted on 11/17/2014 2:01:53 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Scoutmaster

Oh, yeah. And if it makes any difference to anyone for any reason, Cosby and his mistress, Shawn Upshaw, or one of his mistresses, Shawn Upshaw, had an illegitimate daughter, Autumn Jackson, about 1974. She tried to extort Cosby by going public with the information after Cosby had paid for her schooling, and a car, and somesuch. Cosby testified that he made payments to keep the issue a secret.


48 posted on 11/17/2014 2:06:56 PM PST by Scoutmaster (Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational)
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To: EEGator

49 posted on 11/17/2014 2:07:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Today is a good day. I get to post a pic of Ted Danson in blackface, and Muschamp is toast. The future is bright.


50 posted on 11/17/2014 2:10:51 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Unfortunately Foley is picking the coach. That doesn’t make me feel real good.


51 posted on 11/17/2014 2:15:03 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: C19fan; GeronL

The old “rape rape” line again??

Wonder if Whoopi has ever been rape rape-ed?


52 posted on 11/17/2014 2:36:13 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: dfwgator

I’m guessing he won’t be a defensive coordinator.


53 posted on 11/17/2014 2:47:27 PM PST by EEGator
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To: C19fan

Imagine that. Skin color is the only thing that matters to a certain demographic.


54 posted on 11/17/2014 3:49:02 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: cripplecreek

I don’t need to show evidence, I am not a prosecutor.

When 14 (now 15) women accuse one man of rape, it doesn’t seem implausible.

One? Yeah, it could be a vendetta. 2? Coincidence. 3? Pattern. 14? Would you let your daughter around someone who has had 14 women accuse them of rape?


55 posted on 11/17/2014 5:35:36 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: Tea Party Terrorist

Yeah whatever.

Behave like a leftist, get all the respect a leftist deserves.


56 posted on 11/17/2014 5:37:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: C19fan; GeronL; Slings and Arrows

What differentiates rape rape from rape?


57 posted on 11/17/2014 5:44:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

good question

probably party affiliation


58 posted on 11/17/2014 5:48:18 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: cripplecreek

Ahh, I see, I am now behaving “like a leftist.”

Nice ad hominem attack there. Maybe you can try to get me banned from this forum.


59 posted on 11/17/2014 5:51:47 PM PST by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: Morgana

doubtful, maybe in her dreams


60 posted on 11/17/2014 5:53:14 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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