Posted on 11/19/2014 11:57:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Conservatives should be about the evidence and the rule of law. Conservatives believe nobody is above the law, not even a very funny, thoughtful entertainer...And yes, I know accusations don't mean guilt. But there is an awful amount of smoke and occasionally that does mean fire...
According to Celibrity Net Worth (http://www.celebritynetworth.com) Bill Cosby is worth over $400 million.
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True, and one of the bedrock principles of the rule of law is: innocent until proven guilty.
There's a lot of smoke (and fire too) in Ferguson Mo. Does that make Officer Wilson guilty?
There was a lot of smoke in the Duke lacrosse case -- yet the players were found innocent. (Not just "not guilty" -- but completely exonerated.)
What about the police report of 2000 where the republican DA says that he believed the woman and wanted to file charges against Bill Cosby but that the hard evidence was too weak?
What about his 2006 settlement to cover a 2004 assault when 10 other women were willing to testify under oath that he had also attacked them over the years, usually with his drug/rape method?
What about in 2006 when he threatened the National Enquirer with a 250 million dollar lawsuit for publishing on the attacks but backed down when they said bring it on and threatened a counter suit?
I bet this stuff is actually normal in Hollyweird
Color me skeptical. The risk of lockjaw from self-inflicted cuts would have been very high.
I believe at least one case was settled out of court.
They did not “decide he was guilty”, they have a choice not to associate with him if they choose such.
I don't think so.
I heard it while I was in Vietnam, but I suspect it was no-lo as it seems exceedingly dangerous for the female.
Great counter examples and I agree, which is why I said above I have no idea. But just like a lot libs are throwing Cosby under the bus, a lot Freepers seem to know that he is innocent. I hope he is innocent. I love Bill Cosby...
No, they’ve decided bad publicity is bad for business. Whether the allegations are true or false doesn’t impact the bottom line, putting his stuff on their brand while all this is swirling around does. In the end, they’re businesses.
18 allegations so far past 30 years
One at least settled out of court
One at least prosecutor saying she wanted to charge him
Its no comparison to Darren Wilson or Duke
Its more like Bill Clinton but more of it...sexual assault/rape
Its no comparison to Cain either...Cain was just philandering and hush money
I do believe the women. Just the pattern, all white women, the same M.O., this has been out there for some time. It is just my opinion, but I believe them. There r more women also from some of the stories I read a while back. One about a coaches daughter....
I guess I haven’t followed this story that much. There’s probably something to them then, I guess.
“’I wanted to arrest Bill Cosby - I thought he was probably guilty’: Former Pennsylvania DA investigated comic for rape of college basketball star but there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him”
“The former District Attorney who decided not to charge Bill Cosby with rape today revealed to MailOnline that he wanted to arrest the star - but had insufficient proof.
Bruce Castor was the DA of Montgomery County at the time that Andrea Constand claimed Cosby, now 77, drugged her and sexually assaulted her at his Pennsylvania home in January 2004.
Miss Constand, a former director of operations for Temple University’s women’s basketball team and college basketball star, launched a legal suit against Cosby, a man she called her ‘mentor’, in March 2005.”
>>>So NBC and Netflix have decided Cosby is guilty. Guess we don’t need a judicial system anymore. <<<
There are different standards for putting an accused entertainer on your network and putting him in prison for rape.
That said, I don’t know what to make of these allegations. The number of them make them more believable, but the age of the alleged incidents and the fact that no police reports were ever filed, makes them dubious.
Also, I get the vibe from some of these women that they might now “feel like they were raped” because they put out for a star and didn’t get the career help they were expecting in return.
Who knows? At any rate, I can’t really blame the networks for not airing his shows right now, with this cloud over him.
“TARSHIS: Oh. Um, I was kind of stoned at the time,”
Oh they are not? The ones they have shown on TV are but maybe there are more we don’t know about
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