I have little interest in Cosby. I didn’t have a TV from when I left home in 76 until the late 90s, and we ditched TV in 2004. TV has been one of the worst things that has happened to the USA.
I’ve only read one news account. In that case, the woman followed Cosby around the country for FOUR YEARS. She was a whore.
I strongly suspect Cosby is a mean, unpleasant man. Many comedians are.
I like Sinatra’s singing. Sinatra was a mean, rude, egotistical ass who had sex with hundreds if not thousands of women, paid and unpaid. I still like his singing. I accept that a great many entertainers are people I would not want to share a beer with, let alone allow in my home. I feel the same way about most Democrats. I would never allow my daughter to be alone with Bill Clinton, nor would I ever allow that SOB into my home.
I only posted on this thread in response to a post saying racism was not rampant when Cosby was growing up. I’m old enough to remember that it was.
I can remember sitting in a Selma diner with my Dad - a veteran of WW2 & Korea & a US Air Force officer - for an hour before we left...never waited on...and we were white. That was 1966. The only explanation my parents could come up with for why no one in Selma Alabama wanted our business was that my USAF Dad represented the federal government which was opposed to segregation.
We had no problems in Florida. But Selma Alabama? Yep. There was plenty of racism in the 40s & 50s. That would not excuse Cosby for drugging drinks, if he did. It would explain bitterness, and conservatives do no one any favors if we pretend racism wasn’t real and terrible at one time.
When I was a kid, I might have been 5, so it would have been around 1966 or 1967, we were in the Coral Ridge Mall in Fort Lauderdale. I remember seeing a PACKED lunch counter in a Woolworths (I think). I asked my parents why they were so busy. My mom said something like “because they are one of the last of those...” and gestured at a sign behind the counter that said “Whites only.”
That was the first and last time I ever saw anything directly Jim Crow.
He has only read one account he says, and yet he works so hard to spread his opinion against the women and for Cosby.
Notice the date on this post and the wording,”I’ve only read one account.”?
To: ansel12
I don’t like Cosby. I never have. I’ve only read one account. In that account, the girl/woman traveled around the country and went to his hotel at night for 4 years. I don’t think there is anything credible in her story.
I have disliked Cosby since an interview he did back when “I Spy” was on TV. I never watched the Cosby Show. He did one routine in the 60s that I found funny. Other than that, I found him weird. I felt that way when I was about 10 years old, so I think a girl in her late teens ought to have noticed something, as should her parents. Who in the hell lets their ‘little girl’ travel across the country and spend time alone with an older man in his hotel, and encourages it!?!?
76 posted on 11/22/2014, 9:31:54 AM by Mr Rogers