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A little creativity needed in undoing Cosby’s honor
Albuquerque Journal News ^ | 7-28-2015 | Ruth Marcus

Posted on 07/27/2015 11:18:46 PM PDT by Citizen Zed

The more I read about comedian/sexual predator Bill Cosby’s behavior, the more I question President Obama’s my-hands-are-tied response to the matter of taking back Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom.

“There’s no precedent for revoking a medal,” Obama said. “We don’t have that mechanism.”

Time to get creative. If the president can be innovative, aggressive even, in his use of executive authority on immigration, surely he can find a way to undo the honor, the nation’s highest civilian award.

President George W. Bush bestowed it in 2002, describing Cosby as “a gifted comedian who has used the power of laughter to heal wounds and to build bridges.”

Also, it turns out, Cosby used the power of his celebrity – and his access to drugs – to prey on young women.

“By focusing on our common humanity,” Bush added, “Bill Cosby is helping to create a truly united America.”

Those words sicken in the retrospective knowledge of Cosby’s behavior. Common humanity? By his own deposition testimony, Cosby failed to treat these women with common decency.

I’m not arguing that the president should act immediately. “I tend to make it a policy not to comment on the specifics of cases where there might still be, if not criminal then civil, issues involved,” Obama said.

That is the correct approach as the hushed-up allegations finally get a full hearing and the truth can be tested: Did Cosby, as he insists, simply – simply! – sweet-talk young women and ply them with Quaaludes to soften them up for consensual sex? “The same as a person would say ‘have a drink,'” Cosby offered in a recently unearthed, decade-old deposition.

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1 posted on 07/27/2015 11:18:46 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

I think Cosby’s honor is already undone. Sure, there will always be a few holdouts.


2 posted on 07/27/2015 11:25:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Citizen Zed
The U.S. government was able to destroy Lance Armstrong. It should be no problem for them to hound Bill Cosby until he returns any awards he's been given.
3 posted on 07/28/2015 12:11:13 AM PDT by Prolixus (Why does Waco make me think of Benghazi?)
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To: Citizen Zed
"“There’s no precedent for revoking a medal,” Obama said. "

They could trade medals. Nobel prise medal for the PMF medal. That might make them even.
4 posted on 07/28/2015 12:41:10 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s so refreshing to get rid of the law, evidence, due process and legal procedure. Progressing to shrieking women who by definition are completely honest and can never tell a lie is so much more efficient. And when these same women all vote for Hillary, yet can find instant, complete solidarity with conservatives who know that it is simply not possible that they are lying, or should in any way take personal responsibility for the sex and drugs they accepted from Cosby, sometimes two, three or more times, well, it makes me believe that political unity is still possible. Yes, hand in hand we’ll march, eliminating naysayers through common mob justice, shouting down any critical thinking, and grinding underfoot even caution in how we speak. White and black are our only colors, those we accept and those we utterly destroy are our only causes, because that way, through loyalty alone, above all, finally, after all these millenia, women and children will finally know peace, safety and love.

Amen.


5 posted on 07/28/2015 2:24:23 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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So, what about the women who were drugged without their knowledge and then orally, digitally or vaginally penetrated without their consent?

You want to call them deserving whores who got exactly what they deserved too because you think they voted for Hillary?

You are a sickening, vile piece of human trash.


6 posted on 07/28/2015 4:40:37 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Amen, sister!


7 posted on 07/28/2015 7:03:55 AM PDT by Nea Wood
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To: Citizen Zed

You’d think the Caliph would jump at the chance to blame George Bush for something else.


8 posted on 07/28/2015 7:05:22 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("No social transformation without representation." - Justice Antonin Scalia)
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You are a sickening, vile piece of human trash

You seem a pleasant sort.

9 posted on 07/28/2015 9:04:45 AM PDT by laotzu
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To: Citizen Zed
Cosby is like Summer vacation ... No class.

Hey Hey Hey!

10 posted on 07/28/2015 9:05:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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So’s Obama’s.

I’m not arguing that the president should act immediately. “I tend to make it a policy not to comment on the specifics of cases where there might still be, if not criminal then civil, issues involved,” Obama said.

Seriously? Every time he speaks of an incident, he’s 100% dead wrong. If he personally called me and said it’s Sunny, Hot, and Humid where you are in Houston Texas, I’d go buy a freakin’ boat.


11 posted on 07/28/2015 9:47:02 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
So, what about the women who were drugged without their knowledge and then orally, digitally or vaginally penetrated without their consent? You want to call them deserving whores who got exactly what they deserved too because you think they voted for Hillary? You are a sickening, vile piece of human trash.

There are no women who were drugged without their knowledge. They ALL ate, drank alcohol, and took drugs voluntarily, and then had sex voluntarily, of their own free will. That's what I believe. That's why they remained silent for so long. I believe they are all liars, every one of them, and that they are being coordinated and paid by the Left to take down a Black man who left the plantation and threatened to harm the Democrat's political, crushing, generational destruction of American Blacks.

You, on the other hand, give every indication of being a paid Leftist shill. The absolute ugliness of your personal attack against me, the filthiness of your mouth, is calculated to hide my point and degenerate the conversation into a male versus female hate rant based solely on your genitals. In that, your intentions are even dirtier than your mouth, because your words are designed to stop women readers from considering political realities, and reduce them to mindless sheep voting for their crotches. So really, your contempt for women is greater than even what you accuse Cosby of being.

The bottom line, as you turn the page at the end of the day and drink your glass of wine with the girls, is that you're incompetent. Other than schoolyard taunts and mob mentality, you've got nothing. And just like your hag queen, you're going down as people wake up to your mind rape tactics.

If any of that isn't clear or personal enough, let me know and I'll add to it, sweetie.

12 posted on 07/28/2015 1:15:30 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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