Posted on 12/23/2014 9:35:55 AM PST by SteveH
Bill Cosby hasn't been "America's dad" for years. For some blacks, he is the cranky uncle complaining about young African Americans who, in his view, dress and behave in a way that drags down their race.
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Well, that makes him slightly more likely to be innocent
What does he expect when he tells them to pull their pants up?
Cosby is a big Obama supporter, a lifelong democrat, despises republicans and has called them racist, and was a promoter of the Tawana brawley rape hoax.
From newsbusters: Bill Cosby Rants Against Republicans, Compares Them to Segregationists for Not Applauding Obama
By Matthew Sheffield | March 5, 2013
Unless he had just eaten a bad cup of Jell-O pudding, it would appear that actor and comedian Bill Cosby seems to really, really hate Republicans.
The veteran entertainer made that very clear Monday morning when he claimed that Republicans not applauding President Obama’s State of the Union address in unison with Democrats were “as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation.” He also wondered aloud about whether or not Republicans today are upset that slavery is no longer legal.
Cosby made these remarks on the CNN morning show “Starting Point” after soon-to-be-former host Soledad O’Brien referenced how much better things have gotten for those of African ancestry inside the United States since the 1960s civil rights movement.
The famous comedian and longtime Jell-O pitchman rejected her statement.
“I don’t think so,” he said. “Not when you look at the president’s speech recently. To see people sitting down and then they there are others standing and cheering. I don’t think it’s difficult believe. I think that we have people sitting there who are as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation.”
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I think it’s dumb to say is it time when we stand and say the pledge of allegiance, for which it stands. Where are you going with this? Where are you going with the promise of what the United States of America really is?
It’s also interesting that this Republican Party is not the Republican Party of 1863, of Abraham Lincoln, abolitionists and slavery, is not good. I think it’s important for us to look at the underlying part of it. What is the value of it? Is it that some people are angry because my people no longer want to work for free?”
If Cosby pulled his own pants up, he wouldn’t be in this mess.
” Is it that some people are angry because my people no longer want to work for free?””
Quite humorous coming from a millionaire.
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Cosby is black? I’ve never thought of him that way, I always just saw him as an American so it’s no surprise to me that the race-baiters and the race-hustlers wouldn’t support him given he’s not one of theirs to begin with.
That is the best answer. LOL
Which is why in the end, hypocrites only hurt their cause more.
Of course, they covered-up in lock-stop their darling, Bill Clinton.
Well he was pulling his pants down quite often and the pants of the women his was with.
Notice that NO ONE is supporting Cosby, normally with a 50 year beloved giant of their industry, the people who know the true Cosby, who worked with him, for him, hired him, the people who knew him best, would be rallying around “America’s Dad”.
Of the people who know Bill Cosby, no one wants to touch him with a ten foot pole.
Accused of being a serial rapist who drugged victims for at least 45 years, and none of his peers seem very shocked.
Because he criticized them for their self-inflicted pathologies.
A community that condemns Cosby and worships sharpton has chosen failure.
All of his scolding of black men for not stepping up is now voided like the morning’s first specimen, but he won’t find either support or condemnation. He’ll be ignored for a few years, then have some triumphant relaunch of his career somewhere, or maybe die of old age first and be given more post-mortem kudos than Robin Williams.
Because most of the women he attacked were white?
This year was the big relaunch of his career, that is how he got into trouble, now they canceled the his new TV series, and his big tour, everything.
“Last month as the negative publicity snowballed, Team Cosby’s ill-fated invitation daring the Twitterverse to meme the star promptly backfired—“I DON’T ALWAYS EAT JELL-O BUT WHEN I DO IT’S NOT CONSENSUAL, AND BY JELL-O I MEAN HAVE SEX,” one detractor tweeted over a photo of smirking Cosby.
The meme disaster suggested a certain detachment from reality, as did Cosby’s apparent conviction that he could get through the interviews about his art collection without addressing the exploding scandal.
In short order, Netflix canceled a planned Cosby special, NBC quashed the development of a Cosby sitcom, and TV Land canceled reruns of The Cosby Show, the hit NBC series of the 1980s. Meanwhile, Cosby was forced off the board of trustees of his alma mater, Temple University, and historically black Spelman College suspended an academic chair endowed by Cosby to the tune of $20 million.
This past Saturday, Cosby picked up his home phone in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, to lecture a black freelance writer on the duty of the “black media” to “go in with a neutral mind.””
“America’s Dad”? Only to those who can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy. This affords those morons the opportunity to finally figure out the difference.
Cosby is the victim of a liberal high tech lynching hysteria. It is difficult to access his guilt or innocence because of the lack of evidence and the hysteria of the press and his accusers. Of course, facts and justice do not matter when there is “Social Justice” at stake. The social justice warriors demand a lynching. A question that needs much more than a speculative answer is, “why all these accusation after the statute of limitations”? The piling on, the lack of physical evidence, the poor character of the accusers, the timing and the hysteria all seem to me to be a modern lynching. Of course some guilty men were lynched, but justice demands better, and as Americans we should demand better also. I am disappointed by the comments here at FR for being so easily manipulated by the hysteria.
Anyone with an EdD should be able to appreciate irony, but in Bill’s case it seems not to be.
The “people who were against any kind of desegregation” were his people, the democrat party of segregationists like Faubus, Wallace, Maddox, Fulbright, Gore and many, many more. All Cosby’s people.
And if the Republican party of today isn’t that of 1863, you can be sure the democrat party of today is definitely the same as that in 1863 as well as 1963, when they opposed the VRA and CRA.
Nice going, Dr. Cosby.
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