Bill Cosby snubs Dr. Rice

Roll Call ^ | 3-25-2004 | Ed Henry

[brothers4thID]

There was quite a bit of chatter in the Capitol on Wednesday about some unexpected fireworks flying at a ceremony honoring civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height after comic Bill Cosby snubbed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Cosby decided to voice his opposition to the Bush administration’s foreign policy by refusing to sit next to Rice, as organizers

had planned, at the event in which Height received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Bush and Hill leaders.

“It’s too bad that Mr. Cosby couldn’t cross the partisan divide, especially at an event for a great civil rights leader,” griped one senior Congressional aide.

Rice, who’s pretty busy dealing with the fallout from ex-White House aide Richard Clarke’s book, was unaware of the slight and brushed it off.

“It’s a free country,” Deputy National Security Adviser Jim Wilkinson told HOH.

There was a bit more civility and bipartisanship on display after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) noted that as usual, the 92-year-old Height was the best-dressed woman in the joint.

Insiders tell HOH that Bush, who was sitting between Height and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), leaned in and whispered that he thought the Congresswoman had that honor.

[brothers4thID]

Ok Roll Call is a rag and a left leaning one at that. However, I thought this snippet worthy of posting. I wasn't even aware of Cosby's views until now.

[Palladin]

Big Deal!

Cosby is the least relevant black man on the face of the eartrh.

Did he ever stand up and claim that daughter that he dissed for years?

He's a bum.

[Mamzelle]

Oh, I remember how Cosby celebrated OJ's acquittal with his college buddies. Shortly thereafter, Cosby's son was murdered by a recent Russian immigrant. Cosby and his wife blamed it on racist America.

Ironies.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Give him some pudding.

[Bluntpoint]

I heard that Strom Thurmond slept with Bill Cosby when things were still measured in Cubits.

[tiamat]

That man just dissapoints me.

I WANT to like him. i really do!

We have several of his old albums and they are WONDERFUL even today! i liked the huxtable family, and I even liked the sweaters.
I felt so bad when his son Ennis was killed by that thug.

I guess I should have gotten my clue in " The Cosby Show" when the oldest daughter named her twins "Winnie" and "Nelson"

[Dante3]

How crude.

As for Cosby, there are jokes about his Ph.D. And then there was his affair and attempt to blackmail him. On the other hand, Rice is intelligent and dignified and above such pettiness.

[RedWhiteBlue]

He's just jealous of Condi because she has a real doctorate.

[Bluntpoint]

Condi got where she is without Robert Culp.

[Khurkris]

give him some jello

[glock rocks]

This isn't going to go over well in Utah, jello capitol of the planet.

[Mr. Mojo]

.....his opposition to the Bush administration’s foreign policy

The Bush administration's foreign policy has nothing to do with Cosby's pettiness. If Clinton or another Demwit were currently the Prez and was conducting the exact same foreign policy as Bush now is, 'Cos would be praising it non-stop. Many people just can't see with their partisan shades on. .......it's a mental disease.

[chilepepper]

Bill Cosby does not deserve to sit next to Condolezza Rice...

[Palladin]

I heard that they were twins separated at birth.

[Bluntpoint]

Jello attracts lesbians.

[mhking]

 

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[Recovering_Democrat]

Bill Cosby> acting like an ass.

[TheBigB]

As Eddie Murphy said, "Tell Bill I said to have a Coke and a smile and shut the #$%^& up."

[freedom1st]

He's a detriment to sit next to, just ask Martha Stewart.

[mass55th]

Who cares. I'm sure Dr. Rice would rather not sit next to an adulterer who allowed himself all those years to be blackmailed for child support, for a child he was too scared to have a paternity test for. What a putz!