Posted on 11/21/2014 6:28:34 PM PST by doug from upland
Let me be the first to admit that, unlike so many people in the media and on the internet, I actually dont know if Bill Cosby is a rapist. I know several women have accused him of it, and I know that he isnt doing any favors for himself by refusing to comment and asking news outlets to scrub footage of him refusing to comment. Youd think if the man is guilty but has no intention of fessing up, hed at least deny the allegations. And if hes innocent, hed be even more likely to deny them. Either way, I cant understand answering with no comment when someone asks a rather direct and unambiguous question like are you a rapist?
So maybe this means hes panicking because hes guilty. Or maybe hes panicking because hes innocent. Or maybe hes an 80-year-old man who doesnt quite understand whats going on.
Maybe its a combination of some of those explanations. I dont know. I just dont. But I do know that the whole thing is quite strange. Strange because these allegations have been known for some time, but nobody cared until a comedian named Hannibal Buress, who frequently jokes about raping women, called out Bill Cosby for allegedly raping women. Suddenly, because of a guy Ive never heard of, accusations everyone heard of ten years ago become national news.
Strange.
Also strange because some of the women accusing Cosby of rape, like Joan Tarshis, say they were drugged and assaulted multiple times. To be clear, that means some of these women were sexually abused on one occasion, and then went back and were sexually abused again. If true, it brings up an entirely different conversation about what would drive a human being to knowingly put themselves in that position. Save your victim blaming speeches. This is a very important and very obvious point. If a man rapes you and then invites you out on another date, say no. Just say no. Even if hes famous. OK?
And the situation gets even stranger when we consider that the networks and other outlets are canceling Cosbys shows and attempting to erase any remnant or memory of him. But, strangely, I can still sign on Netflix and order The Pianist, a film directed by Roman Polanski. And Im betting NBC will run previews for the next X-Men movie, directed by Bryan Singer. Indeed, strangely, Hollywood and the liberal media make no secret about their affection for either men, despite their respective dubious pasts.
Specifically, Polanski was charged and convicted of drugging and raping a child. He is a convicted child rapist. There need be no alleged attached to this statement. Fact: Roman Polanksi, acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker, raped a child. Yet Netflix drops Cosby, the supposed rapist, and keeps Polanksi, the convicted rapist.
Meanwhile, Bryan Singer has been accused, more than once, of sexually assaulting young boys. But again, this has had no discernable impact on his career. I suspect Singers alleged crimes are more acceptable among the liberal elites because he is, reportedly, a homosexual fond of young boys. A liberal homosexual Hollywood elite cant also be a sexual predator. Such a thing would be inconvenient, for a number of reasons, so well all just pretend it didnt happen. Its long been known that Hollywood is (allegedly) rife with homosexual predators, but the matter gets no attention at all.
Strange.
Want to know whats even stranger than any of that? Keep following me down this hideous rabbit hole because the situation is about to take the most bizarre turn of all.
While we obsess over the decades-old supposed sexual misconduct of an elderly sitcom star, another Bill, one who never had the titular role in an iconic 80′s TV show but who did have an arguably more important job for an even longer period of time, continues to escape scrutiny for his own alleged misdeeds. Im talking of course about Bill Nye the Science Guy. Wait, wrong Bill. No, it was Bill Clinton.
Yes, thats the one. Remember him? Bill Clinton. Former President of the United States, possibly future First Husband of the United States? Ring a bell? You know the guy the one who remains a beloved figure in American liberalism? An elder statesman of the Democrat Party? The dude who shows up to fundraise for Democratic congressional candidates? The man who continues to enjoy enormous popularity even after his presidency? Yeah, that guy. He was President. The actual President of the United States.
The President of the United States who was credibly accused of rape, assault, and sexual harassment by numerous women over a period of many years. Forget Monica Lewinsky. Im talking about Juanita Broaddrick, who recounted the incident to Dateline in 1999, saying [Clinton] turned me around and started kissing me, and that was a real shock. I first pushed him away. I just told him no. . . . He tries to kiss me again. He starts biting on my lip. . . . And then he forced me down on the bed. I just was very frightened. I tried to get away from him. I told him no. . . . He wouldnt listen to me.
And Paula Jones, who most Americans remembers as That Woman Who Had Something To Do With The Monica Lewinsky Thing Or Something, won an out of court settlement from Clinton after accusing him of summoning her to his hotel room one night and, right there with his security detail standing by, dropping his pants and exposing himself.
As horrifying as it sounds, from the 70′s all the way through the 90′s and possibly beyond, college students, secretaries, interns, and others, all tell stories of sexual violence at the hands (or other body parts) of Bill Clinton. The Clinton machine went to work in each case, with the active help of Hillary The Champion For Womens Rights Clinton, smearing, intimidating, blackmailing and bribing the accusers into silence. And youre telling me Bill Cosby is the bigger story?
Bill Clinton, according to many accounts, is a serial abuser, rapist, and exhibitionist pervert. A man who allegedly used his power and influence to demean, degrade, and manipulate innocent, powerless women into various forms of sexual contact.
Even Monica Lewinsky might have been involved consensually but only because the Most Powerful Man in the World coerced her. When everything exploded out into the open, they slandered her and turned her into a national punch line. Her life was ruined while Bill and Hillary rode off into the sunset and made 500 grand a pop giving speeches to college students (no word on whether Clinton ever gave a private follow up speech to any of those college students).
So if we are dredging up rape accusations against formerly famous old man, why not talk about the ones surrounding a former president who still wields considerable influence and who might, God help us, end up in the White House again in two years?
Why are we so particular and choosy about the rape stories we care about and the ones we scoff at and dismiss?
Why, in the name of all that is holy, do we grab the pitchforks over Bill Cosbys alleged sins, but hoist Bill Clinton on our shoulders and celebrate him as a great president who shouldnt be judged for what he does in his personal life?
It just seems so strange, doesnt it?
Or maybe not so strange.
One might offer one explanation for these glaring discrepancies:
Bill Clinton is a liberal.
Bryan Singer and Roman Polanski are Hollywood darlings, which means theyre liberal.
Bill Cosby, on the other hand, became famous in his later years for making a bunch of conservative statements about race. And when I say conservative statements about race I just mean honest, rational, and important statements about race.
Thats what this is about. Its got nothing to do with rape, really. Liberals dont care that Cosby raped someone (allegedly) because if they did theyd care that Clinton raped someone (allegedly). What they care about is the opportunity to finally avenge their politically correct sensibilities, after Cosby spent several years audaciously telling black people to be accountable for their actions and stop blaming the white man for everything. If hed never exposed himself as an apostate of the Church of Liberalism, and instead stuck to Clintons strategy of exposing himself to White House volunteers, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Liberals have seized on the opportunity not to discuss rape itself, but to prove that Cosbys thoughts on race are illegitimate because some women accused him of it. Im not quite sure what one has to do with the other, but this is logic only accessible to those inside the Church of Liberalism.
Liberalism doesnt care about rape. Rape is a convenient way to prove a point sometimes, thats all. Rape is an insidious, morally outrageous act of violence, but Liberalism doesnt necessarily condemn things just because theyre insidious, morally outrageous acts of violence (see: abortion). It condemns those acts when theyre committed by heretics and traitors to their cause, but rarely otherwise.
Some will say that dragging Bill Clinton into this conversation is distracting and pointless. But I say that the former President of the United States is just as likely to be a rapist as Bill Cosby, probably even more so, and that fact will always be relevant, every single day, until Clinton is finally called to task for the evil hes reportedly done.
And I say the bigger story isnt even that Democrats twice voted an alleged rapist into the White House, but that the national conversation about rape, just like every other national conversation, is built on a false foundation and destined to go nowhere, accomplish nothing, and come to no coherent conclusion. Its all just politics in the end. Its a chance to score a few more points in whatever godforsaken game were playing.
Its appropriate, then, that this Cosby outrage can be traced to a comedian who only used it as a punch line in a routine that frequently milks sexual assaults for laughs. He doesnt care about rape. The people who seized on his words dont care about it. The media that jumped on the bandwagon doesnt care about it, either.
If they did, Bill Clinton wouldnt be a hero to them.
Many if Clinton rapes Cosby the media will notice
Bill Cosby strayed from the Democratic Plantation, thereby forfeiting the protection afforded by a compliant and duplicitous media.
Slick Willie is a great fund raiser for anti-American commie pols, that’s why.
The American people have never been particularly alarmed at a little treason here and there.
Sorry, but they have already forgotten about the rapes of their "bill". They want him so bad that they will swallow the HRC pill to get him back. Even of millions who voted Republican in 2014 want "bill" back. They associate him with a "good economy".
especially with the possibility of Hillary wanting to be the first woman president.
not only should we cream her daily with the murder of four Americans in Benghazi in Sept. 2012 but with her war on women during her husbands accused rape allegations...
LET'S ROLL VOTERS...GO GET'M
Clinton is closest to the true essence of progressive-liberal debauchery. Cosby is a heretic.
“The issue is never the issue. The issue is the revolution.”
—David Horowitz, quoting unnamed SDS leader.
I believe all of these women. But I’d like to know how many of them voted for Clinton and will vote for Hillary.
In early Feb, 2001, there was a Victory Brunch hosted by JimRob and viewed on CSPAN. I was privileged to be one of the speakers. During the various awards I presented to the compliant media (such as Golden Kneepads to Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather), I referred to Hillary as Satan’s Daughter. Some thought I went too far. I suspect they might have changed their opinion by now.
Yes, now is the time. In the NFL and with Cosby and probably others, this issue is front and center. It is time to expose and destroy Satan’s Daughter.
Been waiting for decades for the MLK claims to make the rounds again....
But it has not resurfaced...
I guessing they buried the stuff with J. Edgar Hoover.
Maybe Jessie Jackson will write a tell-all book before he croaks..
LOL! Awesome! Yep, especially after Benghazi, I think people are realizing she isn’t just Satans daughter anymore but Satan himself. It just boggles the mind why they would ever push her for POTUS especially after the Obama Holocaust. Yeah a far far leftist is working out just great as POTUS isn’t he, so let’s get another one like Hitlery. They’re out of their minds.
#1 Most of these alleged rapes seemed to have occurred in the 70s & 80s before date-rape drugs came on the radar of women.
#2 Not all of these occurrences were formal "date" arrangements. Especially with the 15 yo girl whom he saw when she was also an older teen.
#3 In many of these cases, these women didn't remember ANYTHING beyond a certain point. And, it was only when OTHER women came forward to say similar druggings occurred and these OTHER women DID recall some "scenes" from what transpired, that these women LATER put 2 and 2 together.
It's like a separated spouse who uncovers some strange occurrences with their spouse, yet keeps taking them back in, only to get later evidence allowing them to put 2 and 2 together & realizing that spouse was cheating on them all along. Was there early evidence there all along? Ya betcha. Did that spouse have all the conscious evidence at the time? No. Especially when some seemingly trustworthy person wormholes into your life.
This author's reasoning comes from a local hellhole.
Most of the time radical feminists' basis for being provoked is misguided; but when they read crap like this ya gotta wonder why some men keep handing them the ammo.
This whole attack on Cosby might be the liberal establishment’s way of getting HilLiary discredited since she has so much baggage. It isn’t like the reprobate Clintons are going step aside for the good of their party and especially not for the good of the country.
DEMS: HilLiarY, polls show you won’t win, so we need you to step aside.
HilLiarY: We’ll ALL burn in Hell before I quit!! This is my last chance! Don’t you rubes understand that? !!! Hisssssss!
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