Posted on 10/30/2014 8:08:28 AM PDT by bkopto
When comedian Hannibal Buress delivered his recent merciless tongue-lashing at Bill Cosby, calling him a serial 'rapist', there was one woman who was paying particularly close attention.
When Barbara Bowman was a teenager she was emotionally and sexually abused by the TV star and in an exclusive interview with MailOnline she describes in chilling detail how Cosby manipulated her into believing he was a father figure and took advantage of her youth, vulnerability and yes, even ambition, to have his way with her over and over again.
'I was drugged and raped by that man,' she tells MailOnline. 'He is a monster. He came at me like a monster. My hope is that others who have experienced sexual abuse will not be intimidated into silence by the famous, rich and powerful. If I can help one victim, then I've done my job.'
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Buck buck number one . . .
In that picture Al Gore looks like he could use a hobby ....maybe something scientific or weather related
you forgot the barf alert
Junior Barnes, you gunky! Why you want to hit me in the face with a slushball for?
That is a thinner and younger (by almost 20 years) Al Gore.
OMG....those LEGS!!
Just lost my cup-o-noodles.
What's wrong with this story? Several things. First of all is the fact that the use of the word 'allegedly' is very sparsely used, if at all. Why is it being reported as fact. It is an allegation. That's the thing that concerns me about all these stories - be it Bill Cosby raping girls, John Travolta having cross-country gay affairs, etc. I have no way of knowing whether they are true allegations or fake allegations, but I do know that they are allegations. Why then does the media write stories as if they were fact? They may turn out to be veritable, but at the point of writing they are allegations.
What's to stop me right now from spending some time around the vicinity of some famous person, and maybe even get a picture or two around them, and then come out and say he/she/it was doing XYZ to me? More importantly, why is the threshold of proof so low that (i) my assertion is sufficient and (ii) it is up to THAT person to prove THEIR innocence?
Why is the threshold so low?
We have a summer “theatre in the round” in our town. Bill Cosby appeared there for many, many years. My neighbor ran the place and had contact with all of the performers. Bill Cosby topped her list of obnoxious stars, closely followed by Jerry Lewis and Diana Ross. She said he was a nasty jerk who had nothing but disdain for the audience.
It would if she wanted attention since her tiny star has burned out.
have seen Cosby on Letterman and Fallon. They try to treat him respectfully and interject humor, but he often doesn’t go along. Some uncomfortable moments.
those shorts are short enough to put to lie some of the Slick Willie legends.
Why is this coming out now? Isn’t Cosby about 75 years old and semi-retired? If this woman wanted to “help other victims,” why did she wait thirty years to tell her story?
Yikes! I never heard any of this. I have heard that he’s a drunk, which is believable. Very disappointing.
Many years ago, I had a part-time job as an usher at Seattle Center, and was working the front seating sections at a Cosby show, ushering in some late arrivals with my little flashlight. All of a sudden, a spotlight was on me and Cosby motioned me up on stage. For a couple of minutes he toyed with me, said I looked like an “LSD salesman,” and that was my four minutes of fame. For the next year or so, people would approach me in stores and tell me they saw me on stage with Cosby.
“Prisons are filled with Democrat rapists too... the MSM won’t give the numbers... and the FBI is very quiet about connecting crime to political beliefs... but it’s there.”
Why limit this to rapists? 95 percent of all people in prison are Democrats. If we could bar Democrats/Obama supporters from owning firearms, there would be practically no violent crime in America.
Okay, I thought so. Man, he was a thin, young, gay blade back then, wasn’t he.
How did she get to the bedroom if the episode wasn't consensual?
Oh, I believe the woman.
And Bill cosby is the worst kind of rapist (second worst, I guess: he didn’t murder them). To drug and rape is so sick. What person takes pleasure in having sex with an unconscious person?? It’s obviously an evil power drive he has. Why ruin such a successful career with this evil behavior? What a sick, sick man.
I’d like to see him and Stephen Collins delivered to ISIS for a video.
She tried to do the right thing back then, but no one believed her. He was dr. Jello pudding huxtable.
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