Posted on 11/22/2014 5:01:06 AM PST by dennisw
I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007 The public may be waking up to the mountain of rape allegations now, but women were coming forward years ago to warn the Jell-O Man was not so sweet.
In 2007—seven years before she publicly came forward—I spoke with Joan Tarshis, a former Hollywood publicist who claimed that Bill Cosby raped her. After our talk—and, of course, much more research—I filed a version of the following story on my website Hollywood, Interrupted. It identified a number of women who claimed that Bill Cosby had raped them. (The story has been updated slightly to reflect the allegations of the past few weeks, including Tarshis’s choice to drop the pseudonym she had elected to use in prior years.)
In my interviews with several of the women back then, I found the tale they told disturbingly similar: All were young and impressionable, beautiful, and talented. Cosby had taken a keen interest in their careers, and had offered to mentor them or otherwise open the fabled doors to the glistening kingdom of show business, for which he was a principal emissary.
All were given spiked drinks—or drugs misrepresented as medicine—and became incapacitated, the women charged. And all allegedly awoke with the unshakable sense that something wrong had occurred.
People magazine even ran an article on the lawsuits that were settled with several of the women, but never followed up on it. And from my own experience, I can confirm that the story shook people to the core: Even more than Woody Allen, Bill Cosby was a beloved figure and civil-rights pioneer; hardened editors were horrified at the prospect of taking him down. I might as well have pitched a story about Martin Luther King, Jr. philandering with white women. The story went nowhere.
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PLEASE READ THE WHOLE THING
Why?
Synopsis please. This is Saturday and many of us are doing chores & errands.
I agree...fold your laundry
If only Jerry Springer had a show, he’d get to the bottom of this.
“Why?”
Because this is way more important than POTUS ramming amnesty down our throats...
As to salvaging his reputation - you'd have a better chance of putting an omelet back inside its eggshell and getting it to hatch.
I find it interesting that every time BC says something remotely conservative theses allegation emerge.
Could be just a conincidence, or not.
whats wrong with one of his eyes. Is that a cataract?
Jell-OH-OH Man
Cosby is not a conservative at all.
I did...and the fact that it is covered so well in that article shows that there is a limit, even for some of the media. Unfortunately, I think that there are a LOT more predators out there, just like him, who are either politically or otherwise protected. A crack in the facade of decency finally emerging, maybe the Truth will finally emerge on MANY of them. There are women predators who should be charged, as well.
Unless I’ve missed something, it’s been a number of years since he committed a conservative sin.
Anyone puzzled by the lack of support Cosby’s getting from the black community? Where’s Sharpton? Jackson?
Oh, and here I was thinking there was one just a few weeks ago.
Hummm
Even more than Woody Allen?
++++
Wasn’t his gig his daughter?
You may be right. If somebody is aware of such, I’d be interested.
If the truth be know....
Didn’t Jesse Jackson get in trouble using his US grant money to Rainbow Push to help his girlfriend about ten years ago?? And a son went to prison?? or am I remembering someone else?
He’ll do just fine.
Just got a standing ovation at a sold out show:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/sold-cosby-show-proceeds-amid-sex-assault-claims-012848067.html
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