Posted on 12/03/2014 7:55:14 AM PST by Brother Cracker
When asked about recent allegations against Bill Cosby, Chris Rock fell into what for him is an unusual position. He was at a loss for words.
"I don't know what to say," he told New York magazine. "What do you say? I hope it's not true. That's all you can say. I really do. I grew up on Cosby. I love Cosby, and I just hope it's not true."
A lot of us longtime Cosby fans have been at a loss for words ever since long-simmering rumors boiled over in recent weeks that Cosby allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted women over many years. Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University's board of trustees Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University's board of trustees Tribune wire report
Then Rock mused: "It's a weird year for comedy. We lost Robin, we lost Joan and we kind of lost Cosby."
Yes, we have. Unlike the losses of Robin Williams and Joan Rivers, Cosby is still alive, but that's more than we can say for his comedy career or his stature as a civic role model.
The bad news for "Cos" keeps on coming.
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This one really pulled the rug from under me.
I’ve always respected the Cos, and am crushed that he appears to share chronosomes with Bubba Clinton.
We heard of these items years ago...and an illegitimate child....and also...one of my friends said he was the rudest man she’s ever met.
I’d like to hear the evidence first.
There have been lots of witch hunts over the past decades from the “Believe the Children” nursery school witch hunt to the “Lets nail every priest to the door” witch hunt to the “They’re white males, so it has to be so” Duke Lacrosse witch hunt.
Yes, there are victims, but there is also a terrible hysteria and those who latch on to it.
I want to see the evidence first before I judge.
If it’s true and if it went unreported for SO long...it says as much about Hollywood as it does about the way people are too intimidated to report ‘celebrity’ and ‘minority’ public figures’ wrongdoing.
really? What did she say about how he was rude?
Female staffers at “The Late Show With David Letterman” are breathing a collective sigh of relief they don’t have to deal with an upcoming Bill Cosby appearance. A source close to the show tells Confidenti@l that the disgraced comic had some truly bizarre backstage requests.
“He’d include as a request, before he arrived, that the young girls, interns and assistants, all had to gather around in the green room backstage and sit down and watch him eat curry,” our stunned source explains. “No one would say anything, and he would sit silently eating and make us watch and want us to watch.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/cbs-women-curry-favor-article-1.2020179
“...one of my friends said he was the rudest man she’s ever met.”
My brother in law is a retired airline pilot. He had Cosby on several flights and said he treated the flight attendants horribly.
I don’t feel any differently about Cosby now. Until and unless there is a trial and a conviction, I won’t change my mind about him.
No, I’m not a fan.
Heard on TV this morning another woman has sued him.
When the Cosby show was on my mother read somewhere about the guy who has recently come forward who worked as Cosby female gatekeeper. She said that she read that Cosby preferred white women to be brought to him. Neither my mother nor I knew what to do with that information. It was in the late 80s, but it all makes sense now.
This reminds me of the movie “A Family Thing” starring James Earl Jones and Robert Duval, set in the deep south. Duval’s character’s mother dies and leaves him a letter revealing that Duval is half black, because his father impregnated a black girl, Jones’ mother, when she was still a single teenager, making Jones and Duval half-brothers. But Duval’s father and his wife had taken the baby and raised him with no knowledge of his true origins. And part of the estate settlement of Duval’s mother is that Duval must go to Chicago and find Jones and reveal the blood relationship.
What makes the task more onerous for Duval is that all his life, presuming himself to be white, he’d had the mindset of a borderline Klansman. The rest of it is quite ironic and wryly funny.
My point is that Duval’s character’s father, and Slick Willie must have some genetic linkage, too.
If he converts to Islam, this goes away.
“This one really pulled the rug from under me.”
Same here. I was hoping his only issue was racism, but I gave him a pass because he grew up in a time when racism was rampant and he experienced things that could make a guy be a bit racist.
Whoopi says that isn't rape rape even if a 13 year old is saying no. It's "Hollywood" and women "know what they are getting into".
President Obama was chill with that too and didn't push for helping California prosecute Polanski for fleeing trial.
The woman who was raped in the 1970s by Roman is done with it (doesn't see the point in locking him up now, moved on with her life) but she never recanted that it was RAPE.
Bill Cosby: We Should All Be More Like Muslims
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/06/10/cosby-all-should-be-muslims
Why not JELLO?
It’s not Hollywood. It’s power and money. That happens everywhere.
Given that a never “felt” anything about him in the first place, I couldn’t care less what happens.
Hollywood people live in a strange world if nobody finds out it’s all ok.
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