That right there is one of my favorite "scenarios" as well.
But it only really works when the "director" wears the hat and the powdered wig.
Posted on 03/03/2015 1:31:38 PM PST by SteveH
One of the Jane Doe witnesses in the 2005 sexual assault lawsuit against comedian Bill Cosby has come forward to share her story for the first time. Patricia, who is not releasing her last name, spoke to BuzzFeed News for an article published Tuesday about her alleged assault at Cosby's hands in 1978.
Patricia told the website that she met Cosby while she was a 22-year-old conference planner at the University of Massachusetts, which had invited the comedian as a featured speaker for an event. Upon learning she was a singer, Cosby allegedly offered to mentor her.
Cosby invited her to his home in Shelburne Falls, Mass., for a dinner party, she said, but when she arrived, she was the only guest. She said that Cosby gave her a mixed drink and asked her to act out various scenarios, including one in which she pretended "to be a queen with oatmeal on her face."
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Cosby’s probably 100% guilty on all counts but why the hell do these people bring these accusations up years after they happen? You press charges when it happens... 30+ women didn’t? I have no sympathy for them at this stage of the game.
You wake up on somebodys bed.. with no marks or ill effects..
Yet you know something “happened”... but don’t know what..
And surmise after asked what did he do?.. you must answer “I don’t know”..
Were you violated?... “I’m not sure”...
Do you remember anything that happened?.. “Well NO”...
If you cannot SEE why these events are not reported you must be “BLONDE”..
there’s no way in hell that all of these women are lying - face it, the Heyhey kid is worse than Clinton when it comes to being a perv. Coz liked drugging them, too.
Wonder how MUCH of this is going on..unreported.?.
Parasitical RAPE...
How about when you drug and rape a woman in 2004, she files a police report in 2005, and brings forth 13 other victim Jane Does, and you settle out of court with her in 2006? Did you read the article?
Did you know that he has been accused of continuing since 2006? Are you new to this topic, or are you another one of his defenders that gets on every thread posting the same nonsense month after month and ignoring the facts and corrections that have already been posted to you, dozens of times?
Tarnished reputation? Has that had any effect in Slick? Hell no! Reputation on matters when it matters to you.
That right there is one of my favorite "scenarios" as well.
But it only really works when the "director" wears the hat and the powdered wig.
Years ago, date rape was difficult to impossible to prove in court under the best of circumstances. A typical defense including shaming and blaming the victim in the court of public opinion. CSI and law needed time to catch up with criminal abuse of pharmaceutical technology.
So the main battleground today for the Cosby takedown is the court of public opinion.
IMHO, it is like taking down a hyena with spears. One spear is not enough, and one hunter alone is not enough. The hunters need to stab the hyena with many spears. And the hunters need to choose the best time. Immediately-right-now might not be a strategic option.
It seems fitting that Cosby is finally on the receiving end of the blows in the court of public opinion. Cosby chose to move the battleground there. It is there that he needs to make a final stand or surrender.
It is difficult to pity an animal who knows no better. But Cosby is not an animal. Cosby should have known better than to move the battleground to a place in which he could eventually be weakened. Why have any pity for Cosby? Cosby is the master of his destiny. His personal choices led him to this PR killing field. Let him succumb there.
There you go not thinking things through.... I’m guessing a momentary lapse of liberalism.
The events are reported but X number of years.
It’s rational thought process so you’re forgiven.
I have no pity for Cosby and as stated he’s probably 100% guilty and will probably get away with it.
If he’s blackmailed out of society and never heard from again.. what does he care, he’s rich and old.
In 1976 I knew 2 women that worked with Cosby and loathed him . They never claimed rape , just if they didn’t play ball , they would lose their jobs . I told them to get a new job .
And the truth has finally caught up with him.
I’m not saying that all of the accusations are false, I’m just noting that there’s nothing he can do to defend himself if *any* of the accusations are false.
At this point I could accuse the man of (whatever) and get myself 15 minutes of fame at his expense.
I’m not saying that all of the accusations are false, I’m just noting that there’s nothing he can do to defend himself if *any* of the accusations are false.
I see.... if half (or 90%) of the accusations are FALSE it’s meaningful to you..
Do you have a point?.. What if Only one accusation is true?..
He is then still a parasitical RAPIST!... a bully.. and a malafactor.. should be behind bars..
IF they are ALL true.. he is the same.. he is a dangerous Thugg..
There is much he could have been doing during all of these decades that he has been using people and an expensive team of lawyers and media experts to squelch the accusations, and attack or coerce the accusers, and manipulate the media.
Cosby has always dealt with his rapes as a rich and powerful man who was managing a continued lifestyle, not as a shocked and outraged innocent.
Even now look at Cosby, he is riding it out, he isn’t destroying the cases of the women and pointing out the absurdities and which cities he was in, timelines, etc.
What does that mean when you say “I’m not saying that all of the accusations are false”?
You think that what matters is that while he has drugged and raped SOME women, that the numbers might not be as high as the number of women claiming that he raped or assaulted them?
Like I said, at this point I could accuse the man of something (which I know is patently false) and tomorrow night I’ll be getting interviewed on the national news and all of the gossip programs.
For the record, I was assaulted at age sixteen and despite very serious threats from my attacker I went to the police and he went to prison and died there.
That said what is incomprehensible to me is that 30 out of 30 women kept their silence until now.
I would say that Cosby doesn't like women, notice that he doesn't have any coming forth to tell us what a wonderful and respectful man he is?
""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.”
In the wake of multiple women accusing Cosby of raping them, his latest visit to the CBS show has been canceled. But when the 77- year-old comic appeared multiple times over the years, he’d act alarmingly gross to the women employees.
While our source adds that everyone hated the odd preshow ritual, they were asked by producers to do it because “that’s what he (Cosby) wanted.”
You are full of it, and it is getting worse.
Assuming you read the article and are reading the thread, then why are you so blatantly lying about everyone being silent until recent months?
Who’s lying? I never heard of this until recent months. Until November there were no recent topics on FR about it. And as for the 2005 stuff I never heard of it until after this last November. I was 14 for most of 2005 so don’t mind me if I didn’t care about the news back then.
did your attacker use drugs? that tends to make a case more difficult to prove. And the year that the attack occurred is relevant too, because societal mores have evolved over time.
LOL, playing dumb seems to be your style, I asked you if you read the article and have been reading the thread.
So this is your first Cosby thread, you didn't read the article and you aren't reading the thread?
You want to tell us that you think that this is the first that America has heard any of this, that there was no big case in 2005?
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