Posted on 11/17/2014 2:42:16 PM PST by bkopto
Joan Tarshis posted an essay on Hollywood Elsewhere, via the Hollywood Reporter, alleging that Cosby drugged and raped her on two separate occasions in 1969, when she was just 19-years-old.
Tarshis, a former actress, music industry publicist, and journalist, wrote that Cosby, whom she met through mutual friends, would routinely invite her to his room on the Universal lot where the taping of The Bill Cosby Show took place.
According to her, the comedian would offer her food and drinks, and although Cosby never drank alcohol in front of her, he would often pour her Bloody Marys.
In regards to the first instance of alleged sexual assault, Tarshis recounted an evening when Cosby invited her to his room to discuss material for his show. That is when he reportedly made her one of his Bloody Mary drinks.
She goes on to claim that she lost consciousness in the midst of discussing a scene with the comedian, and that she remembers coming to on his couch, unclothed.
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Well, lets get 13 women together to claim that Obama raped them in 2006.
If it’s that simple to destroy someone’s career, we should make the best of it. It worked on Hermann Cain...why should we let liberals have sole use of trial by media?
Apparently, evidence and timeliness are irrelevant. What counts is volume, quantity and juicy assumptions.
It is surprising how Clintonesque his apology to his wife sounds.
“”Through the years, Cosby has only given one interview on Constand’s accusations – to The National Enquirer, which ran in March 2005.
“Looking back on it, I realize that words and actions can be misinterpreted by another person,” Cosby told the tabloid, “and unless you’re a supreme being, you can’t predict what another individual will do.
“I’m not saying that what I did was wrong, but I apologize to my loving wife, who has stood by my side for all these years, for any pain I have caused her,” he told the Enquirer. “These allegations have caused my family great emotional stress.”””
Got it. The law requires women to run the gauntlet to prove rape.
But the one woman who was looking for a bit part on his show, was lead on for a year!!!
You know well before a year whether you’ve got the part. They were perhaps, in the best light, naive.
But these stories have dogged him for so long. Eventually so etching will stick. IMO.
Aside from 14 female claiming he assaulted them over the years, why do you leave out the settlement to one of them?
Also, why are you calling assault in 2004 to being reported to police, to civil settlement in 2006, outside of a reasonable time frame?
Hey Hey Hey!
The left has to destroy Cosby before 2016 because he can get blacks to vote for Ben Carson.
Watch "Uptown Saturday Night" for proof. Cosby was da shizznit!!!
I knew a model who made it big on the runways of NY and Paris. She was repeatedly drugged and raped when she was a teenager. She endured rapes to make it. Her mother knew what was happening and didn’t do anything about it for fear she would ruin her career and she also didn’t want to ruin the career of a younger aspiring model in the family. Before age 30 she looked hollowed-out and had dead eyes. She basically sold her soul.
Again with quantity.
Would it have been more or less believable if 1000 women came forward (none of them with evidence), all seeking money?
Did ANY of those women obtain medical evidence immediately after the event? I understand that trama will prevent SOME women from going to the emergency room. But ALL of them???
And again with the JUICY assumption that settlement = guilt. Have you considered:
settlement = far cheaper legal remedy.
settlement = protection of public image
settlement = less trauma to his family
And I am to believe that ALL 14 of these women sold their pride and not a ONE decided to do what was right?
Just a few months ago it looked like there was going to be a big scandal where at least two top producers were going to be busted for molesting under age boys who were up and coming in Hollywood.
It fizzled when the accuser gave up.
But the allegations have been around for decades. Either the statute of limitations is up or the accusers are intimidated into silence.
But it is there ... The sexual perversion f young males. Females too for all I know. It’s disgusting!!!
“Got it. The law requires women to run the gauntlet to prove rape.”
It certainly happens more often to women, but it also happens to men. I represented a young man, a teenager, who had been raped by a wealthy prominent man. I encouraged him to report it and he and his mother agreed. What he went through was inhuman.
You choose to ignore a settlement and 14 separate females.
There is nothing wrong with that, but you seem a little obsessive, almost angry.
Until you get some evidence to challenge all this, perhaps you should relax a little bit, you sound like the Clinton defenders at this point.
No reason it can’t be both. Perhaps he has been protected all these decades but the left has now decided to cancel his protection due to sins against liberal orthodoxy.
How do you learn? You learn by getting burned. According to what his cousin later told me, he always collected at least 50% up front, no exceptions.
I do the same thing on almost all contracts.
I bet ! He was a young guy, at the time, and most of the cost was his labor, so he wasn’t out on material, etc. Still, an spitty experience for him.
Buress mentioned Philly native Cosby - whose early humor often mentioned his football days at Philly's Temple University - and said, in part:
“He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the 80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”Some of Philadelphia's media took note of this the following morning; Buress was invited to appear on Howard Stern . . . and here we are, back in 2005, when anyone paying attention knew that thirteen women, black and white, were accusing Bill Cosby of essentially the same thing: drugging and sexually abusing them.
Cosby paid a settlement to at least one woman, and had been paying others of them for years. Doesn't mean he did it, but had been paying some of the accusers, who had never gone public, and were only listed as John Doe witnesses in a lawsuit, for years. Some of them later became involved in sexual relationships with him, but said the first encounter(s) came about as a result of drugging. Sounds weird to me.
Bowman wasn't even the first woman to accuse Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her.
And if it makes any difference to anyone for any reason, Cosby and his mistress, Shawn Upshaw, had an illegitimate daughter, Autumn Jackson, in about 1974. Cosby made payments for twenty-three years to keep this a secret [Source: Cosby's testimony], until Ms. Jackson tried to extort Cosby by threatening to go public with her paternity information.
I hope that proves useful to someone. Google away.
* a, not an. Somewhere, an English teacher cringes ;)
Cosby has edged a toe or two off the rat plantation, therefore he must be punished.
Cosby must understand what happened to Clarence Thomas...and why.
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