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Cosby explains - but doesn't back away from - comments
St Paul Pioneer Press (AP) ^ | 7/1/04 | Don Babwin

Posted on 07/01/2004 1:58:07 PM PDT by dave k

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Hooray for Cosby; finally someone telling it like it is. Lefty or not, he hits the nail on the head here.
1 posted on 07/01/2004 1:58:07 PM PDT by dave k
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Cosby is the real deal, a great comedian who tells it like it is, and a great American.


2 posted on 07/01/2004 2:00:35 PM PDT by rageaholic
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Jackson defended Cosby's statements. "Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said.

The way I look at Jackson's quote, it took him exactly thirteen words to twist Cosby's words from their own meaning and to one more convenient to his own agenda.

3 posted on 07/01/2004 2:03:30 PM PDT by Puddleglum (Lord Kerry demands ... a shrubbery!)
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There have been some, who never liked Bill Cosby's presentation of blacks. As a kid, one of my favorite shows was Fat Albert. Then, when he had the Cosby Show, it was criticized for the family being too "upscale."


4 posted on 07/01/2004 2:05:21 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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"Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said.

No, Bill said nothing about the tilt of the playing field, he's saying your team is not on the playing field.

5 posted on 07/01/2004 2:05:27 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Mullahs swinging from lamp posts.....)
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Agreed, everyone has to take personal responsibility seriously.


6 posted on 07/01/2004 2:05:30 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Puddleglum

Jackson and the others need no explanation, but a nice cup of "shut the fck up!".


7 posted on 07/01/2004 2:05:34 PM PDT by JudgemAll
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bump


8 posted on 07/01/2004 2:05:55 PM PDT by Lady Eileen
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I heard some of these fine youths that Cosby is talking about last night. They were sitting in a car outside of their house--"Yeah, I was so f-ing drunk..."


9 posted on 07/01/2004 2:06:00 PM PDT by beaversmom (Michael Medved has the Greatest radio show on GOD's Green Earth)
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Cosby is a documented, card-carrying conservative-hater.

That being said, this makes a total of ONE issue he's taken the right tack on.


10 posted on 07/01/2004 2:06:17 PM PDT by jra
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Powerful words.


11 posted on 07/01/2004 2:07:31 PM PDT by nuconvert ( "Let Freedom Reign !" ) ( Azadi baraye Iran)
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To: rdb3; Khepera; elwoodp; MAKnight; condolinda; mafree; Trueblackman; FRlurker; Teacher317; ...
"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other (racial slurs) as they're walking up and down the street,"

Praise the Lord! Cos has finally had enough of the PC BS!

 

Double-barrelled Mega-PING! to both lists! If you want on, FReepmail me!

12 posted on 07/01/2004 2:08:02 PM PDT by mhking (John Kerry & Al Gore: Cut from the same tree.)
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Cosby also said that he wasn't concerned that some whites took his comments and turned them "against our people.
Who? Who are the whites who did this? I keep reading this, but I never find out who these white folk are. Anybody got a name, any hard evidence of this?
13 posted on 07/01/2004 2:08:09 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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I wonder what old Cosby really thinks of Je$$e...


14 posted on 07/01/2004 2:08:49 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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Cosby is a documented, card-carrying conservative-hater.

Cosby is no "hater".

15 posted on 07/01/2004 2:10:01 PM PDT by rageaholic
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Jackson defended Cosby's statements. "Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that."

Now THAT's a shocker ... first time Jesse "blame whitey" Jackson agreed with someone saying it "ain't whitey"!

16 posted on 07/01/2004 2:11:47 PM PDT by AgThorn (Go go Bush!! But don't turn your back on America with "immigrant amnesty")
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Hey, Hey, Hey!


17 posted on 07/01/2004 2:14:50 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light. Jn5:32)
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To: Clara Lou

"Some whites", of course, refers to any conservative talk show hosts who may have mentioned Cosbys words, and agreed with them, during the course of their show.


18 posted on 07/01/2004 2:15:30 PM PDT by babaloo999 (Liberals say they're "Progressive". So is cancer.)
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Am I to assume that you know this because of your close personal relationship with him?

LOL


19 posted on 07/01/2004 2:20:02 PM PDT by jra
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Wow! I'm impressed all over again. I've always liked Cosby, but now I like him even more.


20 posted on 07/01/2004 2:20:43 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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