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Bill Cosby Pressured AP Reporter To “Scuttle” Interview Of Sex Assault Questions (Video)
Buzz Feed ^ | November 19, 2014 | Michelle Broder Van Dyke

Posted on 11/20/2014 6:50:44 AM PST by maggief

In the wake of serious allegations of sexual assault from multiple women against Bill Cosby, the Associated Press has released the full video from a Nov. 6 interview.

During the on camera exchange, an AP reporter, Brett Zongker, asked Cosby about the allegations and he replies “No, no. We don’t answer that.” Cosby then requested that none of the questions and answers about the allegations appear anywhere. “I would appreciate it if it was scuttled,” Cosby said.

“I think if you want to consider yourself to be serious,” Cosby said to the reporter, “that it will not appear anywhere.”

The reporter replied to Cosby, “OK. I appreciate what you’ve asked.” “And we thought, by the way, because it was AP, that it wouldn’t be necessary to go over that question with you,” Cosby added.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ap; billcosby; cosby; rape
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To: advertising guy
Burgess Meredith was a serial pedaphile

Did not know that. Horribly disappointing.


21 posted on 11/20/2014 8:32:46 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: longfellow

LAFD was called by hidin children for rescue many times


22 posted on 11/20/2014 8:34:25 AM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: maggief

“And we thought, by the way, because it was AP, that it wouldn’t be necessary to go over that question with you,” Cosby added.

That’s the most interesting comment in the whole interview. Why would Cosby think that? Is it because he knows based on past experience that AP gives blacks and/or black celebrities an automatic cover-up pass on crimes and peccadilloes like they do for Obama and the rest?


23 posted on 11/20/2014 9:15:22 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: originalbuckeye

Many blacks say the same things. Obama even has. This is about something else, given he is anti-GOP & pro-Obama.


24 posted on 11/20/2014 9:33:38 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: MNDude

An innocent person would have been doing something to fight this, instead Cosby settled out of court when 10 other women came forward to testify in support of his 2004 accuser and he dropped his feint at the National Enquirer when he threatened to sue them for 250 million and they said bring it on.

His lawyer would not say what he said this week.

“”A blanket denial from Bill Cosby’s lawyer dismissing allegations of sexual abuse by the comedian against several women has been clarified with a subsequent statement.

The new statement released Monday says that Cosby’s denials do not refer to accuser Andrea Constand, whose civil lawsuit against him was settled in 2006.””

“Constand had accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2004.”


25 posted on 11/20/2014 10:02:11 AM PST by ansel12
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To: originalbuckeye

The absolute smearing of a fine man who has spoken out about how blacks need to get off the plantation years and pull their pants up, and quit whining all the time. You are exactly right. I find it strange that not a person in the media has came to his defense. These allegations remind me of a 45 year old allegation of sex abuse against a Catholic priest. Just accuse and you are automatically guilty in the eyes of the public. Your life ruined forever. Bill Cosby has never so much as been charged. The reason? I would suspect most authorities can figure out when a woman wants to shackdown a famous celebrity, all she has to so is holler sexual assault! That is unless the person being accused is a leftist president, who has a lifelong history of sexually abusing women, even raping one in the Oval Office. Then the women in question are labeled two-bit whores not to be believed. If Bill Cosby paled around with Obama and went on The View every month none of this garbage would have never saw the light of day. By the way Fox has now jumped on the bandwagon, interviewing of the women the other night. Cosby, 30 years ago, at the height of his career, “drugged” her and had sex with her. And I believe in the tooth fairy.


26 posted on 11/20/2014 11:54:11 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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To: NKP_Vet

You mean the fine democrat, Obama supporting man who settled out of court on a drugging and sexual assault charge in 2006 because 10 more women were ready to testify that they had also been sexually assaulted by him and often using the same method of drugging and raping, and this after a police report filed in 2000 from another woman?

From Newsbusters.

March 2013: “Unless he had just eaten a bad cup of Jell-O pudding, it would appear that actor and comedian Bill Cosby seems to really, really hate Republicans.

The veteran entertainer made that very clear Monday morning when he claimed that Republicans not applauding President Obama’s State of the Union address in unison with Democrats were “as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation.” He also wondered aloud about whether or not Republicans today are upset that slavery is no longer legal.

Cosby made these remarks on the CNN morning show “Starting Point” after soon-to-be-former host Soledad O’Brien referenced how much better things have gotten for those of African ancestry inside the United States since the 1960s civil rights movement.”


27 posted on 11/20/2014 2:06:00 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Could care less who he votes for, but the liberal media is hanging him out to try where they found every excuse in the world to forgive Clinton’s sexual assaults, which by the way included rape......in the White House.


28 posted on 11/20/2014 3:58:42 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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To: maggief
Did someone say "Scuttle"?


29 posted on 11/20/2014 4:00:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: NKP_Vet

Which has nothing to do with this liberal sleaze ball.

I don’t ignore bad guys because of the impeached Bill Clinton who paid a Cosby like settlement to Paula Jones.

The media protected Cosby for decades, but this time several things came together that broke the story.


30 posted on 11/20/2014 4:07:43 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

You’re in good company with your liberal friends to tar and feather someone of charges that have NEVER LEAD to an indictment and will never lead to an indictment. Liberal smear machine at work.


31 posted on 11/20/2014 4:27:28 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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To: NKP_Vet

That’s it, go personal, did you read his lawyer’s statement in post 25?

That doesn’t make you uneasy and uncomfortable defending this democrat the way “your liberal friends” defended Bill Clinton in the face of what most of us considered damning information and claims?

How about this Republican DA on the 2004 rape case in an article from Breitbart, does it still make you want to sound like the Bill Clinton defenders?

“” Former Pennsylvania prosecutor Bruce L. Castor Jr., who investigated a woman’s claims that Cosby had sexually assaulted her in 2004, said Wednesday he decided not to prosecute because he felt there was not enough evidence to get a conviction.
“I wrote my opinion in such a way as I thought conveyed to the whole world that I thought he had done it, he had just gotten away with it because of a lack of evidence,” the former Montgomery County district attorney said.””


32 posted on 11/20/2014 4:48:35 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

I don’t believe in charging anyone with something that allegedly happened when Christ was a corporal. If and when some recent allegations come to light I’ll take them serious.
These are old allegations, already investigated, no indictment, end of story. Move along, nothing to see here.
Clinton on the other hand raped a woman as the sitting president. He is now a God of the democrat party.


33 posted on 11/20/2014 5:22:32 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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To: NKP_Vet

You have more proof that Cosby drugged and raped Constand in 2004, than you do that Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick 20 years before that, in 1984.

Constand went to the police, the DA believes her story, ten other women came forward to tell of his similar rapes and Cosby settled out of court with her. Much more evidence than we accept in the Clinton rape claim.

Here is just about the only that Cosby has said about this, it sounds very Clintonesque.

“”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.”””


34 posted on 11/20/2014 5:31:37 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

A Clinton fan among us. I’m shocked, shocked.


35 posted on 11/20/2014 5:52:13 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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To: NKP_Vet

What a bizarre lie, try to stay sane.

Why don’t you try to actually take in what you learned in post 34 and either realize you are going overboard in your nasty and hostile defense of Cosby, or show where the post is so terribly wrong?

So far you seem to be totally ignoring every substantive thing posted about the Cosby situation, and just want Freerepublic to not discuss it.


36 posted on 11/20/2014 6:15:59 PM PST by ansel12
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To: ansel12

“Why don’t you try to actually take in what you learned in post 34 and either realize you are going overboard in your nasty and hostile defense of Cosby, or show where the post is so terribly wrong”

You mean sort of like your nasty defense of serial sex predator Bill Clinton? In your world because this POS was the president he had free rein to commit sex crimes against anyone. He was the president, therefore untouchable. Everyone else is guilty as charged.


37 posted on 11/20/2014 7:20:12 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus")
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To: NKP_Vet

Since no one has defended Clinton except you in a indirect manner, your craziness is on display again.

I never could get you to react to any facts or information.


38 posted on 11/20/2014 7:27:49 PM PST by ansel12
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To: NKP_Vet

Since you mentioned the View Whoopi has defended him.


39 posted on 11/20/2014 7:34:52 PM PST by xp38
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To: maggief

My wife and I have watched the clips of his supposed bullying and don’t think he bullied anyone. It just shows how thin skinned the media is. If that’s bullying what do you call a Mike Wallace 60 Minutes ambush interivew of one of their targets? I know good joournalism, but it’s far more like bullying than Cosby’s actions.


40 posted on 11/23/2014 3:07:13 PM PST by airedale
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