But it doesn't feel that way for me. I have long thought there was something about Cosby that didn't ring true with his public image, and then you hear this type of thing...
Travis McGee, who has been on FR for a while and is regarded as reliable, posted an anecdote which would have rung true with me if it had been posted ten years ago:
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Bill Cosby Stays Mum When Asked About Rape Allegations, David Letterman Appearance Cancelled
November 16, 2014 at 4:16:52 PM EST · 104 of 112
Travis McGee to Yaelle; wardaddy
I posted this up-thread.
“I knew a skilled yacht painter in Charleston SC 20 years ago. He also did high-end private plane and jet painting jobs. He did a custom paint job for Cosby’s jet and was around him long enough to be shocked. He said he had never met or known somebody who was so 180* different in real life from the crafted TV persona. He was a screamer, a dictator, and a constant humiliator of his family, posse, assistants, and even temporary employees like him when no cameras were rolling.”
This was totally shocking and almost unbelievable to me at the time, it was so 180* out of his image and what I believed of him. This custom painter (technically skilled artist) had many anecdotes that covered the several weeks he was in occasional contact with Cosby and his posse. It was so amazingly out of sync with his image, that it was shocking. According to his version, Cosby went into screaming tirades at the drop of a hat. Family, posse, worker-bees, anybody. I had no reason do disbelieve this painter/artist. For 20 years, I’ve been waiting for a story like this to drop.
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Now, this is an anecdote. I have no idea if it is true. But I compare it to when I heard that Robin Williams killed himself.
It made perfect sense. In the same way it did not seem out of character with a gut feeling I had on him, this thing with Cosby is the same way.
I don't care for feeding frenzies like this, but...I think he is absolutely guilty of what he is being accused of.
Ping...
Since then, I’ve read that Cosby, when he was young, handsome and popular in the 60s, used to hang out at the Playboy mansion in L.A. as a “regular.” This was a place where playmates and models would throw themselves upon celebrities to jump start various careers.
I think he got a taste for beautiful young model types in that period. As he grew older and less handsome, but still had the desires, he probably used his status and wealth to funnel young models into his own “grooming” process. Mentoring, call it what you will, it’s an elaborate seduction/mind screw. Ending with the drugged wine and rape.
His many chickens are finally coming home to roost.
I pretty much agree with what you said, but that doesn’t answer these questions.
Who was keeping it suppressed to begin with ?
Why did this suddenly come up after he told the black thug community that they were a disgrace to the nation ?
Lots of my friends used to listen to Cosby when we were kids, had his records, thought he was the funniest comic going. A few years ago I saw some old videos posted on youtube. I was really surprised to see how ANGRY he was while going through his routines. He seemed to be boiling over mad. Really disappointed me, I thought I had found something worth watching, but after one, well, that was enough. What a shame, he has really spoken well for people taking responsibility for their actions.
A small anecdote illustrative of the attitude of one Mr. Bill Cosby:
My better half, Mrs. Liberty, is from Southern California, and as it happened, her Dentist was the same as Mr. Cosby’s. One day, when the Great One was scheduled to come in for a cleaning and checkup after Mrs. Liberty, she noticed the entire staff of the office was packing up their personal items and heading for the door, while a new staff of people, all black, were coming in.
They were literally restaffing the office entirely with blacks for Mr. Cosby, because he didn’t want any white employees around when he was getting his dental work done.
She asked the Dentist why he puts up with that, and he told her Mr. Cosby pays for three appointments, so he accommodates. Otherwise, Mr. Cosby goes elsewhere.
The above story indicates a very hateful mind, belonging to one who knows better than to let that mask slip very often. He is the worst kind of racist.
52 posted on Sun Jul 21 15:13:49 2013 by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3045413/posts?page=52#52
According to the recent article by some female liberal professor, sexual crimes by blacks should be overlooked.