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Sold-out Cosby show goes ahead amid sex assault claims(standing ovation!)
ca.news.yahoo.com ^ | 11/22/2014 | Barbara Liston, Piya Sinha-Roy and Eric Kelsey

Posted on 11/22/2014 6:54:00 AM PST by rktman

Bill Cosby played a sold-out comedy show on Friday in Florida, despite a wave of sexual assault allegations this week that prompted the cancellation of several upcoming shows and two major studios to halt projects involving the comedian.

Cosby, 77, took the stage to a standing ovation and gave the audience a thumbs up at the King Center in Melbourne. The 90-minute show concluded without incident.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: guiltybeforeinnocent; hesaidshesaid; trueorfalse
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To: rktman

Does anybody remember Robert Culp saying Bill Cosby was the angriest man alive? Is anger a chip on the shoulder? A means to justify revenge/aggression? Culp’s take on Cosby is not what most here seem to think of Cosby.


41 posted on 11/22/2014 8:36:07 AM PST by rey
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To: COUNTrecount

That’s a pretty long list.


42 posted on 11/22/2014 8:37:40 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: COUNTrecount

Pattern?


43 posted on 11/22/2014 8:39:04 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
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To: knarf

A perfect storm (and the internet) broke the story this time, including a huge blunder by Cosby as he started a huge new promotion for his current show biz projects and new sitcom.

You will find lots from the first half of the 2000s, it just never got legs, the media did not want it to bust out.


44 posted on 11/22/2014 8:39:46 AM PST by ansel12
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To: juggernaut

Given he size of the country and the number of women out there willing to make false claims for fame or forutant its not at all hard to believe that they would all pile on.


45 posted on 11/22/2014 8:46:14 AM PST by Monorprise
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To: rktman

Are you insane?

Close to ten women have said this creep drugged and raped them.

He can’t be charged due to the statute of limitations, but he certainly should be shunned and not supported in any way.


46 posted on 11/22/2014 8:47:35 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: cripplecreek

Perfect, Cripplecreek!


47 posted on 11/22/2014 8:57:36 AM PST by Walrus (I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
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To: rktman

When you think the public couldn’t become any more lost, another slap in the face to see that people cannot determine what he did was wrong. People are living in denial to where they were bought into him being a great dad. He is a rapist, just like the same people who support Clinton to this day, that’s he a great person. In the end, neither will get away with these abuses. And, any other who did this same stuff long ago. How people can ignore and explain away in their minds what he did, is for a therapist to explain.


48 posted on 11/22/2014 8:59:42 AM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: Walrus

Conservatives who want to join the left in dredging the bottom of the barrel with internet convictions should be shunned.


49 posted on 11/22/2014 9:00:18 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: gitmo

More info here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844994/Law-Order-actress-details-Bill-Cosby-s-attempted-sexual-assault-working-Cosby-claims-did-drug-one-woman-set.html

Law & Order actress details Bill Cosby’s attempted sexual assault of her while working on The Cosby Show - and claims he did drug at least one woman on set


50 posted on 11/22/2014 9:04:55 AM PST by COUNTrecount (There's no there there.)
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To: rktman
Lance Armstrong did not cheat and is being attacked because he supports Bush. And look what he has done for cancer research!

Tebow is an excellent NFL quarterback because he is a devote Christian.

Bill Crosby did not rape any women and is being set up because of his disparaging remarks against young black America.

It is amazing to see how members of the truest website on the internet can be side lined by pet projects.

51 posted on 11/22/2014 9:23:54 AM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: rktman

I’m guessing Andy Dick.


52 posted on 11/22/2014 9:36:04 AM PST by Bronzewound (Lost Hope & Loose Change)
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To: piusv
Does anybody have more info on these accusations? It just seems so out-of-the-blue and so fast and furious.

Fast and furious. Say no more. say no more. Mums the word!

53 posted on 11/22/2014 9:42:59 AM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: rktman

The sad state of American culture. Clinton the rapist was re-elected, OJ was hounded for autographs and chased down by women, and of course lets not talk about our celebrities who rocketed to fame with their sex tapes. The Oprahfication of American culture is complete. Micelle O was for the “first time” proud to be an American when O was elected. Go figure.


54 posted on 11/22/2014 9:50:05 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: piusv; juggernaut

A case that some might remember?
___http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
The fate and reasoning that the first personal accusation was from, is a interesting subject.
Also the Idea of “Moral Panic” is a reasonable explanation.
Perjury was blatant in that case.


55 posted on 11/22/2014 10:17:03 AM PST by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: Battle Hymn of the Republic

And that seems illogical if Cosby really is for what is respectable.


56 posted on 11/22/2014 10:19:42 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: GOYAKLA

It turned out in the end to have been a witch hunt. But again, those who were active in bringing the accusations weren’t the children. In this case... the actual parties who would have been involved with the alleged Cosby shenanigans are stepping forward.

I have no doubt that Cosby can still put on a clean comedy show if he wants to. Maybe only he, God, and the accusers know the truth. How do we know how much they care about the truth. This many people won’t shut up easily and there will be investigations.


57 posted on 11/22/2014 10:25:00 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Sacajaweau

It doesn’t matter....they are all lying slatterns

He said something self reliant once or twice you know

He should be Ben Carson’s running mate

The Coz is getting his self some Freeper love you know

/s ...dripping


58 posted on 11/22/2014 10:27:09 AM PST by wardaddy (the GOP are worthless as tits on a boar hog....and are natural liars)
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To: Awgie

Yep

Much as folks here hate it the plethora of accusations rape count wise are worse against Cosby than Slick who is bad enough

I do think Freepers have a point though that the fact that ultralib Obama loving Cosby has said a couple of reasonable things has cost him friends and their support in the Coloring The News illuminati

Making open season on him easier....


59 posted on 11/22/2014 10:33:11 AM PST by wardaddy (the GOP are worthless as tits on a boar hog....and are natural liars)
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To: piusv; Awgie
You can Google it.

Over 30 years of allegations
Out of court settlements......one verified more hinted at
Several police reported
Prosecutors comments she wanted to charge him
Several of the victims allegations eerily similar about being drugged

When the victims are all voluntarily in quarters with Cosby or anyone else it quickly becomes he said she said...ala Clinton

There is just too much....

As for Clinton...Juanita Broaddrick was unreported to police old allegations which she first recanted and then changed for the Dateline interview and Freepers ate it up after the TV interview.....I'm ambivalent though Clinton was certainly capable and Broaddrick seemed credible.

Cosby's..(some) were reported to police ...some not....and some are fresh...2006.... yet some here dismiss them all

It seems folks in right or left can be driven by what they need to believe

60 posted on 11/22/2014 10:48:54 AM PST by wardaddy (the GOP are worthless as tits on a boar hog....and are natural liars)
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