Spot on. It is disappointing to see so many on this thread who are apparently unable to separate the real Cosby from his television persona.
It is inexcusable to give the man a "free pass" for his appalling behavior simply because he made some comments about black men pulling their pants up, at the same time ignoring his loudly voiced admiration for Obama and disdain for the Tea Party, etc.
All this nonsense about a "leftist conspiracy" to bring down a supposed "conservative". At last count more than twenty women have come forward with allegations. Twenty women from widely varying walks of life who have no direct connection with each other other than having been raped by the same monster.
Of course, the reputations and motivations of some of the women may be questioned. But more than twenty? The old adage applies: Where there's smoke, there's fire. In this case a veritable forest fire.
I have one question for the hypocrites on this board who are defending Cosby: how would you have responded if it was YOUR daughter? Yes, YOUR daughter who made a deeply regretted, terrible choice to get anywhere near the man and was too ashamed and intimidated and terrified to go public with rape allegations against an immensely powerful Hollywood divinity like Cosby back in a day when she would have been scorned and ignored (as indeed happened to many of the women).
Would you still be stoutly defending a sexual predator?
This has all been out there for years.
The praetorian press does everything for a reason.
I suspect that Obola has something to do with it.
Why the issue of did he or did he not is even discussed when Hollywood has been and always will be a cesspool of sexual perverts...and they all play that game in one form or another.
As for how would people respond if it were their daughter.....well when you swim in a cesspool and play in it’s tank you’re bound to get dirty. These happenings did not occur in full view of an audience.....they were with Cosby in some secluded place. Any bimbo who thinks going to a mans room or living quarters is a good thing they need to have their heads examined. All the more with Hollywood.
I am not defending Cosby. He probably is guilty of some of this. But this is also about a man reputedly worth 400 million. Ignore this at your peril.
If it was my daughter, she wouldn’t be going to spend the night with Bill Cosby at the Playboy Mansion in the first place.
No, the point was that 'the left' helped him keep his deviancy from the public up until he dared speak up 'against' the President and the 'black' community. If he had been a professed conservative, he probably wouldn't even have made it in show business, and wouldn't have talent agents dropping off 15 year old girls at his mansion.
Let me tell you something , bucko. My sister was sexually harassed. She reported it to her bosses immediately, the guy was Black so they promoted him, she went through counseling, and she has moved on. That was probably ten years ago. If she brought up this stuff all over again knowing there would be no evidence to support her claims, I would STILL say you can’t hang a man over charges he has no way to defend himself against, and without evidence.
And that’s what this is about. If evidence is not needed, then ANYBODY is vulnerable. Only an idiot would fail to realize that.
If there was such a forest fire, as you say, why did NONE OF THEM say or do anything about it until 2005? Why did none of them take the responsible steps of having themselves examined and the evidence collected while it could be?
As to whether this is related to Cosby’s earlier criticism about Black culture, ask the supposed “comedian” who interrupted a comedy routine with an un-funny tirade about Bill Cosby not beinq able to tell Blacks to pull their pants up because he’s a rapist. Sounds to me like he made it crystal clear what the rape claims surfacing right now are supposed to do - discredit Cosby so he can’t comment on Black culture (right when we were about to see Blacks rob and kill on our TV’s). That’s not me bringing up the potential political motivations; that’s the source for all this coming up now, saying it straight-out in the non-comedy routine that the media propelled to national prominence immediately.
But for me this isn’t about Bill Cosby at all. I have no idea whether he’s a good guy or a jerk, or whether he’s a criminal. (I do know that at least 2 of these women have been caught in fraud.) This is really about “innocent until proven guilty” and the need for evidence. It’s also about the potential for false accusations. Think of Duke lacrosse, Tawana Brawley, the U Va frat rape allegation, and Lena Dunham, to just name a few visible hoaxes recently - all of them by women with a political agenda who were only found out as liars because their claims were for recent enough alleged events that the specifics could be checked out and found inaccurate.
Only one of these Cosby accusers filed a claim soon enouqh that any particulars could be checked out, and she reported the claim in a different country and in a different year than the alleged event. And the DA who checked it out didn’t press charges because there was no evidence.
You make an emotional argument about me “giving a free pass” to a rapist. I have no idea what Cosby is or isn’t, and it doesn’t really even matter to me. If you think he’s a rapist, then why don’t you report him to the cops and have them prosecute him and find him guilty? That’s the way we do it in this country. Or at least it USED to be how we did it.
Were it my daughter 20 years ago I would tell her to leave it alone. If it was so bad she should have made the charge when it meant something. “Where there’s smoke. there’s fire,” maybe some, but I would bet where there is smoke there are a lot of women looking for a piece of the fire who were never burned in the first place.There are sure many lawyers right now looking for women who met Cosby some place some when for 10 seconds or more or were at least in the same town at the same time..