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Don’t Bet against Bill Cosby: Six reasons the beloved comic could rise again.
National Review ^ | 12/09/2014 | Tim Cavanaugh

Posted on 12/09/2014 6:58:50 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Guilty or innocent, face it - prominent and powerful men attract women like magnets: “Gotta get some of that high-powered sperm to impregnate me”.


21 posted on 12/09/2014 9:15:17 PM PST by QBFimi (/...o.o/.o...ooo/...o.o...o/ooo/...o.o/.o/ooo.//o..o./. o.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cosby is still scheduled to appear in person in Cupertino, Califoria next June 7.

https://tickets-center.com/ResultsVenue.aspx?event=Bill+Cosby&vname=The+Flint+Center+for+the+Performing+Arts&venid=1135&ppcsrc=1-HY-EB-The+F-Bill+Co&nid=1&cid=56027810225&akwd=bill%20cosby%20flint%20center&mt=e&network=g&dist=s&adposition=1t3&device=c&ismobile=false&devicemodel=&placement=&target=&param1=&param2=&aceid=&random=5932426034373240067&htx=1&gclid=CMqLnMTdusICFY2TfgodxyQAlA

3pm at the flint center if anyone wants to go

:-/


22 posted on 12/09/2014 9:21:55 PM PST by SteveH
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To: canuck_conservative
Not true. Look at The Coz's damning non-response when recently asked about the charges. An truly innocent person would never stop shouting their innocence. Cosby, by contrast, looked like someone who had just been told by a lawyer "anything you say could be used against you in court, so don't say anything". Cosby looked .... guilty - by his own non-testimony.

On November 16, Cosby broke his silence regarding a series of sexual assault allegations via a brief statement posted by his attorney on his Web site. It read: “Over the last several weeks, decade-old, discredited allegations against Mr. Cosby have resurfaced. The fact that they are being repeated does not make them true. Mr. Cosby does not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment."

THINK about it. He is being accused without any evidence. What can he possibly say? That he didn't do it? That these allegations arose in the past and were not proven then, and that no charges were pressed then? And that he's not going to go into all of it all over again, given that absolutely no new evidence has arisen?

Well that's what he said.

Yeah, through an attorney. That makes him guilty? LOL! The entire world is slandering him all of a sudden, and Allred is demanding a hundred million dollars without any evidence or trial, and he's being accused of drugging and raping underaged girls - and having an attorney proves his guilt? What nonsense.

And what WOULD you have him say, other than what he DID say, and which was turned into a refusal to speak by everyone - including you - when it was no such thing? He said the charges were long discredited and merely repeated, and that doesn't make them true. That's legal-speak to protect him from angling sharks, something you hire an attorney to do for you. And see how his fears were right - he gave an answer, and it's being called a refusal to answer.

In any event, none of that is evidence against him. None of it. It's just slander by highly dubious accusers who admit to voluntarily spending private time with him who now admit they want money, whipped up by the media wolfpack - that's it. Yeah, they sound really honest.

And it's not like Cosby ever pissed off the Black Democrat Plantation Overseers by, oh I don't know, telling Blacks to get off of government money and make something of themselves and stop blaming whitey. I mean, if he did that, maybe there'd be a REASON to slander him before an election campaign started, since he was about to get a new TV show. But that didn't happen... right?

23 posted on 12/09/2014 9:22:03 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Dagnabitt
At some point we can draw conclusions. For example, I have concluded that legally-acquitted OJ Simpson murdered two people. It's a thinking thing - you wouldn't understand.

No, the Simpson case was a TRIAL thing. With EVIDENCE things that you could assess and verify.

It's a JUSTICE thing - you DON'T understand.

24 posted on 12/09/2014 9:24:03 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

All those points you insist on using .... weren’t they the same talking-points that Team Clinton used against all his accusations?

So to be clear, until the blue dress ... you would’ve defended BillyJeff, right?


25 posted on 12/09/2014 9:31:22 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Talisker

If it smells like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck i guess we need a jury to determine what we already know right?


26 posted on 12/09/2014 9:31:57 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: longfellowsmuse
The one thing I don't get is that many of these women said they just took pills that Cosby gave them. He said it would help them relax. That seems strange.

I think other women have said they were drugged via a drink, though.

27 posted on 12/09/2014 9:36:54 PM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Talisker

“Not a hero. Just innocent until proven guilty. It’s an American thing - you wouldn’t understand. “

Innocent? If you believe that, you’re smoking some heavy weed. Just look at all the money he’s spent paying some of these women off ( and the others who were involved with their “procurement”) and on lawyers. A decent man would not have to do that!
BTW, when the dust settles, I hope they jackhammer his “star” off of the “walk of fame.” Otherwise it’s simply a “walk of shame.”


28 posted on 12/09/2014 9:39:16 PM PST by vette6387
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To: Talisker

Not quite. Clever and/or powerful people have successfully conned the legal system in the past (eg Teddy Kennedy), and such people continue to con the legal system today. Maybe Cosby is one of that elite group. Cosby might be a kind of legal zombie, innocent yet guilty in the moral sense even though not in the legal sense because he might actually have done some of the things he is accused of, but nevertheless free to walk among us unrestrained and unpunished, on technicalities.

I think it is important to keep an awareness that such people exist and to identify them as potentially negative and harmful people on pragmatic grounds. you never know who you might get trapped in an elevator or subway car with— the same goes for your family members and good friends. if and when that happens, you or your family members or good friends should be on guard.


29 posted on 12/09/2014 10:23:26 PM PST by SteveH
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To: vette6387
A decent man would not have to do that!

Oh look, another one who never heard of a famous person paying off a nuisance suit to keep the tabloids from going crazy over the publicity it would take to clear their name in court.

You know there are entire law firms that make their money off of exactly these kinds of threats, for exactly these kinds of reasons, right? Well there are. It's legalized extortion.

30 posted on 12/09/2014 11:37:36 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: canuck_conservative
All those points you insist on using .... weren’t they the same talking-points that Team Clinton used against all his accusations? So to be clear, until the blue dress ... you would’ve defended BillyJeff, right?

Nope. Completely different, since the Cosby accusations have NO evidence and the Clinton accusations were rife with political misconduct, DNA evidence, photographs, documented threats and multiple mysterious deaths, and numerous third-party witnesses.

But hey, if you want to think they're the same, don't let me get in your way.

31 posted on 12/09/2014 11:40:39 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: mowowie
If it smells like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck i guess we need a jury to determine what we already know right?

Well clearly you don't - you just need a rope, a tree and a duck.

32 posted on 12/09/2014 11:41:48 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: SteveH
Not quite. Clever and/or powerful people have successfully conned the legal system in the past (eg Teddy Kennedy), and such people continue to con the legal system today. Maybe Cosby is one of that elite group. Cosby might be a kind of legal zombie, innocent yet guilty in the moral sense even though not in the legal sense because he might actually have done some of the things he is accused of, but nevertheless free to walk among us unrestrained and unpunished, on technicalities.

I think it is important to keep an awareness that such people exist and to identify them as potentially negative and harmful people on pragmatic grounds. you never know who you might get trapped in an elevator or subway car with— the same goes for your family members and good friends. if and when that happens, you or your family members or good friends should be on guard.

I think it's important to keep an awareness that people like you exist, who can make up stories of possibilities out of the whole cloth, with no evidence, of the most bizarre possible threats, and then use those stories to convince family members and good friends to ostracize and shun someone and slander their good name solely based on your paranoia and baseless accusations of what "might" be.

You're one scary dude.

33 posted on 12/09/2014 11:45:19 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

I’ve been a victim of false accusations. So I know the routine more than you might surmise.

Cosby has one settlement out of court with prejudice and 27 witnesses.

In the real world I consider that to be close to a tsunami of indicators in a certain direction.

It is people like Cosby who masquerade as nice guys to unsuspecting women who cause permanent damage to our culture.


34 posted on 12/10/2014 12:47:11 AM PST by SteveH
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To: Talisker

I am not antagonistic to you. Why are you making this personal.


35 posted on 12/10/2014 12:48:18 AM PST by SteveH
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah Cosby is being Railroaded and here we are on the ‘Free Republic’ pouring coal on the fire. These women are popping out of the woodwork looking for cash payouts. The worst is the one with the recovered memory.

That’s the one that did it for me... This is an over the top hatchet job. Makes me wonder how he told them that he wasn’t going to toe the line.

At least it’s nice to see talisker over here. Someone in this forum using their brain and not just around employing alinsky ridicule tactics trying to shut down the arguments.


36 posted on 12/10/2014 12:49:18 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: mowowie

“If it smells like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck i guess we need a jury to determine what we already know right?”

So far all anyone know is what MSM is printing- and we know MSM always tells the truth, does not have an agenda.
Never smears anyones reputation.

I will wait until these allegations are judged in court of law, before making decision.

So maybe it walks,smells,quacks and looks like a duck, but it just an accusation.


37 posted on 12/10/2014 1:15:39 AM PST by Nailbiter
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To: RginTN

too many coming out at the same time raises suspicious about their story.....statue of limitations expired years ago...why are them coming out now....he wouldn’t pay the blackmail.....


38 posted on 12/10/2014 1:31:13 AM PST by goat granny
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To: Samurai_Jack
Lets pretend all those that find him guilty are the prosecutor...what evidence do you have to even arrest him, much less go to trial...put up or shut up or show the evidence.
39 posted on 12/10/2014 1:40:52 AM PST by goat granny
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To: goat granny

too many coming out at the same time raises suspicious about their story....


maybe they want their 15 minutes of fame. maybe they’re crazy. maybe they are upset Cosby didn’t offer a permenant relationship. After Tawanna Brawley I am a skeptic instead of an instant believer of a woman’s rape claim.


40 posted on 12/10/2014 2:27:42 AM PST by RginTN
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