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Why is Bill Cosby suddenly a bad guy?
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Posted on 11/21/2014 9:15:13 AM PST by pfflier

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1 posted on 11/21/2014 9:15:13 AM PST by pfflier
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To: pfflier

ask Herman Cain


2 posted on 11/21/2014 9:15:56 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: pfflier

Maybe because it looks like he was caught with his pants down.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 9:16:54 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: pfflier

I am very curious about this also. It seems to me a great example of the media protecting their favorites for years while ruthlessly attacking their enemies (e.g. Herman Cain.)

The question is: What caused Cosby to be moved from one camp to the other?


4 posted on 11/21/2014 9:17:03 AM PST by jtal (St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle ....)
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To: pfflier

Where there’s smoke there’s fire and there’s a lot of smoke around Coz. I not ready to convict him on the basis of smoke but I sure as hell wouldn’t let him babysit or work with my daughter.


5 posted on 11/21/2014 9:17:42 AM PST by circlecity
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To: pfflier

they didnt know this before?


6 posted on 11/21/2014 9:17:55 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: pfflier

It went from something that 2% of the public was aware of to something that 80% of the public was aware of, and it’s disgusting and it’s criminal.

He was already a bad guy, it’s just that people now know that the good guy they thought he was, was a lie.


7 posted on 11/21/2014 9:18:02 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>ask Herman Cain<<

Or Clarence Thomas


8 posted on 11/21/2014 9:18:43 AM PST by freedumb2003 (obozocare: shovel-ready health care)
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—Bill Cosby has been pointing out some of the obvious shortcomings of black “society” for years now—maybe the media all of a sudden noticed?


9 posted on 11/21/2014 9:18:57 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: babble-on

The Power of Celebrity.

There are a lot of “Cosbys” in Hollywood, especially among the Homos there.


10 posted on 11/21/2014 9:19:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Notice how Herman Cain’s “troubles” stopped the very minute he stepped down from his Presidential run? THey seemed just as active as Cosby. In a case of he said/she said, innocence until proven guilty isn’t just a good idea. It’s a requirement.

Certainly it should be investigated and if true, he should be prosecuted or if the statute of limitations is over, he should be publicly castigated often and vigorously. If innocent, he should be left alone.


11 posted on 11/21/2014 9:19:59 AM PST by cyclotic (Join America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com)
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Did anyone accuse Herman Cain of RAPE??????

Analogy is a damned lost art.....


12 posted on 11/21/2014 9:20:14 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: pfflier

Because there is a distinct disconnect from our perceptions of the man and his reality.

Compare and contrast that to Bill Clinton. Were any of us surprised to hear he got caught with his pants down? Nope—because our expectations were that he was a pig.

Its all about perceptions.


13 posted on 11/21/2014 9:21:52 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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Don’t you understand? Cosby has criticized the “gangsta” and “thug” culture in the black community. He has criticized the government-dependent welfare mentality. He has to be destroyed by the “politically-correct” progressives. Cosby has been targeted by the prog media, and he will be destroyed, his reputation, his finances, everything but his life, because progressives are too nancy-pants to do any real violence. They have the power of The State to do that for them.


14 posted on 11/21/2014 9:22:10 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Vermont Lt

7 women come forward accusing him of RAPE...how do you ignore that?


15 posted on 11/21/2014 9:22:49 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Vermont Lt

7 women come forward accusing him of RAPE...how do you ignore that?


16 posted on 11/21/2014 9:22:49 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: pfflier

I think the FIRST mistake is to equate Cosby with Herman Cain. Secondly, Cosby’s persona is a portrayal perpetrated by Hollywood and the media. Two sects of which I don’t really hold any regard, frankly.

I actually don’t know, nor care to know exactly why Cosby and his wife have been ‘out there’ in the limelight trying to do whatever, promoting this or that, or anything. Yes, he has made statements that traditional liberalism does not agree with. Yet, my basic question in this is “what are his personal finances like at this point in time?”

I never liked him after I became of age, actually. His schtick thereafter weighed heavy on my smarmy bullshit scale. I remember back to his days on “I Spy” and think THAT character was more like what these eight women are claiming now. Not funny, cold and calculating..

Personally, I think it is entirely believable this man found out how to use whatever the then-equivalent of Rohypnol was to meet his needs..


17 posted on 11/21/2014 9:23:19 AM PST by Gaffer
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He isn’t “suddenly a bad guy”. I remember the stories that came out in the late 1990s about him having an affair in the 1970s. He was already married at the time.


18 posted on 11/21/2014 9:23:38 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jtal

Some of the reports were briefly in the news back in 2005, the press didn’t give a crap.


19 posted on 11/21/2014 9:23:55 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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My 1st wife (RIP) had a similar story about Cosby, matter of fact it’s pretty much the same story. Hers was back in the late 80s when she was trying to become an actress and she was living in NYC, before I met her. I hadn’t thought about it until all these stories started coming out. She said he was a pig. I guess it’s a lot about how to prove it and if you think you can.


20 posted on 11/21/2014 9:24:39 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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