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Bill Cosby: Why Now?
American Thinker ^ | November 22, 2014 | M. Catharine Evans

Posted on 11/21/2014 11:32:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

I don't know if Bill Cosby drugged and raped women over the past four decades. No one in the media knows, either–not the ladies on The View, not MSNBC, not the Washington Post, and certainly not black feminists calling for his head......

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Cosby is finished. The star’s guilt or innocence will eventually work itself out, or not. But a peripheral question emerges from the barrage of coverage this story has received: why has the mainstream media suddenly come down on the 77-year-old former TV star like a proverbial ton of bricks when allegations of sexual assault have been swirling around Cosby for decades?

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The Cosby Show, which premiered in 1984 during the Reagan era, birthed a new paradigm in television. For the first time, an upper middle-class black family unit was seen in a positive light. Its predecessors , shows like Good Times, Sanford and Son, and The Jeffersons, depicted angry, boisterous black fathers, some using the N-word and calling white people "honkies."

By contrast, the highly rated Cosby Show rarely dealt with race issues or the contemporary black experience. Bill Cosby's character, a successful physician and caring father, raised the bar and created a foundational narrative built on what black families could be – especially if they didn't spend all their time railing against "whitey." After 20 years of failed multi-billion-dollar government welfare programs and social justice scammers like the Children's Defense Fund, Americans of all colors embraced the Huxtables. The show's popularity and stellar ratings suggested that the American Dream was not dead–only dormant.

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By the 1980s, Americans, including blacks feeling the effects of generational welfare, were opening their eyes to the devastation caused by ivory tower-dwellers far removed from the inner-city ghettoes. No wonder The Cosby Show was such a big hit. Its popularity reflected what the majority of Americans needed and still need – a mother and father working together to provide a better life for their children. In 1989, while Barack Obama was listening to Reverend Jeremiah Wright degrade middle-class values, The Cosby Show was number one in the ratings.

Now, twenty years later, 85% of all black children in poverty live in single-mother households, there’s skyrocketing black-on-black crime, and Americans across the nation are waking up to the realization that their tax dollars have been subsidizing dependency and degeneracy for fifty years. It’s the ’80s all over again. Progressives are feeling the rumblings of mass discontent. The Huxtables must be destroyed. It's too risky. Ferguson is looming. Black kids with no fathers and no moral compass can't have a mythical figure like Dr. Huxtable appearing in their living rooms every night, getting their hopes up.


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Why weren't accounts of rape, assault and molestation a problem for the Left and feminists when William Jefferson Clinton (their 1st black president) was accused?

Why was Supreme Court Justice (nominee) Clarence Thomas, a black conservative, given a "high tech lynching" by those same Progressives?

1 posted on 11/21/2014 11:32:58 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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David Horowitz - June 22, 2000:

"...........The missionaries of the big progressive causes, the Steinems, the Irelands, the Michelmans, the Friedans, and Hillary Clinton herself, were all willing to toss their feminist movement overboard to give Bill Clinton a pass on multiple sexual harassments, and on a career of sexual predation that reflects his utter contempt for the female gender.

Indeed, the Clinton-Lewinsky defense—accord which the feminists signed onto, can be regarded as feminism's Nazi-Soviet Pact. Their calculation was both simple and crude: If Clinton was removed, Hillary would go too. But she was their link to patronage and power, and they couldn't imagine losing that. Their kind was finally in control of the White House, and the conservative enemies of their beautiful future were not.

Almost a decade earlier—in the name of the very principles they so casually betrayed for Clinton—the same feminists had organized the most disgraceful lynching of a public figure in America's history. Despite fiercely proclaimed commitments to the racial victims of American persecution, they launched a vicious campaign to destroy the reputation of an African American jurist who had risen, unblemished, from dirt-shack poverty in the segregated south to the nation's highest courts. They did it knowingly, cynically, with the intent to destroy him in his person, and to ruin his public career.

Has there ever been a more reprehensible witch-hunt in American public life than the one organized by feminist leaders who then emerged as vocal defenders of the White House lecher? Was there ever a more sordid betrayal of common decency than this collective defamation—for which no apology has or ever will be given?

What was the sin Clarence Thomas committed to earn such punishment? The allegation—that he had talked inappropriately ten years before to a female lawyer and made her uncomfortable—appears laughable in the post-Lewinsky climate of presidential gropings and borderline rapes that the same feminists have sanctioned for their political accomplice. Thomas' real crime, as everybody knew but was too intimidated by the hysteria to confirm at the time, was his commitment to constitutional principles they hated. They hated these principles because the Constitution was written for the explicit purpose of preventing the realization of their socialist and egalitarian dreams........."

2 posted on 11/21/2014 11:37:51 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Those who are vilifying Cosby are racists. Isn’t this what we would hear if conservatives came out against him the way the media is?

I don’t know if the allegations are true or not - I just wonder where Gloria Allred is. I have to also wonder why some of these women went back for more, if he drugged and raped them once? That is what makes me curious.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 11:40:21 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It’s too bad there’s no link. I’d love to send it to a few people.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 11:44:50 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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Sorry! Here is the link

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/bill_cosby_why_now.html


5 posted on 11/21/2014 11:45:46 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

From what I’ve read, LBJ, was a piece of work too. Seems more prevalent with DEM presidents, doesn’t it? Can’t wait to find out the skeletons in zero’s closet when he leaves the WH. I’m thinking that it is going to have to be fumigated upon their departure. We’ll probably need an exorcism of the WH as well.


6 posted on 11/21/2014 11:45:53 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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I have to also wonder why some of these women went back for more, if he drugged and raped them once? That is what makes me curious.


Because their democrats.. SEX is small portion of the strange things democrats do.. If they had any sense they wouldn’t be a democrat..


7 posted on 11/21/2014 11:46:19 PM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: Jonty30

It’s in Post #5. I’m trying to get it fixed and put with the source name above.


8 posted on 11/21/2014 11:47:55 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Get Nancy Grace on the case!
*groan*

Leftists dream of being dominated by others.
Note the article the other day where that ditz literally said not to prosecute young black male sex offenders.
Politics of pain, debasement, and victimhood.


9 posted on 11/22/2014 12:19:58 AM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Makes me wonder how Brak will “fix” it for him.


11 posted on 11/22/2014 12:31:35 AM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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And the cover-up in education [Teachers' unions are the Democratic Party's long standing, number ONE political supporter with money and muscle] is getting harder and harder to hide.

California schools pay out $139M to settle all outgoing molestation claims over teacher who blindfolded students and spoon-fed them cookies laced with his semen -- "The Los Angeles Unified School District has agreed to pay unprecedented $139million to end all remaining litigation involving an elementary school teacher who served students cookies laced with his bodily fluids in a sickening tasting game.

The deal involving 81 students puts a legal end to the saga that began when Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt, 63, was arrested in 2012 and accused of blindfolding students and spoon-feeding them his semen spread over baked goods.

Plaintiff's lawyers had planned to present evidence suggesting the school district was aware of sexual misconduct by Berndt three decades ago but failed to act until a photo processor at a pharmacy contacted police about film Berndt dropped off that showed pictures of blindfolded children being fed some substance.

The 19-year-old woman had only been on the job a month.

'She was told not to call the police by her supervisors and she did it, anyway,' John Manley, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit, said at a news conference. 'If she hadn't made that call, we wouldn't be here today and he'd still be teaching.'..............

12 posted on 11/22/2014 12:38:40 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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I remember the freakout my way over the superintendant of schools Robert Sigler actually being arrested over having an “inappropriate relationship” with an underage teen.
Students demonstrated in support of the turd.


13 posted on 11/22/2014 1:30:49 AM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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I would bet money that those student protests were organized by the teachers.


14 posted on 11/22/2014 1:35:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yes.


16 posted on 11/22/2014 2:01:03 AM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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‘An Open Secret’ Examines Hollywood Sex Abuse Allegations, Beyond the Tabloid Sensationalism "..... The way that the story played out over the summer was through the lens of lawsuits and other legal matters. Singer and others hit back hard, with pit-bull lawyer Marty Singer, and credibility-ruining documents were leaked to places like BuzzFeed, where Egan was quoted under oath as saying that he didn’t travel to Hawaii, the state where he filed this civil lawsuit, as the statute of limitations has run out on the case (the liable action occurred around 1998, when Egan was a teenager). Refusing to settle with Singer, Egan withdrew his suit in August when he was dropped by his lawyers. He still has the option of refiling, if someone will take on his case.

Egan is one of a chorus in An Open Secret, Amy Berg’s documentary about cases of child sexual abuse in Hollywood, which focuses on the parties at Collins-Rector’s house and the behavior of Marty Weiss, a talent manager who has been accused and convicted of abuse. Berg interviews a slew of young men who were targeted by predatory men with power in Hollywood, as managers and executives. A film that’s been mired in controversy since its inception, it premiered at DOC NYC on Friday night, in what could end up being its one and only screening. This is not a reflection of its quality by any means — it’s a good film — but more due to the fact that distributors won’t touch it. After all, men like Bryan Singer make billions of dollars for corporations......."

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AND I would imagine Progressives, who generously give their time and money to Democratic Party politics, are involved.

17 posted on 11/22/2014 2:08:09 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Cosby is a product of the “Magic Negro” syndrome.


18 posted on 11/22/2014 2:17:43 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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Allred can do nothing even if she wanted to because of the time passed making a private lawsuit impossible.

Now, Cosby has said nothing. If he makes a personal denial then he could be sued for defamation of character among other things and he would be smart to avoid it.

The issue is the number now coming forward and how they could be telling the truth since most have nothing to gain from it.

Look for some to eventually do lie detector tests which would greatly enhance their position if many passed as telling the truth.

Two people who are somewhat famous came forward and that tends to also lend merit to the case against Cosby perhaps.

19 posted on 11/22/2014 2:18:12 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

It was PROVED that Bill Clinton did MUCH more than what Cosby has been accused of and Bill Clinton is the HERO of the DEMOCRATS!!!!


20 posted on 11/22/2014 2:46:10 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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