Bill Cosby Rants Against Republicans, Compares Them to Segregationists for Not Applauding Obama

Newsbusters.org ^ | 3-5-2013 | Matthew Sheffield

[servo1969]

Unless he had just eaten a bad cup of Jell-O pudding, it would appear that actor and comedian Bill Cosby seems to really, really hate Republicans.

The veteran entertainer made that very clear Monday morning when he claimed that Republicans not applauding President Obama’s State of the Union address in unison with Democrats was “as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation.” He also wondered aloud about whether or not Republicans today are upset that slavery is no longer legal.

Cosby made these remarks on the CNN morning show “Starting Point” after soon-to-be-former host Soledad O’Brien referenced how much better things have gotten for those of African ancestry inside the United States since the 1960s civil rights movement.

The famous comedian and longtime Jell-O pitchman rejected her statement.

“I don’t think so,” he said. “Not when you look at the president's speech recently. To see people sitting down and then they there are others standing and cheering. I don't think it's difficult believe. I think that we have people sitting there who are as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation.”

Instead of correcting Cosby’s obvious ignorance of the longstanding tradition of a president’s own party being far more enthusiastic about his applause lines, O’Brien allowed Cosby to continue his diatribe which he did by saying that Republicans who do not support Obama want to implement some sort of oppressive regime. He then moved into a conspiracy theory about how the assassination of John F. Kennedy by a communist was somehow actually caused by supporters of segregation.

“And then in place of a better America, they want their own sick feelings put across, and it's -- it isn't -- it isn't a good time, but I think also on our part as professors and presidents of colleges all over.

And in public schools, we need to get the education of the correct history that happened so people can say, yes, this really did happen. Because you have to include the assassination of a president and ask the question, maybe that had something to do with it also.

Cosby continued his Republican bashing later on in the show, replying to a question about whether or not certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act should be thrown out by the Supreme Court that conservatives were “angry” that black Americans are not presently enslaved.

I think it's dumb to say is it time when we stand and say the pledge of allegiance, for which it stands. Where are you going with this? Where are you going with the promise of what the United States of America really is?

It's also interesting that this Republican Party is not the Republican Party of 1863, of Abraham Lincoln, abolitionists and slavery, is not good. I think it's important for us to look at the underlying part of it. What is the value of it? Is it that some people are angry because my people no longer want to work for free?

[Mountain Mary]

In real life, the sanctimonious Cosby is not the innocent father and husband that he played on his show.
It is well known that he was a frequent guest of Hugh Hefner’s at the Playboy mansion, well known for the alcohol and drug fueled romps that the famed enjoy there. He was and probably still is a serial cheater on his long suffering wife, Camille..who apparently sees a reason to stay with the lout.

This man, ugly inside and out, belongs on the shelf of some archive as someone whom we used to know. He is irrelevant and should be ignored.

[IbJensen]

Senility is sad.

Cosby was NEVER very interesting as either a pro tennis player spy who would stick out like a sore thumb in Monte Carlo, or as a psychiatrist father of a yuppie-type family.

[windsorknot]

Only a brilliant mind like Bill Cosby possesses is capable of understanding that the only reason to oppose BO is because he’s black.

[Gene Eric]

That damn vanilla puddin’.

[Texas Eagle]

So you're Mitt Romney!

[Fiji Hill]

Early Cosby routines like “Greasy Kid Stuff”, “Little Tiny Hairs”, “Chicken Heart”, “Go Carts”, “Shop” and “Special Classes” are some of the funniest stories ever told and have nothing at all to do with skin color or race in any form.

Then the country entered the Age Of Racial Enlightenment and we learned that every action is motivated by white racism toward blacks.

I also like Noah, which also antedates the Age of Racial Enlightenment.

[william clark]

Funniest one I’ve ever heard was about his experience dining in Italy with Henry Silva, where he learned about Fernet Branca.

[Dead Corpse]

Dementia is never pretty.

[BO Stinkss]

Democrats remain in their seats while the Republicans stand to applaud new US Speaker of the House John Boehner during the opening session of the 112th Congress on January 5, 2011 in Washington, DC.

[GBA]

I forgive Bill Cosby. I can only imagine what he actually lived through and dealt with being and dancing on the public cutting edge of race through what I believe was our second civil war in the 1960s and maybe 1970s.

For many like him, "Obama" represents something different than the actual flawed progressive anarchist person obama is, and is a vindication for all the abuse they lived through and overcame.

Such an experience often leaves a bit of insanity behind, minefields that one might have forgotten were there.

If they actually engage that reality of what obama truly is, what to do with that cognitive dissonance?

Perhaps it's far easier, and less public pain, to do what he did: blame a reliable enemy like the republicans and be glad to not be much longer in this world.

I am grateful to him, for the years of comedy, of course, but also for the battles he fought and won. We are better as a result.

[dfwgator]

I don’t think he’s been the same since Ennis was murdered.

[BitWielder1]

Black don't see, or refuse to see, how much damage Dem politics have caused in the black community.

[CrappieLuck]

It seems that the older Cosby gets, the more he looks like Yoda

[GBA]

Yikes, maybe I should have read your post before I posted mine. I didn’t know that about the “real life” person. I hope he finds his way before it’s too late.

[italianquaker]

Wow this is really “big news”. i didnt know that he was still alive

[globoreally]

Conservatives are always eager to embrace any black person that seems even remotely conservative and are disappointed every time. I like to call it Colin Powell syndrome.

[Jane Long]

Someone (w/Twitter capabilities) should tweet this to ‘ol Bill.

[depressed in 06]

Methinks Cosby has been sniffing too much Barack sh!t. Republicans had a candidate, that, had nothing bad to say about dumBO.

[FatherofFive]

He told hilarious stories about people - not blacks or whites - just people.

I grew up listening to his records. We literally wore them out. "You better not touch!" "Fire One!" "Even a Phys ed major knows 'Why is there air?' There's air to blow up basketballs!" "I'm turning left and hitting the brakes!" Very funny man with a special gift.

He was a big influence on my growing up 'color blind' in the MLK dream.

But Cosby devolved into a racist idiot.

[McBuff]

Pudding pops for brains