Posted on 12/07/2014 12:14:18 AM PST by SteveH
The Bill Cosby allegations reflect an evolving American understanding of the crime of sexual assault, and increased empathy toward those claiming to be victims, say victim advocates.
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Because he dared to mildly criticize the Messiah/Lightworker?
because he says truths about the black community that are off the pc script. he doesn’t take pleasure in saying them either. i sure don’t .
can’t fix problems if you can’t admit they exist. or blame others for your own problems.
This is BS. Clearly someone wanted to take him down, and/or make an example of him for others.
Whether he’s being set up or not (hard to imagine this many claims without some truth there), his support of Obama over correcting black culture hasn’t saved him from being destroyed.
He pissed off Oprah?
When are all these “victim advocates” going to say anything about the rape accusations against Slick Willy Clinton?
“He PO Oprah?”
By not including her in his sexual quests?
“Pull up your pants and speak English” didn’t win Cos any friends on the left.
Because this is a trial run on a technique to be used on the next GOP presidential candidate?
The present campaign against Cosby started when an obscure comedian commented on stage about the allegations. The video went viral.
It’s been a number of years since Cosby’s made any high profile comments that piss off the left. I really doubt there’s any connection between his comments of this type and the breaking out of this story.
That Bill got away with this for so many years is probably a function of the same attitudes as the similar refusal for years to report on the widely available information about the sex lives of Tiger Woods and MR King.
When there are public black figures who appear to be “clean and articulate,” even conservatives are hesitant to tarnish their image with facts that tie in to traditional stereotypes of black behavior. The only real difference I can see is that AFAIK nobody accused either Wood or King of rape or sexual behavior that wasn’t consensual.
Cosby may also be partially collateral damage of the “war on women” and “rape culture” campaigns. Both which took massive hits in the last couple of days as the Rolling Story fraternity gang rape story fell apart.
I ‘like’ Cosby but I lost a little respect for him when his son got killed in a car jacking by a Russian Immigrant his wife came out with a statement
‘It sure didn’t take that White guy long to come here from Russia and learn how to kill a young Black man’ or words to the effect of he must have ‘learned’ to hate here.
The fact the Russian was a ‘gang’ member and it was a 125 thous car @ 1AM apparently didn’t come under her scrutiny.
Sad thing is the Black kid is probably the LAST person the shooter expected to see in that car and Mrs Cosby, if it weren’t for WHITE PEOPLE in this country chances are YOU wouldn’t have been living in a fancy neighborhood, buying 125thou cars... I seriously doubt Bill would have amassed all that wealth without ‘our’ support.
I realize she was probably speaking while ‘grief stricken’ but I would guess the true feelings come out during high stress periods and NO, he isn’t responsible for her statements but one would think she wasn’t the only one in that house with those ‘feelings’
Actually, I can easily imagine that many claims with no truth at all. This could be a bunch of women who wanted fame, never made it in Hollywood, but met Cosby, and it's not hard to imagine one woman making it up out of spite, desperation, or a desire to be noticed. Once the first one tells an invented story, it's easy to imagine the rest joining in to be noticed. [I'm not saying that's what happened. It's just as easy to imagine a powerful entertainer feeling above the law and preferring drugs/force to simple seduction of willing groupies.]
whoopi will host a new gameshow, “rape, ‘rape’ rape, or no rape”.
Cosby is a big Obama supporter, a lifelong democrat, despises republicans and has called them racist, and was a promoter of the Tawana brawley rape hoax.
From newsbusters: Bill Cosby Rants Against Republicans, Compares Them to Segregationists for Not Applauding Obama
By Matthew Sheffield | March 5, 2013
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 were “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.”
(snip)
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?”
One woman filed a police report in 2000, and one in 2005.
In 2005 he was accused of drugging and raping a woman in 2004, and settled with her in 2006, after 13 more women surfaced who would testify to his rape methods.
One one hand women want to be assigned to submarines, participate in hand to hand combat, be a firefighter, etc., demand equal pay for "equal" work, and are so macho that they demand to be totally interchangeable with men to the extent of same sex marriage.
On the other hand they want men to be put so far back in jail that they have to pump in air so they can breathe, if women accuse them of rape, molestation, or "talking dirty."
There is so much on macho women in the news, it makes me wonder why such old allegations are given so much press?
I am getting tired of seeing women coming out of the woodwork to complain that something happened to them because they are powerless. (Do they smell the money?) And then go on and demand that they are to be treated equal to men. The word "selective" has to go in that sentence somewhere.
Juanita Broaddrick?
When it comes to rape, the 1997 Paula Jones lawsuit brought forward Juanita Broaddrick, who told us of being raped in 1978 by Bill Clinton, and most of us believe her.
In 2005, Andrea Constand, director of operations for Temple University’s women’s basketball team (Cosby’s college, and one he still sat on the board of) filed a lawsuit against cosby after claiming that he had drugged and raped her in 2004, 13 women came forward to describe their own sexual assaults from him, mostly druggings and rape. Cosby settled out of court in 2006.
The DA said that he felt that Cosby was guilty, but that by the time she went to police a year after the rape, there wasn’t enough evidence to go to court with in a criminal trial.
So this means reexamining the rape charges against Bill Clinton too, no?
Especially seeing as how he could be RETURNING to the White House?
Ewwwwwwww........ Just the thought
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