Cosby isn’t a conservative. He regularly supported libetalcauses and democrats, including Barack Obama. Throughout the 70s and 80s, he regularly hung out at the Playboy mansion.
He occasionally made public statements in favor of personal responsibility. While I’m certain that some on the left resented him for that, the allegations are simply too numerous and too similar for me to discount.
He hasn’t denied that he was with these women at the times and places they claim. He hasn’t denied that they had sex. He hasn’t denied that he purchased and gave women relaxant-type drugs. His defense is that the sex was consensual and that he gave women drugs to help them relax.
It makes me sad because I enjoyed the Cosby Show during the 80s, but based on what I’ve read, I think he’s probably guilty of much of what he’s accused of.
Bill did a marvelous HBO special "Bill Cosby Himself" that we still enjoy. You haven't really laughed until you watch it. I think this link is the one on YouTube.
Bill Cosby said that young blacks should stop living the hoodlum lifestyle and learn to speak proper English. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have sometimes said similar things, but nobody thinks of Jackson or Sharpton as "conservatives," so I have no idea of how people get the notion that Cosby is a conservative hero being attacked by liberals.
the allegations are simply too numerous and too similar for me to discount.
Agree. If the claims were made by one woman or by a group of women who were mutually acquainted, I could buy it being some conspiracy to extort money from Cosby. The notion that dozens of women unknown to one another are attempting to do so goes beyond implausible.