Bill Cosby

I believe that it is now 24 and counting...
 

what were they doing going to his room in the first place.
I was a young woman in the 60s, and I sure enough knew not to go to some man's hotel room alone. So did my friends. So the idea that all these women were so naive strikes me as WAAY off. The 60s were a long time ago, but the idea that young women at that time were just poor innocent babes in the woods is just wrong.
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Spot on Butterfly.

Debby,
A woman can have be a virgin, or she can be married or she can have multiple partners. Her business and not for any of us to judge.
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It's a dirty duck that dabbles in a dirty pond.
 

I don't care too much about these rape allegations, let's see some proof from these women. It's possible that some of them are just after attention or money. I have nothing against Bill Cosby, if he made some mistakes in the past, he's likely paid for them. A fifteen year old who is drinking and hanging out in a playboy club isn't someone who I would accept their word as bible either. And of course, they were all drugged involuntarily, good way for them not to recollect specifics or provide any proof of the allegations. I admit I haven't been interested enough to even follow this story.
 
There is likely no proof either way, after all these years. And as ti the similarity of the stories making them somehow credible -- as much as these stories have been bandied about, probably anyone could sit down and concoct a "similar" story. Impossible to prove or disprove after the passing of so much time.
 
Georgia Lady said:
I read an article yesterday that made me sick.. Bill Cosby I'd asking the Black Media to go easy on him. Now he is
pulling the race card, asking his "Bro" to help him out..
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I don't know where you're getting your articles Georgia Lady, but they seem to be very one-sided and biased, in the least. He asked that the black media "remain neutral", "be impartial" and uphold the standards of excellence in journalism...NOT to go easy on him.

He only said that due to the media vilification from other news outlets who are doing just the opposite of remaining neutral. I don't know if your article or who is saying he's asking his 'bro' to help him out and pulling the race card, but that is a very racist statement, and not welcomed on this forum....especially if it is exaggerated and untrue!

Bill Cosby broke his silence Friday, albeit briefly, to lecture the media on remaining “neutral” and to say that his wife is standing by him.

Instead, Cosby, 77, said that the African-American media — for which this reporter often writes — should be impartial.

“Let me say this. I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that you have to go in with a neutral mind,” Cosby said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/14/bill-cosby-media-neutral_n_6322766.html



“The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity.

These brand new claims about alleged decades-old events are becoming increasingly ridiculous, and it is completely illogical that so many people would have said nothing, done nothing, and made no reports to law enforcement or asserted civil claims if they thought they had been assaulted over a span of so many years.

Lawsuits are filed against people in the public eye every day. There has never been a shortage of lawyers willing to represent people with claims against rich, powerful men, so it makes no sense that not one of these new women who just came forward for the first time now ever asserted a legal claim back at the time they allege they had been sexually assaulted.


This situation is an unprecedented example of the media’s breakneck rush to run stories without any corroboration or adherence to traditional journalistic standards. Over and over again, we have refuted these new unsubstantiated stories with documentary evidence, only to have a new uncorroborated story crop up out of the woodwork. When will it end? It is long past time for this media vilification of Mr. Cosby to stop.”


http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/bil...me-for-media-vilification-to-stop-1201362481/
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Seabreeze: I am sorry if you think my remarks were racist. I did not mean for them. Bill Cosby should have directed his statement to all the media (black and white). He is the one that singled out the Black Media.
 
Maybe he felt that the white media had already labeled him guilty and vilified him, so they would not hear what he had to say anyway, it was too late. I don't know, but he was only asking for the media to be neutral and impartial, not asking them to go easy on him or help them out because they are his Bros, as the article seems to have indicated.
 
Discounting race altogether, and speaking only of the women who make these charges, I feel the old hack "where there's smoke there's fire" seems to fit. No way have these women all just come forward without there being some truth in all the stories. I am disappointed because I always like Bill Cosby but now I have a different opinion of him. I know the charges haven't been proven yet, and may never be, but I smell smoke.
 
rkunsaw said:
The bad thing about accusations like this is that whether guilty or innocent, his legacy has been tainted. The media should stay out of it until a court verdict has been reached.
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Well, in this case, a court verdict, at least a criminal court verdict, will probably never be reached, as the matters will never go to trial. The allegations are so old as to be past the statutes of limitation. As to civil suits, the situation is probably the same, especially since I'd bet there is no court admissible proof that the thing ever took place after all this time has passed.

You're absolutely right about accusations like this ruining someone, whether true or not. Even if you were innocent, how in the world do you defend against something that is alleged to have happened so long ago?? Witnesses would be dead or scattered, memories faded, records and documents lost or destroyed. AND I don't know how you'd present a valid case if you were the complainant, either -- it would be one person's word against another's, and the fact that there are other women claiming the same thing isn't evidence. That's one of the reasons we have statutes of limitation.
 
Now Kathy Lee Gifford speaks out against Cosby's inappropriate attempt to kiss her! Keep trying to defend him but the numbers just keep keep mounting...
 
I heard of Bill's "rumored" escapades years ago and they were never fully investigated, but just swept under the rug. Bill has always come across to me as being a funny, honorable and decent person. But, any one can have a problem that is let go unchecked. I felt bad for Bill when his son was killed. No parent should have to go through that. But if Bill has a problem, he would be doing himself and his legacy a favor in stepping up and admitting to it, although, admitting to it would bring along numerous lawsuits resulting in a heavy financial loss for Bill, if he paid up. Right now, he's really in a lose-lose situation.
 
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