BILL COSBY

[Henry Hawk]

what do you guys think about the Bill Cosby situation?

[Anne]

I don't know what to think, I certainly don't condone it, if it is true. It seems so out of character for him.

[Purplelady1040]

what do you guys think about the Bill Cosby situation?

I think some of the women are lying but it is hard to say. I guess time will tell!

[duke jupiter]

Ole' Duke sez Cos has a 90% chance of bein' guilty.

Best regards,
Duke (skeletons come out) Jupiter

[me]

I question the timing of these women coming out with this for sure. 

[Purplelady1040]

Me, I agree. Some of these women are saying this happened 20-30 years ago, why did they not say something then?

[libby]

... and the winner is: DUKE: who wrote in another topic that Cosby was/is 90% guilty. 

I wondered why the following Cosby story was in the Style section of Friday's Washington Post. It's a  story of an awful fall from grace.

21 Nov 2014
The Washington Post
BY PHILIP KENNICOTT

Cosby's loan of art pulls Smithsonian into national debate

An example of the hazards of exhibiting private collections


Bill Cosby's interview with an Associated Press reporter, filmed Nov. 6 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, shows power and privilege in operation. After reporter Brett Zongker asked the comedian about allegations that he had raped or sexually abused women, Cosby suggested that such questions were irresponsible. He and his wife had chosen to sit down with the AP, he said, because they thought the AP was a reputable news organization and would not dig into those unpleasant accusations.

Cosby tried a classic power play, hoping to intimidate the reporter into suppressing the video: "I think if you want to consider yourself to be serious, that it will not appear anywhere," he said to Zongker. After making this equation — between reportorial seriousness and deference to himself — Cosby asked David Brokaw, his longtime media representative, who was standing off-camera, to get on the horn to the AP and do everything possible to ensure that the videotaped encounter was "scuttled."

Zongker, who covers art and cultural issues in the nation's capital, deserves credit for asking the hard questions.

"It was his duty to ask the question as a reporter and journalist," said Lou Ferrara, an AP vice president whose purview includes entertainment news.

Cosby may have hoped that as an arts reporter, Zongker would limit his inquiries to art matters. Arts reporting is often assumed to be soft reporting, a feel-good beat on the edge of the real news business. Sometimes this is true, especially on television, where stories about the arts are vanishingly rare and almost always are used as inspirational post- See page 41 ....

[libby]

Bill Cosby continued:

This is the front page above the fold headline of today's Washington Post:

" Accusations recast an American cultural icon

By Manuel Roig-Franzia, Scott Higham, Paul Farhi, and Mary Pat Flaherty

They didn't see a comedian. They saw the "king of the world."

Long before there was a Dr. Cliff Huxtable, before rumpled sweaters and a collective anointing as America's dad, Bill Cosby was magnified a hundredfold in the eyes of the young models and actresses he pulled into his orbit. For them, he embodied the hippest of the 1960s and the '70s Hollywood scene, a mega-star with the power to make somebodies out of nobodies.

He partied with Hugh Hefner and was a regular at the magazine mogul's Playboy Mansion bacchanals. He co-owned a restaurant and hit the hottest clubs. He sizzled.

Those wild, largely forgotten days clash with the avuncular image that has been Cosby's most enduring impression on American culture. And they have been jarringly cast in a wholly different light as a torrent of women have told-- and in some cases retold graphic highly detailed stories of alleged abuse by Cosby.

Sixteen women have publicly stated that Cosby, now 77, sexually assaulted them, with 12 saying he drugged them first and another saying he tried to drug her. The Washington Post has interviewed five of those women, including a former Playboy Playmate who has never spoken publicly about her allegations. The women agreed to speak on the record and to have their identities revealed. The Post also has reviewed court records that shed light on the accusations of a former director of women's basketball operations at Temple University who assembled 13 "Jane Doe" accusers in 2005 to testify on her behalf about their allegations against Cosby.

The allegations, some of which Cosby has  denied and others he has declined to discuss, span the arc of the comedy legend's career, from his pioneering years as the first black star of a network television drama in 1965 to the mid-2000s, when Cosby was firmly entrenched as an elder statesman of the entertainment industry, a scolding public conscience of the African American community and a philanthropist. They also span a monumental generational shift in perceptions -- from the sexually unrestrained -60s to an era when the idea of date rape is well understood...."

The article in today's Washington post is much, much longer. I haven't read all of it yet. If you want to read/see for yourself (there are pictures), just google www.washingtonpost.com and choose a topic that shows a picture of Cosby front and center.

[The Troll]

  Who cares about all of this garbage. 

[Palehorse]

  Who cares about all of this garbage. 

You should. . .

If the allegations against this man are proven true, he is (has been) every bit as much of a threat to women's freedom of choice as the republican party!

[duke jupiter]

  Who cares about all of this garbage. 

seems you do. You responded. 

[duke jupiter]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ex-nbc-employee-claims-he-helped-bill-cosby-pay-off-women/ar-BBfq3YE

[duke jupiter]

lemmon 714

[The Troll]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ex-nbc-employee-claims-he-helped-bill-cosby-pay-off-women/ar-BBfq3YE

  Sooooo!? Other than that. 

[libby]

  Sooooo!? Other than that.