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Bill Cosby ... Sexual Allegations

There is still a presumption of innocence in this country. Feminazis and their enablers want conviction soley from accusation (rape trials add to the victim's/accuser's trauma). In Hollywood slang, the phrase "can't get arrested" means a performer was in demand now nobody takes their calls. In that sense, Cosby can't get arrested. In the conventional meaning, Cosby has not been arrested. So far, no prosecutor seems to think he has the evidence needed to get a conviction. For prosecutors, who are political animals, busting Cosby would be a career-making move (losing the case, might kill a career).

It's interesting how the media have turned on Cosby. In 2008, the media gave Obama kid glove treatment (until SNL make this a laughing stock) because the "historic" first Black president trumped the "historic" first woman president. Now apparently (alleged) rape victim trumps beloved Black comedian and role model.

Whatever actually happened, this is the biggest show biz rush to judgement since Fatty Arbuckle. Turns out Fatty didn't do it. We may never know about Cosby.
 
Mr. Cosby, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Wife of Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno claims Bill Cosby tried to sexually assault her at a party - as she becomes SIXTH woman to publicly accuse him of attack

Therese Serignese has become the fourth woman in the past month to come forward and say she was drugged and raped by Bill Cosby
Serignese, from Boca Raton, Florida, says she met Cosby as a teenager in Las Vegas in 1976, and that he gave her pills
She says her next memory was feeling drugged and waking up to find Cosby having sex with her
Carla Ferrigno is also coming forward to say Cosby tried to sexually assault her at a party in 1967 when she was just a teenager
Ferrigno says the actor forcibly kissed her at the party, held at his home while his wife was present
This as a video interview of Cosby responding to claimsof rape has just been released, which shows him saying he has 'no comment' and 'no response'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...tried-sexually-assault-her.html#ixzz3JcjpbsnW
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FredLeonard said:
There is still a presumption of innocence in this country. Feminazis and their enablers want conviction soley from accusation (rape trials add to the victim's/accuser's trauma). In Hollywood slang, the phrase "can't get arrested" means a performer was in demand now nobody takes their calls. In that sense, Cosby can't get arrested. In the conventional meaning, Cosby has not been arrested. So far, no prosecutor seems to think he has the evidence needed to get a conviction. For prosecutors, who are political animals, busting Cosby would be a career-making move (losing the case, might kill a career).

It's interesting how the media have turned on Cosby. In 2008, the media gave Obama kid glove treatment (until SNL make this a laughing stock) because the "historic" first Black president trumped the "historic" first woman president. Now apparently (alleged) rape victim trumps beloved Black comedian and role model.

Whatever actually happened, this is the biggest show biz rush to judgement since Fatty Arbuckle. Turns out Fatty didn't do it. We may never know about Cosby.
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It's interesting that you're able to turn the Cosby situation into a Limbaugh style screed, and even get Obama in there. There is a presumption of innocence in courts of law, not in the "court of public opinion." I'm still amazed that people can't seem to understand the difference.

I'd analogize it to freedom of speech. That Fire Chief in Bullitt, Kentucky who used the "N" word, which was caught by his own body camera (dumb-ass) will likely be losing his job - even in that backward state. He's not going to be convicted of racism - the legal system has nothing to do with it, and the First Amendment gives him the right to spew all the hateful ignorant bile that he wants. But that doesn't extend to the privelege of keeping a job in which the public trust is crucial for people of all races.

The same with Cosby. His presumption of legal innocence doesn't mean that he necessarily deserves to have a new sit-com or comedy special. "America's Dad" being an (alleged) sexual predator is cognitive dissonance at its best. If you were an advertiser, would you buy commercial time on a new Cosby Show? I wouldn't.
 
LKellerIII said:
It's interesting that you're able to turn the Cosby situation into a Limbaugh style screed, and even get Obama in there. There is a presumption of innocence in courts of law, not in the "court of public opinion." I'm still amazed that people can't seem to understand the difference.

I'd analogize it to freedom of speech. That Fire Chief in Bullitt, Kentucky who used the "N" word, which was caught by his own body camera (dumb-ass) will likely be losing his job - even in that backward state. He's not going to be convicted of racism - the legal system has nothing to do with it, and the First Amendment gives him the right to spew all the hateful ignorant bile that he wants. But that doesn't extend to the privelege of keeping a job in which the public trust is crucial for people of all races.

The same with Cosby. His presumption of legal innocence doesn't mean that he necessarily deserves to have a new sit-com or comedy special. "America's Dad" being an (alleged) sexual predator is cognitive dissonance at its best. If you were an advertiser, would you buy commercial time on a new Cosby Show? I wouldn't.
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So, you are saying people - your so-called "court of public opinion - SHOULD jump to conclusions and ruin someone's life and career just because? And that the media should enable and encourage this?

None of these accusations was caught on camera like your police chief. There are not even any rape kits. No evidence of any kind. Just he said/she said way after the fact. But you're OK with that sort of mob mentality. Black man. White women. Not so long ago, that would mean a lynch party. You OK with that, too.

I hope you are never hit with a false accusation and when people turn on you and you lose your job, I nobody says you're not entitled to any benefit of the doubt in public opinion.

I also hope you never get on a jury.
 
No, Mr. Leonard, I don't think people should "jump to conclusions." But it doesn't take too much 'jumping' when multiple women come forward, as in this case. Add to this, plenty of information over the past decade alleging that Cosby is supplied with barely legal female sex companions by hotel and casino managers when he travels (without Camille, I would assume). No, rape or drugging wasn't alleged in those instances; I assume management supplied him with young prostitutes who were barely 18, or looked that young, in any case.

I read a comment at another website that tried to analogize Cosby to Charlie Sheen. That's a laugh. As bad as Sheen's behavior has been, he has never been accused of rape. On top of that, Sheen revels in his bad boy image, unlike "family values" Cosby who preaches to other African-American men about recititude and morality. Never mind rape - to Cosby, the bigger sins are using profanity on stage, and wearing saggy pants.

It's the hypocrites that reap the whirwind - like that evangelist preacher a few years ago who was caught with male prostitutes and crystal meth after years of preaching against the immorality of homosexuals and drugs. If that had been Charlie Sheen, nobody would have blinked twice because Sheen isn't a hypocrite...though it might have hurt his image as a heterosexual lothario.

And again - presumption of innocence is a legal term, it doesn't mean the press can't print negative articles about you, or that a network can't drop your new show like radioactive waste because advertisers won't come within a mile of Cosby now.
 
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LKellerIII said:
NI read a comment at another website that tried to analogize Cosby to Charlie Sheen. That's a laugh. As bad as Sheen's behavior has been, he has never been accused of rape. On top of that, Sheen revels in his bad boy image, ...
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I've often wondered whether Charlie acts the way he does as a form of self-promotion - especially since it landed him a job as the highest paid actor on TV several years back.
 
Cozi is still running "I Spy."
"The New Fat Albert Show" is still running on one of the all-infomercial channels.
 
^What is the name of this "all-infomercial" channel you had referenced?
 
Might be a bit tough to have deniability if lots of checks have been going out over the years.
 
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