I won’t know what to think about this until the president* tweets his opinions. In all seriousness, this is tragic, but the system worked. If only Twitler was placed on trial for his assaults.
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Cos went through life with an open fly, lots of consensual relationships with women not his wife (he spent a lot of time in SF when his career was hot, and it’s a fact). Right there it shows how dishonorable he is.
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Our student government group always ended our meetings with a couple of cuts from a comedy album by one of three people who rocked our little high school world – Shelley Berman, Bob Newhart, and Bill Cosby.
It literally grieved me to find out in the past few years that someone I admired so much was such a monster. I can only imagine how it affected those who were his victims. I wish his wife would shut the hell up now. He deserved prison time a long time ago.
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That tragedy is currently on display with endless TV loops.
Well, I’ve got a bellyful - back to work.
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He’s 82 and mostly blind. Probably not.
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Cos had a terrific comedy album performed live somewhere in the Sixties talking about rolling backwards in his car downhill into the SF Bay
To Russell, my brother, whom I slept with.
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Was there supposed to be a footnote?
I believe that’s President with an asterisk to indicate the illegitimate nature of the title.
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From the WaPo:
“Camille Cosby was absent on Tuesday when her husband was sentenced. So were his three adult daughters. The court saved two full rows in the packed courtroom for Cosby’s personal use — enough to hold at least 16 people. In the first row sat an attorney, two publicists and one old friend. The second row was empty.”
I was never a fan. Not a popular position at the time.
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Constand went to police a year after waking up in a fog at Cosby’s gated
estate, her clothes askew, only to have the district attorney pass on
the case.
In the ten years following, how many more women did Cosby rape?
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Hey, we all loved the man, thought he was one of the most decent men on the planet, whether you are white or black.
His humor, his charity. Whattaguy. I vividly recall the family and relatives sitting around the TV laughing ourselves sick.
To say he had a dark side doesn’t begin to describe it. Holy shit! drugging and raping women who trusted you.
WTF!
He almost didn’t get prosecuted!
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It is sad that a man who was widely admired is going to jail but even sadder that he got away with abusing women for 50+ years.
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No kidding.
Someone where Cosby’s going might want to drug him and have sex with him. Karma has a really dark sense of humor.
So much good… the laughter, the public role model of good and moral character through the 70’s and 80s, the genial, affable charm and the way he opened a lot of doors for talented actors in his show, drew white America into the Huxtable living room every week and told them ‘this isn’t alien. We’re not different. We’re Americans. We’re you.’…
…and so much bad. The moralizing at, and scolding of, African-American youth, the hypocrisy of that on top of his own infidelities… to say nothing of the lives he shattered and left hollow and traumatized in his secret life as a serial rapist…
… and now, in all likelihood, he’ll end up as one more African-American man dying in prison. After all that, to become exactly the statistical stereotype he publicly strove against. There’s a grim satisfaction in seeing justice done… and an equally grim dissatisfaction with the destruction of everything so many people held dear about this man. But that was his choice. His deeds lie at the bottom of this pit of suet and lye, and no-one else’s.
In a very real sense, I regret that this has happened; I regret that this was justice. But though I may regret that this was necessary, I do not for one moment regret that men and women of actual moral character and standing rolled up their sleeves and answered that necessity. To the judge, to the lawyers on both sides (because a competent defense team forces the prosecution to get it right), and to the jury… thank you for doing what cannot have been an easy or joyous thing for any of you.
That this was justice sucks. That justice was done does not. The system worked. Now I go back to working toward, hoping for, and dreaming of a world where it doesn’t have to.
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No, that’s stolen from Charles Pierce. I believe it denotes the shady circumstances by which Trump was “elected.”