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This is a fall from grace, very much like Tiger Woods. I haven’t a clue about innocence or guilt here, but we may be throwing this guy over a little too fast.
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Probably has more to do with Cosby’s prior sanctimoniousness. No one likes a hypocrite.
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Given the number of women now coming forward with similar stories, I’m guessing that we have, in fact, taken much too long to throw this guy over.
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A veritable posse.
I looked up Cosby’s net worth. It’s around $400 MILLION dollars. Stories are now coming out that these stories have been around for years… Just finally getting in the public eye. My point is Cosby is 77 years old. It’s time for him to leave the public stage. Just freaking disappear. He has all the money he can ever want. Go retire on some freaking island. Donate money to some charity’s linked to sexual abuse to make amends.
The reason it is a big deal is that Cosby created this persona with his comedy act and TV show of being this all around family type Dad. I saw Cosby on the Letterman show years ago ranting about the immorality of young people. What a freaking hypocrite. Which is why that comedian brought the whole thing up in the first place. A hypocrite who got rich off being something he really wasn’t. He is not in any criminal trouble but how unseemly.
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Apples to ball-bearings. Tiger Woods never came lose to committing any crimes (other than reckless driving). Woods was just a shitty husband.
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A little too fast?
How many decades has he flown under the radar?
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Not exactly. Tiger Woods didn’t commit any potentially criminal acts. Cosby is certainly acting like a guilty man, wonder how RW will try to spin this, but they’ll try.
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I don’t mean to be the constant advocate for Tiger Woods (I certainly don’t defend what he did), but to compare Woods’ cheating on his wife to Cosby’s serial drugging and raping of women is a little more than beyond the pale. In fact, without naming men who killed their victims, it’s quite difficult to find many people who compare to the crimes that Bill Cosby is accused of.
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Yes, that’s what’s damning – the numbers.
Is it 12 or 13 all telling essentially the same story?
2 or even 3 and extortion might have some plausibility, but not 12 or 13.
I understand the statute on prosecution has tolled also.
There’s also a kind of Rashomon effect with this case too.
People fuse and conflate it with all sorts of unrelated and irrelevant issues & personalities not faced with multiple accusers.