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[SoulUnison]

He must have the most terrifying alter ego.

You're not even kidding.

If even half of all these sum allegations are true, imagine:

Mr. Huxtable - threatening you.
Mr. Huxtable: "No one will believe you."
Mr. Huxtable, smug and confident.

 

[Burai]

Fear. Cosby is a big celebrity. These ladies are probably were scared of the backlash. That's why you are hearing a lot more come forward cause it's already out in the public.

Basically. You spend your whole life wanting to be an actress and this bastard is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood and could end your career in a moment.

It is Jimmy Savile all over again; a man so important in his industry and beloved by society with so many powerful friends that he could operate in plain sight with no fear of the law.

 

[Agent Unknown]

Meh. The more stories that come to fruition about this, the less I believe any of it. It seems that women are just coming out of the woodwork and accusing Cosby of raping them. It seems to me a lot of these women are opportunists.

"Meh." Really? Stop with this "opportunist" stupidity already. The accusations of the 40 plus women and counting are not even in the same universe as the words "opportunity" and "opportunist." I think you need a good visual aid of what an opportunist does NOT look like because you obviously know neither the correct definition nor the proper context for the word "opportunist." One of Cosby's accusers is Cindra Ladd, pictured below. She's a former movie exec, a philanthropist, she is a millionaire and she is also the wife of Alan Ladd Jr., the former president of 20th Century Fox and the man you often see in DVD special features and interviews talking about how he approved everything from Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire and Braveheart She gave a chilling, detailed account of how Bill Cosby raped her when she was a young woman. There is obviously NOTHING for her to gain to come out and tell this embarassing, deeply painful story decades later except for the solidarity she wishes to express for the other women:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6526064

Those who suffer from these types of assaults know the prison of shame, bewilderment and disbelief. Like so many victims, my way of coping was to shove the memory into the back of my mind. I only revealed nine years ago what happened that night to my husband of nearly 30 years after another woman went public with similar allegations and sued Cosby. I always thought I was the only one. I couldn't believe he had done this to others. I told my story to our attorney, who is also a good friend, because I was considering going public then, but eventually chose not to because the case was settled.

This is the first time I have chosen to speak out about that night. It is also the last time I intend to address it publicly. I have no plans to sue, I don't want or need money. I have no plans for a press conference or for doing any interviews.

So why speak out at all and why now? The simple answer is that it's the right thing to do. The truth deserves to be known.

But hey, "meh" am I right? Why trust Ms. Ladd's account, she's obviously just a millionaire "opportunist." Your post is appalling, disgusting and astounding in its willful ignorance and sheer lack of both empathy and logic.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Lord only knows how many victims are out there.

 

[cyberheater]

Meh. The more stories that come to fruition about this, the less I believe any of it. It seems that women are just coming out of the woodwork and accusing Cosby of raping them. It seems to me a lot of these women are opportunists.

A truly horrible post. You should feel ashamed.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

I still can't believe this is a thing that has happened. Who would have imagined Bill fucking Cosby would be one of the worst human beings ever? No one. Because there was never any reason to. It's just still a shock I guess. I used to watch the Cosby Show every week as a kid. And Picture Pages every day.

Yeah, it continues to fuck with me, and this is the same Cosby that absolutely loved to lecture other people about what was wrong with them.

 

[King Tubby]

Meh. The more stories that come to fruition about this, the less I believe any of it. It seems that women are just coming out of the woodwork and accusing Cosby of raping them. It seems to me a lot of these women are opportunists.

If even one of these 40+ women isn't an "opportunist", he is a horrible human being. I honestly don't get this post.

 

[Carcetti]

Meh. The more stories that come to fruition about this, the less I believe any of it. It seems that women are just coming out of the woodwork and accusing Cosby of raping them. It seems to me a lot of these women are opportunists.

What is the opportunity? What are they getting here?

That's a truly idiotic opinion to have but hey, it's people like you who enable rapists like Cosby. Take a long, hard look at this case again.

 

[dreamcastmaster]

It is Jimmy Savile all over again; a man so important in his industry and beloved by society with so many powerful friends that he could operate in plain sight with no fear of the law.

exactly this.

 

[EatChildren]

How could he have gotten away with so many of these ? Like, what the hell.

Stories of rapes by people in positions of power, especially on victims in a position easily exploited due to insecurities and vulnerabilities (such as industry inexperience), are as old as time itself.

Guarantee in 50 years the shitlist, if never verified, of celebrity crimes from our generation will have grown substantially.

 

[TestMonkey]

Innocent before proven guilty but if convicted bury him under the prison.

 

[Hazelhurst]

How do you convince so many people to stay quiet for so long?

Probably embarrassed and fearful and thinking they're the only one. It just took one domino.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

Its an awful hard thing to admit to people since you feel like its your fault, let alone admit it to yourself, hence why its taken so long to come forward. I only know this guy by reputation, but holy shit. Evil.

 

[roknin]

I still can't believe this is a thing that has happened. Who would have imagined Bill fucking Cosby would be one of the worst human beings ever? No one. Because there was never any reason to. It's just still a shock I guess. I used to watch the Cosby Show every week as a kid. And Picture Pages every day.

Yeah, honestly I'm in the same boat. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it all. Cosby was one of my icons growing up.

But when he got older, he started to become fairly repugnant, and I suppose some of that evil he likely has started to show, to me.

Provided all these stories prove true - and at this point the "where there's smoke, there's fire" sentiment applies so I'm convinced they are - they should go ahead and put him under the fucking jail.

The accusations of the 40 plus women and counting

Holy mother of God... It's at 40+?! I thought it was just hitting like 10. O_____o

Did he literally rape every woman he came across?

I.... damn. Man... I just... have no words.

 

[Chuckl3s]

43 to be exact. According to this page which was recently updated.

http://*************/archives/306591

Edit: I knew that link would be blocked but if you do a quick google search, it's 43.

 

[EatChildren]

How do you convince so many people to stay quiet for so long?

Look at it more individualistic rather than the group. While there are many reports of victims, most/all wouldn't see the group from their perspective and instead only themselves. Careful selection of victims combined with effective measures of intimidation and manipulation to keep them silent ensures that on a per-person basis victims are afraid to come forward. What works for one works for the next, and so on. Also usually why once one victim steps forward the ball gets rolling and encourages confidence in others to do so as well.

 

[Nether!]

This makes me sick. Physically disgusted.
Fuck you Bill Cosby, you disgusting monster.
Everything you've ever done. Everything you've ever done. Is tainted.
You are human filth. You are shit.

Anyway! I just don't understand rapists - what's the appeal? What part of sex is worthwhile when your partner is drugged and unconscious?

 

[Agent Unknown]

Well, looks like someone was an "opportunist" after all....in an opportunity for a ban. Oh well. "Meh."

You're not even kidding.

If even half of all these sum allegations are true, imagine:

Mr. Huxtable - threatening you.
Mr. Huxtable: "No one will believe you."
Mr. Huxtable, smug and confident.

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the-fall-of-bill-cosby/

Robert Huber a reporter for Phillymag, talks about his efforts to expose Cosby back in an article he wrote back 2006 centered on the Constand case and also a bizarre encounter he had with Cosby where he was invited to have dinner with him but was forbidden to speak or ask questions, he just had to sit there next to Cosby, eating dinner next to him silently. The 2006 article and his present reflection on it are linked above. He was interviewed on CNN about his attempt to bring the Constand case to light back in 2006 and his bizarre encounter with Cosby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwqMST1KTcQ

 

[davepoobond]

terrible.

 

[roknin]

...man that picture is creepy, and surprisingly apt.

And now his smile seems creepy as fuck whenever I think about it.

"Eat dinner with me in Silence"... what in the world is this man?

43 to be exact. According to this page which was recently updated.

http://*************/archives/306591

Edit: I knew that link would be blocked but if you do a quick google search, it's 43.

No worries, I checked. 43. Sweet Jesus.

EDIT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfQw6C7akc

Yoooooo I remember this. It was one of the first times I saw him and my perception of him started to change. Not in a huge way, but more of a "man... Cosby is kind of a dick now that he's old" train of thought.

 

[borborygmus]

Innocent before proven guilty but if convicted bury him under the prison.

In terms of process, I concur. It's the only way to proceed unless solid evidence comes up. Since there's no statute of limitations for this latest accuser, then there's a (slim) chance of there being a court case of some kind that wouldn't be settled out of court, given who the accuser is.

But as for how I feel about this, holy shit, this is some terrible stuff. It's numbing.

 

[Agent Unknown]

Decided to put these videos in a separate post instead of the one above so some people wouldn't miss them due to the big Huxtable "Jekyll/Hyde" picture:

Here is the ABC news interview with Phylicia Rashad I mentioned on the last page where she unsuccessfully tried to walk back her statement on "Forget these women" and then plays the conspiracy card:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_5rsbKo-GU

It looks like ABC heavily edited the clip they put on Youtube because I saw that interview the night it broadcast and very clearly remember Linsey Davis being very pointed and skeptical when questioning Rashad and she actually looked very unamused when Rashad tried to play the conspiracy card.

Disaster of an interview from a few years ago where Cosby loses his temper and freaks out on his publicist off camera and tells her to "shut up" in between one of his typical rambling, hypocritical spiels:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEfQw6C7akc

 

[Rootbeer]

Innocent until proven guilty? Well let's get this trial or series of trials rolling cause he's been free and enjoying a wealthy lifestyle for long enogh

 

[Chuckl3s]

Phylicia Rashad

I always wondered if she was one of his victims (harsh word but I didn't know how to word it). I feel like if she stepped forward as one it would totally seal it (to everyone who is a nonbeliever). But she is probably keeping it under wraps cause of who she was with him.

 

[Agent Unknown]

.
Yoooooo I remember this. It was one of the first times I saw him and my perception of him started to change. Not in a huge way, but more of a "man... Cosby is kind of a dick now that he's old" train of thought.

That video is good evidence that he can be a raging, insensitive jerk but it's nothing compared to this:

Bill Cosby Once Publicly Bullied A Notre Dame Football Player To Tears

http://deadspin.com/bill-cosby-once-publicly-bullied-a-notre-dame-football-1661325778

Was Bill Cosby Always A Scumbag, A Bully, And A Fraud?

http://popdust.com/2014/11/23/bill-...ears-hypocrite-has-worthless-phd-from-u-mass/

Posted by Joanne Wolf on 11/23/2014 at 5:20 PM News

The Popdust Files: bill cosby, celebrity justice, controversy

If fifteen-plus rape allegations aren’t enough for you, there is ample depressing evidence that good old Bill Cosby has always been a scumbag, a bully, and a fraud.

In 1989, Cosby was invited to Notre Dame to speak to a group of black graduates. Cosby singled out All-American tackle Dean Brown to ask what his GPA was. When Brown told him it was a 2.5, Cosby proceeded to humiliate him in front of the other students and parents:

“What do you think of a 2.5 average?” Cosby asked.

“I think it’s decent,” replied Brown, who was recently drafted by pro football’s Indianapolis Colts.

Cosby snarled back: “2.5 is OK if you have a mental disorder. You should be ashamed of yourself. You should have worked harder.”

Tears streamed down the 290-lbs. Brown’s face as he tried to defend himself: “I worked hard. I did my best…”

But Cosby cut him short. “You didn’t do enough.”

It turns out that Jerry Barca, who wrote a book about the 1988 Notre Dame season, has spoken out about just how devastating Cosby’s humiliation of Brown was.

http://deadspin.com/the-nd-player-bill-cosby-berated-felt-like-a-failure-fo-1661591222

In a letter to Deadspin, Barca says:

You’re right that Dean was a good guy. He also had some serious difficulties growing up. He had no money. He hustled food stamps at 10. And his favorite show growing up? Fat Albert. He was also very candid in saying he benefited the most of any of his teammates by being at Notre Dame. So he starts on a national title team and then he’s set to graduate a year later, a pretty monumental deal for him and Cosby berates him. When I spoke to Dean in 2012 for my book he said this: “I went a lot of years feeling like I was a failure, And, there were times that anytime I heard Bill Cosby’s name — it wasn’t a cringe, but it was a heavy uneasiness.

Why was the successful and accomplished Cosby so intent on belittling a young athlete and scholar?

Maybe Cosby wasn’t comfortable knowing that his own college degree was a sham.

In his book, Education’s Smoking Gun, a former professor at the University of Massachusetts, Reginald G. Damerel, says that Cosby was recruited personally by the assistant dean of the U. Mass. education school. He entered a program designed to award advanced education degrees to “mature students,” some of whom hadn’t attended or completed college.Cosby didn’t take semester-length courses. Instead he attended a weekend-long seminar and received credits for appearances on TV shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

Cosby’s 242-page doctoral dissertation is titled ‘AN INTEGRATION OF THE VISUAL MEDIA VIA FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS INTO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM AS A TEACHING AID AND VEHICLE TO ACHIEVE INCREASED LEARNING.’ (January 1, 1976).

We can all read Cosby’s dissertation if we’re willing to buy a copy, but let’s face it: We know it’s just self-serving crap.

Damerell says, ‘A dissertation is supposed to be a contribution to human knowledge. This isn’t.’

Bill Cosby was supposed to be a role model. He isn’t.

Bill Cosby’s doctoral thesis was about using ‘Fat Albert’ as a teaching tool

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...as-about-using-fat-albert-as-a-teaching-tool/

By Valerie Strauss November 24

Bill Cosby is sometimes referred to as Dr. Cosby because he has a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts of Amherst. He earned the degree in the mid 1970s — with a thesis titled “An Integration of the Visual Media Via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (1972) into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning” — but how he got the degree has been controversial ever since.

According to Michael Eric Dyson, a sociology professor at Georgetown University and an acclaimed author of “Is Bill Cosby Right?” and numerous other books:


[Cosby] dropped out of high school after he flunked the tenth grade three times. He enlisted in the Navy, where he got his GED, and then enrolled at Temple University, where he dropped out to pursue a show business career. His unfinished bachelor’s degree from Temple was eventually bestowed on him because of “life experience.” Cosby enrolled as a part-time doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, which awarded him the Ed.D. degree in 1977 for a dissertation on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

But not even that degree was unsullied by controversy: A professor who served on Cosby’s dissertation committee, Reginald Damerell, said that Cosby hardly took a class — and that he got course credit for appearing on Sesame Street and The Electric Company, “and wrote a dissertation that analyzed the impact of his show.”

Damerell’s claims came in his 1985 book called “Education’s Smoking Gun,” which was a strong critique of education schools. A University of Massachusetts associate professor who left after 12 years, Damerell wrote in his book about a program at UMass in which people already established in their fields could earn a doctorate by taking some course work, getting credit for their work experience and writing a thesis.

Cosby himself wrote that he was persuaded to join the program — after he got a master’s degree in education in 1972 — by a dean. He bought a 16-room farmhouse not too far from the Amherst campus and spent time in both California and Massachusetts in those years. Cosby had a flexible course schedule that allowed him to keep performing.

A 1985 story in People magazine about the book quoted Louis Fischer, acting dean of the University of Massachusetts School of Education when Cosby received his doctorate, as saying that Cosby’s thesis was “a very respectable piece of work” It also said:

Fischer adds that U. Mass. at the time was trying “to get away from the historic rigidities of schools of education” and that there were “at least 50 other students at that time who also received Ed.D. degrees through such nontraditional methods.”

Current university officials have not yet responded to questions about the program.

The dissertation, which was 142 pages of text and another hundred of footnotes and other material, discussed how educators could use Cosby-created animated television shows — “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids” — to teach children in the classroom.

Cosby attended a ceremony in 1977 where he was awarded his degree, according to this People story.

 

[Agent Unknown]

Former aspiring teen actress Renita Chaney Hill who used to make appearances with Cosby on Picture Pages was in high school at the time when Cosby assaulted her:

http://m.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne...story-20142411

 

[Agent Unknown]

I always wondered if she was one of his victims (harsh word but I didn't know how to word it). I feel like if she stepped forward as one it would totally seal it (to everyone who is a nonbeliever). But she is probably keeping it under wraps cause of who she was with him.

Cosby was a calculating predator who chose his victims very carefully and made sure they were vulnerable with little to no power at all. Attacking Rashad would have ruined his ability to continue his assaults and would have brought his sociopathic and power trip driven double life crashing down so I doubt it. But, I do believe Rashad knows something but like Cosby, she values her power, money and prestige over speaking out. In any case, her "forget these women" comments are especially disgusting and sad since Rashad and her portrayal of Claire always represented the successful empowerment of women over old male power stereotypes. So it's funny she acts so worried about Cosby's "legacy" when by defending him she has now needlessly wrecked her own legacy. She should have just kept her mouth shut or been a lot more neutral and gracious. You'd think the publicists for the former cast members would be flailing their arms at them to say "no comment" and just let Cosby rot.

Now Lisa Bonet, I really think Cosby at least wanted her given their odd, stormy history. He fired her twice but kept bringing her back and even gave Bonet her own spin off (Different Worlds). If she was such a trouble make on set and not worthy of the show, then why did he keep bring her back into the fold and why would he go out of his way to give her a show of her own? He also acted jealous and angry when she married Lenny Kravitz. Cosby also acted jealous of Rashad when she got married.

 

[King Tubby]

This makes me sick. Physically disgusted.
Fuck you Bill Cosby, you disgusting monster.
Everything you've ever done. Everything you've ever done. Is tainted.
You are human filth. You are shit.

Anyway! I just don't understand rapists - what's the appeal? What part of sex is worthwhile when your partner is drugged and unconscious?

Sexual desire is only a part of it. It's a sadistic desire to have total power or control over someone and a complete lack of conscience or consideration.

As for Rashad...I'd like to think that she is in shock that a long-time professional relationship, legendary actor/comic who she was proud to be associated with, is being outed as a monster and the legacy of her work and everything they did together is forever tainted. I'd like to think that she didn't know. Many times, the people around a serial abuser like this have no idea, or they might hear sporadic rumblings but brush it off as little people trying to take a famous, successful man down. I don't envy anyone in a position where a close friend of theirs for decades is being accused of something incomprehensibly awful.

 

[Agent Unknown]

Several months before he passed away, Sam Simon (former Simpsons co-creator and head writer) dropped this bombshell (and yes I know I'm still (!!!) on IOS6):

 

[roknin]

That video is good evidence that he can be a raging, insensitive jerk but it's nothing compared to this:

Wow. That is fucking garbage. :-(

But connecting it to his more recent rants on African Americans and his whole "don't call me that" as well as that other interview... I'm actually not shocked. Perhaps what we're seeing as he's gotten older are glimpses of the monster he really is and always has been.

 

[GolazoDan]

Meh. The more stories that come to fruition about this, the less I believe any of it. It seems that women are just coming out of the woodwork and accusing Cosby of raping them. It seems to me a lot of these women are opportunists.

I'm not sure how this thought process really works after the whole Savile thing, after everything we've had in the UK with Rolf Harris and various others. It's not a viewpoint I particularly agree with in general but these examples don't support the idea that a lot of accusations in a short space of time imply a lot of opportunism.

 

[Beefy]

Oh God, this is a Jimmy Savile situation, isn't it?

Saville was far worse. He preyed on dying and dead kids as well as the living. They are both disgusting evil monsters tho.

 

[Agent Unknown]

People say this is all coming together in the wake of that, but... Watch his act again. He's talking about how it had been going on for years at that point and nobody cares.

Exactly. After it went viral, Hannibal said in one of his interviews how he'd been doing that routine for quite some time and sometimes people would confront him afterwards acting like he was crazy for saying something so shocking about Cosby, and he would tell these people like he said in the routine, "Just Google it! It's been known for years!" 

What a lot of people don't realize is the first story of Cosby being accused of sexual assault surfaced briefly in the news in late 2004 just as the Fat Albert movie was about to come out. I remember seeing a quick sound bite about it on CNN Headline News back then and I was shocked. Then Tina Fey called Cosby out on the initial rape accusations in 2004 on SNL Weekend Update, I actually saw this when it aired:

http://time.com/3620097/tina-fey-bill-cosby-rape-allegations-snl/

She and Amy even called Kenan out to comment on it, Kenan smiled said something awkward then left quick. 

There was also a damning People Magazine article about the accusations back then too after the Constand case was settled:

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059561,00.html

But then it all kind of seemed to blow over and get swept under the rug, it was like Cosby was made of really scummy Teflon. He kind of stayed a bit out of sight for a few years but then gradually started going back to his usual routine of TV show appearances on talk shows. He appeared many times on the Today Show, Letterman and Jimmy Fallon both when he was on Late Night and at least twice when he first got the Tonight Show. I would think to myself throughout these years, "Ok, so it just all magically went away? Everyone is just going to pretend they don't care or are they under strict orders by their bosses to just let Cosby make these care free appearances?"

So when I saw the Burress video I literally pumped my fist and said Yea! It felt like, FINALLY someone cut through the stupid, perpetual teflon misasma cloud Cosby and his media cronies had made for him. 

 

[Agent Unknown]

Saville was far worse. He preyed on dying and dead kids as well as the living. They are both disgusting evil monsters tho.

I posted this about Cosby out in one of the Saville threads back in 2012:

http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=43969547

So, basically this guy was like a British version of Bill Cosby.

Wtf

^^^^^

It's REAL, just google "Bill Cosby rape." Bill Cosby has allegedly drugged and molested many young women. Just that like Savile and the BBC, the American MSM has been covering for Cosby for decades because he's "America's favorite dad."

Edit: One example of many articles on this, Cosby's dark stuff started coming out in the early 2000s, but he successfully paid off all his victims:

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059561,00.html

 

[Agent Unknown]

Kenan Thompson called Bill Cosby "a pervert" on Howard Stern several years ago and obscene comments Cosby made on set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tC3KEZtnyg&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Just last month Thompson repeated this story in a University of Pittsburgh appearance and also talked about how Cosby acted really creepy with his mom when she came to visit them on the set:

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7061946

Kenan Thompson Reportedly Calls Bill Cosby A 'Monster' At College Stand-Up Gig

Redditor Definitely_Ambiguous posted in the "Live From New York" subreddit on Monday night saying that Thompson shared stories about his time with Cosby on the set of the 2004 film "Fat Albert." Here's what Thompson allegedly said, according to the Redditor:

So like, he started by talking about actually not getting the role of Fat Albert, but it then went into development hell for two years. After (or during, I can't remember) his first season of SNL, he got the gig. He then talked about an odd remark Cosby made to him while filming, something like, "So Cosby pulled me aside and said that after the movie comes out, it'll be so hard to keep the women off you, you'll need two dicks."

And then he brought, like, his mom to see Cosby and he was creepy and bounced her on his lap and said something about horse riding like a kiddie.. Kenan got pretty real and just talked about what it feels like to have someone go from so commonly liked to being a piece of shit. He, like so many others, noticed kind of odd behavior awhile ago and just never put it all together. He said he wished someone had a recording or something so the guy can go to jail.

 

[norm9]

At this point, I'm waiting for news that Cosby is tied to a murder or two.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

And he's still walking free isn't he. So awful.

 

[Shadow Broker]

It sounds like she doesn't have any proof so it's her word against Cosby's.

/s

I know you put /s at the end but thinking about it if there's no video evidence randomly caught together or of someone doesn't speak up against Crosby it will be extremely hard to prove her case in court. He won't get convicted if he doesn't admit to the rape (s) or if they have substantial evidence.

These poor females will never get the justice or peace of mind they deserve.

 

[Amir0x]

Cosby has been doing this shit since the 60s apparently, so I think he must have pretty much always been a terrible person. This is someone who got a taste of that power and control and kept getting away with it, so just got bolder and bolder.

Innocent until proven guilty naturally, but we can form opinions and my opinion is after 42 accusations all with remarkably similar outlines for the crime, I can feel pretty secure forming the view that he almost certainly did most of these crimes and that he is by any measure an abominable figure because he utilize his 'clean, pull-up-your-pants' image to insult minorities and use it to make those he was about to rape feel safe. He'd compliment them and promise them the world all before revealing what a fucking asshole he was.

Truly an obscene man.

 

[Shauni]

Well, looks like someone was an "opportunist" after all....in an opportunity for a ban. Oh well. "Meh."

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the-fall-of-bill-cosby/

Robert Huber a reporter for Phillymag, talks about his efforts to expose Cosby back in an article he wrote back 2006 centered on the Constand case and also a bizarre encounter he had with Cosby where he was invited to have dinner with him but was forbidden to speak or ask questions, he just had to sit there next to Cosby, eating dinner next to him silently. The 2006 article and his present reflection on it are linked above. He was interviewed on CNN about his attempt to bring the Constand case to light back in 2006 and his bizarre encounter with Cosby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwqMST1KTcQ

Wow, holy shit...this rabbit hole has been dug for a lot longer than I thought.

 

[sappyday]

Has any of the other main cast members spoken or open up to the allegations?

 

[Agent Unknown]

I also just want to say what a huge impact the Cosby Show had on me as a kid and young adult and not just because of the fact it was a quality show and funny. As an example, the show would sometimes have jazz related storylines (Cosby is an avid jazz fan and promoter) and that helped get me interested in jazz music which has been my favorite music genre ever since I was 12. To this day I still listen to jazz regularly on NPR and have a few albums and bunch of jazz tracks on my phone thanks to the Cosby Show. Makes me all the more sad.

Has any of the other main cast members spoken or open up to the allegations?

So far only Malcolm Jamal Warner and Keisha Knight Pulliam (Rudy). To their credit, while they sort of defend Cosby because say it's unbelievable to them because they never saw anything, Warner also expressed sympathy in his statement for women who are victims of sexual assault and Knight said "the whole situation is really unfortunate." Both have at least have tried their best to be respectful and neutral in their statements unlike Rashad. It'll be interesting to see if Tempest Bledsoe (Vanessa, she played a mom in that recent short lived sitcom with Anthony Anderson which Jimmy Fallon produced a year or two before Blackish came out) or the actors who played Sonia and Elvin ever speak out (what happened to them?) Still waiting to see Lisa Bonet can provide a smoking gun....

 

[Emperor_Uriel]

it's still Jimmy Savile I assume, but surely Cosby is quickly climbing that ladder

And he'll get away with it all just like Savile. Cosby's reputation is in tatters, but that's a minor irritation when compared to the profound amount of twisted pleasures he enjoyed.

A rapist scumbag simply couldn't have asked for a better life.

 

[666]

Also, if Cosby was brazen enough to rape a guest actress I'm convinced now that someone from the main cast had to have some kind of knowledge of this at some point.

The whole entertainment industry has known forever and kept it a dirty secret.

 

[Agent Unknown]

At this point, I'm waiting for news that Cosby is tied to a murder or two.

If there are now over 40 public accusers, as Patton Oswalt said, his actual number of victims could be in the hundreds. Assuming that, it'd be amazing if the drugs he used didn't kill at least one of them. I remember someone here said that Anonymous supposedly were looking into seeing if they could find something on whoever Cosby's pill supplier was and if anybody linked to him has died but who knows if they were trolling. 

Cosby has been doing this shit since the 60s apparently...

1965 is the earliest known case. Another story I've posted and re-posted before (you can never bring this stuff up too much, otherwise the defense force morons will have enough energy to gradually reactivate their logic shields and come creeping back):

Ms. Kristina Ruehli. She met Cosby while working as an employee at a talent agency he did business with in 1965 and barely escaped being raped by Cosby in his home after he drugged her and attempted to force her into oral sex. 

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/...ll-cosby-drugged-tried-sexually-assault-1965/

Q: How did you come to know Bill Cosby?

A: I worked for a talent agency called Artists Agency Corp. They had big clients like Bob Culp, Richard Crenna and George Burns, and these people were always around. And that is the way that I met Bill Cosby.

He was a client?
Yes, well, he came into the office. There were always all these contracts going around from the studio lawyer to the artist's lawyer, and I'm assuming he was there to talk to a lawyer about a contract.

Cosby came back to where the secretaries were and said, "I'm going to be on Hollywood Palace tonight, and I'm going to have a party at my home afterwards." So he invited me, and I went.

What happened when you got to the house?
When I arrived at his house -- it was probably around 10 p.m. -- I was surprised that there was no one else there. He was very well liked at the agency, and so I expected others to be there. But no one else arrived.

He said that his wife was out of town, but he brought me in and into one bedroom where there was an infant child in the crib. He actually showed me, a very young baby. The child was fast asleep. He seemed so proud of it. He wanted to show me his little baby. I don't know where the nanny or maid was, but someone had to be there, because he had come from Hollywood Palace.

We went out into the kitchen. He proceeded to pour some bourbon. I drank a bourbon-and-7 at the time.

Did you lose consciousness at some point?
Yes, I completely passed out. At that age, two bourbon-and-7s would not have knocked me out cold, believe me. In those days, I could drink most men under the table. It was a standard eight-ounce glass, and they were not overly strong, or I would have noticed it.

He must have drugged me. There is just one point at which I was having a drink and feeling normal and the next I was somehow passed out completely. He must have slipped something into my drink. It's the only way to go lights-out like that.

When did you wake up?
It was all foggy, and I woke up in the bed. I found myself on the bed, and he had his shirt off. He had unzipped his pants. I was just coming to.

He was attempting to force me into oral sex. He had his hand on my head. He had his cock out, and he had my head pushed close enough to it — I just remember looking at his stomach hair. And the hair on his chest. I had never seen a black man naked before.

And it never went past that. I immediately came to and was immediately very sick. I pushed myself away and ran to the bathroom and threw up. I was feeling really ill. And I never got sick like that from alcohol, at least not that small of an amount.

Once I threw up — it was five in the morning by now, I think — I left the bathroom and he wasn't there. I don't know where he went. But I left right away. I was able to drive myself home. I didn't live that far away.

And what did you do the next day?
I showed up at work at 9 a.m., actually. I asked two of my girlfriends in the office why no one came to the house. I more or less got the sort of tip of a head, shake of a shoulder … It was sort of a body language communication, but nothing verbal. Sort of a looking away. Sometimes you know something but don't want to say anything.

What were your interactions with him like after that?
I never saw him again in my life. And not long after that, I resigned and went to work for a law firm, and then I got married. Every time I saw him on TV, I thought this isn't the good guy that he's portrayed to be.

But eventually you did say something.

Yes. When Andrea Constand brought her lawsuit against Cosby, I decided to come forward to her attorneys. I didn't think I was damaged, so there wouldn't be any lawsuit coming from me. I don't need money or aggravation. I'm very wealthy, so I have nothing to gain. But I wanted to come forward to tell the truth to back up other people.

Also, Camille should be ashamed of herself as well. How on earth could she not have known about any of this during over 50 years of marriage to him? She wasn't suspicious of all the "auditions" he had with these young ladies alone in their home? What did she think he was doing during all those Playboy mansion visits? Did she really think he was going to the mansion all those times just for "business" so he could talk to Hef about setting up his next gig at the Playboy Jazz festival? Look at Camille just sitting there awkwardly grinning nonstop like an idiot during that leaked interview where Cosby bullies the young AP reporter for bringing up the allegations. You just want to slap her.

 

[Agent Unknown]

Wow, holy shit...this rabbit hole has been dug for a lot longer than I thought.

Right, that is another example of why Hannibal told people who would confront him after his Cosby routine that they should already have known this because it was been reported on by multiple sources years ago. All his routine did was point out how rediculous it is that Cosby could get away with scolding people about morality in the midst his sexual assault charges that were reported on right in the open but faded away too easily.

 

[yromem]

So Hollywood has known that Bill Cosby was a rapist but was, and has been completely unaware that it is a child-rapist enabling industry?

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

The length of time between accusations against Cosby is practically a regular, mutually intelligible interval by this point.

"God, how long has it been since I saw you?"

"Must be twelve horrendous accusations, at least!"

 

[John Kowalski]

literally cannot get any worse

 

[Agent Unknown]

So Hollywood has known that Bill Cosby was a rapist but was, and has been completely unaware that it is a child-rapist enabling industry?

But you don't understand! Things hadn't reached "critical mass" yet for all the innocent executives who could do nothing! NBC president Bob Greenblatt was actually called out on this by reporters, his excuse is whiny and insulting:

http://deadline.com/2015/01/bob-greenblatt-bill-cosby-controversy-nbc-1201351726/

The Cosby turmoil kept coming up, with critics grilling Greenblatt on how the network decided to do a project with Cosby, who had been under a cloud of suspicion for decades, and how it decided to scrap it.”You know, 15 women came out and accused him of having done what they accused him of,” Greenblatt said. “While over the years we’d heard some of those accusations and we knew there were a couple settlements and whatnot, it didn’t seem to be the sort of thing that was critical mass. When we realized that there seemed to be so much more of it, it wasn’t something that we could go, ‘Oh, we’re not sure.’ Look, he hasn’t been proven guilty of anything, so I don’t want to be the one that says guilty until proven innocent, but when that many people come out and have similar complaints and it becomes such a tainted situation, there was no way that we could move forward with it.”

As the questions kept coming, asking Greenblatt to define what “critical mass” was, he started to get testy. “You want me to put a number on it?,” he retorted. “15 yes. 2 no… All I can tell you is there’s a lot of people who have been in business with Cosby for 25 years, and go ask them the same question… I didn’t think it was a problem until it became critical.”

As for the future, “yes, I think that’s safe to say” that NBC will never do another Bill Cosby show, he said.

Are you SURE, Bob? Don't jump the gun now! The Cosby rape "core" might stabilize again, you never know!