Cosby Rape Allegations

[notorious bum]

Great holiday morning read on Mr. Pudding Pop's adventures: http://deadspin.com/the-former-baske...osb-1661203971

The Former Basketball Player Who Brought Down Bill Cosby

Then the director of operations for the women's basketball program at Temple University, Constand in 2005 did what no one else had done before: She put her name on paper in a public record and said that Cosby had drugged and raped her.

What followed was a nightmare. The next two years included a leak from Cosby's team to the future founder of TMZ, two separate attempts by the Associated Press to force open court records, accusations that the National Enquirer sat on celebrity dirt in exchange for an exclusive, allegations of a "secretive avenue of proceeding" for Cosby, a probe into how much mega-agency William Morris did to protect its star, a roll call of Jane Does who said they too had been assaulted, and enough legal smack talk by both sides that a judge issued a reminder on just how to behave. And then, just as it seemed as if the celebrity-gossip racket was about to burst open along with Cosby's reputation, the case was settled.

[BaneTheBrawler]

Zip Zop Zoobity Bebop

[Priran]

>Gawker
>Great read

Yeah and Nancy Grace did some amazing investigative journalism

[tyven]

Yeah and Nancy Grace did some amazing investigative journalism

have you still not read the TGI Fridays appetizer piece? Caity Weaver is an angel among us, you shut your whore mouth when you talk about Gawker

[Ksandra]

This whole thing makes me sad.

He really gave off the impression that he WAS Cliff Huxable, not just acting. (aka vs. Bob Saget....potty mouth). Everything from the show to stand up to Jello commercials.

I want my childhood innocence back.

[Sho]

You'll see very few black people coming to defend Cosby due to the stuff he said in 2012. The sheer irony of it all, really.

[Not Kuno]

You'll see very few black people coming to defend Cosby due to the stuff he said in 2012. The sheer irony of it all, really.

What did he say? I read somewhere ages back that he treated white people (servers in restaurants, stylists etc) like trash.

[Sho]

What did he say? I read somewhere ages back that he treated white people (servers in restaurants, stylists etc) like trash.

“The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids–$500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for `Hooked on Phonics.'”

"Now, if a White person does it, sells drugs to Black people, then we’re up in arms, then we’re marching, but when a Black person sells another Black person crack cocaine, heroin, or something that will give us addiction and cause us to not want to support our children and even give our children the same disease, nothing is said, nothing is done. But it has got to be hammered over and over."

“People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.”

“They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk….You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.”

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“We, as black folks, have to do a better job. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.”

“We’re killing ourselves. We’re making fools of ourselves.”

Much of what he's been saying over the last 15 years is VERY true -- [ignorant] black people didn't want to hear this and outed him as a sellout to his own people. However, he never quite grasped the proper prospective on both sides of the matter. He also constantly ignored the fact that, yes, there are black people who exist who are constantly working and struggling to become something great in life (like myself, others). Not every black guy you see is a thug or someone to be paraded about on Maury with the baby-mama drama.

Now this comes back to bite him in the ass, full force. It more or less undermines just about everything he's ever said since.

[Mazmaz]

Are you implying black people would come to the defense of one of their own if he hadn't said those things, no matter how much of a rapist he is?

[NynJa]

Something that has absolutely nothing to do with skin color, but because the focal point is a black person, better bring race into the discussion.

[Acevalefor]

Something that has absolutely nothing to do with skin color, but because the focal point is a black person, better bring race into the discussion.

It is just as relevant as it is when you introduce your friend as "This is my black friend, (insert name)."

Why is this big news again, suddenly? This whole thing started in 2005. The new names makes it relevant? Or is it because it's a good way for feminists to get more attention? Rape and rape allegations were bad in 2005, and they are still bad today. I am genuinely confused why this is front-page news again.

[Petitssk]

Oh my, after Bill Cosby and Reverend Camden, who's next? Danny Tanner? Carl Winslow? I wasn't exactly into the Bill Cosby Show as a child, but these revelations have been unsettling.

[Teryu]

Who the hell introduces their friend as their race first lol

[Acevalefor]

Who the hell introduces their friend as their race first lol

It was a reference to a conversation in the Ferguson thread. Someone said something about race being irrelevant and a several-page long shitstorm ensued talking about how people never introduce friends by their race but the media points out race any time it is a minority. Racial profiling and police behavior was in there too.

[Sho]

Are you implying black people would come to the defense of one of their own if he hadn't said those things, no matter how much of a rapist he is?

Of course they would. It's not so much him being a black person rather him being a prominent and famous black person.

It is just as relevant as it is when you introduce your friend as "This is my black friend, (insert name)."

Why is this big news again, suddenly? This whole thing started in 2005. The new names makes it relevant? Or is it because it's a good way for feminists to get more attention? Rape and rape allegations were bad in 2005, and they are still bad today. I am genuinely confused why this is front-page news again.

Because Twitter is a thing now, and with it the giant social media movement. It's just that big.

[Grey Jorildyn]

He's not necessarily wrong in the things he has said. I meet people like those he is talking about everyday. They've not shared the same "privelage", if you will, and they exist in a system often stacked against them. It's not as black and white as black or white. Cosby has always needed some tact to his arguments but he's quite unapologetic and in this matter I don't think he's going to be any different. Thus he has someone who can exercise some prudence, even if it is bullshit, to produce statements for him.

[Tymon]

Your actions do not and never will invalidate what you say, assuming the statements and the actions aren't hypocritical to each other.

He's a scumbag if he did do this, but he's still right about most of the stuff he was shunned by the community for. Lacking in tact? Yeah, probably. But to claim that what he said isn't true is nonsense. It is absolutely true.

[Xno Kappa]

This is all clearly racism and Mr. Cosby is being set up by the man.

[notorious bum]

Ex-NBC employee Frank Scotti claims Bill Cosby paid off women, invited young models to dressing room as he stood guard

The Emmy-winning Cosby, NBC’s most bankable star at the time, used Scotti to deliver monthly payouts to eight different women in 1989-90 — including Shawn Thompson, whose daughter Autumn Jackson claimed the actor was her dad.

Cosby, while denying paternity, paid out more than $100,000 to Thompson over the years after their 1974 affair began. Scotti told The News that he believes Cosby was sleeping with all the women who received money.

In case folks missed this story.

[Waraji]

Famous actor in 70's-80's sleeping with a lot of women? All this non-news becoming news all of a sudden. Must be because he's black. :l