Cosby: I'm Just Curious

[Nunya]

I've been away for a while - not sure if this has been mentioned/recently discussed ...

With the recent release of the full 2005 deposition concerning the Cosby/Constand case, have your views on the matter, changed either way? Have your views about the accusers changed - views on Cosby himself?

I spent the weekend reading the entire document.

What say you all - thoughts?

I was...disappointed.

Back then
While I thought there must have been some merit to the accusations thrown his way, I thought that some of it were engineered. I thought that there was no way a black man, albeit a rich black man, could've gotten away with that much malfeasance against so many 'recognized' women for so long...

I also thought (and still do) that he'd 'pissed' off the 'wrong' person(s) which caused all his evil to come to light.

Now
There're innumerable people who are complicit either by knowing what he was up to or choosing not to know...

He should be made to pay... somehow...

Having not read the document (didn't even know there was one that's public) or even any of the articles in depth, I think that he could be the new metaphor for the devil (y'know, portrayed himself as an angel of light...)

[Yuriatin]

Interesting, interesting Nunya. Thanks for the reply.

Why did you think this? "I thought there must have been some merit to the accusations thrown his way, I thought that some of it were engineered. I thought that there was no way a black man, albeit a rich black man, could've gotten away with that much malfeasance against so many 'recognized' women for so long"

(am just curious)

In my years on this planet, I've found this to be common behaviour (the wrong doing and covering up for a long time thing) from people of every ilk. Dennis Hastert has been king of the world in politics for donkey years and has been getting away with little boys sitting on his lap for YEARS and only recently has it been revealed. This goes on all the time - from the well known celeb to Mr Smith down the street.

("... a man is just a man ..." G. Silk)

I was...disappointed.

Back then
While I thought there must have been some merit to the accusations thrown his way, I thought that some of it were engineered. I thought that there was no way a black man, albeit a rich black man, could've gotten away with that much malfeasance against so many 'recognized' women for so long...

I also thought (and still do) that he'd 'pissed' off the 'wrong' person(s) which caused all his evil to come to light.

Now
There're innumerable people who are complicit either by knowing what he was up to or choosing not to know...

He should be made to pay... somehow...

Having not read the document (didn't even know there was one that's public) or even any of the articles in depth, I think that he could be the new metaphor for the devil (y'know, portrayed himself as an angel of light...)

[kia027]

while cosby had been getting away with his shenanigans what must be asked is why now? What was Cosby doing that upset the powers that be to decide to out Cosby now? He was about to buy a TV network....

[Yuriatin]

?

Why not now?

?

I don't think there's one simple answer - and I don't think it matters. He's been doing these things for DECADES and donkey years but decades ago, things aren't what they are today in many ways: social media, feminism, etc. I think it's just a general confluence of events that made this all come to the front now.

The ball was always floating to the surface, but he was always able to beat it back and buy the story off. Yes - pay money for magazines NOT to publish. I do know that the general agreement, is that comedian Hannibal Buress got the ball rolling again last year with a routine he did in Philly. He's the first MAN I know that straight up called him out - to the point and undisguised, calling him a rapist. No other male voices were beating this drum at all, before Buress. MANY women did, but no men that I know of. Comedian Tina Fey did a show YEARS ago about Cosby and these allegations but no attn paid.

while cosby had been getting away with his shenanigans what must be asked is why now? What was Cosby doing that upset the powers that be to decide to out Cosby now? He was about to buy a TV network....

[Yuriatin]

For me - that he's being undisguised "now" isn't relevant. That takes too much focus off of his actions. And he was/is, a part of the "powers that be".

while cosby had been getting away with his shenanigans what must be asked is why now? What was Cosby doing that upset the powers that be to decide to out Cosby now? He was about to buy a TV network....

[Tropicana]

I don't get how this translates into rape and sexual molestation:

Cosby has yet to respond specifically to (Renita) Hill's allegations that he drugged and molested her several times after they met on the TV show, "Picture Pages," in 1983. Hill claims that went on for about four years, starting when she was 16, and that Cosby helped pay for her college and would fly her to cities where he was performing, until she cut off contact with him about four years later.

Sounds like a 4 year consensual, casting couch scenario to me.

[Tropicana]

This is the Canadian lesbian who has accused Cosby of sexual assault. She settled out of court with him in 2004 or 2005.

While the spotlight was on Bill Cosby's criminal court hearing earlier this month, the fallen funnyman was quietly pursuing a secret breach-of-contract lawsuit against the woman he allegedly assaulted in 2004.

The contract dispute complaint was filed Feb. 1 in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia against accuser Andrea Constand, her mother, two of her lawyers and the publisher of the National Enquirer, online court records confirm.


It remained under seal Wednesday, two weeks after Cosby tried but failed to have the criminal charges filed against him in December by Pennsylvania prosecutors dismissed.


The judge hearing Cosby's effort to dismiss the case warned his lawyers not to accuse Troiani of breaking the confidentiality agreement through her testimony because she had received a subpoena to testify.


Cosby's camp argued during the hearing that he had a promise from the prior district attorney that he would never be charged over the encounter with Constand. The judge rejected his bid and said the felony case can move ahead.


Cosby, 78, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on March 8.


Now free on $1 million bail, Cosby could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted as charged.


Troiani declined to comment on Cosby's lawsuit.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/bill-cosby-sues-sexual-assault-accuser-andrea-constand-article-1.2535535