Do you know the exact date of when the very first accusations were made public and what they were? Was it 1/27/2005?
Why do you ask? I'm not sure what the exact date was but I think it was earlier than 1/27/2005 because there's this article
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=446798 dated 1/27/2005 and it says, "New Developments in Cosby Fondling Investigation" which implies that there were old developments that were already known before that.
Cosby's lawyer, Marty Singer, tells TMZ ... "We've reached a point of absurdity. The stories are getting more ridiculous." Singer adds, "Mortiz is a lawyer who was disciplined by the California State Bar and ordered not to practice. We pulled the documents -- she can't practice because she didn't report certain quarterly reports ... the nature of the reports is unclear from the documents."
Not sure what a lawyer's quarterly reports have to do with it. You can't have been sexually harassed if you're not able to practice as a lawyer? Men only sexually assault women who are always punctual with their paperwork even years later?
JMO but this is another non-denial. Neither "It's absurd", "it's ridiculous", "the woman is a failed lawyer" equals "I did not do that".
She more than hinted at it, Dr. Drew just played her interview with Howard Stern from 2006. She said the lawyers wouldn't let her put what he really did to her in her book, that they wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. And that he is not a nice guy, he's a really bad guy. That he preys on women, like women straight out of rehab.
"Bill Cosby was the only guy I couldn't write about in the book, because HarperCollins is afraid of lawsuits," the supermodel said at the time. "Truly."
Stern, unaware of Dickinson's hesitation to speak about the topic, pressed for more. "So what happened?" the longtime SiriusXM host asked. "He got you? So he nailed you? You had sex with Bill Cosby?"
"He was married [to Camille O. Cosby]," Dickinson trailed, adding that the publisher was "too afraid" to publish parts of the memoir involving him. "Wouldn't touch that one," she revealed. "And I don't want to get near that because I don't have the shekels that you do or that Cosby does."
Dickinson continued, "The guy's a bad guy, he's not a nice guy. He preys on women who just come out of rehab. I'll say that."
Read more:
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity...-guy-in-2006-interview-20141911#ixzz3JjAAer00
I just realized that there is a thread here from 2005 titled "Bill Cosby accused; will charges be filed?"
I'm off to read it....here is a link if anyone is interested
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?19157-Bill-Cosby-accused-will-charges-be-filed
only 42 posts and many of them about how crazy Janice Dickinson is...However there was this link
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/02/09/cosby-denies-2nd-woman-accusations/ which says that the date that Constand went to the authorities is Jan 13. 2005
Any Google search will turn up any number of anecdotes.
But anecdotes do not equate to real numbers. If one claims that many men have had their lives ruined by false rape accusations, and that substantial numbers of rape allegations are false, I think one should provide cold, hard, verifiable facts to support those claims.
Not anecdotes.
For the sake of complete information it might also be nice to point out how many women have had their lives ruined by rape and sexual abuse and it was either never reported or nothing came out of it.
‘Cosby Show’ Producers Say Bill Cosby Rape Allegations Are ‘Beyond Our Knowledge or Comprehension’
http://www.thewrap.com/cosby-show-p...ns-are-beyond-our-knowledge-or-comprehension/
Really going to bed now.
Well they could hardly say we knew all about it and paid no attention. Maybe they didn't know... Cosby wouldn't tell and it seems most of the women were quiet as well.
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Another actress (Angela Leslie) accuses Bill Cosby of sexual assault in Las Vegas hotel
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...uses-bill-cosby-sex-assault-article-1.2018698
Model-actress Angela Leslie is the eighth woman to come forward accusing Cosby of sexual harassment or worse. She tells the Daily News he plied her with alcohol, may have tried to drug her and forced her to fondle him in the freaky scene in a luxury suite in 1992.
Was she one of the Jane Does or a new one?
The Cosby Show...(The Atlantic)
Declining to seriously reckon with the rape allegations against him is reckless. And I was once reckless.
lengthy article at link
Lacking physical evidence, adjudicating rape accusations is a murky business for journalists. But believing Bill Cosby does not require you to take one person's word over another—it requires you take one person's word over 15 others.
There was a documentary about Islam many years ago and one of the things it talked about was how you needed the testimony of two women or one man to be believable in court, and everybody in the room was appalled that the word of women was only worth one half of the word of a man and never in a civilized country etc...
But it seems like the word of more than a dozen American women is worth less than the word of one rich and powerful man here.