Rape allegations mount against Bill Cosby #3

[margarita25]

35 Bill Cosby accusers posed for one defiant, powerful magazine cover
Updated by German Lopez on July 26, 2015, 10:50 p.m. ET

See the picture here (I couldn't figure out how to post it here): http://www.vox.com/2015/7/26/9044867/bill-cosby-new-york-magazine

 

[Boodles]

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This cover is so strong! Kudos to NY magazine for having the gumption to publish it.

 

[atthelake]

This cover is so strong! Kudos to NY magazine for having the gumption to publish it.

Agree strong photo . Reminds me of Annie Leibovich photos in Vanity Fair.

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national/35-bill-cosby-accusers-appear-new-york-magazine-ha/nm7GG/
NY magazine was hacked:

A self-described hacker called ThreatKing, posting to Twitter as Vikingdom2016, claims he overloaded the publication's servers with traffic, bringing the site to a complete stop. He said the attack isn't due to the Cosby article, but his hated for New York City and has targeted the site, because it shares the city's name, The Daily Dot reported.

 

[Donjeta]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ct-cosby-crisis-20150727-story.html
Bill Cosby team's PR move may be too late in court of public opinion

Pressley, who is also a motivational speaker, said she will assertively highlight information in court documents that supports her client but isn't getting attention in the media. She cited the deposition in the Constand case as an example, even though the headlines it generated turned off Whoopi Goldberg, one of the few public supporters Cosby had left.

"The fact that that the deposition is out to me is not necessarily a negative," Pressley said. "You see in there that Mr. Cosby denied any nonconsensual sex with any person, denied slipping someone a drug without their knowledge. He admitted that he had Quaaludes and someone chose to take one."

Well I don't know how it supports him exactly...? He's saying he never did anything without consent, 40 women say otherwise, and we're supposed to believe him more than them because...? Serial rapists never lied on oath, is that it? Should he be guilty, how and why would he be expected to confess to everything in a deposition? He had lawyers there to make sure he wouldn't, and apparently they told him not to answer the question about whether he gave anyone drugs without their consent.

 

[Inthedetails]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ct-cosby-crisis-20150727-story.html
Bill Cosby team's PR move may be too late in court of public opinion



Well I don't know how it supports him exactly...? He's saying he never did anything without consent, 40 women say otherwise, and we're supposed to believe him more than them because...? Serial rapists never lied on oath, is that it? Should he be guilty, how and why would he be expected to confess to everything in a deposition? He had lawyers there to make sure he wouldn't, and apparently they told him not to answer the question about whether he gave anyone drugs without their consent.

Right. There might have been women who did consent - I'm sure there were dozens at Cosby's rate.....**AND** there were women who did not consent. It's not an either/or situation with his sexual life.

Sometimes he had consensual sex, sometimes he raped. And by "sometimes," it looks like at least 40 times.

It's taking a looooong time for people to realize that Bill Cosby the man is NOT the same as Bill Cosby's stage personality. We fell for his act.

 

[mister happy]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ct-cosby-crisis-20150727-story.html
Bill Cosby team's PR move may be too late in court of public opinion

Pressley, who is also a motivational speaker, said she will assertively highlight information in court documents that supports her client but isn't getting attention in the media. She cited the deposition in the Constand case as an example, even though the headlines it generated turned off Whoopi Goldberg, one of the few public supporters Cosby had left.

"The fact that that the deposition is out to me is not necessarily a negative," Pressley said. "You see in there that Mr. Cosby denied any nonconsensual sex with any person, denied slipping someone a drug without their knowledge. He admitted that he had Quaaludes and someone chose to take one."

Well I don't know how it supports him exactly...? He's saying he never did anything without consent, 40 women say otherwise, and we're supposed to believe him more than them because...? Serial rapists never lied on oath, is that it? Should he be guilty, how and why would he be expected to confess to everything in a deposition? He had lawyers there to make sure he wouldn't, and apparently they told him not to answer the question about whether he gave anyone drugs without their consent.

Monique Pressley is full of it. Of course, she accuses the press of cherry picking and being out of context, yet she has no problem doing this with her own fast talking spin. Pressley actually said that it's not a crime to offer your personal prescription drugs to another person (as Cosby did)! And she glosses over the fact that Cosby didn't consume these drugs himself, but he certainly gave them to the women, so they would be stoned and he wouldn't.

 

[LinasK]

Monique Pressley is full of it. Of course, she accuses the press of cherry picking and being out of context, yet she has no problem doing this with her own fast talking spin. Pressley actually said that it's not a crime to offer your personal prescription drugs to another person (as Cosby did)! And she glosses over the fact that Cosby didn't consume these drugs himself, but he certainly gave them to the women, so they would be stoned and he wouldn't.

I was thinking the exact same thing. By "assertively highlight information in court documents that supports her client" she's exactly cherry picking. And for her information- offering anyone drugs to which they were not prescribed- unless they're over the counter meds like Advil- is a crime!
Not buying her BS no matter how hard she pushes it, and I don't care if she's a motivational speaker.:notgood:

 

[mister happy]

I was thinking the exact same thing. By "assertively highlight information in court documents that supports her client" she's exactly cherry picking. And for her information- offering anyone drugs to which they were not prescribed- unless they're over the counter meds like Advil- is a crime!
Not buying her BS no matter how hard she pushes it, and I don't care if she's a motivational speaker.:notgood:

Pressley is also an ordained minister! I suppose Cosby needed a fresh PR face, and this young black female attorney fit the bill. I know she doesn't have much to work with, but her spin is glaring. Then again, she might do well selling used cars.

 

[Donjeta]

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[bluesneakers]

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I'm sorry for what these women went through but I'm proud of them for coming forward and showing so much courage.

 

[Donjeta]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bill Cosby's lawyers are appealing a judge's decision to unseal court filings that quote him saying he obtained quaaludes to give women before sexual encounters.

Cosby's lawyers in Pennsylvania filed a brief notice Monday appealing the July 6 decision in a 2005 lawsuit accusing him of sexual battery.

http://www.usnews.com/news/entertai...eals-ruling-that-unsealed-deposition-excerpts

Strange... because it supports him... as per Pressley

 

[Donjeta]

9 Cosby profiles and interviews that are very uncomfortable to read now
Old stories published about Bill Cosby and his wife Camille take on a new tone in light of rape allegations
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/9_c...iews_that_are_very_uncomfortable_to_read_now/

“Cosby is a man who has always made clear choices and given them public dignity. He made a choice from the very beginning to be a black comedian who does universal humor, just as he made a choice to marry a lovely girl named Camille 22 years ago and remain true to that union. He knows better than anyone the special kind of beauty a marriage that has endured brings to his life and his art. “My life is a very, very happy one,” he says. “It’s a happiness of being connected, of knowing that there is someone I can trust completely and that the one I trust is the one I love. I also know that the one she loves is definitely the one she can trust.” Who would expect less from a man like Bill Cosby and a woman like his wife? And who could ask for more – in marriage or in life?”

“Cosby: The Life of a Comedy Legend” — Biography, Ronald L. Smith, March 1, 1997

Much of Smith’s biography from 1997, replete with Cosby’s moralizing, is alarming when read now, like when he talks about how disgusted he is to see so much rape on TV (“they all seemed designed to do the same thing — show women having their clothes torn off&#8221 and when Cosby talks about his sex life as a middle-aged man.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,147674,00.html

An early report card said, "William should become either a lawyer or an actor because he lies so well."

Even Cosby's lifelong aversion to alcohol and drugs is described in terms of control: "After one drink, I wasn't in control anymore, and I didn't like that feeling." (Today Cosby collects fine wines to serve to friends, but he does not partake.)

On their rare nights out in public, Cosby treats his wife with the adoration of a nerdy schoolboy who cannot believe he landed the prom queen. He admits, however, that their life together was not always the stuff of warm situation comedy. About eight years ago, he says, "if somebody had made me choose between my career and my family, I probably would have let the family go."

He took his family for granted, Cosby says, and this attitude led to "selfish behavior" that he will not describe, except to say that it was particularly hurtful to his wife. Speaking cautiously in the second person, with uncharacteristic somberness, he says, "When you're younger, you want to be sure that by the time you're 80 years old you can sit on the bench and look back and say, 'Man, I did it all. I didn't miss a thing.' What you never meant to do was to hurt anyone, but then you see the look on the face of the person you didn't mean to hurt, and then you realize that what you stand to lose is worth so much more . . ." He pauses. "I just asked my wife and my kids to forgive me, and ever since then, they've been a part of everything I do."

Since then, Cosby has worn a silver bracelet that he bought for himself inscribed CAMILLE'S HUSBAND. It matches the silver Rolex he wears on his left wrist and the stopwatch he always takes to the track.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...were-somehow-even-scarier-than-you-think.html
Quaaludes, Cosby’s Alleged Rape Drugs of Choice, Were Somehow Even Scarier Than You Think

Media reports have often tended to frame Cosby’s M.O. as causing these women to black out, and then sexually assaulting them. But as horrible as that is, what Cosby actually did is far worse. He kept many of his victims semi-conscious, but unable to defend themselves. Many of them were likely awake throughout the ordeal.

 

[bluesneakers]

9 Cosby profiles and interviews that are very uncomfortable to read now
Old stories published about Bill Cosby and his wife Camille take on a new tone in light of rape allegations
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/27/9_c...iews_that_are_very_uncomfortable_to_read_now/




http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,147674,00.html








http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...were-somehow-even-scarier-than-you-think.html
Quaaludes, Cosby’s Alleged Rape Drugs of Choice, Were Somehow Even Scarier Than You Think

A "CAMILLE'S HUSBAND" bracelet? I can't roll my eyes hard enough.

And fat lot of good it did anyway.

 

[Wyle_E_Coyote]

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Anyone know why there's one empty chair?

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[Paulas88]

Anyone know why there's one empty chair?

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Additional victims.

 

[LinasK]

Pressley is also an ordained minister! I suppose Cosby needed a fresh PR face, and this young black female attorney fit the bill. I know she doesn't have much to work with, but her spin is glaring. Then again, she might do well selling used cars.

He probably picked her because she was female. Like "see, here's a woman who supports me".

 

[mister happy]

He probably picked her because she was female. Like "see, here's a woman who supports me".

Oh yes. Pure transparent PR. Anyhow, Cosby is cooked no matter what.

 

[mister happy]

New York Magazine is up now, here is the article link:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html?mid=twitter_nymag

 

[LinasK]

Oh yes. Pure transparent PR. Anyhow, Cosby is cooked no matter what.

He's becoming toxic to be associated with and I don't see that train turning around. Was very happy that his "professorship" with Spelman College ended, especially when he was a dropout!!!