This maybe a stretch... Personally I kinda knew something was off about Bill Cosby. I love both of his shows but I am talking about the person not the doctor and father on "The Cosby Show" and "A Different World". Rape is Rape plain and simple but if he did this I hope he is willing to atone for his actions and pray for forgiveness. But I always had in the back of my mind of why Lisa Bonet suddenly left the show to join another... Was it because of his actions or hers... Now I am just starting rumors and conjecture. But seriously if he did this I will be looking at him differently.

Yes, I know, but Janice's reputation is really irrelevant when there were several women who spoke out before her.

Re: Stacey Dash, she guest starred as a friend of Denise's who fears she may have contracted an std. I suppose they may have rehearsed their scenes in private (and for a predator, where there's a will there's a way), but when it comes to the set of TCS, I doubt that he'd sh!t where he ate. Too risky. On a busy sitcom set where he's EP with people constantly buzzing and knocking for him, a bunch of kids running around... this setting isn't really conducive to his m.o. He can't exactly wine and drug a girl in his office in the middle of the day and throw his coat over her on the couch. I really don't see why she felt the need to throw her name in this for anything other than attention. And the fact that she wasn't a victim is irrelevant. A sick priest or scout leader can't molest every child with whom he makes contact.

Michelle Hurd comes out about her experiences with Cosby

http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/11/21/cosby-complaint-law-order-actress-writes-i-was-instructed-to-never-tell-anyone-what-we-did-together

Oh, my lord.

I believe every word and stand corrected. He shat where he slept and ate.

Isn't the telltale sign he is guilty the fact that he isn't threatening to sue everybody and every media outlet for slandering him? If these were lies he would be fighting back hard.

I wonder why this sh!t sticks to TV personalities, and not music artists. I mean, we don't see oldies radio stations pulling the Mamas and the Papas and the Ronettes off their playlists. Chuck Berry was sued by several women because he installed hidden cameras in the ladies bathroom of a restaurant he owned, and James Brown was arrested for wife beating MULTIPLE times. I also think stories like this get much more traction today than 20 years ago, because with social media, there's a crapload of people with nothing better to do all day than sit behind their computer and be offended.

Edited November 22, 201410 yr by alphanguy74

Cosby calls the accusations 'innuendos' at a Florida show (one of few not cancelled).

I wonder why this sh!t sticks to TV personalities, and not music artists. I mean, we don't see oldies radio stations pulling the Mamas and the Papas and the Ronettes off their playlists. Chuck Berry was sued by several women because he installed hidden cameras in the ladies bathroom of a restaurant he owned, and James Brown was arrested for wife beating MULTIPLE times. I also think stories like this get much more traction today than 20 years ago, because with social media, there's a crapload of people with nothing better to do all day than sit behind their computer and be offended.

Using that logic, Jerry Lee Lewis would have continued to have a huge career after marrying his underage cousin, since many at that time were just getting TV sets, let alone any of the social media of today.

All the men you listed had long faded from public relevance before most of these events.

Edited November 22, 201410 yr by DRW50

Isn't the telltale sign he is guilty the fact that he isn't threatening to sue everybody and every media outlet for slandering him? If these were lies he would be fighting back hard.

I think he's guilty as hell but even if he weren't I wouldn't necessarily expect him to be threatening lawsuits. Defamation is almost impossible to prove and the bar is higher for public figures. The suits would go on for years and would keep coming back up in the news. Guilty or not, he wouldn't want that. I would expect some kind of statement by now besides that mess the lawyer put out. It seems like Cosby's management is stuck in some bygone era where they think they can make this go away. After all, that strategy worked for decades. Cosby needs to her himself a crisis PR firm and ditch whoever is representing him now because they just keep screwing up. I'm beginning to wonder if he raped someone on his PR team and she's hanging him out to dry as sabotage because that's the only excuse for how badly this has been handled.

That post from Michelle Hurd is the first time we hear of him doing this at The Cosby Show right? That means that some of these actors had to have seen or heard something. This is going to start splashing on them.

I found it interesting that Jon Stewart took a shot at Cosby on The Daily Show a couple of night ago. Nothing serious just an ad-lib but when he starts losing other comedians, especially stand-up comedians who worship him, he's toast.

Edited November 22, 201410 yr by marceline

I think it's as simple as no one telling Bill Cosby what to do. He thinks it's still 1989 and he still rules the world, that he is America's patriarch. I don't think anyone is going to make him bend on this until and unless he (or his family) decides he has to. That's how he comes off in the two appearances on-camera where he was forced to address them. Threatening one reporter, mutely shaking his head at another. A denial of reality other than his own.

That being said, his speaking on it in Florida surprised me. I think he may be getting rattled. In another week or two he may be trying to do Diane Sawyer (or far worse, Barbara). Or he may double down.

Edited November 22, 201410 yr by Vee

Yeah, another one.

I think he's guilty as hell but even if he weren't I wouldn't necessarily expect him to be threatening lawsuits. Defamation is almost impossible to prove and the bar is higher for public figures. The suits would go on for years and would keep coming back up in the news. Guilty or not, he wouldn't want that. I would expect some kind of statement by now besides that mess the lawyer put out. It seems like Cosby's management is stuck in some bygone era where they think they can make this go away. After all, that strategy worked for decades. Cosby needs to her himself a crisis PR firm and ditch whoever is representing him now because they just keep screwing up. I'm beginning to wonder if he raped someone on his PR team and she's hanging him out to dry as sabotage because that's the only excuse for how badly this has been handled.

That post from Michelle Hurd is the first time we hear of him doing this at The Cosby Show right? That means that some of these actors had to have seen or heard something. This is going to start splashing on them.

I found it interesting that Jon Stewart took a shot at Cosby on The Daily Show a couple of night ago. Nothing serious just an ad-lib but when he starts losing other comedians, especially stand-up comedians who worship him, he's toast.

I agree he needs a better PR firm, but he's so old and rich, he just may not give a crap. Many people subscribe to the "stay quiet and let it blow over" philosophy. I'm convinced that what we're seeing is him being given the benefit of the doubt because of his public image, but that is quickly wearing thin. That's what I certainly did. That's why I didn't believe Janice Dickinson, that's why people thought Michael Jackson molested those boys, it was easy to believe because he was such a circus freak.

A small part of an interview Janice Dickinson did with Howard Stern in 2006, where Bill Cosby's name comes up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JglTnLBKMc

I think he's guilty as hell but even if he weren't I wouldn't necessarily expect him to be threatening lawsuits. Defamation is almost impossible to prove and the bar is higher for public figures.

That was how Lance Armstrong did it.