Bill Cosby

[Marco Dane]

Random Thought... Why is these rape allegations coming to the light after all these years. Is it because comedian Hannibal Buress riled everyone up. Or was someone waiting for the right moment to push the button to destroy everything Dr. Cosby took years to build?

[Cheap21]

as mentioned, these arent just coming into light. Its been a recurring thats popped up every so often. I beleive we are living in a new age and social media has helped given more attention to stories that may have been quickly swept under the rug

[Mr. Vixen]

Some sicko started a rumor that Cosby took advantage of Raven while she was on the show (she was only 3-6 during her time on the show!), and Raven shut it down.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/11/19/raven-symone-bill-cosby-rape-victim-rumor-not-true/

[alphanguy74]

Good for Raven. This goes to show how in this effed up world we live in, nobody hardly knows the truth. view everything and I mean EVERYTHING with skepticizm.

[DRW50]

There's a big difference between what some of these women have been saying for years and what someone whips up on the Internet. It was a parody website, so essentially something designed for trash clickbait.

I remember reading somewhere years ago that it didn't do as well in syndication as it was expected to do...I'm not sure if that's true now though.

Edited November 20, 2014 by DRW50

[SFK]

I can't help but wonder how different public reaction might be if a man came forward, an old buddy who said, "Bill was famous for doing this." Of course his "motives" would be questioned, but I think a lot of doubters would reconsider.

One hopes a man wouldn't do such things, one hopes several women wouldn't lie. But at heart, we hope the man is telling the truth because it's fundamentally worse to be a serial rapist than a liar. Just sad all around.

[SFK]

Did the reporter ask Janice a follow-up question about the pill? Janice was heavy into drugs back then, but I still assume she'd ask what she was taking. I mean, did he lie and say it was a qualude, or...?

[SFK]

A FB friend shared this awkward exchange (if you can even call it that) the other day:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/15/364297097/in-npr-interview-bill-cosby-declines-to-discuss-assault-allegations?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2040

My local FOX news keeps airing a segment from today's Wendy Williams Show where she recalls a twenty four year old incident from her radio days. She brought up an Enquirer interview of one of Cosby's accusers in a "hot topics"-type segment and Cosby got word and promptly called the station. Wendy's GM came at her "like a furious pitbull" and they stood in his office as Cosby on speakerphone, "(Called Wendy) everything but a child of God", says Wendy.

[applcin]

Decades ago, the character actor Reggie Nalder worked with Cosby twice. He stated that he hated working with Cosby and called him "rude, arrogant, untalented and a pig." I wonder what he saw or was on the receiving end of, especially to use the word "pig", which I don't think is a word men tend to call each other, it's more a name women use about men.

Part of a 1989 interview with Reggie that was published posthumously:

You played the title character in The Devil and Max Devlin (1981) with Bill Cosby.

Yes, I played the Devil. I went out to the Disney studio and read for that one. Once again I had few lines to say. I hated working with Bill Cosby. He is a pig. I first met him in Rome where I did an episode of I Spy. Bill Cosby is rude, arrogant and very untalented. He walked right by me on the set as if I were a piece of furniture. I tried to be polite but he made it impossible. I have rarely ever worked with someone like him before or since.

Edited November 20, 2014 by applcin

[DaytimeFan]

I love Janice, despite all her flaws and delusions of grandeur. And I believe her too.

[alphanguy74]

She sure as hell doesn't know how to pick a plastic surgeon, that's for sure! LOL!! She looks like the love child of Steven Tyler and Cruella Deville.

Edited November 20, 2014 by alphanguy74

[ReddFoxx]

I think the other women are telling the truth, but from hearing Janice Dickinson's interview, I think she's lying. Something about the way she spoke seemed dishonest and she didn't seem to be disturbed at all by recounting the details.

[Vee]

ThinkProgress has published a lengthy round-up of stuff, most of which you have likely seen. At the bottom of the link, however, is a video, raw footage of an AP interview in which Cosby is asked about the allegations and then says he thought the AP "had the integrity not to ask."

[Cheap21]

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Edited November 20, 2014 by Cheap21

[DaytimeFan]

Anytime you attack someone whose made an allegation of rape about their choice of plastic surgeon, it really undermines whatever credibility you might have been clinging to. You're slut shaming her and that isn't right.

And not for nothing, but her plastic surgeon, the late Dr. Frank Ryan, was a wonderful person and someone I really liked and admired.

Janice has had a lot of therapy. A lot. And she's been through the mill. After a while, a lot of people don't feel that disturbed about what's happened to them, they've learned to cope.

As Julie Chen said on The Talk, when Janice mentioned "a patchwork robe" something about the look on her face and the way she said it and that specific detail, it struck me as authentic.

And just because Janice has had a lot of affairs and done a lot of drugs doesn't mean she wasn't sexually assaulted. That attitude is slut shaming.