BILL COSBY ACCUSED OF RAPE

[HairOfTheDog]

If I were a PR person, I'd advise my client to go in to hiding for a month or two and, absent providing fuel for the fire, it WILL die down and some other story will take its place.

If he were innocent and falsely accused, I would advise the opposite were I his PR person. If he didn't rape anybody, I'd advise him to come out directly and say so. I would have advised him to do that before this point -- before virtually all of his associations very publicly dropped him like a hot potato. If he were innocent, there would be no conceivable reason for him not to come out and say so. He could go on Oprah even.

I mean, this is as serious as it gets in terms of accusations, both in severity (aside from murder and child molestation) and scale. It will not blow over with silence and be forgotten. No chance in hell. This is not the same as being accused of making racist remarks, lying about a face lift, having homosexual affairs, etc...

However, if I knew or suspected that Cosby was guilty of raping and molesting women, I'd advise him to keep his mouth shut too if I were his PR person/lawyer. Admitting the truth after lying for decades wouldn't help him with something of this magnitude, IMO. Speaking up and attempting to lie when there are so many people who are now willing to publicly confront him with the truth would backfire. At least if he stays silent and goes into permanent hiding some of his family members and his more star-struck fans could hold on to the hope that he might be wrongly accused.