07-16-2015, 01:33 PM
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Earlier this month, after fervent opposition by Cosby's attorney, a judge granted the Associated Press' request to unseal the legal docs from the 2005 civil case Cosby settled with one of his accusers, who had 10 other accusers lined up as witnesses. The judge granted the media's motion on the grounds that Cosby had positioned himself as a public moralist.
The civil suit was filed after a prosecutor said that while he believed Cosby should be tried, he didn't have enough evidence for criminal court. In the now-unsealed deposition, Cosby admits to having gotten many prescriptions for Quaaludes with the intent of giving the drugs to young women with whom he wanted to have sex.
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One of his few celebrity supporters, ^ R&B singer Jill Scott, publicly retracted her support of Cosby after the legal document was released. She said she was wrong to defend him previously and that she was completely disgusted.
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^ Joseph C. Phillips, the actor who played one of his son-in-laws on The Cosby Show, posted a blog earlier this week stating, "of course, Bill Cosby is guilty" and also noted how it was common knowledge that Cosby was always on the prowl and there were strings of young women being brought in and going behind closed doors with him for auditions and such. Phillips said he was sad because he'd admired Cosby so much and he hoped Cosby would just retire and go live peacefully and quietly in the countryside or something.
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^ Whoopi Goldberg, however, continued insisting that Bill Cosby is innocent because he's never been convicted of anything and chastising people who have enough sense to believe that he's guilty. The court of public opinion and a court of law are not the same thing, but she didn't seem willing or able to separate the two. She's an idiot, IMO.
Whoopi responded to the release of the court docs by telling The View audience that hey, she used to do Quaaludes back in the day too.
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After a lot of backlash, legal expert ^ Dan Abrams was invited on the show earlier this week to talk about why Cosby hasn't been convicted. Whoopi claimed she had no idea how hard it was to prosecute such rape cases, especially back then, and that she was shocked to learn that there is a statute of limitations on adult rape (apparently, she wants us to believe that she's been living under a rock).
She then said, "What we've learned is there's no recourse for these women except what they're doing" in coming forward decades afterward. "If this is to be tried in the court of public opinion, I got to say all of the information that's out there kind of points to guilt. . . . So I can't say anymore, 'Innocent until proven guilty' because there's no way to prove it.
"It looks bad, Bill," she concluded. "Either speak up or shut up, because people know now that there's a lot more out there than they thought."
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And, yesterday, President Barack Obama answered a question about Bill Cosby by saying that no civilized country should tolerate rape.
Obama, at a White House press conference, said that there was no way to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Cosby (a petition had been presented to the White House to do so), who has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of women. Obama declined to address those allegations.
Obama then said: "I'll say this. If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape. And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape."
Earlier this month, after fervent opposition by Cosby's attorney, a judge granted the Associated Press' request to unseal the legal docs from the 2005 civil case Cosby settled with one of his accusers, who had 10 other accusers lined up as witnesses. The judge granted the media's motion on the grounds that Cosby had positioned himself as a public moralist.
The civil suit was filed after a prosecutor said that while he believed Cosby should be tried, he didn't have enough evidence for criminal court. In the now-unsealed deposition, Cosby admits to having gotten many prescriptions for Quaaludes with the intent of giving the drugs to young women with whom he wanted to have sex.
One of his few celebrity supporters, ^ R&B singer Jill Scott, publicly retracted her support of Cosby after the legal document was released. She said she was wrong to defend him previously and that she was completely disgusted.
^ Joseph C. Phillips, the actor who played one of his son-in-laws on The Cosby Show, posted a blog earlier this week stating, "of course, Bill Cosby is guilty" and also noted how it was common knowledge that Cosby was always on the prowl and there were strings of young women being brought in and going behind closed doors with him for auditions and such. Phillips said he was sad because he'd admired Cosby so much and he hoped Cosby would just retire and go live peacefully and quietly in the countryside or something.
^ Whoopi Goldberg, however, continued insisting that Bill Cosby is innocent because he's never been convicted of anything and chastising people who have enough sense to believe that he's guilty. The court of public opinion and a court of law are not the same thing, but she didn't seem willing or able to separate the two. She's an idiot, IMO.
Whoopi responded to the release of the court docs by telling The View audience that hey, she used to do Quaaludes back in the day too.
After a lot of backlash, legal expert ^ Dan Abrams was invited on the show earlier this week to talk about why Cosby hasn't been convicted. Whoopi claimed she had no idea how hard it was to prosecute such rape cases, especially back then, and that she was shocked to learn that there is a statute of limitations on adult rape (apparently, she wants us to believe that she's been living under a rock).
She then said, "What we've learned is there's no recourse for these women except what they're doing" in coming forward decades afterward. "If this is to be tried in the court of public opinion, I got to say all of the information that's out there kind of points to guilt. . . . So I can't say anymore, 'Innocent until proven guilty' because there's no way to prove it.
"It looks bad, Bill," she concluded. "Either speak up or shut up, because people know now that there's a lot more out there than they thought."
And, yesterday, President Barack Obama answered a question about Bill Cosby by saying that no civilized country should tolerate rape.
Obama, at a White House press conference, said that there was no way to revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Cosby (a petition had been presented to the White House to do so), who has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of women. Obama declined to address those allegations.
Obama then said: "I'll say this. If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, that's rape. And I think this country, any civilized country, should have no tolerance for rape."