Bill Cosby sex abuse scandal

[Caliga]

No thread on this one yet? 



[Tim]Monstrous.[/Tim]

[Grey Fox]

Women everywhere need to learn to say no and leave. Not just say no & then suffer in silence.

[Barrister]

Women everywhere need to learn to say no and leave. Not just say no & then suffer in silence.

Umm, most of the allegations are that he drugged them.  So "saying no and leaving" wasn't much of an option.

[Eddie Teach]

Damn, thought thread title was a joke.

[Caliga]

Of course, Whoopi wasn't sure if this was rape-rape or not.  I wonder what her issue is with going easy on rapists... she did the same thing with Polanski.

Having said that, I agree with her generally that it's a bit early to lynch Cosby, but I wonder why she always takes that position?  Just to be contrarian/get publicity?

[Caliga]

Damn, thought thread title was a joke.

uhhhhhh no.  If this stuff is true he's in serious trouble.

[Barrister]

Damn, thought thread title was a joke.

uhhhhhh no.  If this stuff is true he's in serious trouble.

Well unlikely.  These are all very dated allegations.  I think the most recent I've seen was late 90s.  Seems unlikely he's going to be charged.

The most serious trouble he's in is that NBC cancelled his recent pilot, and Netflix has cancelled a comedy show they were going to 'broadcast'.

[Caliga]

Whether or not he gets charged, his life/career could be destroyed.

[derspiess]

Well unlikely.  These are all very dated allegations.  I think the most recent I've seen was late 90s.  Seems unlikely he's going to be charged.

The most serious trouble he's in is that NBC cancelled his recent pilot, and Netflix has cancelled a comedy show they were going to 'broadcast'.

There's also the trouble of his memory being tarnished.  That's kind of a big deal.

I loved I Spy, his stand-up, Fat Albert, The Cosby Show, etc. and it would be horrible to think the man turned out to be a serial rapist.  My reaction thus far has been to try and not think about it and/or hope it's not true.  Which is pretty much what I did in the early days of the OJ saga

[MadImmortalMan]

Should have kept his pudding pop to himself.

[Caliga]

Oh H-E-L-L-N-O.

[Barrister]

Whether or not he gets charged, his life/career could be destroyed.

Dude is 77 years old.  His career is basically over at this point anyways.

[Caliga]

He still performs standup and apparently has (had?) a new TV show in the works.

[garbon]

He still performs standup and apparently has (had?) a new TV show in the works.

Yeah his new show has been thrown into the trash bin now.

[MadImmortalMan]

He's had a standing gig at Harvey's at Lake Tahoe for a long time. I was under the impression he had an ownership stake there. Those kinds of contracts sometimes have clauses in them for things like this though.

I'm sure future work will be pretty dry. He's probably comfortable. Unless Camilla leaves him and he gets raped through the divorce courts. But she'd not been inclined that way when the past events happened.