Bill Cosby Charged with Felony Indecent Assault

Here's a flashback via Yid with Lid" a former NBC employer said in 2014 the network used him as a conduit to women hush money to keep quiet about Bill Cosby's predations.

Back when Bill Cosby was the king of network television, veteran NBC employee Frank Scotti served as the royal fixer.
When Cosby invited young models into his Brooklyn dressing room, the megastar’s pal stood watch outside the door. When the married Cosby sought a Queens apartment for another pretty face, Scotti arranged the deal.
And when the man behind Fat Albert needed cash disbursed to his flock of single female friends -- hey, hey, hey -- Scotti became the conduit for payments of up to $2,000 a month.

Funny? Bill Cosby on his arraignment walk.

Posted by: Ace at 02:49 PM

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1 Fook him?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 02:50 PM (GGCsk)

2 Predators hunt.

Posted by: redenzo at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM (WCnJW)

3 Why did they wait 11 years to charge him? The SoL in PA for rape is 12 years which also seems kind of long.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM (t2KH5)

4 I saw a picture of Cosby standing with Bill Clinton.

Not to minimize what Cosby is accused of, but it's nothing worse that what Bill did. How come nobody in the Black Lives Matter movement are bitching about the white guy getting off scot-free, hmmm?

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM (iIzG7)

5 Should have had a snappy comeback like "You might want to put some ice on that."

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM (AhyHb)

6 That's COSBY.

Posted by: Bing Crosby at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM (8ZskC)

7 Ruffies in the jello.

Posted by: redenzo at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM (WCnJW)

8 Does this pill taste like roofies to you?

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 02:53 PM (8ZskC)

9 This will go badly for Bill Cosby.

PA has a 12-year statute of limitations for this, unlike most state where it'd be 3 to 5 years.

The accuser made a complaint after it happened eleven years ago, but authorities didn't pursue a "he said / she said" case against a Local Hero Celebrity.

Like many states, PA has an exception in these kinds of cases to let in testimony about other similar cases, so it'll be ten or twenty women testifying about how Cosby drugged them and then fiddled about.

No matter how the jury gets picked I don't see Cosby getting a jury nullification like the one OJ Simpson got. Cosby didn't racially discriminate with his victims, and the jury won't either.

Only question is how fast this case moves.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 30, 2015 02:54 PM (r1fLd)

10 hey, hey, HEEEEEEEYY, I knew all about what Bill was doing to them white womens but he knew what I was doing in the junk yard club house so....

Posted by: Fat Albert at December 30, 2015 02:54 PM (AhyHb)

11 Prosecutors said Cosby urged the victim to take three blue pills and drink wine before he positioned himself on top of her on a couch, fondled her and penetrated the woman.

So this is another one of those 'here are some pills' 'ok sure I will take pill from you for some reason/oh noes those were bad rapey pills, I am in shock' cases?

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 02:55 PM (lIU4e)

12 Loved the BC-and-BC photo, Bill Clinton and Bill Cosby, standing next to one another with big grins, recaptioned as "Two Sexual Predators".

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 02:55 PM (noWW6)

13 I do wonder if all this would have happened if he wasn't critical of AA culture.

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2015 02:56 PM (8HTq1)

14 I saw a picture of Cosby standing with Bill Clinton.

And his hair was perfect.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 30, 2015 02:56 PM (FkBIv)

15 So this is another one of those 'here are some
pills' 'ok sure I will take pill from you for some reason/oh noes those
were bad rapey pills, I am in shock' cases?

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 02:55 PM (lIU4e)

Sure sounds like it to me.

Posted by: pookysgirl at December 30, 2015 02:57 PM (K27gs)

16 Bill never molested any women...Oh what? Oh yeah Cosby used to do it all the time. I believe those women.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton Not Confused at December 30, 2015 02:57 PM (AhyHb)

17 Ace stomped the tacos with Cosby.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 02:57 PM (kpqmD)

18 What kind of things was weird Harold doing?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (FkBIv)

19 It seems the evidence they're relying upon is from a sealed Cosby deposition in the civil suit. That's all they have? It sounds to me like the goal here is to try to get as much of the what sounds like a damning deposition into the public record as possible.

Posted by: MTF at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (I9SqL)

20 Here is the difference between boys and girls.

I have only had one half of one quaalude in my life. I had thrown a party at the beginning of which I had a sort of girlfriend who would use her hand on me.

Then a girl gave me the half a quaalude and I woke up having actual sex with her. She became my new girlfriend.

I do not espouse reversing the genders here. Just saying that boys and girls are different.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (1xUj/)

21 If I had a dad, he'd look like Bill Cosby.

Posted by: Prez'nit Shit Midas at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (8ZskC)

22 My guess is he kills himself before trial.

Posted by: Lauren at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (LzzEz)

23 I can't wait for how Trump uses this to schlong Hillary.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (AhyHb)

24 OT....I'm going to the big gun show in Ft. Worth this Saturday morning, if any 'rons or 'ettes would be interested in meeting up there, feel free to shoot me a line.

blano8102 at that crappy yahoo site.

Off to work, later y'all.

Posted by: Blano at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (C3E0x)

25 Damn, I was hoping it would turn out to be a white rapist.

Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (8ZskC)

26 So this is another one of those 'here are some pills' 'ok sure I will take pill from you for some reason/oh noes those were bad rapey pills, I am in shock' cases?

Posted by: Lea

I definitely see what you are saying and agree. However, the difference I see here is that Cosby used his enormous influence and persuasiveness to get away with a lot. An actor who is also a predator can be very convincing.

What I dread about this case is the Gloria Allred is involved. Screeching scold is too kind of a description.

Posted by: Cheri at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (oiNtH)

27 Bill Cosby Charged with Felony Indecent Assault

Does it get knocked down to a misdemeanor if it's a decent assault?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (rIQuo)

28 Has Whoopie opined on whether or not this was indecent assault - indecent assault?

Posted by: Weasel at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (e3bId)

29 I didn't think there would be criminal charges, though civil was certainly possible.

An eleven-year-old case of 'he said/she said' isn't going to be an easy victory without something more to back it up.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (oVJmc)

30 20 Intercourse girlfriend>Handy girlfriend
It's science.

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (8HTq1)

31 TL;DR

Posted by: RomneyBot Since 2007 at December 30, 2015 03:01 PM (D/fse)

32 It is only partly good, at best.

Is this only a quest for some justice?

I doubt it.

Politics is at work here.

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 03:01 PM (MQEz6)

33 So this is another one of those 'here are some
pills' 'ok sure I will take pill from you for some reason/oh noes those
were bad rapey pills, I am in shock' cases?

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 02:55 PM

Not even close to being a Cosby fan, but this seems to be a pretty shaky case. Lots of "he said/she said," allegations that can't be proved and questions (yes, like the proverbial "why did she wait so long?") that can't be honestly answered.

If he's actually provably guilty, I'd love to see him bundled off to the pen. But there is that pesky "innocent until proven" guilty thing that ought to protect him until a jury decides, even if he is a jerk.

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 30, 2015 03:01 PM (z/vax)

34 "Like many states, PA has an exception in these kinds of cases to let in
testimony about other similar cases, so it'll be ten or twenty women
testifying about how Cosby drugged them and then fiddled about."

Let's just remind ourselves here that during the Lewinsky imbroglio, Bill Clinton found himself up against a federal law which similarly allows the testimony of other accusers to be brought into a sexual harassment case.

The kicker? Clinton himself had signed that bill into law, earlier on in his Presidency, as payoff to his lefty feminista allies for staunchly supporting him despite his goatish sexual behavior.

Clinton then had his attorneys argue that, well, yes, while Billy Jeff had in fact personally signed the bill in question into law, it was unfitting and unseemly for that law to be applied to the person of a sitting President. A novel legal theory that was appealed all the way to the SCOTUS, who promptly rejected it in one of those rare 9-0 verdicts. Not even the most liberal of the Justices were able to swallow what the HillBillies were trying to get down their throats.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:01 PM (noWW6)

35 Does it get knocked down to a misdemeanor if it's a decent assault?

As in "OK" but not "great"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (8ZskC)

36 I don't really get why this is "good." At best, at this point, its "neutral." Its not like this is a nazi war criminal on the run or George Soros whose entire life has been dedicated to Bond Villain-level evil. Is he guilty? I dunno, reports sure make it seem that way, but can you trust the media that hates him and the prosecutor that's trying to win a case?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (39g3+)

37 Bill Cosby Charged with Felony Indecent Assault

I guess Decent Assault is only a misdemeanor.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (zc3Db)

38 However, the difference I see here is that Cosby used his enormous influence and persuasiveness to get away with a lot. An actor who is also a predator can be very convincing.

I don't think that it was OK, and I'm becoming pretty convinced this 'here are some drugs baby' followed by sex was his thing. It's sleazy as hell. I'm sure he used his influence to get what he wanted.

But shit. Come on, ladies. I just...none of these people could have possibly been so naïve as to not realize that he was trying to get them compliant, at the very least. Maybe one in 20 I could believe was so naïve.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (lIU4e)

39 "I definitely see what you are saying and agree. However, the difference
I see here is that Cosby used his enormous influence and persuasiveness
to get away with a lot. An actor who is also a predator can be very
convincing."

------------------------

So can a president but all the womyn's groups supported him. That was when I learned that whatever the left's groups say they are bout (women, blacks, latinos,...) they are about one thing, getting the left power and control.

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (AhyHb)

40 If the dick don't fit, you must acquit!

Posted by: Zombie Johnny Cochran at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (oVJmc)

41 Aww The Princess Bride started at 2:30!

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (8HTq1)

42 There's a lot of smoke blowing from this long story, not surprised a fire was burning

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (C1Suc)

43 I don't know if this has been raised in an earlier thread (it's kind of OT - actually, it's very OT) but the arsonist from that mosque burning in Texas has been caught. He was a devotee of the mosque - prayed there five times a day seven days a week. Story on Drudge.

Posted by: rabidfox at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (EW9tX)

44 So this is another one of those 'here are some

pills' 'ok sure I will take pill from you for some reason/oh noes those

were bad rapey pills, I am in shock' cases?

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 02:55 PM (lIU4e)

Sure sounds like it to me.

Posted by: pookysgirl at December 30, 2015 02:57 PM (K27gs)

I'm going to let the case play itself out before I reach my own conclusions.

What we do know is that Cosby has been quite vocal recently about how the black community is responsible for its own mess.

Does that have anything to do with him being prosecuted now? I don't know. People who are already judging him don't know either.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (TOk1P)

45 Prosecutors said Cosby urged the victim to take three blue pills

Doesn't the guy usually take the little blue pill in this scenario?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (kpqmD)

46 Can't we all just get a schlong?

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (8ZskC)

47
He's 78. I doubt he will make it out of prison alive. Andrew Luster was sentenced to around 200 years but later it was reduced to 50+. He's eligible for parole in 2028. Guy was handsome, rich, smart. Like to drug women and rape them and record it. Wasnt like he couldnt get any woman to boink him. He had a fkn house on the beach, fercrissake!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 30, 2015 03:04 PM (iQIUe)

48 An eleven-year-old case of 'he said/she said' isn't going to be an easy victory without something more to back it up.

Even if its 15 girls who say. Its going to sway a jury more, especially if they dress the girls like church ladies and help them cry a little, but its still their word against his. And the few details we've heard do not exactly help the girls out.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:04 PM (39g3+)

49 Obviously a case of racism by The Man in Philly.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at December 30, 2015 03:04 PM (yvwr7)

50 What I dread about this case is the Gloria Allred is involved. Screeching scold is too kind of a description.

Posted by: Cheri at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM

If she follows her normal pattern, she'll have nothing to do with what takes place in the courtroom.

The only "bench" she ever appears in front of is the one holding microphones. With teevee cameras being the jury.

Posted by: Mr Scribbler at December 30, 2015 03:04 PM (z/vax)

51 yes, like the proverbial "why did she wait so long?"

This might be one of the few where that is actually not the case, if what I'm reading above is correct. Which is at least one point on the accusers side.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:05 PM (lIU4e)

52 Sigh.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at December 30, 2015 03:05 PM (PFy0L)

53 If a guy in a sweater gives you pills, you're gonna end up penetrated.

When someone gets hurt on the bad side of town, it seems to be fine to say "well, he shouldn't have been there in the first place". Well, okay, but they you share some blame if you're in your two hairstyles required dress or take drugs from strangers.

Just because one person is at fault, doesn't make the other blameless.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 30, 2015 03:05 PM (kZVsz)

54 That was when I learned that whatever the left's groups say they are
bout (women, blacks, latinos,...) they are about one thing, getting the
left power and control.

That stuff is there to destroy *you*, not harm them.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 03:05 PM (oVJmc)

55 Then a girl gave me the half a quaalude and I woke up having actual sex with her. She became my new girlfriend.

We regret to inform you, blah, blah, blah

Posted by: Penthouse Letters at December 30, 2015 03:05 PM (s4mhZ)

56 ?

Posted by: Weasel at December 30, 2015 03:05 PM (e3bId)

57 If this case turns into a conviction, I wonder if poetic justice would be served by handing out a bag of ludes to Cosby's block-mates?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:06 PM (4nmNX)

58 Does it get knocked down to a misdemeanor if it's a decent assault?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (rIQuo)

I should have skimmed the comments, first

Maybe next time ....

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 30, 2015 03:07 PM (zc3Db)

59 I don't think that it was OK, and I'm becoming
pretty convinced this 'here are some drugs baby' followed by sex was his
thing. It's sleazy as hell. I'm sure he used his influence to get what
he wanted.

But shit. Come on, ladies. I just...none of these people could have
possibly been so naive as to not realize that he was trying to get them
compliant, at the very least. Maybe one in 20 I could believe was so
naive.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:02 PM (lIU4e)

And it is not too unlike the way Mike Tyson was convicted of rape. 19 year old "beauty pageant" girl ends up the hotel room of the most famous, most dangerously violent black man in the world... and she's surprised when he expects sex?

Really?

I believe he swears to this day he never forced her into anything, but sure. He's an animal, she's a beauty pageant contestant. Who you gonna believe?

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:07 PM (TOk1P)

60 Hillary, what Bill are we talking about?

Posted by: Buffalbob at December 30, 2015 03:08 PM (8nL8o)

61 It's a family affair.

Posted by: The Man from U.N.C.L.E at December 30, 2015 03:09 PM (nSW/N)

62 "Prosecutors said Cosby urged the victim to take three blue pills and drink wine..."

So she did that? Smart.

Posted by: despair at December 30, 2015 03:09 PM (VrdxH)

63 I see we're in a time warp again, only getting comment block

Posted by: Skip at December 30, 2015 03:10 PM (C1Suc)

64 Did he use his considerable influence (at that time) to shut them up or did they voluntarily remain silent so as to not jeopardize whatever potential careers they might have? What he did was weird and wrong but these ladies also went with the plot at that time, and never brought it up for the longest time. And that's confusing to me; if it really bothered you so much why did you not say anything right away, consequence be damned?

Posted by: IC at December 30, 2015 03:12 PM (a0IVu)

65 Hmmm.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:15 PM (AkOaV)

66 I Love Pudding! Pudding it where it don't belong, LoL...

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:15 PM (oDRmK)

67 64

id he use his considerable influence (at that time) to shut them up or did they voluntarily remain silent so as to not jeopardize whatever potential careers they might have? "

I'm pretty sure that the $2,000 per month given to them may have something to do with it.

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:16 PM (4nmNX)

68 "Bill Cosby Charged with Felony Indecent Assault"

Has anyone yet defined "Felony Decent Assault"

This should be a hoot.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois. Old and Unimproved. at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (WVsWD)

69
If the family on the Cosby Show were militant leftists, Cosby would be feted like Roman Polanski.

Whatever Cosby's politics are, he earned the wrath of the NAACP grievance industry and the show itself was anti the narrative.

It - and therefore he - had to be destroyed by whatever means necessary.

That does in no way exonerate Cosby for what he might have done. Just stating the obvious politics of the whole thing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (uRmWf)

70 Strong Clinton supporters. She will be asked just so we can piss off the Black voters.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (jJRIy)

71 I got to layoff the blue pills, I am seeing posts getting raped.

Posted by: Tyler Mason at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (B214a)

72 Well, that was a double secret probation willow. Here is my comment:
Stories the MSM deep sixed just this year:
Merced Stabber
Gay East Coast Train derailer
Black TV reporter gunman
Vegas car rammer
Mosque firebug

Remember the strange pictures of the Muslims (one woman and 2-3 guys) who were in two vans in the CA beach parking lot and checking out their large scary guns? That one floated away too.

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (dQJCS)

73 You'd think a man with his kind of money wouldn't be reduced to stealing soft tacos.

Posted by: despair at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (VrdxH)

74 Has anyone brought up the "I fell on her and it just happened" defense yet?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - SMOD The Destroyer Of SCOAMFs now at the Outrage Outlet! at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (hLRSq)

75 66 I Love Pudding! Pudding it where it don't belong, LoL...
Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:15 PM (oDRmK)

You rang?

- -Steve Kroft champers shooter.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (uRmWf)

76 Victims Say The Darndest Things

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 03:18 PM (oVJmc)

77 Maybe he should run for president- or his wife should?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 03:19 PM (GGCsk)

78 76 Victims Say The Darndest Things
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 03:18 PM (oVJmc)

"Hey, hey, hey! It's Fat Rufies!!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:19 PM (uRmWf)

79 I thought he was one of the nice ones.

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:19 PM (qUNWi)

80 but the arsonist from that mosque burning in Texas has been caught. He was a devotee of the mosque - prayed there five times a day seven days a week. Story on Drudge.

Posted by: rabidfox

Sidebar

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 30, 2015 03:19 PM (9YDUz)

81 It's back!

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2015 03:20 PM (8HTq1)

82 What's a decent assault? Do Marquess of Queensbury Rules apply?

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 30, 2015 03:20 PM (Qj9zr)

83 That it took 30+ years for his crimes to finally catch up with him (assuming he is found guilty) is incredibly disturbing. Makes you wonder what crimes Obama has committed that we'll never find out about in this lifetime.

Posted by: Let This Shit Burn Already at December 30, 2015 03:20 PM (83MEH)

84 80 but the arsonist from that mosque burning in Texas has been caught. He was a devotee of the mosque - prayed there five times a day seven days a week. Story on Drudge.

Posted by: rabidfox

Sidebar
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 30, 2015 03:19 PM (9YDUz)

Guarantee that incident will still be counted as "anti muslim backlash" in all of the stats.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:20 PM (AkOaV)

85 Even if its 15 girls who say. Its going to sway a jury more, especially if they dress the girls like church ladies and help them cry a little, but its still their word against his. And the few details we've heard do not exactly help the girls out.Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:04 PM (39g3+)

In at least one instance I can recall,one of thewomen said she was having drinks with Cosby anddidn't know she was being drugged until she started feeling woozy and, well, drugged. The drug use was not consensual. The sex--or whatever Cosby allegedly did to her while she was out of it--was not consensual. That is, if the woman is telling the truth.

This is where it gets tricky. I think Cosby's army of lawyers will have a hard time proving all of the women making these claims are lying, although it's a good bet at least one of the 20+ claimants is making afalse allegation in orderto claim a stake in civil litigation. Perhaps Cosby's legal team hopes that finding and exposing onefraudulent claim will put all of the others in doubt.

Posted by: troyriser at December 30, 2015 03:21 PM (cCEFD)

86 Yay! Moar cont tents.

All of which "proves" Cosby likes to mash on teh laydees... what we're still lacking however, is any real proof he's a rapist.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:21 PM (TOk1P)

87
Joey Choo Choo sez Bill is clean, articulate and only talks jive when he has too.

"That's a fairy tale, man!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:21 PM (uRmWf)

88 82 What's a decent assault? Do Marquess of Queensbury Rules apply?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 30, 2015 03:20 PM (Qj9zr

Penises at 12 paces?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (uRmWf)

89 There really are two sets of rules: those for the powerful and connected, and those for the rest of us.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of us spend too much time thinking otherwise.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (kZVsz)

90 was it a dude? I know the media says it's a woman which is why I ask.

Posted by: X at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (57fhp)

91 This is where it gets tricky. I think Cosby's army of lawyers will have a hard time proving all of the women making these claims are lying, although it's a good bet at least one of the 20+ claimants is making afalse allegation in orderto claim a stake in civil litigation. Perhaps Cosby's legal team hopes that finding and exposing onefraudulent claim will put all of the others in doubt.
Posted by: troyriser at December 30, 2015 03:21 PM (cCEFD)

Yeah, who knows?

But if any of these girls were raped they should have gone to the police. It's impossible to verify or dismiss any of their claims at this point.

Cosby most likely won't win a defamation suit. But I don't know either way.

As for his criminal charges? Depends whats on those transcripts from the civil suit.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (AkOaV)

92 Democrats are really coming down on people they don't like. Martin Shrekli wasn't a saint, but charging him with fraud is a stretch. Cosby's being punished not for his alleged crimes, but for his statements about blacks - this is a very long shot charge for a conviction.

Posted by: Geoffrey Berrycone at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (29pV4)

93 I hear the pudding in prison is good this time of year.

Hope he enjoys the company there. They really have a special place in their hearts for rapists.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (GGCsk)

94 Funny? Bill Cosby on his arraignment walk.

Someone on CNN what saw it said he appears to be darn near blind.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (1xUj/)

95 We did go through a time warp apparently.

Posted by: steevy at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (8HTq1)

96 "Mr. Cosby, do you have anything to say in your defense?"

"Ya knowwwwwww....."

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (wtvvX)

97 Crosby from Crosby Stills and Nash, unfortunately, is still unindicted for his decades of indecent advances on our ears.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (Qj9zr)

98 So, NBC may be sued, too??

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (iQIUe)

99 You know he's going to be found not guilty, right? If a jury could literally watch R Kelly's home movie involving raping and pissing on a 14 year old and still find him not guilty, Cosby is home free. A jury of his uh... peers will reflexively close ranks around a fellow peer.

Posted by: Naes at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (Ypc8j)

100 With my kid, I just watched an old Sesame Street starring Cosby as the guest. It's on Netflix. He does a split screen, dumb Cosby on left, annoyed Cosby on right. Neither funny.

Posted by: wooga at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (ZxYuM)

101 Rape cases defy many of the basic principles of criminal law, including on the key element of intent. For many crimes, the judge or jury are asked to look inside the head of the perpetrator. If he intended to kill, it's murder. If not, the same act may only be manslaughter.

With rape, judge or jury are asked to look inside the head of the victim: did she consent?

Mike Tyson never heard the Pageant Winner say no, and to this day probably believes he was innocent.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (r1fLd)

102 I just don't know. Young aspiring starlets fucking an established celebrity isn't necessarily rape, even if booze or drugs were involved. It's also a story old as Hollywood. I'm not saying I like any of it, but there seems to be extraordinary effort being made to make Cosby out as a criminal.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (kpqmD)

103 58 Does it get knocked down to a misdemeanor if it's a decent assault?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:00 PM (rIQuo)

I should have skimmed the comments, first Maybe next time ....

GMTA. lol

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (rIQuo)

104 "Good."

___________________________________________________

I wouldn't get my hopes up if I were you. Highly unlikely he will be convicted. I think this is ultimately a face saving move by the prosecutor with only two days left before the statute of limitations was up.

Posted by: NotCoach at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (rsudF)

105 Why him? Why now? Why this amount of zeal? Whose narrative does this serve?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 30, 2015 03:24 PM (NeFrd)

106 "Hey, hey, hey, it's Fat Albert", he said unzipping his fly.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:24 PM (GGCsk)

107 "Back when Bill Cosby was the king of network television, veteran NBC employee Frank Scotti served as the royal fixer."

The depressing reality here is that Cosby could have been drugging and raping obviously underage teenage girls -- hell, could have been doing that to little children -- and the network would still have been diligently hushing things up and paying people off.

That's precisely how it worked with Jimmy Saville at the BBC.

Media delenda est. Both the "news" and "entertainment" wings thereof.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:24 PM (noWW6)

108 I'll wait for the trial. Don't like vibe and the timing of the accusations. He's been un-PC and I think this has more to do with everything than anything else. This game has been played out too many times recently. He's being made the example.

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 03:24 PM (Fmupd)

109 I'd think Cosby would have had those cataracts dealt with ages ago, but maybe he doesn't like to be put under.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 30, 2015 03:24 PM (kZVsz)

110 88 82 What's a decent assault? Do Marquess of Queensbury Rules apply?
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 30, 2015 03:20 PM (Qj9zr

Penises at 12 paces?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:22 PM (uRmWf)

Schlong-shots.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (kpqmD)

111 What some of these women's attys are doing is suing Cosby and his atty for defamation for exiting the courtroom where they have immunity and calling the women liars, where they arent protected by immunity.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (iQIUe)

112 Like the last thread, Cosby is a taco thief.

Posted by: wooga at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (ZxYuM)

113 All kidding aside, what a piece of shit. Drugging women and raping them? Really? Never mind prison, they should skin you alive for that.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (GGCsk)

114 The real victim here is me. What the fuck am I going to do with this unopened Cosby Show box set?

Posted by: Naes at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (Ypc8j)

115 They gave me those tacos.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (8ZskC)

116 In at least one instance I can recall,one of thewomen said she was having drinks with Cosby anddidn't know she was being drugged until she started feeling woozy and, well, drugged.

Where I come from, we call that drunk, not drugged.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:26 PM (rIQuo)

117 That does in no way exonerate Cosby for what he might have done. Just stating the obvious politics of the whole thing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:17 PM (uRmWf)

Yep. It's also worth noting, the "rumors" of sexual perversity in Hollywood are vast, and if we knew some of the likely truths it would shock most of us who are not easily shocked.

If Cosby was targeted (and possibly framed) for his politics, we have seen that sort of thing elsewhere in this world. Fascist dictatorships and third world shitholes tend to operate with selective enforcement of the law, based on whether one is in or out of favor with the powers that be.

And yet, here we are.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:26 PM (TOk1P)

118 Let's just say guilty or not, this stuff only came up because he had a new show being planned and black activists HAAATTEE them some Cosby. His Huxtable character wasn't whiny and inner city and poor, he gave blacks hope that they could be something more and better than the Jesse Jacksons and rap artists of the world told them.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:26 PM (39g3+)

119 Like to drug women and rape them and record it. Wasnt like he couldnt get any woman to boink him.

I'm pretty sure I saw the lifetime movie on that. That's more like a fetish, I think. Creepy.

"beauty pageant" girl ends up the hotel room of the most famous, most dangerously violent black man in the world... and she's surprised when he expects sex?

I don't remember enough about the details of that one, but I think act of taking a drug is sort of closer to consent then just going to a hotel room.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (lIU4e)

120 Ibba neber layd a hann on dem bitches

Posted by: Mushmouth at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (C1Suc)

121 What's a cubit?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, wanna get a cup of coffee? at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (voOPb)

122 113 All kidding aside, what a piece of shit. Drugging women and raping them? Really? Never mind prison, they should skin you alive for that.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 03:25 PM (GGCsk)

If he did it.

Or, I mean, I believe he had sex with at least a few of these women. And maybe one or both of them was on drugs.

But there's a difference between "I went back to his house, had some drinks, popped some pills, night kind of got blurry, but we had sex" and aggravated rape. No?

I mean if there isn't, then there is a much thinner line between "rape" and girls being starfuckers then there should be.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (AkOaV)

123 Usually I feel pretty woozy but nobody's raped me yet.

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (8ZskC)

124 France is lovely this time of year, Bill.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (OD2ni)

125 Cosby is a piker. Redford wants to schlong everybody.

"Fighting climate change is a moral imperative. And yet, just as protecting our children from the widening dangers of climate chaos is a challenge, it's also an opportunity. It's the economic play of our lifetime. By doing what's right for our people at home, California has positioned itself for leadership abroad. Our people, and those of the world, are the better for it."

-Robert Redford

Climate chaos!!!

Posted by: Meremortal at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (3myMJ)

126 So, NBC may be sued, too??

That would be very nice.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (oVJmc)

127 101: "With rape, judge or jury are asked to look inside the head of the victim: did she consent?'

If the female was in any way intoxicated: She bears no responsibility. And thus, Rape.

If the male was intoxicated, passed out, in a coma, or was a vegetable: He is completely at fault and is thus a rapist.

See how easy that is?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (4nmNX)

128 105 Why him? Why now? Why this amount of zeal? Whose narrative does this serve?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 30, 2015 03:24 PM (NeFrd

Because
Because
Because
Money

Follow the money Doc.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, wanna get a cup of coffee? at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (voOPb)

129 I mean if there isn't, then there is a much thinner line between "rape" and girls being starfuckers then there should be.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (AkOaV)

????
Yeah ok once or twice MAYBE, but 50 times! The guy's a scumbag.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (DUoqb)

130 "Democrats are really coming down on people they don't like. Martin
Shrekli wasn't a saint, but charging him with fraud is a stretch."

The drug for which Shkreli had suddenly boosted the price to astronomical levels is a drug used in HIV-AIDS patients.

The Gaystapo immediately pulled out the long knives for the guy.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (noWW6)

131 Cosby can rat out folks if he wants to do so.

I bet he has a few aces up his sleeve.

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (MQEz6)

132 I can only hope justice prevails for the right side.

That said, some accusers SJW attitudes have not made a good impression on me. I don't know if she is one of the formal accusers though she was with Gloria Alfred's when Janice Dickison made her accusation , the extent of which was , ' he forcibly grabbed me and tried to kiss me'.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 03:29 PM (AC18V)

133 Felony Indecent Assault

Wth is Decent Assault?

Posted by: weirdflunky at December 30, 2015 03:29 PM (XvfJO)

134 You know he's going to be found not guilty, right?
If a jury could literally watch R Kelly's home movie involving raping
and pissing on a 14 year old and still find him not guilty, Cosby is
home free. A jury of his uh... peers will reflexively close ranks around
a fellow peer.

Posted by: Naes at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (Ypc8j)

As far as I know R Kelly has never said anything suggesting black culture is largely responsible for the messes in the black community.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:30 PM (TOk1P)

135 If the male was intoxicated, passed out, in a coma, or was a vegetable: He is completely at fault and is thus a rapist.

See how easy that is?
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (4nmNX)

It's very ... victorian... to think women cannot consent after one drink and are thus victims, yet men can get as trashed as they want, and are still perpetrators.

In other words -- if a college guy had 14 drinks, and the girl had 2 drinks, they go back to her room and have sex -- he raped her.

How does that make any sense?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:30 PM (AkOaV)

136 I don't know if she is one of the formal accusers though she was with Gloria Alfred's when Janice Dickison made her accusation , the extent of which was , ' he forcibly grabbed me and tried to kiss me'.

They forced Bob Packwood out of office over that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:30 PM (39g3+)

137
I think one lady claimed he gave her what he said was sinus meds or something OTC.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Whale at December 30, 2015 03:30 PM (+aCe4)

138 Wth is Decent Assault?

Posted by: weirdflunky at December 30, 2015 03:29 PM (XvfJO)

*facepalm*

Posted by: The AoSHQ Comment Duplication Control Team at December 30, 2015 03:31 PM (8ZskC)

139 If the schlong doesn't fit, you must acquit!

Posted by: Johnny Cochran, perpetruating black stereotypes at December 30, 2015 03:31 PM (hvf9s)

140 "And yet, just as protecting our children from the widening dangers of
climate chaos is a challenge, it's also an opportunity. It's the
economic play of our lifetime."

Says Redford, whose last couple of movies have all tanked at the box office.

If I want to listen to lectures about what a successful "economic play" might be, I'll listen to ones from someone whose economic endeavors are successes.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:31 PM (noWW6)

141 I would give this story more credibility if "they" hadn't just indicted Exxon (iirc) for 'Not Supporting Climate Change' after Exxon skipped this year's payoff to Bill & Hillary's Slushfund ...

Posted by: Adriane the Legal Critic ... at December 30, 2015 03:31 PM (AoK0a)

142 The drug for which Shkreli had suddenly boosted the price to astronomical levels is a drug used in HIV-AIDS patients.

The Gaystapo immediately pulled out the long knives for the guy.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (noWW6)

As he said on TV in his smarmy interview -- the people who dont have insurance already get the drug for free (from the govt), he was just jacking up rates that they were going to charge the insurance companies (who I thought were evil money grubbing assholes anyways according to the left).

Guy is still a dick, but not for that reason.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:31 PM (AkOaV)

143 You think a man worth as much as Cosby wouldn't walk around like a homeless bum unshaven and in a hoodie.

What is with that?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (jJRIy)

144 I think one lady claimed he gave her what he said was sinus meds or something OTC.

Actual quote" "These will open you right up."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (8ZskC)

145 I can't imagine how his wife has been pudding up with his behavior for so long....

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (wtvvX)

146 Y'know, I was completely tuned out of popular mainstream culture during the period when "The Cosby Show" was on TV, so it made absolutely no impression on me whatsoever. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until much later when I saw people retrospectively refer to it as some kind of mega-important show in TV history. I was like, "Bill Cosby had a TV show?"

In my mind, Bill Cosby is a guy who did stand-up comedy and asked "What Is Air?" and told stories about a kid he once knew named Fat Albert. That's it.

Everything he did after that was completely unknown to me, and remains so. Consequently, he plays an extremely minor role -- if any role at all -- in my imagination of what America's cultural landscape looks like.

Thus, I care no more about Bill Cosby getting charged with indecent assault than I would if I learned that Buddy Hackett got a ticket for jaywalking.

Posted by: zombie at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (jBuUi)

147 Where I come from, we call that drunk, not drugged. Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:26 PM (rIQuo)

There's a qualitative difference between being drunk and high.Many if not most adults (at least in that milieu) would know the difference. Besides, the scenario she described was one where she and Cosby had a drink from his bar. A drink. I don't think they were doing Everclear shots.

Posted by: troyriser at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (cCEFD)

148 137
I think one lady claimed he gave her what he said was sinus meds or something OTC.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Whale at December 30, 2015 03:30 PM (+aCe4)

yeah but without a rape kit, police report, and toxicology report, how is she going to prove that any of what she claims actually happened?

She can't.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (AkOaV)

149 "Democrats are really coming down on people they don't like. Martin
Shrekli wasn't a saint, but charging him with fraud is a stretch."

The drug for which Shkreli had suddenly boosted the price to astronomical levels is a drug used in HIV-AIDS patients.

The Gaystapo immediately pulled out the long knives for the guy.

Can't blame them when it goes from $13 a pill to $750 a pill, just because he bought the rights.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (rIQuo)

150 You think a man worth as much as Cosby wouldn't walk around like a homeless bum unshaven and in a hoodie.

What is with that?
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (jJRIy)

At this point I am sure he is a smelly stinky old man

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (DUoqb)

151 139 If the schlong doesn't fit, you must acquit!

Posted by: Johnny Cochran, perpetruating black stereotypes at December 30, 2015 03:31 PM (hvf9s)

If the Schlong does not fit, well, there are movies about that subject.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (uRmWf)

152 Hey Hey Hey, I couldn't have done it, I was eatin' a cheesesteaks or two

Posted by: Fat Albert at December 30, 2015 03:33 PM (C1Suc)

153 If the female was in any way intoxicated: She bears no responsibility. And thus, Rape.

If the male was intoxicated, passed out, in a coma, or was a vegetable: He is completely at fault and is thus a rapist.

See how easy that is?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (4nmNX)

Heh, exactly. Which means for many many many of us, essentially every sexual encounter we had during our yoot phases was, indeed, rape.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:33 PM (TOk1P)

154 Like I said in another thread, Cosby may or may not be guilty of rape but... I mean...

Going to a guy's hotel room and popping random pills he gives you to party with him is a bit beyond dressing in a whore's costume and acting slutty. You've crossed a line there at some point from being naughty to deliberately participating.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:33 PM (39g3+)

155 BUDDY HACKETT GOT A TICKET FOR JAYWALKING??

Posted by: Al Sharpton at December 30, 2015 03:33 PM (jBuUi)

156 I want cameras implanted in all newborns' eyes so I can see what y'alls doing. That's how we fix this.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 30, 2015 03:33 PM (oFzGS)

157 If I heard it correctly when I had the TV on in background this morning, it's a new prosecutor who took office and then went with this case. Prosecutor wouldn't bring a high profile case like this if he didn't think he'd win. The Baltimore cop case is different. After the media hype, the Black prosecutor in a majority Black town was pressured to overcharge.

The victim in this case made a complaint 11 years ago.

As noted above, there are Cosby victims who got roofied without consent.

Some of the victims are Black, which undercuts the idea of an OJ jury nullification.

Prosecutor will put on the Best Victims.

Bill's f*cked.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 30, 2015 03:33 PM (r1fLd)

158 See how easy that is?
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (4nmNX)

Easy Peasy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, wanna get a cup of coffee? at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (voOPb)

159 Thus, I care no more about Bill Cosby getting charged with indecent assault than I would if I learned that Buddy Hackett got a ticket for jaywalking.

Oh, say that again louder. Maybe use bold.

Ace's favorite is when people say they don't care about what they're commenting on.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (1xUj/)

160 Buddy Hackett jaywalking would be funny.

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (qUNWi)

161 I bet he has a few aces up his sleeve.
Ace had to go check that he still had all of the negatives before he reposted this Cosby thread!

Posted by: andycanuck at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (DLIIY)

162 Indecent means you're an even better person than normal!

Posted by: Lucky Day at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (kZVsz)

163 OT:
And supposedly on the way to home/hotel after, subway is so crowded you don't need to hold onto anything, so many bodies in the cars they keep you propped up. *shudders*

What time did you go line up when you did it?
Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:27 PM (hvf9s)

Hey, pulling this over since the other thread is probably dead. We went really early, maybe 3 hours? We were staying out on long island, so we took a train in and ate and then lined up. We were right by the little platform thing.

And we took the train back to LI after. It was pretty crowded but we had seats. It was rowdy though. People were smoking joints made out of cash, and drinking and what have you. I was young enough to be a bit shocked.

I don't recommend it, I would pay 400 bucks and just go to olive garden : )

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (lIU4e)

164 If the female was in any way intoxicated: She bears no responsibility. And thus, Rape.

If the male was intoxicated, passed out, in a coma, or was a vegetable: He is completely at fault and is thus a rapist.

See how easy that is?
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (4nmNX)

There's a guy who was black out drunk who was then blown by his girlfriend's roommate while he was passed out drunk and he is the one who got expelled because she later claimed that she revoked consent for blowing him.

No, I don't know how that works either.

Some college admin was asked if drunk sex is per se non consensual doesn't that mean a guy and a girl rape each other when they're both drunk and the reply was no that it was the guy's responsibility still.

Because Feminism or somesuch.

Posted by: alexthechick - love and despair bitches at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (mf5HN)

165 So the young girls, ALL WHITE, were given "Jello Shots"?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (jJRIy)

166 If the female was in any way intoxicated: She bears no responsibility. And thus, Rape.

If the male was intoxicated, passed out, in a coma, or was a vegetable: He is completely at fault and is thus a rapist.

See how easy that is?

Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or Fire) at December 30, 2015 03:28 PM (4nmNX)

Jack Nicholson's character in As Good As It Gets summed it up best:

"How do you write women so well?"

"I think of a man and then I take away reason and accountability."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (zc3Db)

167 "Well, tell Bill I said have a Coke and a smile and shut the fuck up. Jello pudding-eating motherfucker."

-- Richard Pryor

Posted by: Bigby's Hook Em Horns at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (3ZtZW)

168 80: Thanks - I missed the story there and thought it was breaking news.

Posted by: rabidfox at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (EW9tX)

169 Oh, say that again louder. Maybe use bold.

Ace's favorite is when people say they don't care about what they're commenting on.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (1xUj/

well I don't particularly care either. I just don't understand how anyone can do anything, even if they were raped, at this point.

If you don't report a crime to the police, or have any kind of contemporaneous record of it happening, and wait 30 years to mention it to anyone -- I mean, what are people supposed to do with that information?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (AkOaV)

170 I don't know if this has been raised in an earlier thread (it's kind of OT - actually, it's very OT) but the arsonist from that mosque burning in Texas has been caught. He was a devotee of the mosque - prayed there five times a day seven days a week. Story on Drudge.
Posted by: rabidfox at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (EW9tX)

When mormon churches were being set on fire during the Prop 8 brouhaha, no one in the media cared. Pretty sure the Mormons were not setting their own churches on fire.

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (hvf9s)

171 Says Redford, whose last couple of movies have all tanked at the box office.

Well Captain America II did okay, but he wasn't exactly a leading man in that one. He did a very convincing mummy though.

Just kidding, I've always been impressed with his acting, even if he's an idiot.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:36 PM (39g3+)

172
Q: Why is there air?

A: It helps to revive them bitches.

Posted by: wth at December 30, 2015 03:36 PM (HgMAr)

173 Oh, say that again louder. Maybe use bold.

Ace's favorite is when people say they don't care about what they're commenting on.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

This is a major story on all the networks. Ace is not responsible for it being a big story, nor do I blame him for making a post about the story of the day that everyone's talking about. In fact, he ought to post about it.

All I'm doing is commenting how out of it I am in relation to a story that everyone else is deeply affected by emotionally, because they watched his show.

Posted by: zombie at December 30, 2015 03:36 PM (jBuUi)

174 Someone ask Hillary what she thinks about the Cosby charges?

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 03:36 PM (MQEz6)

175 117 Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:26 PM (TOk1P)

Unfortunately, Cosby's sexual assaults will be used as a convenient weapon to bash anyone and anything remotely in league with traditional American values.

Ironic that the freak show of political homosexuality and perversion, degeneracy and dissolution is leftist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:37 PM (uRmWf)

176 I think one lady claimed he gave her what he said was sinus meds or something OTC.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Whale at December 30, 2015 03:30 PM (+aCe4)

True story: Pseudoephedrine and alcohol, in combination, make for a particularly "enjoyable" high for many.

No need to cook meth. Just pop the pills, have some booze, and it's off to lala land.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:37 PM (TOk1P)

177 I got a ticket for jaywalking in Chinatown on Christmas day.

I wasn't laughing.

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:37 PM (qUNWi)

178 If you don't report a crime to the police, or have any kind of contemporaneous record of it happening, and wait 30 years to mention it to anyone -- I mean, what are people supposed to do with that information?

If he's a Republican running for CA governor, you do a five-part story above the fold on the front page.

Posted by: The Los Angeles Times at December 30, 2015 03:38 PM (8ZskC)

179 I got a ticket for jaywalking in Chinatown on Christmas day.

Then I suggest you stop squinting when you cross the street

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2015 03:38 PM (DUoqb)

180 Has Stacey Dash ever made a statement about Cosby? I think she was on Adam Carolla once and talked glowingly about him, but that was ages before the accusations came out. She met him doing an ep together for Cosby Show. She's gorgeous, surely he would have made a pass at her?

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:38 PM (hvf9s)

181 His first mistake was not getting elected to public office as a Democrat.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (KMmX+)

182 Women just aren't that funny. Okay, we'll give KateHyde55 that one.

Posted by: Fritz at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (UzPAd)

183 4 I saw a picture of Cosby standing with Bill Clinton.

Not to minimize what Cosby is accused of, but it's nothing worse that what Bill did. How come nobody in the Black Lives Matter movement are bitching about the white guy getting off scot-free, hmmm?

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 30, 2015 02:52 PM

Speaking of Clinton, check out this Men's Health Magazine article about how to meet your dream girl in 2016. They give 5 steps. Step 1: "Take a Cue from Clinton"

http://bit.ly/1Vqa68K

"If a man projects a confident, easygoing vibe, I don't think he needs more than that approach," says licensed psychotherapist and relationship counselor Chantal Gagnon, Ph.D.

"Think about how Bill Clinton would approach a woman: Like a regular guy who's comfortable with himself, has something to say, and is interested in her, too. He would approach you in that same way whether he was trying to sleep with you, to get a campaign contribution, or just to hang out and have a beer."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (7A4qQ)

184 someone's getting railroaded...

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (joq+X)

185 Prosecutor will put on the Best Victims.

Bill's f*cked.

I dunno, its a pretty steep uphill climb. Bill Cosby is ridiculously rich, its a he said/she said case about things decades old, and the women were definitely not acting in what you'd call responsible, intelligent, and moral ways. I think they have a really tough case to fight here which is why they spent so long pumping the media with an endless string of women crying to the camera, to try to front-load the jury's perspective.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (39g3+)

186 Can't blame them when it goes from $13 a pill to $750 a pill, just because he bought the rights.
Posted by: rickb223

eh, the gays reached into my pocket with Obamacare just because they had the votes. I can't blame someone who does it to them.

Posted by: X at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (57fhp)

187 Who's Buddy Hackett???

Posted by: Anybody under the age of 60 at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (NeFrd)

188 160 Buddy Hackett jaywalking would be funny.
Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (qUNWi)

Great Buddy Hackett routine about walking with his father in the park when he was a kid and when they came upon people fucking the dad said "the one in the front is sick and the one in the back is pushing her to Mount Sinai Hospital."

Years later, as an adult, he comes across the same scene but when he tries to help, the couple kept pushing him away.

"I got the nastiest looks from those two guys!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (uRmWf)

189 It has been raining in Charlotte since 4 AM, just slacked off now.

12 hours and it was heavy.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (jJRIy)

190 True story: Pseudoephedrine and alcohol, in combination, make for a particularly "enjoyable" high for many.

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Maybe, I dunno. I used to use that combo for colds/flu, using brandy. Worked really well.

Posted by: Bigby's Hook Em Horns at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (3ZtZW)

191 187 Who's Buddy Hackett???
Posted by: Anybody under the age of 60 at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (NeFrd)

You better revise that age down to perhaps 45.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (uRmWf)

192 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (uRmWf)

Buddy Hacket was a member of my Congregation growing up.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (DUoqb)

193 Robert Redford is on the cover of .... Costco's magazine. There was an article in the magazine about some movie he was in which I never even heard of which I'm guessing went straight to DVD. Loser.

Posted by: IC at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (a0IVu)

194 jaywalking in Chinatown on Christmas day

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"Chay-working"

Posted by: Bigby's Hook Em Horns at December 30, 2015 03:41 PM (3ZtZW)

195 Where is lawyer Allerad with a law suit against Cosby and NBC?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:41 PM (jJRIy)

196 Did Cosby ever pay the reward for information on the Tawana Brawley "incident." I guess the witness that told the grand jury he saw Tawana climbing in the garbage bag herself could have claimed it. I've hated him ever since then.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 30, 2015 03:41 PM (OD2ni)

197 I question the timing.

Posted by: franksalterego at December 30, 2015 03:41 PM (Fh+WR)

198 @193

Love Costco but the head of it is hard core lefty democrat.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:42 PM (jJRIy)

199 I got this.

Posted by: Pill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:42 PM (YYKg2)

200 Buddy Hackett was really, really funny and foul as hell but only in his stand up. There are a couple guys like that who are really surprising when all you know is their movie persona. Some of the unbelievably dirty stuff those old Friar's Club roasts would have is shocking even today.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:42 PM (39g3+)

201 190 Maybe, I dunno. I used to use that combo for colds/flu, using brandy. Worked really well.
Posted by: Bigby's Hook Em Horns at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (3ZtZW)

Straight Nyquil in the proper dosage makes my heart palpitate and makes me paranoid.

AVOID LIKE PLAGUE.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:42 PM (uRmWf)

202 Speaking of Clinton, check out this Men's Health Magazine article about how to meet your dream girl in 2016. They give 5 steps. Step 1: "Take a Cue from Clinton"

So...rape them and then laughingly tell them to put some ice on it?

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 03:43 PM (kpqmD)

203 192 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:39 PM (uRmWf)

Buddy Hacket was a member of my Congregation growing up.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (DUoqb)

The late great Leonard Hacker. NGU, do you remember when he did the commercial for Tuscan Yogurt Pops all in Yiddish? That was a hoot.

**sigh**

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (uRmWf)

204 There is an ENORMOUS difference to me between asking a woman to take pills on the one hand and sneaking drugs into her drink on the other.
The latter is battery, with or without sexual acts, and, with sex, is plain rape. Rape-rape, Whoopi.

The former ... well, as long as we're talking about adults, I'm conflicted. If it is a crime, I would certainly not think it so serious that it demands a 12 yr statute of limitations. I dunno.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (T/5A0)

205 190
True story: Pseudoephedrine and alcohol, in combination, make for a particularly "enjoyable" high for many.

Wasn't that what the "Gentle Giant" was drinking. Robotussen and beer

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (jJRIy)

206 The difference is that Bill Clinton is down with the Plantation.

Posted by: The DNC at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (+c55T)

207 Buddy Hackett was really, really funny and foul as hell but only in his stand up. There are a couple guys like that who are really surprising when all you know is their movie persona. Some of the unbelievably dirty stuff those old Friar's Club roasts would have is shocking even today.

Redd Foxx. Fred Sanford = Lamont, you dummy!
Stand up = Bluer than blue

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (rIQuo)

208 Didn't Buddy Hackett have one eye that marched to the beat of a different drummer, sort of strayed now and then?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 30, 2015 03:45 PM (NeFrd)

209 Hillary and James Carville will issue a statement on trailer trash and vast right conspiracy, oh that Bill, never mind.

Posted by: Buffalbob at December 30, 2015 03:45 PM (8nL8o)

210 Ace asks: "Funny? Bill Cosby on his arraignment walk."

I vote "not funny."

Posted by: m at December 30, 2015 03:45 PM (d4uu4)

211 The actors I feel for are the ones that had a whole generation grow up knowing them only from the Match Game. Those people actually had careers, its like the card game scene in Sunset Boulevarde.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:45 PM (39g3+)

212 I'm just here to get Mom's taco...

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 30, 2015 03:45 PM (+c55T)

213 Buddy Hacket was a member of my Congregation growing up.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 30, 2015 03:40 PM (DUoqb)

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Used to see Buddy Hackett everywhere in Vegas when I lived there. Very sociable and friendly.

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 03:45 PM (Fmupd)

214 "Buddy Hackett was really, really funny and foul as hell but only in his stand up. There are a couple guys like that who are really surprising when all you know is their movie persona. Some of the unbelievably dirty stuff those old Friar's Club roasts would have is shocking even today."

Buddy was a little blue.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 30, 2015 03:46 PM (OD2ni)

215 "If he's a Republican running for CA governor, you do a five-part story above the fold on the front page."

The response from the Ahnuld der Groppenfuhrer campaign team, when the stories started coming out about Ahnuld having come on to a stuntwoman on a movie set and not having taken "No" for an answer from her, was to brutally smear the complainant and claim that she was a multiply convicted felon attempting blackmail.

Ummmmmmm no. There was a woman who was a multiply convicted felon by that name in the Commiefornia court-docket databases, but it wasn't the complainant. I am told by SoCal accquaintances that Ahnuld ended up quietly writing a check with a lot of zeroes on it.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:46 PM (noWW6)

216 205
Wasn't that what the "Gentle Giant" was drinking. Robotussen and beer

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (jJRIy)

Traytable. It's called "drank." Anything with codeine mixed with Arizona Iced Tea. Fries your brain after a while much like Angel Dust.

Hence, the withholding of the coroner's report by Angela Correy, pig-piss be upon her.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 30, 2015 03:47 PM (uRmWf)

217 Yeah Red Foxx was foul, back when people didn't say that stuff in public he was just filthy. But really, really funny. Like when grampa got drunk and told war stories.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:47 PM (39g3+)

218 Andrea Constand looks like a dude. More so than Howard Stern.

For a minute, I thought the shocker would be that Bill Cosby is gay.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 30, 2015 03:48 PM (oFzGS)

219 >>> Y'know, I was completely tuned out of popular mainstream culture during the period when "The Cosby Show" was on TV, so it made absolutely no impression on me whatsoever. In fact, I didn't even know it existed until much later when I saw people retrospectively refer to it as some kind of mega-important show in TV history. I was like, "Bill Cosby had a TV show?"
Posted by: zombie at December 30, 2015 03:32 PM (jBuUi)

Ah. Well I'm the opposite; my parents watched Cosby Show every week and I watched with them. I think the term "TV dad" is kind of silly, but he was one of my first TV dads. The inner child part of me that loved the Huxtables was crushed when I heard the accusations.

Luckily I'm an adult now, have learned that dads both real and fake can be disappointing, so you just move on with life. But it still threw me a little.

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:48 PM (hvf9s)

220 213 Used to see Buddy Hackett everywhere in Vegas when I lived there. Very sociable and friendly.

Most importantly- not rapey.

Posted by: Naes at December 30, 2015 03:48 PM (Ypc8j)

221 No more pudding commercials for Bill, I guess.

Posted by: djf at December 30, 2015 03:48 PM (LS1hf)

222 Buddy Hackett was really, really funny and foul as
hell but only in his stand up. There are a couple guys like that who are
really surprising when all you know is their movie persona. Some of the
unbelievably dirty stuff those old Friar's Club roasts would have is
shocking even today.

Redd Foxx. Fred Sanford = Lamont, you dummy!

Stand up = Bluer than blue

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (rIQuo)

Yeah, get back to me when you people have your career boiled down to stupid homemade videotapes, and daddying (and not the good way) the Olsen twins.

Oh, and bleepety bleep you bleeping bleepers with a bleeping bleeping bleeping bleeped bleeper.

Posted by: Bob Saget at December 30, 2015 03:49 PM (TOk1P)

223 Another FAKE attack on Mohammedans by a Mohammedan his self. Check out this picture.

http://tinyurl.com/znwjzov

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:49 PM (jJRIy)

224 Bill's f*cked.
But remember that Bill came from the Cosby kids. It was all the white folk that pretended he was a saint. If he was a c*ck sucker like Charlie Sheen or willing to relocate to another country or spew the Democrat party sh*t then he would have unlimited indulgences.

Posted by: scorecard at December 30, 2015 03:50 PM (PGh+Q)

225 Bill give a whole new meaning to "puddin pop".

What is it with Bills?

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:50 PM (qUNWi)

226 I could watch that airplane scene in Its a mad mad mad world with Buddy Hacket, Mickey Rooney and Mr. Howell on an endless loop. See, drunk pilots are funny.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 30, 2015 03:50 PM (OD2ni)

227 Wasn't that what the "Gentle Giant" was drinking. Robotussen and beer

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:44 PM (jJRIy)

You're thinking of purple drank.

Codeine (usually from prescription cough medicine) is the active ingredient.

Alternatively, people drink OTC cough syrup with DXM, and make drinks with that.

DXM is a totally different drug than codeine though, and only poser 12 year olds drink it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:51 PM (AkOaV)

228 I can't emphasize this enough. The Huxtables are hated by leftist black activist types. They were ruining everything by showing how black people can be hip and stylish, but rich and successful and comfortable in America. How blacks can be black and yet patriotic and do well. How if you get up and work and do something with your life you can accomplish something instead of sitting around with your hand out.

Guys like Jesse Jackson and Barack Hussein Obama hate the Huxtables and hate Bill Cosby. Hate.

"I didn't grow up like the Huxtables"
-every comedian on Russel Simmons Def Comedy Jam when not talking about how stupid white people are.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:51 PM (39g3+)

229 "What is it with Bills?"

I like to hang around ladie's shoe stores.

Posted by: Rex Ryan at December 30, 2015 03:51 PM (OD2ni)

230 Felony indecent assault? More like Wonderfulness.

Posted by: The Cos at December 30, 2015 03:52 PM (HgMAr)

231 >> I got a ticket for jaywalking in Chinatown on Christmas day.

The Law come to get you if you don't walk right.

Posted by: Jed at December 30, 2015 03:52 PM (KMmX+)

232 There is an ENORMOUS difference to me between asking a woman to take pills on the one hand and sneaking drugs into her drink on the other.

Yes.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:52 PM (lIU4e)

233 Bob Saget's stand up is hilarious, poor guy is only known for America's Funniest Home Videos. I just can imagine the damage that show did to a comedian's soul. Sure the pay was great but those lines... awful.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:53 PM (39g3+)

234 Bill give a whole new meaning to "puddin pop".

What is it with Bills?

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:50 PM (qUNWi)

I know, right?

Posted by: OJ at December 30, 2015 03:53 PM (TOk1P)

235 I like to hang around ladie's shoe stores.

Posted by: Rex Ryan at December 30, 2015 03:51 PM (OD2ni)

Don't make me cut you, Rex Ryan.

Posted by: OJ at December 30, 2015 03:54 PM (TOk1P)

236 I used to pour cheapo vodka in Grey Goose bottles and use that as a ruse to get girls to come back to my room with me in college. (hey! I have some good vodka upstairs, none of that cheap shit like we have at the party. Want to take some shots?)

Is that rape?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:54 PM (AkOaV)

237 Didn't he play a wussy father in a family sitcom?

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 03:54 PM (Fmupd)

238 >>> And we took the train back to LI after. It was pretty crowded but we had seats. It was rowdy though. People were smoking joints made out of cash, and drinking and what have you. I was young enough to be a bit shocked.
I don't recommend it, I would pay 400 bucks and just go to olive garden : )
Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 03:34 PM (lIU4e)

Joints made out of cash...were these the infamous Long Island trust fund babies or regular schmoes?

Times Square is one of those experiences that I want to be able to say I did one time, but the thought of actually doing it--the people, the cold, the standing for hours--turns my stomach. Thus I keep just doing my New Years with friends in the luxury of a warm home, hah.

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:55 PM (hvf9s)

239 I do not espouse reversing the genders here. Just saying that boys and girls are different.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (1xUj/)

What's the big deal?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 30, 2015 03:55 PM (kGrwF)

240 In which I date myself.

The Cosby Show was late, late Cosby. I grew up with "Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow, right?" and "Why is there Air?" as vinlyl albums.

People make a big deal about Kirk kissing Uhuru, but Cosby was the first black man cast as an equal lead in I Spy with Robert Culp, and he was the sophisticate who spoke all the languages.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 03:55 PM (1xUj/)

241 ...sexual assault that does not involve rape...

What is indecent assault?

Posted by: scorecard at December 30, 2015 03:55 PM (PGh+Q)

242 Shit. Another iPhone fail.

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 03:56 PM (Fmupd)

243 223 Another FAKE attack on Mohammedans by a Mohammedan his self. Check out this picture.

http://tinyurl.com/znwjzov
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30

When I first heard about this I thought it to be so outlandish it might be a member of the mosque.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, wanna get a cup of coffee? at December 30, 2015 03:56 PM (voOPb)

244 "Traytable. It's called 'drank.' Anything with codeine mixed with
Arizona Iced Tea. Fries your brain after a while much like Angel Dust. Hence, the withholding of the coroner's report by Angela Correy, pig-piss be upon her."

Not codeine. Dextromorphan cough syrup.

As I recall the matter, it wasn't that the tox screen was withheld, it was that, incredibly, the tox screen did not even include looking for this very common drug of abuse among urban black teens.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:56 PM (noWW6)

245 Speaking of, am I the only one really looking forward to the FX OJ series? This thing is either going to be the greatest thing on television since... eh, since the OJ trial, or it's going to be great and glorious trainwreck.

Either way...

Posted by: BurtTC at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (TOk1P)

246 Exactly how are we supposed to let this Cosby thing stand on its own and separate from politics?

I do not trust much of anything these days and am unable to view these Cosby charges as a genuine quest for justice.

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (MQEz6)

247 Where do all those people in Times Square pee?

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (qUNWi)

248
Another FAKE attack on Mohammedans by a Mohammedan his self. Check out this picture.
............................

Don't jump to conclusions, we're still trying to determine his motive.
Has anybody seen my car keys?

Posted by: ATF spokeshole at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (HgMAr)

249 I Spy was pretty lame, at least after the first season, but it was kind of groundbreaking.

Cosby's comedy records were really, really funny and he's still got it. His delivery is what makes it work, of course. But the guy has timing and a mind that finds the funny. But talent doesn't make everything okay.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (39g3+)

250 Where do all those people in Times Square pee?

Based on how it smells... pretty much anywhere.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:59 PM (39g3+)

251 Cosby's big comedy break was his bit on Noah and the ark. Haven't heard it in years. Wonder if it holds up.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 03:59 PM (AC18V)

252 236 I used to pour cheapo vodka in Grey Goose bottles and use that as a ruse to get girls to come back to my room with me in college. (hey! I have some good vodka upstairs, none of that cheap shit like we have at the party. Want to take some shots?)

Is that rape?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 03:54 PM (AkOaV)

Nowadays it is.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (kpqmD)

253 But talent doesn't make everything okay.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (39g3+)

So I've heard.

Posted by: OJ at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (TOk1P)

254 Times Square is one of those experiences that I want to be able to say I did one time, but the thought of actually doing it--the people, the cold, the standing for hours--turns my stomach. Thus I keep just doing my New Years with friends in the luxury of a warm home, hah.
Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:55 PM (hvf9s)

I've done it a few times. it's nowhere near as fun as it sounds.

Think about trying to find a bathroom in Times Square when you can't even move.

And think about how many people there are. And its all tourists, and everything is super expensive. $50 cover charges, $14 beers, etc. etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (AkOaV)

255 Another news story memory holed -- Those two missing Afghan pilots from GA; vanished 12/7...

They've been on the lam longer than affluenza boy and mom and they were caught in Mexico.

PS Cosby should try the affluenza defense. Or the defense used by that UK rich muzzie, that got away with claiming he tripped and fell dick first into a woman.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (gyKtp)

256
247 Where do all those people in Times Square pee?

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (qUNWi)

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Have you ever been to NYC in the summer? You'd never ask that if you have.

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (Fmupd)

257 Times Square is one of those experiences that I want to be able to say I did one time, but the thought of actually doing it--the people, the cold, the standing for hours--turns my stomach.

I'm glad I did it but I don't recommend it. I was 19 (I think) and it was fun but also miserable : ) It probably would have been more fun if I had been drinking!

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (lIU4e)

258 Is Times Square still having a problem with topless women who have covered themselves with body paint wandering all over the place? If so, the live TV coverages of people in Times Square for NYE could get...interesting.

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (hvf9s)

259 In which I date myself.

The Cosby Show was late, late Cosby. I grew up with "Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow, right?" and "Why is there Air?" as vinlyl albums.

People make a big deal about Kirk kissing Uhuru, but Cosby was the first black man cast as an equal lead in I Spy with Robert Culp, and he was the sophisticate who spoke all the languages.

The Bill Cosby Show '69-'71 is the earliest I can remember him.
Plus the Vinyl talking about him and his brother Russell.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (rIQuo)

260 Not codeine. Dextromorphan cough syrup.

As I recall the matter, it wasn't that the tox screen was withheld, it was that, incredibly, the tox screen did not even include looking for this very common drug of abuse among urban black teens.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:56 PM (noWW6)

DXM is the poor mans choice. It's not what lil wayne and the read drank users use. They all use prescription cough medicine with codeine and promethazine.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (AkOaV)

261 And its all tourists, and everything is super expensive. $50 cover charges, $14 beers, etc. etc.

I get my share, too

Posted by: Pick Pocket at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (39g3+)

262 But talent doesn't make everything okay.

True

Posted by: Barak Obama at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (PGh+Q)

263 Eh, Cosby was funny, but he's also a scold.

I think every black comedian has a story of Cosby calling and hectoring them. Not everyone can work clean, and it's generally thought to be much easier to work blue. So, you know. Whatever or something.

Posted by: Lucky Day at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (kZVsz)

264 /sock

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (kZVsz)

265 247 Where do all those people in Times Square pee?

Posted by: eleven at December 30, 2015 03:57 PM (qUNWi)

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Have you ever been to NYC in the summer? You'd never ask that if you have.
Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 04:00 PM (Fmupd)

there are port a pottys set up, but you can imagine how disguising those are. and you lose your spot and everyone youre with if you try to wander off to find a bathroom

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (AkOaV)

266 Wth is Decent Assault?

Look Granny, you're crossing the sidewalk with me right now!

There was a Grimm episode where the ogre towel-fused his car's gas-tank, walked off, force-walked granny across a street and kaboom.

Posted by: DaveA at December 30, 2015 04:02 PM (DL2i+)

267
250 Where do all those people in Times Square pee?

Based on how it smells... pretty much anywhere.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:59 PM (39g3+)

They hold it until they can get to San Francisco.

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 04:02 PM (MQEz6)

268 when I was in HS, there used to be Canadian OTC DXM pills people would take.

I don't think they make those anymore.

Not s ure though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:02 PM (AkOaV)

269 Drag a $50 dollar bill through Rockefeller Center and there is no telling what will come out.

Posted by: James Carville at December 30, 2015 04:03 PM (l3vZN)

270 "Think about how Bill Clinton would approach a woman: Like a regular guy
who's comfortable with himself, has something to say, and is interested
in her, too. He would approach you in that same way whether he was
trying to sleep with you, to get a campaign contribution, or just to
hang out and have a beer."

Bullshit. The celebrity status peels the panties.

Otherwise, Bill's just another old lecher like any other middle aged guy.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (oVJmc)

271 'Lord, grant me chastity and continence; but not yet.'

Posted by: St Augustine at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (bpn7O)

272 Then a girl gave me the half a quaalude and I woke up having actual sex with her. She became my new girlfriend.

I do not espouse reversing the genders here. Just saying that boys and girls are different.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 02:58 PM (1xUj/)

I think I get your point. One of the differences between boys and girls is that boys are more likely to "want it" under many different circumstances. If a girl says she doesn't want to go all the way, she probably means it for a couple of different reasons. She doesn't want to feel like a slut. She doesn't want to get pregnant. She doesn't "love " you. She doesn't want to get an STD. It has to mean something to her more than just a good roll in the hay.

Giving a girl drugs so she stops resisting is just wrong. Here's something to think about. What if a 50 year old man gave your 16 year old son a quaalude and had sex with him? And I'll bet that happens more than we think.

The sad thing about Cosby, is that with all his money and fame, he should have been able to get all he wanted without drugs. I think that some celebrities get the idea that the rules don't apply to them.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (kGrwF)

273 there are port a pottys set up, but you can imagine how disguising those are. and you lose your spot and everyone youre with if you try to wander off to find a bathroom
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (AkOaV)

Do they have cover charges just to stand outside now? I'm pretty sure we didnt' pay anything when I went mumblemumble years ago.

But when I was there, I thought if I ever did it again I would just pay to be inside someplace nearby, or at a party or something.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (lIU4e)

274 Drag a $50 dollar bill through Rockefeller Center and there is no telling what will come out.

Posted by: James Carville at December 30, 2015 04:03 PM (l3vZN)

James, you bald, impotent jerk, there's no such thing as a $50 bill. Duh.

Posted by: Carville's Idiot Wife at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (TOk1P)

275 268 when I was in HS, there used to be Canadian OTC DXM pills people would take.

I don't think they make those anymore.

Not s ure though.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:02 PM (AkOaV)

Dextromethorphan is still a common OTC cough suppressant, provided in both syrup and pill form.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 04:05 PM (kpqmD)

276 I think every black comedian has a story of Cosby calling and hectoring them.

That's actually how all this broke. Most black comedians have a story about getting "The Call" from Cosby. (Eddie Murphy had the best. He called Pryor, who said "are they laughing? are they paying you?").

So a very marginal comic named Hannibal Burress got The Call. He went on stage and said "you know, if you google 'Bill Cosby rape' you'll get more hits than if you google 'Hannibal Burress'".

Then he repeated that on Howard Stern. Then people googled "Bill Cosby rape".

And here we are.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 04:05 PM (1xUj/)

277 Think about trying to find a bathroom in Times Square when you can't even move.

On the other hand, I can't pee while I'm moving, so things will work out just fine...

Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2015 04:05 PM (oFSUK)

278 Giving a girl drugs so she stops resisting is just wrong.

Again, going up to a man's room to party with him alone changes that equation a little. She didn't go up to not have sex with him.

Posted by: Pick Pocket at December 30, 2015 04:05 PM (39g3+)

279
260 Not codeine. Dextromorphan cough syrup.

As I recall the matter, it wasn't that the tox screen was withheld, it was that, incredibly, the tox screen did not even include looking for this very common drug of abuse among urban black teens.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 03:56 PM (noWW6)

DXM is the poor mans choice. It's not what lil wayne and the read drank users use. They all use prescription cough medicine with codeine and promethazine.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 30, 2015 04:01 PM (AkOaV)

A tox screen will show what is there. Leaving the identifications off the report is something else.

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 04:06 PM (MQEz6)

280
Is Times Square still having a problem with topless women who have covered themselves with body paint wandering all over the place?
...........................

Problem? With problems like this who needs solutions?

Posted by: wth at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (HgMAr)

281 I've been to a Burris show, he's actually quite funny. Funnier than most. Certainly funnier than a lot of A-listers out there.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (kZVsz)

282 Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (kGrwF)

I don't think Cosby had sex with any of the accusers. He penetrated them digitally which weirdly seems more creepy.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (AC18V)

283 going up to a man's room to party with him alone changes that equation a little.

In the new equation, there are no variables. You're guilty.

Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (oFSUK)

284 I think every black comedian has a story of Cosby calling and hectoring them.

He's probably an arrogant jerk, but possibly he felt like a father figure to these guys and wanted to guide them. Maybe not very well. But Cosby (and Hope) have a point: if you can't make people laugh while staying clean, are you really funny? Or are you getting people to laugh by yelling 'penis' in front of them while they are drunk?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (39g3+)

285 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWQureIC1QM

Posted by: Tony Soprano's Mom at December 30, 2015 04:08 PM (bpn7O)

286 282 Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:04 PM (kGrwF)

I don't think Cosby had sex with any of the accusers. He penetrated them digitally which weirdly seems more creepy.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (AC18V)

I would've gone with analog, but to each his own.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 04:08 PM (kpqmD)

287 Giving a girl drugs so she stops resisting is just wrong.

Yes, but things get a little murkier when she takes them willingly. That's closer to getting drunk so you can 'let go' and do what you really want to do. Or have sex with this creepy guy because maybe he can give you a part on his show/money/bragging rights...

A lot of these stories sound like that's what actually happened.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:08 PM (lIU4e)

288 It's not cheating if you just lay there and don't actually do anything.

Posted by: Chupacabra at December 30, 2015 04:08 PM (kZVsz)

289 ...got away with claiming he tripped and fell dick first into a woman...

Only works in places like the UK and then only when the judge gives you a private interview.

In the US SOP is to convict but reverse and dismiss the case on appeal. The defendant also has to make arrangements to insure that the reversal gets minimal media coverage.

Posted by: scorecard at December 30, 2015 04:08 PM (PGh+Q)

290 Oh speaking of body paint ladies in Times Square...

Someone earlier today was complaining about people leaving links and saying "I'll just leave this here" with no explanation as to what the link is.

Well I will just leave this here...soooooo NSFW. That's all the into you get.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/houu8l3

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 04:09 PM (hvf9s)

291 66 I Love Pudding! Pudding it where it don't belong, LoL...
Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 03:15 PM (oDRmK)

The pudding in prison is so good, you can dip your...

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 30, 2015 04:09 PM (zRKxR)

292 *Slips the female jurors some "special" pudding...*

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 30, 2015 04:09 PM (vBeA5)

293
A tox screen will show what is there. Leaving the identifications off the report is something else.

That's not exactly true. Its meticulous and expensive to test for everything, so they usually just look for the most common and likely problems. In the real world, nobody has money and time to do 900 tests on a case like CSI or House shows.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:10 PM (39g3+)

294 Congo red!

Posted by: gregory house m.d. at December 30, 2015 04:11 PM (DLIIY)

295 Again, going up to a man's room to party with him alone changes that equation a little. She didn't go up to not have sex with him.
Posted by: Pick Pocket at December 30, 2015 04:05 PM (39g3+)

I will say that I do not consider going to a mans hotel room to be full on consent. I'm a little uncomfortable with that.

But willingly taking unknown drugs from him while there? Eh.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:11 PM (lIU4e)

296 No media reports of this:

https://t.co/TJhQSDayDI

Posted by: Mr Macca Bean (Ahad ha'am) at December 30, 2015 04:13 PM (BZAd3)

297 43 I don't know if this has been raised in an earlier thread (it's kind of OT - actually, it's very OT) but the arsonist from that mosque burning in Texas has been caught. He was a devotee of the mosque - prayed there five times a day seven days a week. Story on Drudge.
Posted by: rabidfox at December 30, 2015 03:03 PM (EW9t

Not surprised at all.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:13 PM (kGrwF)

298 What- no jokes on the perp walk?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 04:13 PM (GGCsk)

299
I will say that I do not consider going to a mans hotel room to be full on consent. I'm a little uncomfortable with that.

Its not full consent but it does demonstrate a tendency toward that and does damage your protestations later on. Maybe you didn't go up there eager to have sex but you didn't go there presuming all you'd do is play Parcheesi, either.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:14 PM (39g3+)

300 So can a president but all the womyn's groups supported him.

Doesn't matter how shitty you treat women as long as you're in favor of killing fetuses. Just ask Zombie Ted Kennedy.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:14 PM (kGrwF)

301 290: That body painting is SO tasteful. I wonder what the temperature will be over New Years.

Posted by: rabidfox at December 30, 2015 04:15 PM (EW9tX)

302 Yeah that Poland protest was HUGE. The biggest protest in European history, bar none. I think half the city took to the streets. They can't fit all the crowd into a single image, even from the air.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:15 PM (39g3+)

303 >>> Maybe you didn't go up there eager to have sex but you didn't go there presuming all you'd do is play Parcheesi, either.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:14 PM (39g3+)

That is a horrible defamatory stereotype!

Posted by: Guy that just wants to show you his etchings or just drink coffee at December 30, 2015 04:15 PM (hvf9s)

304
280
Is Times Square still having a problem with topless women who have covered themselves with body paint wandering all over the place?
...........................

Problem? With problems like this who needs solutions?
Posted by: wth at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (HgMAr)

I'm guessing that's more of a summer thing. It's getting to be a tit bit nippley to be strolling around NYC in just a thong and body paint.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 30, 2015 04:16 PM (z/Ubi)

305 283 going up to a man's room to party with him alone changes that equation a little.

In the new equation, there are no variables. You're guilty.
Posted by: t-bird at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (oFSUK)

-------------------

So fuck her outside on the front steps so that you can prove you didn't rape her. For some odd reason that arouses me.

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 04:16 PM (Fmupd)

306 I don't understand why a woman who has twice had a man make unwanted sexual advances to her (including one time when he unbuttoned her pants) would go to that man's home and then take pills he offered her, not knowing what they were.

I mean, this woman knew that Cosby literally wanted to get in her pants, so why was she being so foolish? It would be crazy to swallow pills anybody handed you, without knowing what they were, but to take pills offered to you by a man who had twice before laid hands on you and tried to feel you up, without your consent, just seems incredibly reckless. And this was a grown woman, not some naive kid.

At least some of the other women accusers, like Beverly Johnson, didn't willingly take the drugs. Johnson said Cosby slipped hers into a coffee drink. But this woman from Temple (whose assault is the basis for the arrest) just accepted three pills from Cosby and swallowed them, because he told her they'd make her feel better. What rational adult would do that?

(And I'm not trying to blame this woman for the assault. Cosby's actions, if proven, were criminal and deserve punishment. I'm just amazed that an adult woman would behave as recklessly with a predatory man as this woman did).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 30, 2015 04:16 PM (a31sM)

307 >I will say that I do not consider going to a mans hotel room to be full on consent. I'm a little uncomfortable with that. <

I would say combined with the factual outcome its the mens rea

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 04:17 PM (GGCsk)

308 evidently George Lucas has announced his dislike of the latest Star Wars movie. Enough Jar-Jar or something. I didn't bother reading, the man is an idiot. He couldn't even remember the name of his own characters while he was making his damn movies

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:17 PM (39g3+)

309 >>> I'm guessing that's more of a summer thing. It's getting to be a tit bit nippley to be strolling around NYC in just a thong and body paint.
Posted by: Buzzion at December 30, 2015 04:16 PM (z/Ubi)

It's a bit nippley out...I mean nippy out...

Posted by: Clark Griswold at December 30, 2015 04:17 PM (hvf9s)

310 Bill Cosby, (alleged) Rape Ninja.

No seriously, how many roofied bodies are required to qualify as a rape ninja? 65, 75?

Posted by: Fritz at December 30, 2015 04:18 PM (BngQR)

311 There are are attorneys here. I can tell.

If the "evidence of similar crimes" comes in (( "404(b) evidence" in fed court)), then I think a weak case becomes a very strong case.

Posted by: mnw at December 30, 2015 04:19 PM (vFd8X)

312 That is a horrible defamatory stereotype!i

I know, right?

Posted by: Netflix and Chill Guy at December 30, 2015 04:19 PM (39g3+)

313 "But Cosby (and Hope) have a point: if you can't make people laugh while staying clean, are you really funny?"

Noteworthy that the "clean" Bob Hope is posthumously _persona non grata_ and loudly denounced. The Pink Panthers have gone into full indignant-flounce mode over very mild Hope jokes about homosexuality from the 1970s.

That's why Mark Steyn isn't writing for _National RINO_ any longer. Rich Lowry gave Steyn the heave-ho simply over Steyn quoting an old Hope joke to illustrate the changing cultural climate. (NR's loss by far.)

Posted by: torquewrench at December 30, 2015 04:19 PM (noWW6)

314 Bush "refocusing" on ground game, including sending HQ staff to field.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 30, 2015 04:19 PM (brIR5)

315 301 290: That body painting is SO tasteful.

Raspberry? Strawberry?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 30, 2015 04:20 PM (rIQuo)

316 It was pretty mean what they were doing to Carry Fisher on Twitter, calling her fugly, etc.

It was really the bout with alcoholism that physically sank her.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 04:20 PM (GGCsk)

317
evidently George Lucas has announced his dislike of the latest Star Wars movie.

If he hadn't fucked up the last three, he could have made this one his way.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 04:20 PM (oVJmc)

318 I'm just amazed that an adult woman would behave as recklessly with a predatory man as this woman did

I'm not amazed, I flat out don't believe they took random drugs without any clue. That is how the majority of the accusations go to. The other ones seem less likely to me as well, because this other pattern has been so well established.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:20 PM (lIU4e)

319 Why did he (just) finger them?
1 no babies?
2 impotent?
3 they were smelly?
4 fetish?

They might be mad cause he only fingered them?
(eg he insulted their beauty?)

Posted by: scorecard at December 30, 2015 04:20 PM (PGh+Q)

320 I would not want to be on a jury for a case like this. You don't want a predator to get away with it. But having to differentiate between willing sexual acts, and someone who was unwittingly drugged and raped, is almost impossible 11 years later.

If I were in the jury pool I think I'd say something to get myself dismissed. My sister was on a jury for a rape trial where the rapist targeted prostitutes. After acquitting the guy, they found out that there were a lot of victims who would't testify.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:21 PM (kGrwF)

321 Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 03:55 PM (hvf9s)

I did the Rose Bowl parade one year. Camped out all night to get a front row seat. (Had to chase off some Mexicans who ran across the parade route and tried to squeeze in front of us 20 minutes into the parade. The cops let them go even after they crossed the route, but a dude behind us spoke pretty good Spanish and heckled them until they left.)

Anyway...I'd file it among "do once, but not sure ever again." It was cold even though they let us use fire pits. The drunk watching was fun and it was an experience, but walking forever to find a bathroom was a PITA and there's like a million people packed in a mile or so.

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at December 30, 2015 04:21 PM (tM4uk)

322 I don't think Cosby had sex with any of the accusers. He penetrated them digitally which weirdly seems more creepy.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (AC18V)
__________________

Probably a Clintonesque-type dodge -- so he could pretend it wasn't really sex so he wasn't really cheating on his wife with all these women.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 30, 2015 04:21 PM (a31sM)

323 >>311
There are are attorneys here. I can tell.

If the "evidence of similar crimes" comes in (( "404(b) evidence" in
fed court)), then I think a weak case becomes a very strong case.<<

Proof of motive or intent, for sure.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 30, 2015 04:21 PM (GGCsk)

324 It was pretty mean what they were doing to Carry Fisher on Twitter, calling her fugly, etc.

I wouldn't go that far, but the botox was distracting.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 04:22 PM (oVJmc)

325 And why is the carpet all wet, TODD?

Posted by: Margo at December 30, 2015 04:22 PM (GdFQh)

326 317
evidently George Lucas has announced his dislike of the latest Star Wars movie.

If he hadn't fucked up the last three, he could have made this one his way.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 04:20 PM (oVJmc)

He's just angry that people thought his last three "Star Wars" movies were shit, and liked the one he was deliberately kept far, far away from.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 04:22 PM (kpqmD)

327 324 It was pretty mean what they were doing to Carry Fisher on Twitter, calling her fugly, etc.

I wouldn't go that far, but the botox was distracting.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 30, 2015 04:22 PM (oVJmc)

That and the throat cancer voice.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 30, 2015 04:23 PM (kpqmD)

328 "Times Square is one of those experiences that I want to be able to say I did one time"

It looks like the police have people penned in like cattle now. I doubt it's fun any more. I've never been.

And I keep expecting the Islamists to turn it into a scene from "Independence Day" any year now.

Posted by: despair at December 30, 2015 04:24 PM (VrdxH)

329 He penetrated them digitally which weirdly seems more creepy.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM

Wait, really? Apparently I missed that part.

That's creepy but it seems like kind less of a big deal.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:24 PM (lIU4e)

330
293
A tox screen will show what is there. Leaving the identifications off the report is something else.

That's not exactly true. Its meticulous and expensive to test for everything, so they usually just look for the most common and likely problems. In the real world, nobody has money and time to do 900 tests on a case like CSI or House shows.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 04:10 PM (39g3+)

No. TLC is cheap and can detect plenty of things and LC will snag all the drugs and their metabolites with no problem and it does not cost a fortune. LC-MS will id the peaks.

Posted by: eman at December 30, 2015 04:25 PM (MQEz6)

331 Again. I'm going to wait for the trial......IF there is one.

Posted by: Soona at December 30, 2015 04:25 PM (Fmupd)

332 Someone on CNN what saw it said he appears to be darn near blind.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 30, 2015 03:23 PM (1xUj/)

IIRC, he is going blind. Glaucoma.

Posted by: baldilocks at December 30, 2015 04:26 PM (ys2UW)

333 Nood Trump.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 30, 2015 04:26 PM (DLIIY)

334 I don't think Cosby had sex with any of the accusers. He penetrated them digitally which weirdly seems more creepy.
Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 04:07 PM (AC18V)

That's interesting. Maybe he should have borrowed Clinton's cigar. I'm wondering if he deluded himself that it wasn't really sex?

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:26 PM (kGrwF)

335 At least some of the other women accusers, like Beverly Johnson, (say they) didn't willingly take the drugs. Johnson said Cosby slipped hers into a coffee drink (because she wouldn't be drinking alcohol cause she be a good woman).

Added some infuriating. :-)

Posted by: scorecard at December 30, 2015 04:27 PM (PGh+Q)

336 With the number of accusers popping up, you have to wonder if it's not the same type of phenomenon that happened in a number of child care molestation cases.

Posted by: Max Rockatansky at December 30, 2015 04:28 PM (AC18V)

337 >>> evidently George Lucas has announced his dislike of the latest Star Wars movie.

A link was posted at the HQ not long ago about how his ex-wife was the secret behind the heart of his films, and everything she did that made them better. And it's known how the other people involved in the films, like the other writers, made them what they are.

The man has an ego the size of the Death Star. The fact is he can't admit he is a decent world builder but crappy storyteller.

Posted by: LizLem at December 30, 2015 04:28 PM (hvf9s)

338 In at least one instance I can recall,one of thewomen said she was having drinks with Cosby anddidn't know she was being drugged until she started feeling woozy and, well, drugged. The drug use was not consensual. The sex--or whatever Cosby allegedly did to her while she was out of it--was not consensual. That is, if the woman is telling the truth.

Posted by: troyriser at December 30, 2015 03:21 PM (cCEFD)

I think that was Beverly Johnson. Model in the 70s-80s.

http://tinyurl.com/kp7tv8e

Posted by: baldilocks at December 30, 2015 04:30 PM (ys2UW)

339 Insomniac, Jar-Jar alone made him deserving of losing control.

Posted by: Tilikum Killer Whale at December 30, 2015 04:32 PM (uhftQ)

340 "Beverly Johnson" is black.

I expect that a criminal case couldn't be brought on her claims because of a shorter statute of limitations. But you can expect her to testify in the PA case to establish a pattern of behavior by Crosby.

Like I keep saying, Cosby is f*cked.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 30, 2015 04:33 PM (r1fLd)

341 going up to a man's room to party with him alone changes that equation a little.

Yeah. But in today's world, if you tell your daughter, "Don't do this, this, or this," you are accused of blaming the victim. A girl who gets very drunk is screwing up. A girl who has a couple drinks and goes to a guy's room is screwing up. It's hard to make blanket statements about whether these kinds of incidents are rape or not.

Honestly, I was pretty stupid when I was in college. I sometimes drank too much. I sometimes went to a guy's apartment to watch tv or whatever. No one ever tried to rape me or force his way on me.
I was lucky, in that all of the guys I had contact with were brought up right by their parents.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:34 PM (kGrwF)

342 165 So the young girls, ALL WHITE, were given "Jello Shots"?
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 03:35 PM (jJRIy)

Beverly Johnson is black as is at least one other. BTW, Johnson says he drugged her coffee.

Posted by: baldilocks at December 30, 2015 04:35 PM (ys2UW)

343 I sometimes went to a guy's apartment to watch tv or whatever. No one ever tried to rape me or force his way on me. I was lucky, in that all of the guys I had contact with were brought up right by their parents.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 30, 2015 04:34 PM (kGrwF)

Exactly. And I wouldn't consider going to watch a movie or even make out 'consent'.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:36 PM (lIU4e)

344 I did Times Sq early 70's in college. The place then was a dump and there were no give aways. You peed at a bar after you bought a drink.

Waste of time, but we did get picked up by two MI girls, but we had nowhere to take them and in the early 70's people didn't hook like they do now.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 04:37 PM (jJRIy)

345 So I guess no one is trying to defend the Coz like when this first came out?
Maybe Ace might consider posting what people said about it then

Posted by: Bubba at December 30, 2015 04:38 PM (2TD5A)

346
Beverly Johnson is black as is at least one other. BTW, Johnson says he drugged her coffee.

Posted by: baldilocks at December 30, 2015 04:35 PM (ys2UW)

News to me. What are there, 10-15 accusers, and he has two Blacks?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 04:39 PM (jJRIy)

347 Ok, reading Beverly Johnson's account.

I told him I didn't drink coffee that late in the afternoon because it made getting to sleep at night more difficult. He wouldn't let it go.

OK, this does remind me of something mentioned in 'the gift of fear'. If someone won't take no for an answer on something really innocuous, that's a bad sign.

Posted by: Lea at December 30, 2015 04:43 PM (lIU4e)

348 Guys like Jesse Jackson and Barack Hussein Obama hate the Huxtables and hate Bill Cosby. Hate.

"I didn't grow up like the Huxtables"
-every comedian on Russel Simmons Def Comedy Jam when not talking about how stupid white people are.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 30, 2015 03:51 PM (39g3+)

This annoyed the crap out of me, because I knew lots of families like that, including my own.

Posted by: baldilocks at December 30, 2015 04:46 PM (ys2UW)

349 News to me. What are there, 10-15 accusers, and he has two Blacks?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 30, 2015 04:39 PM (jJRIy)

I don't know. I was just responding to what you said.

Posted by: baldilocks at December 30, 2015 05:00 PM (ys2UW)

350 It is the libmedia frenzy, and the person of Gloria Femi-communist All-RED leading the quasi-prosecution, that gives me instinctive sympathy for Mr. Cosby.

That and the fact that all this seems to have come after Bill Cosby exhorted African Americans to leave the welfare and professional victimology plantation the American Left has set up for them. It just seems *too* coincidental as a result....

And I have a hard time seeing these aspiring starlets and party girls as babes in the woods....

That said, say it ain't so, Bill. Cosby's motivation for that show was to show America a "wholesome" and intact upper class black family - words that America in general did not put together in 1985. Blacks and (poor) whites both looked at him and thought "wow, look at what he has achieved!" Not only through "celebrity" but through his ideals for a better world, especially for children in poverty. We respected his actions and opinions even more since he has a Doctorate in Education, which was proudly displayed after his name in the opening credits.

And it wasn't just his Mr. Huxtable character either. Whether imparting lessons on good behavior to (then) kids like me on Saturday morning watching "Fat Albert", or his role as the dignified (and at the time groundbreaking for TV) sidekick on "I Spy", or his stand up comedy routines that used profanity sparingly and only when really necessary for the humor, Mr. Cosby always seemed like a class act.

Even in his truly *awful* TV and movie parts (Ghostdad? Leonard Part 6?) his character was always a good guy.

It is sad to discover he is a creep.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 30, 2015 05:22 PM (GsebS)

351 Guys like Jesse Jackson and Barack Hussein Obama hate the Huxtables and hate Bill Cosby. Hate.

Which in the case of the President is odd, since he had a "Different Strokes" upbringing in a way.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 30, 2015 05:29 PM (GsebS)

352 Funny "sweaters' OR CHOCOLATE PUDDIN'......HARD TA CHOOSE

Posted by: saf at December 31, 2015 12:45 PM (qKiBT)

353 Privileges!

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