Enigma
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RE: Bill Cosby Makes A Meme Request, And it Backfires Dramatically
I wrote and submitted this article to ROK a couple weeks ago. Apparently the crew there didn't like it  But I figured I might as well post it here.
It's missing some of the newer stories, since it was written before they came out.
Quote:Bill Cosby Didn't Rape Anyone
As you probably know, Bill Cosby, famous for his long and extremely successful career in comedy and television, has been accused of rape. Something like 14 times, to be exact.
With cases ranging from 1967 to 2005, the statute of limitations has long since passed on nearly every one of these alleged incidents. Cosby has yet to be convicted of sexual assault – or even to stand trial.
But he currently sits in a different court, the court of public opinion. News outlets, blogs, and random women on Twitter will serve as judge, jury, and executioner in these proceedings. Judging from the biased reporting and enraged comments, many of them have already found Mr. Cosby guilty, if only in their mind.
Surely someone accused so many times must have done something, right?
That's what the agenda driven media would like us to believe, but we're smarter than that. We'd prefer to weigh the facts ourselves before casting the burden of judgment.
What are the facts here? Well, since most of these women waited at least a decade – if not two or three – to so much as mention that they may have been raped, there is no physical evidence. We have only their stories to go on.
Fortunately, many of their stories are quite telling. Cosby refuses to respond to their allegations specifically, but we will.
- Janice Dickinson
We'll start with an easy one. For those of you who don't know, Janice Dickinson is one of the most notorious sluts in Hollywood history. She herself claims to have slept with over 1,000 men, most of them celebrities. Chances are, she banged at least one of your favorite actors or musicians in '80s.
Cosby at one point served as her mentor, setting her up with a singing coach in hopes of creating the next pop star. Unfortunately, Janice was too drunk during her debut and forgot the words. This led to one of her several stints in rehab.
When she got out, she met up with Cosby at his hotel in Lake Tahoe, where she claims he gave her wine and a pill. In the morning, she realized she wasn't wearing any clothes and recalled the two of them having sex.
Interesting. Let's take a look at some direct quotes from Janice's memoir and interviews to see if we can get some more background.
“Back in the early Eighties, I was at the peak of my modeling career and partying hard. I was on the front cover of almost every magazine in the world and could pretty much take my pick when it came to men - even the very famous ones. And I did.”
This is an excerpt directly from her book. She claims the Cosby assault happened in 1982, during this same time period.
On a random meeting with director Steven Spielberg:
“But I couldn't remember meeting him - I must have been really drunk. The alcohol-induced blackouts that I was starting to suffer from didn't help my recall.”
Another interesting quote, straight from Janice herself, about a threesome she had with actor Dolph Lundgren and singer Grace Jones:
“People ask me what it was like...but I don't remember. We were all so high.”
Here we have a woman who admits to regularly blacking out on drugs and alcohol, then fucking whoever in the room caught her eye, all during the same time period that her “incident” with Mr. Cosby was said to occur.
Taking that into consideration, “the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me”, sounds like pretty much a normal night in young Janice's life.
Given these very public quotes and the rest of Janice's extensive history of lying, attention whoring, and substance abuse, you can be certain that a prosecutor wouldn't dare use her as a witness. Yet we have media outlets referring to her claims as evidence of Cosby's guilt.
Why? Because they don't care about fact checking or credibility. They can spin things however they want, and most people won't even pay enough attention to realize.
The fact that they're using reality TV disaster and tabloid fodder queen Janice Dickinson as one of their star witnesses is absolutely laughable for anyone even remotely aware of who she is.
- Therese Serignese
Then we have Therese Serignese. According to her story, she met Cosby in Vegas back in 1976, when the then 19-year-old caught his eye in a gift shop, and he invited her to his show that night. After the show, they went back to his hotel room, where he allegedly gave her two pills and a glass of water.
When Therese came to, she was bent over in the bathroom having sex with Cosby – or he was having sex with her, at least, according to her allegations.
Sounds terrible, right? Poor girl.
Her mother thought so too, which is why she suggested that Therese go back – “maybe he'll take care of you”.
She did. And they dated. For weeks. She stayed in a penthouse at the Vegas Hilton, which he payed for.
He eventually broke up with her after a pregnancy scare.
But the story doesn't end there. They kept in touch. For decades.
Like in 1985, when they had sex again. Or 1996, when Cosby footed Therese's medical bills after she was involved in an unrelated car accident.
Who says Hollywood can't come up with an original story anymore? Boy meets girl, boy rapes girl, boy and girl date, then keep in touch for the next twenty years.
Nothing says traumatic experience like staying on friendly terms with your rapist. Or having sex with him almost ten years later.
It's almost like she was in love with Cosby, but obviously that can't be true. He raped her, after all.
- Joan Tarshis
Tarshis marks the earliest entry on the Cosby “rape” timeline, having met him all the way back in 1969. Her story, as published in a blog post, recalls her going to Cosby's hotel room to work on some comedy writing.
He “was always generous with his food and drinks”. Tarshis had a few strong Bloody Mary's, topped off with beer. At some point, he began undressing her.
She told him she had an STD, which Cosby would catch if they had sex and thereby blow his cover with his wife. He had her perform oral sex instead.
The thing is, nowhere does Tarshis claim he forced her to do anything. In fact, her STD excuse seems to imply that they couldn't have sex because of his wife, not because she didn't want to. His generosity with drinks is framed in an attempt to prove he drugged her but in reality, Cosby could just be a gracious host. We should also mention that Tarshis was an admitted alcoholic before she even met Cosby, something she struggled within into middle age, so it's not as if he was pushing these beverages on the young lady.
Her only proof that he “drugged her” was that she felt particularly inebriated after multiple drinks. Could this be because she was drinking strong Bloody Mary's and mixing liquor with beer?
Is it really that far-fetched that a girl small enough to earn the nickname “Midget” from Cosby could become drunk after consuming two or more stiff cocktails, including different types of alcohol? On the second night, she even had another unspecified drink.
Oh yeah, the second night. We didn't get to the part where she returns to Cosby's hotel room again, after attending one of his shows. After consuming multiple drinks, Joan is somehow uncomfortable trying to stand in the back of the crowded theater for the duration of his show.
There's obviously no reason that “Midget” would want to go pass out in the car after drinking hard liquor and beer, other than the drinks being laced with drugs.
“The next thing I remember was waking up in his bed back at the Sherry, naked. I remember thinking ‘You old shit, I guess you got me this time, but it’s the last time you’ll ever see me.’"
Is that the reaction of someone who's just been raped by their mentor? Sounds more like a Scooby Doo villain cursing the “meddling kids” to me, but I digress.
Joan brought her allegations public just a couple weeks ago, some 45 years after it happened. And if you recall, she was struggling with alcohol abuse for almost 20 years during that period, not to mention however long she spent in recovery.
Let's Wrap This Up...
- Andrea Constand: Waited over a year to bring her story to the police and did so in an entirely different country. Her interactions with Cosby occurred in Pennsylvania, but she had since moved back to her native Canada.
There wasn't enough evidence for a criminal case, so she filed civil suit and settled out of court. Why was she only seeking $150,000 from a man worth hundreds of millions?
When the spotlight was recently recast on Cosby, Andrea and Bill's attorneys filed a joint statement saying their issues had been satisfactorily resolved. $150,000 is a satisfactory resolution for rape, apparently.
- Barbara Bowman: When Constand's trial was going forward, a group of women offered to testify against Cosby. Most of them chose to remain anonymous, but Barbara specifically requested to be named.
Her allegations at the time including groping and assault, which Bowman says she endured for two years. Today, she claims rape. Funny how her memories are somehow clearer 10 years later. And why did she stay around for two years?
- Louisa Moritz: Louisa claims she was sitting in her dressing room at The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (this was in 1971), when Cosby came in. During a conversation, he pulled out his penis, which was now at eye level to the seated Moritz. He pulled her head in and Louisa proceeded to fellate him.
This is actually not even assault. Sexually aggressive, yes. Sexual assault, no.
Moritz is certainly aware of this as a former attorney herself. We say former because she was disbarred and is unable to practice. Apparently she was just upset that the blowjob didn't give her acting career the boost Cosby implied it would.
- Angela Leslie: Claims Cosby used her hand to jack himself off. Leslie didn't protest or physically refuse. She even wet her hair beforehand at Cosby's request.
- Linda Joy Traitz: Alleges Mr. Cosby offered her drugs and then tried to have sex with her. This is not even a crime.
Well, drugs are illegal, but this is something Linda has no qualms about, however, having done jail time in the past for drug trafficking.
- Carla Ferrigno: Cosby forcefully kissed her in 1967. She pushed him away, saying, “I've never been kissed by a black man before”. He stopped. Not rape.
Carla grew up in a bar and was working as a Bunny at the Playboy Club, at the time.
- Lachele Covington: Filed a police report after Cosby pushed her hand towards his penis. Police determined no crime had been committed, since he stopped his advances as soon as she protested.
- Beth Ferrier: Dated Cosby, claims that she came to his dressing room after they broke up and he drugged her cappuccino. Woke up in her car later, with her clothes disheveled.
Why would her ex-bf drug her for post-breakup sex? Surely there were other women at the show who would have willingly hooked up with him.
Why would he then leave her in a parking lot, when all his other accusers were chauffeured around in limos, put up in penthouses, had their schooling paid for, etc.? Why did she wait 20 years to say anything?
- Renita Chaney Hill: Cosby served as her mentor from age 15 to 19. Renita says he once kissed her and told her to lose weight. He would give her drinks, and she would feel funny and not remember what happened next.
Hill says she doesn't know if she was actually raped. And if she suspected it so strongly, why did she continue to see Cosby for 4 years? Why did she wait 30 years to come forward?
Couldn't she have told her parents he was, according to her claims, forcing her to drink? Even just mentioned it?
- Tamara Green: Says Cosby gave her a pill for her cold, helped her home, and tried to undress her. He claims he's never even met her.
What Proof?
Story after story is being published recently citing the 14 women who have accused Cosby. But the thing is, many of these accusations don't even involve crimes. Five of the women specifically state that he stopped after his advances were refused. Several others didn't even try.
Half of the women who claim Cosby successfully assaulted them continued the relationship after the fact. Then you have the extreme character issues, from prolonged substance abuse, to disbarment, to imprisonment.
Is it possible that Bill Cosby raped someone? Sure. But where is the proof?
These women's stories are the only evidence presented, and they don't hold up. Not only would they not fly in court, they aren't even enough to warrant a criminal trial, as proven in Constand's case.
Look past the bias this “scandal” is being presented with. Is some 20-year-old story enough to ruin a man's legacy?
(This post was last modified: 12-04-2014 09:49 AM by Enigma.)
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