Who counts
What’s the weather like down there in the bottom of the barrel?
Bill Cosby’s lawyers said Tuesday that the comedian — who will stand trial in June for allegedly drugging and sexually molesting a woman — is a victim of “racial bias.”
What does that sound like – oh yes, O J Simpson’s lawyers claiming that the prosecution of Simpson was “racial bias” when in fact the LA police had been cutting him way too much slack for years.
It sounds like angry, entitled men who destroy or damage women and when caught pretend they’re the ones being wronged.
“For Mr. Cosby, this is a version of the ‘shoot now, ask questions later’ approach to judicial justice that you’re seeing in the streets,” defense lawyer Angela Agrusa told reporters outside a Pennsylvania courthouse.
Because arrest and prosecution are the same thing as shooting now, except for the shooting now part.
[Attorney Gloria] Allred, who just held a press conference in California calling for the elimination of the statute of limitations for rape and sexual assault, dismissed the Cosby lawyers’ claims as an act of desperation by Cosby.
“He complains about racial bias but what about the African American women whom I represent who accuse him of sexual assault or rape and who refuse to remain silent about what they say they have suffered?” Allred said in a statement issued Tuesday evening.
They don’t count, because they’re not Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby is important. They’re not.
Reminds me of Phylicia Rashad’s comments about Cosby’s “legacy” being destroyed:
“I think it’s orchestrated. I don’t know why or who’s doing it, but it’s the legacy. And it’s a legacy that is so important to the culture … Someone is determined to keep Bill Cosby off TV, and it’s worked. All his contracts have been canceled.”
The one who has trashed Bill Cosby’s reputation is Bill Cosby.
Wasn’t she playing his wife? So she stands to lose when the show stops re-airing late nights. Too bad for her.
We have a saying here about verbal faux pas: “to step in the concertina”. A corollary says, once you’ve done that it’s best to stand still because it sounds just as awful when you pull your foot back out.
It’s too late to turn back all the clocks in town. It’s too late to take the eggs from yesterday. Now the die is cast. Nothing happens in the past. (I think I’ll take a walk out in the rain.)
One of the many disgusting things about this, of course, is that there’s an unfortunately realistic reason to suspect that if Cosby were white, it wouldn’t have even gotten this far–there really is a bias in the system against African-American men, even the wealthy and famous ones.
That doesn’t mean the investigation is fraudulent or unjustified–it absolutely is well-founded, and long overdue; it just means that the more privilege cards you have, the more you can get away with before the system finally deals with you.
Bill Cosby…the poor oppressed sharecropper?
American public discourse is so degraded that this is NOT ‘hitting bottom,’ It was a reflexive reaction among the whole troupe of ‘community leaders.’ This is not categorically different from the mindset of Trump supporters, apologists for Islamism, Fox news consumers etc. Smug certainty, and an infinite capacity for conspiracy mongering are STARTING point for Americans.
And it goes downhill from there.