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11/20/2014

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    The news broke yesterday that NBC has scrapped plans for a TV show in which Bill Cosby was to play the father of three adult daughters,  dispenser of wit, wisdom, and family values.
    Netflix also pulled his upcoming Thanksgiving special.
    His fans have not been coming out of the woodwork in his defense. Quite the contrary; when Bill Cosby's social media team created a meme twitter link to allow his fans to write loving, supportive messages on photos of him, tweeters instead overwhelmingly used the link to call him a rapist.
    No throngs of old show business colleagues, co-stars, associates, friends, or even family members have rushed forward to publicly stand up for Bill Cosby.  No one has testified that he's a wonderful human being who's incapable of committing the crimes he's being accused of him.  No one is defending him.
    He won't even defend himself.  Or can't.
    And so Bill Cosby is no longer America's beloved entertainer.  His name is ruined. His career is probably over and so, most likely, is life as he's known it.
     His fatal mistake was failing to realize that girls who are vulnerable, easily victimized and easily silenced when they're young don't necessarily stay that way.   He didn't foresee these girls growing up to become strong, successful women - a college administrator, an actress, an attorney, a journalist, a television star, - who would  one day finally find their voices.
    And use their voices to take away his.

   

 
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Romaine
11/20/2014 03:23:39 am

I heard the end of an interview with a women who said he victimized her in 1969. When asked what she would like to say to BC - her response was "get well soon because you don't have much time left". I wondered how much processing she had to go through to be able to come to the point where she could be so charitable towards him.

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Patti
11/20/2014 08:00:38 am

You figure she meant "get well", as in be cured of this illness that made him do what he did to her?

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Romaine
11/20/2014 09:21:22 am

I took it to mean get well from what ever it is that is driving him to do these terrible things

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Patti
11/20/2014 10:47:33 am

Yes, well, at least she is now being heard and believed. That has to help

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