Bill Cosby will fit right in with today’s GOP: it really does seem like on day one of the new job every novice Republican politician, operative, and pundit is given a handbook entitled How To Be A Decent Human Being with an addendum attached that simply says Now Do The Complete Opposite.
For the record, if the decision releasing Cosby was at all correct, this arrest in this case was abominable yet, um, one wonders if it had, let’s say, any racial basis. Note that I’m not saying Cosby doesn’t belong in jail for something necessarily, but this isn’t the one.
Sympathies to Roy for channeling the voice of a boring comedian (IMO).
I understand the legal reasoning behind Cosby being released from prison. I can’t quarrel with it because I’d support it as applied to anybody else who got screwed over by the District Attorney’s office.
The “something” that Cosby should be in jail for, after given a fair trial with all due process being observed, is the sexual assault/rape of, at a minimum, dozens of women.
Which is my point: surely he belongs jailed but, again if the scenario backing the decision is correct, this one was an abomination, one maybe racially fueled.
The key is whether or not there was a corrupt bargain between the DA and Cosby's lawyers. The trial court said Trump's lawyer (the DA) claim that there was, was risible as there was no written agreement at all. SCOPA disagreed. I mean you don't want defendants being railroaded by new DAs, but you also don't want the DA making corrupt secret bargains with rich people to keep them from being prosecuted. The thing SCOPA got wrong was excoriating the new DA rather than the old DA
Hmm, Bruce Castor. Some people wend their way through life creating chaos and catastrophe through a combination of incompetence and vanity. It’s “Law & Order: Deference to Powerful Republicans Edition.”
This might be a tough thing for conservatives to decide. On one hand, Cosby is a rich man escaping the consequences of his creepy, rapey actions only because he has a lot of money.
Among conservatives this can be seen as the ultimate , successful result of a conservative life well lived.
Yeah, Bill Cosby- living the Dream!
On the other hand, our soft on crime, Lieberal court system has let another crazed colored rapist free, free to rape again.
Common sense dictates Conservatives go buy yet another gun to keep their family safe.
They'll split the difference- embrace Cosby as(almost) one of themselves and then go out and buy a gun because you can never really be sure plus, day ending in "Y"
The Coz has been garbage for a long time. As far back as that "pull up your damn pants" nonsense, blaming Black men for their own marginaization.
There are troubling issues here:
1) Whenever there's a pubic outcry against an abusive cultural problem, like police violence or rape culture, the police & prosecutors are perfectly wiling to locate & punish a POC instead of the white men that do it more often. Coz is one example. Another: the cop who murdered Akai Gurley was Chinese-American. He was punished without much question or hand-wringing. [This is not to say Cosby is innocent at all, it seems clear that he is a rapist.]
2) Carceral & individual approaches to resolving rape culture will more often than not fail. Because these are not structural solutions & rely on systems designed to protect rapists & sexual abusers, especially if they're white or wealthy.
That was a plot twist I didn't see coming and given the current state of Republican fascist anti-americanism , I should have. The GOP has drugged the shit out of its base with a constant dose of Fox & Friends and Tucker and all and then violated any reason and decency they might have had left. Cosby is perfect for them.
Something happens to old successful comedians, though good ol' Cos was drugging and raping women for a long time, apparantly. Toward the end of his life Steve Allen took out a full-page ad in the NYT decrying the FILTH that had turned Television into a SEWER feeding GARBAGE into the homes of America. It went on for paragraphs like that, like one of his old reading letters to the editor bits. The cliche is there is a lot of anger and insecurity underneath the comedy, maybe like most people the older you get the fewer filters there are between the comedian's subconscious and the public.Still doesn't explain the drugging and raping, I don't think I want to imagine what could.
I've had a beef with Old Bill since I heard the bit where he was mocking his wife for being Catholic so she 'had to' have all the children he wanted or she'd go to Hell, which is both unspeakably ugly and gets Catholic doctrine of the time (and even a decade before) _wrong_.
Since the start of the rumours, I've insisted that Mr Cosby's crimes are fully in line with Traditional Values: a rich, respectable, man in that value-scheme _ought_ to be able to do anything he wants to a Bad Girl, and a defining mark of a Bad Girl is talking too long with a man without a male relative around, much less going alone to a man's rooms!
Bill Cosby will fit right in with today’s GOP: it really does seem like on day one of the new job every novice Republican politician, operative, and pundit is given a handbook entitled How To Be A Decent Human Being with an addendum attached that simply says Now Do The Complete Opposite.
I just now got around to reading "Fast Food Nation", which contains numerous reminders that 'Twas Ever Thus.
(Sorry, I would find this funny if it weren't already Trumpov's origin story--minus the jail time of course)
For the record, if the decision releasing Cosby was at all correct, this arrest in this case was abominable yet, um, one wonders if it had, let’s say, any racial basis. Note that I’m not saying Cosby doesn’t belong in jail for something necessarily, but this isn’t the one.
Sympathies to Roy for channeling the voice of a boring comedian (IMO).
I understand the legal reasoning behind Cosby being released from prison. I can’t quarrel with it because I’d support it as applied to anybody else who got screwed over by the District Attorney’s office.
The “something” that Cosby should be in jail for, after given a fair trial with all due process being observed, is the sexual assault/rape of, at a minimum, dozens of women.
Which is my point: surely he belongs jailed but, again if the scenario backing the decision is correct, this one was an abomination, one maybe racially fueled.
The key is whether or not there was a corrupt bargain between the DA and Cosby's lawyers. The trial court said Trump's lawyer (the DA) claim that there was, was risible as there was no written agreement at all. SCOPA disagreed. I mean you don't want defendants being railroaded by new DAs, but you also don't want the DA making corrupt secret bargains with rich people to keep them from being prosecuted. The thing SCOPA got wrong was excoriating the new DA rather than the old DA
Hmm, Bruce Castor. Some people wend their way through life creating chaos and catastrophe through a combination of incompetence and vanity. It’s “Law & Order: Deference to Powerful Republicans Edition.”
Saw this on Twitter a couple of weeks ago: "Lord, grant me the confidence of an incompetent White man."
This might be a tough thing for conservatives to decide. On one hand, Cosby is a rich man escaping the consequences of his creepy, rapey actions only because he has a lot of money.
Among conservatives this can be seen as the ultimate , successful result of a conservative life well lived.
Yeah, Bill Cosby- living the Dream!
On the other hand, our soft on crime, Lieberal court system has let another crazed colored rapist free, free to rape again.
Common sense dictates Conservatives go buy yet another gun to keep their family safe.
They're still fine with Clarence Thomas, I don't think it would be a stretch for them.
They'll split the difference- embrace Cosby as(almost) one of themselves and then go out and buy a gun because you can never really be sure plus, day ending in "Y"
The Coz has been garbage for a long time. As far back as that "pull up your damn pants" nonsense, blaming Black men for their own marginaization.
There are troubling issues here:
1) Whenever there's a pubic outcry against an abusive cultural problem, like police violence or rape culture, the police & prosecutors are perfectly wiling to locate & punish a POC instead of the white men that do it more often. Coz is one example. Another: the cop who murdered Akai Gurley was Chinese-American. He was punished without much question or hand-wringing. [This is not to say Cosby is innocent at all, it seems clear that he is a rapist.]
2) Carceral & individual approaches to resolving rape culture will more often than not fail. Because these are not structural solutions & rely on systems designed to protect rapists & sexual abusers, especially if they're white or wealthy.
That was a plot twist I didn't see coming and given the current state of Republican fascist anti-americanism , I should have. The GOP has drugged the shit out of its base with a constant dose of Fox & Friends and Tucker and all and then violated any reason and decency they might have had left. Cosby is perfect for them.
HAHAH
Something happens to old successful comedians, though good ol' Cos was drugging and raping women for a long time, apparantly. Toward the end of his life Steve Allen took out a full-page ad in the NYT decrying the FILTH that had turned Television into a SEWER feeding GARBAGE into the homes of America. It went on for paragraphs like that, like one of his old reading letters to the editor bits. The cliche is there is a lot of anger and insecurity underneath the comedy, maybe like most people the older you get the fewer filters there are between the comedian's subconscious and the public.Still doesn't explain the drugging and raping, I don't think I want to imagine what could.
So. Why Is There Air? So Cos can bloviate, of course...
I will never hear "The City of Brotherly Love" in quite the same spirit, after reading this.
I've had a beef with Old Bill since I heard the bit where he was mocking his wife for being Catholic so she 'had to' have all the children he wanted or she'd go to Hell, which is both unspeakably ugly and gets Catholic doctrine of the time (and even a decade before) _wrong_.
Since the start of the rumours, I've insisted that Mr Cosby's crimes are fully in line with Traditional Values: a rich, respectable, man in that value-scheme _ought_ to be able to do anything he wants to a Bad Girl, and a defining mark of a Bad Girl is talking too long with a man without a male relative around, much less going alone to a man's rooms!