Bill Cosby’s case will sadly be decided by his celebrity, not the evidence
When it comes down to it, Bill Cosby's case will not be decided by the evidence, but by how big of a celebrity he is.
Bill Cosby departs the Montgomery County Courthouse after a preliminary hearing, Tuesday, May 24, 2016, in Norristown, Pa. Cosby was ordered to stand trial on sexual assault charges after the hearing. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, Pool)
It looks like Mr. Huxstable is on his way to court.
Yes, America’s favorite dad, Bill Cosby, will see one of his 40-plus accusers in a court of law.
The evidence against him is light at best. With the exception of evidentiary strength, haven’t we seen something like this before?
A favorite. An American name. An American icon facing justice?
Yes, yes we have: This whole mess is starting to shape up O.J. Simpson style.
Think about it: Simpson was one of the most-celebrated athletes in American history. Cosby is one of the most-celebrated funny men in American history.
Simpson was a complete shock, yet backed with mountains of damning evidence. Cosby on the heels of a train of accusers and the evidence is almost nonexistent (except for a confession that most likely won’t see the courtroom).
These two cases will share common factors: celebrity and money.
Let’s not look to this trial to shine a positive light on our justice system.
Let me address the money first. Let’s face it: Money buys power. That’s not a truth that is exclusive to America, by the way.
Money bought Simpson the legal Dream Team and, ultimately, his temporary freedom.
If Cosby was smart, he would have begun assembling a similar team when the first accuser made headlines.
This brings me to celebrity, which is where it gets sad.
You can already sense America dividing between those that act with logic and those that act with emotions.
Those that act with logic will say, “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck!” More than 40 women have come forward with the same story of sexual assault by the same man. He must be guilty.
Then there are those that feel there is no way that America’s favorite dad could possibly do this. He’s Mr. Huxstable for the love of goodness! He has to be innocent!
The latter, unfortunately, is where the vocal majority lives and is exactly why we will once again watch an American icon get away with, not a perfect crime, but one of celebrity.
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This article is wrong. There is a third, and much more intelligent contingent of people who will wait for the evidence to be presented before making up their minds. As was the case with Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown.
I also disagree the Bill Cosby is untouchable and that a the author missed a major factor. Is is old. Really old. He is 78 years old. For a very long time, he has lived a life of privilege and isolation.
He will be found guilty and he will be slammed financially.
Years later to boot ! Given the statutes of limitation, this smells to high heaven. He has been very outspoken in his criticism of black's failure to take responsibility for themselves chiding them for preferring instead to be used as pawns.
This is and always was about money and a contingent of people who have been after it for some time. Several of these women have been discredited in the past, with false paternity suits and extortion attempts.
Cosby was known in certain circles for some time to have been a habitual womanizer. These women all likely knew that, and some of their stories stink to say the least. Are these people children? Are we supposed to believe that when someone hands you a pill, you just take it without question and then claim to have been "drugged"?
And what did these grown women expect from these intimate meetings with a married man known philanderer? One of them claims he raped her and then she went back a second time! Is that what you do when someone rapes you?
Look, I don't pretend to know if he did or didn't do this to anyone, but what's obvious is that there are no good people in any of this. At the very least, most of these women never reported a thing and let him keep victimizing other women, if in fact that's what he was doing. And at worst, these women were seeking some sort of reward in terms of roles or money and just didn't get what they were after.
So now we have another evidence-free circus and the parasites will no doubt scavenge what's left of his earnings when they are done. And isn't that really the point?