Bill Cosby Blind

[snake]

http://www.wonderwall.com/news/bill-cosby-is-reportedly-blind-living-in-his-own-personal-hell-1929809.article?amp=true

Didn't see this one coming

[Mew]

I didn't think this would happen. I feel bad for him. :(

[TheCanadiandrome]

he can't catch a break the poor b@stard

[plastroncafe]

http://www.wonderwall.com/news/bill-cosby-is-reportedly-blind-living-in-his-own-personal-hell-1929809.article?amp=true

Didn't see this one coming

Neither did he?

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[Aaronardo]

Man, the poor guy. He doesn't really deserve all the sh!t being thrown his direction, and this just adds to it big time. Can't help but feel sorry for him.

[Jephael]

Does anybody know if Kenan Thompson still does his Cosby impression on SNL? If so, I'm wondering how he feels about portraying the guy at this point.

[Gorilla Grodd]

I'm surprised by the support he's receiving in this thread. Can't underestimate the power of sitcom icon nostalgia factor I guess. But as someone that's been into the stand-up comedy scene for a long time I can say that he's been considered to be a scumbag for decades. Not even taking into account the rape stuff, he's just always been this ego maniac that tries to exert his fame and power in the entertainment industry to **** with people.

I was actually surprised when the Hannibal Burress thing took off since he was just repeating stuff that comedians have been talking about for years and years in green rooms.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Neither did he?

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I see somebody beat me to the punchline. :tlol:

[Andrew NDB]

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[ZariusTwo]

I was actually surprised when the Hannibal Burress thing took off since he was just repeating stuff that comedians have been talking about for years and years in green rooms.

It's all down to that old chest nut of comedy: timing

[turtlefanforever]

The public couldn't turn a blind eye to his actions... so he did.

[BubblyShell22]

This has nothing to do with the scandal itself. This may have been happening for a long time. Did they say if he had macular degeneration or something else?

[Casey]

Stop giving sympathy to a rapist and rape jokes aren't funny.

[BubblyShell22]

I'm not giving him sympathy. Just stating the facts that this has probably been going on for some time due to old age.

[Andrew NDB]

http://www.tmz.com/2017/06/15/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-trial-jury-deadlocked/

Jury is deadlocked.

[Prowler]

Sucks for him. Being blind sounds scary.

As for feeling bad for him... eh no one deserves to go blind but it's hard to empathise with someone who apparently sexually assaulted countless women. It's not just 2 women making allegations against him but about 35. He has to be guilty.

https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html

[Andrew NDB]

Sucks for him. Being blind sounds scary.

As for feeling bad for him... eh no one deserves to go blind but it's hard to empathise with someone who apparently sexually assaulted countless women. It's not just 2 women making allegations against him but about 35. He has to be guilty.

https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html

True. Even if 90% of them have FAKE stories that's... still a good amount of women that are telling the truth.

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[Prowler]

True. Even if 90% of them have FAKE stories that's... still a good amount of women that are telling the truth.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/64/9f/d8/649fd81e2fc5fb0fa6703259e2f089b7.jpgIt'd be one thing if only one or two women had made allegations against him, but that many? As Bill Maher said "Where there's smoke, there is fire."

[triplexxx]

As for Cosby & everything he's going though, I honestly don't know what to feel for him. I do however feel sorry for the jury that had to go through this, and for whoever will be in the next trial's jury.

[Andrew NDB]

https://i.pinimg.com/236x/bc/86/5e/bc865edfe144fbc828542fdc490d5f14--bill-cosby-meme-dont-worry.jpg

Wow, Cosby was found guilty on all 3 charges today.

http://time.com/5256243/bill-cosby-trial/

[plastroncafe]

Bill Cosby found guilty of sexual assault in retrial (https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/bill-cosby-scandal/bill-cosby-found-guilty-sexual-assault-retrial-n869121)

A few hours after deliberations began Wednesday, the jury returned to the courtroom to ask, "What is the legal definition of consent?"

But Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill said that he couldn't give jurors a legal definition, telling them that was something they would have to answer on their own, using their own "common sense."

...oof.

[ProactiveMan]

Bizarre. We have a legal definition here ("free and voluntary agreement"), I would have assumed you do too.

[plastroncafe]

It varies by state.
I believe in Massachusetts consent is defined by one's virginity and age.

[The Deadman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/06/30/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-conviction-overturned/

Big OOF.

[neatoman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/06/30/bill-cosby-sexual-assault-conviction-overturned/

Big OOF.

Oh... Uh... Well, realistically he's not going to rape anyone now. He's old, he's blind and nobody is going to accept a drink from him. Still, I'm pretty sure he served off close to the minimum sentence and I always thought he would be released this year anyway because of the low risk of relapse, so overturning this seems kind of pointless.

[CyberCubed]

He's 83 years old, he'll probably be dead any day now.

[IMJ]

He's 83 years old, he'll probably be dead any day now.

This is a post I'd expect from SDP..... :lol:

[Coola Yagami]

People are wondering if him being blind is an act. A lot of people is gonna be watching the day he's set free, like will Cosby need help with a cane and whatnot or will he forget he's supposed to be blind and just waltz on out dancing a gig? Or at least the best someone his age can dance.

[CyberCubed]

will he forget he's supposed to be blind and just waltz on out dancing a gig? Or at least the best someone his age can dance.

I mean, he IS 83. A lot of people still think Bill Cosby is like 50 or something due to nostalgia from the 90's, completely unaware he's literally in his dying days. This isn't 20-30 years ago.

[IMJ]

You can also be legally blind from macular degeneration and other causes and still see peripherally enough that you'd fail an armchair warrior's pop culture blindness test but still be legally blind.

I'm just saying that the general judgements of society right now are so populated with dumb people who pretend at smart that people scrutinizing Cosby for "valid blindness" is an example of society stupidity rather than Cosby's.

[Coola Yagami]

I mean, he IS 83. A lot of people still think Bill Cosby is like 50 or something due to nostalgia from the 90's, completely unaware he's literally in his dying days. This isn't 20-30 years ago.

Yeah but people are living longer these days. Now that he's out of prison and some of this is behind him (not that I'm on side, I'm just saying here), he might have a good 5-10 years left. I just know it's way too late to make a new show or stand up or whatever.

[Andrew NDB]

He was doing stand-up routines even weeks before he was arrested. He's probably got a little something left if he is ever feeling ballsy. I'd honestly love to watch it and hear what he has to say.

[IMJ]

He was doing stand-up routines even weeks before he was arrested. He's probably got a little something left if he is ever feeling ballsy. I'd honestly love to watch it and hear what he has to say.

I just hate this whole thing because I loved the Cosby show as a kid. It was like a bastion of fun, American family sitcomming. No one cared if it was a black family, black doctor, nothing. Millenials who don't know about the show would swear today that something like that never existed before they were here. The show was a rock.

And now this with Cosby.

[Leo656]

What pissed me off the most about it was that he was one of the few people with a powerful voice who had the audacity to tell black people to own their sh*t and stop playing the victim. Black people always hated the guy because he had the "nerve" to say, "Don't be a thug, don't get into drugs and gangs, try and make something of yourself. The game isn't rigged against you, you just have a bad attitude. But nothing good comes from perpetuating a stereotype. Be Better." It's stuff that needs to be said, and since he was black, nobody could call him a racist, which is what happens whenever anyone else says that stuff.

Then All This Sh*t comes out. Ugh. It's bad enough that he's a rapist, and thus also something of a hypocrite. But who else is there to drop that sort of "inconvenient truth" on those people? Just Candace Owens and nobody really listens to her.

Like it's bad enough the guy himself is a scumbag, but by association everything he ever said gets thrown out on account of what he did, even if those things needed to be said.

Too bad.

[frank_one]

I just hate this whole thing because I loved the Cosby show as a kid. It was like a bastion of fun, American family sitcomming. No one cared if it was a black family, black doctor, nothing. Millenials who don't know about the show would swear today that something like that never existed before they were here. The show was a rock.I loved it as a kid. Back then there were literaly no black people around in my small town in Italy and if you wanted to spot a black man you had to go to bigger cities, so I was not used to black men. And guess what? While I was watching the Cosby Show on TV I didn't care. The fact that it was a black family what I was seeing never caught my attention. It was fun, that's all I needed to know.

[Coola Yagami]

What pissed me off the most about it was that he was one of the few people with a powerful voice who had the audacity to tell black people to own their sh*t and stop playing the victim. Black people always hated the guy because he had the "nerve" to say, "Don't be a thug, don't get into drugs and gangs, try and make something of yourself. The game isn't rigged against you, you just have a bad attitude. But nothing good comes from perpetuating a stereotype. Be Better." It's stuff that needs to be said, and since he was black, nobody could call him a racist, which is what happens whenever anyone else says that stuff.

Then All This Sh*t comes out. Ugh. It's bad enough that he's a rapist, and thus also something of a hypocrite. But who else is there to drop that sort of "inconvenient truth" on those people? Just Candace Owens and nobody really listens to her.

Like it's bad enough the guy himself is a scumbag, but by association everything he ever said gets thrown out on account of what he did, even if those things needed to be said.

Too bad.
I heard the timing was very suspicious. It's until he got a little too vocal on the whole 'black people do better' speeches and he started getting plans to buy NBC that all of a sudden certain people started remembering and bringing up things. Not only that, but #MeToo started and they desperately needed a big name or two to kick it off. I kinda feel TPTB conveniently served them Cosby on a platter. Not saying he did or didn't do anything but the timing of it all was major sus.


That's what always makes a lot of these things pretty sus. A lot of convenient timing. It's like 'I know Tom raped Sally but imma hold on to that' years later, Tom runs for office or does something equally as important that would shake up the status quo a little too much 'alright, lemme call up Sally and asks her if she still remembers that one night with Tom, bout time Tom remembers what his place is'.

[Leo656]

I mean, maybe?

Timing and circumstances aside... drugging and raping women is pretty sh*tty. If anything it should've come out ages before it did.

And it's insane that a guy can admit to doing the sh*tty things they said he did, but he gets off on a technicality, and can never be punished for it again.

That's something I'm going to try and remember to point out the next time someone says our criminal justice system is too harsh. We have a system where someone can say "Sure, I did it," but still more or less skate by. Sure, he did a couple years in jail so it's not like he got off scot-free, but because of the way it went down they're like "He technically never should have been tried in the first place." I can see him suing them and actually getting a hefty settlement when all is said and done.

Nutty.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Rudolf Hess lived to be over 90 I think and so might Breivik

So no , justice isn't always served

[ssjup81]

People are wondering if him being blind is an act. A lot of people is gonna be watching the day he's set free, like will Cosby need help with a cane and whatnot or will he forget he's supposed to be blind and just waltz on out dancing a gig? Or at least the best someone his age can dance.I always assumed that he wasn't blind-blind, but just legally blind. The family friend that my mother helps has glaucoma and I even set up her computer so she could use it a bit better since her sight isn't good and still gradually getting worse. I guess Bill Cosby's glaucoma has completely made him blind.

[LeotheLateBloomer]

I just hate this whole thing because I loved the Cosby show as a kid. It was like a bastion of fun, American family sitcomming. No one cared if it was a black family, black doctor, nothing. Millenials who don't know about the show would swear today that something like that never existed before they were here. The show was a rock.

And now this with Cosby.

That show was probably one of the first black television shows that I watched as a kid, though it appealed more to my parents than for me. However, I always thought of Cosby as a humble man. Me and a few friends watched and enjoyed Fat Albert as kids. I also enjoyed reading his Little Bill books and watching the cartoon with my younger brother even though I was well past the age for the show. To see him go down this route is very disheartening...:(

I did see that Phylicia Rashad praised his release with Janet Hubert (the original Aunt Viv) calling her out on her response.:lol:

[TigerClaw]

That show was probably one of the first black television shows that I watched as a kid, though it appealed more to my parents than for me. However, I always thought of Cosby as a humble man. Me and a few friends watched and enjoyed Fat Albert as kids. I also enjoyed reading his Little Bill books and watching the cartoon with my younger brother even though I was well past the age for the show. To see him go down this route is very disheartening...:(

I did see that Phylicia Rashad praised his release with Janet Hubert (the original Aunt Viv) calling her out on her response.:lol:
She then apologized.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/phylicia-rashad-apologizes-to-students-after-voicing-support-for-bill-cosbys-prison-release/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Yeah I know. She probably just still cares about her old friend.

[Sumac]

Rudolf Hess lived to be over 90 I think and so might Breivik

So no , justice isn't always served
If they stay in the prison - its fine.

[Coola Yagami]

Not saying Cosby is innocent, but the more stuff I hear the more I have my doubts. Just the timing of things, the fact some of these women admitted to lying (one even admitted to lying to get a book out of this, obviously years after her book was published and she made her money), the fact that Cosby's admission was just saying he gave them the drugs (as in handed them the drugs for them to take back at an era where everyone took those drugs during sex parties) etc etc

Idk man. It feels like a reverse OJ the more I find out. OJ was guilty but the world 'needed' him to be innocent at the time. Kinda feel with the odd timing of it all (Cosby talking telling the black community what they needed to hear but didn't like, Cosby wanting to buy NBC, Me Too needing a head on a silver platter). Regardless of everything, the world 'needed' Cosby to be guilty.

Again not saying he did or didn't, or I'm siding with him or anything, def not insulting or discrediting the victims, if it happened then it's a terrible thing they experienced and I feel for them of course, but if they were just dogpiling on the guy cause 'he must be guilty no matter what', well.....

I'm just saying it's a complicated issue, but way more complicated then what it looked like on the surface. Like the Micheal Jackson stuff.

I mean if you're a target, the media can and will make you a monster, and even if Cosby was innocent, they won, his reputation is tarnished til his dying days. That is also a scary thought. If anything, that one Simpsons episode taught us to not just blindly believe the media.

But by all means if he's guilty then screw him all to hell and my heart goes out to the victims.

[IMJ]

A lot of people went down at the height of the Me Too thing. And a lot of it was greatly exaggerated response to the cultural movement at that point. Like you, not saying that Cosby was innocent but Me Too was another witch hunt from the witch hunt generation - burn everyone at the stake no matter what spell we say they cast.

[Papenbrook]

It's deeply disappointing that Cosby was freed.

I know that it was based on a technicality, but regardless, justice wasn't served. Society shouldn't continue to allow the abuse/mistreatment of women.

My thoughts are with the women who are currently suffering from this.

It's such a punch in the face to the #MeToo Movement, and a kick in the crotch to Women's Rights everywhere.

[ssjup81]

It's deeply disappointing that Cosby was freed.

I know that it was based on a technicality, but regardless, justice wasn't served. Society shouldn't continue to allow the abuse/mistreatment of women.

My thoughts are with the women who are currently suffering from this.

It's such a punch in the face to the #MeToo Movement, and a kick in the crotch to Women's Rights everywhere.Same here, actually. He admitted to the drugging thing. Also, all of these women came forward with nothing to gain since the statutes of limitations were up.

[Papenbrook]

I just hope that the victims/survivors who suffered from Cosby know that there are people who are with them.