Pretty sure you gotta buy your own robe anyway.
Cosby is sueing seven of his accusers for defamation.
Yep, these 7 bitches are LYING!
The other ones…not so much…
Memo to Cosby:
If one woman calls you a rapist, ignore her.
If two women call you a rapist, it’s probably true.
If three or more women call you a rapist, file a lawsuit.
I think this is the point Mr. Douchebag is missing. Only suing 7 of 30+ is like admitting the others are telling the truth.
Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? Or doesn’t that apply to celebrities? The only people that know whether rapes occurred are the women involved and Cosby himself. A classic instance of ‘he said, she said’ with no supporting evidence that a crime took place at all. Even had the statute of limitations not made the whole thing academic I wouldn’t convict a dog on unsupported assertions.
It’s over, let it go. And that applies to Cosby himself; he won’t get his reputation back even should he win his suits. The public have already convicted him after learnedly reading and inwardly digesting the lurid press reports. And from public opinion there is no appeal.
As I’m sure you’ve been told hundreds of times, the presumption of innocence is a legal concept. It exists to make sure no one is falsely imprisoned, as it is better for 100 guilty to go free than for 1 innocent person to be incarcerated.
This is not he said/she said. For one thing, there are a hell of a lot of shes. For another, he’s constantly been cagey in his denials, never putting out a flat denial. Hell, in the leaked civil suit, he flat out said he drugged the women, and that he was unsure if they consented. That’s rape, right there.
No one presumes innocence when someone has been accused of something by 40+ independent witnesses. Celebrity is actually what helps Cosby–it’s the only reason why there are still people who think he didn’t do it.
And you full well know why this was brought up again–because there is new information–the information about the people he is suing. You even talk about it in your post.
Now you’re just being schlonged.
That’s true, but we should probably learn something from the justice system.
The justice system is not designed to be a universal arbiter for what is truth, what is fact, and what is knowledge. It would be foolish to pretend that it is.
Lockdown!
It is?
Because I would imagine that in civil, as in criminal, proceedings, you only go into court when you figure you have the necessary ammunition to win. So if Cosby’s lawyers have advised him to proceed with seven cases, I suppose they think those are the seven most immediately winnable.
Or can I take it that, because none of these accusations have actually led to Cosby being hauled into court, it’s like admitting that none of them is true? :dubious:
Well, no shit.
But it very certainly *does *provide the impression that the rest of the women are either not lying or cannot be proved to be lying.
The Coz is fighting a PR war, a battle of public perception. He feels he needs a victory here; if he can win in court against one or more of these seven, then he has damaged the entire “Coz is a rapist” narrative. If he does not, he’s pretty much finished. It’s an unpleasant gamble, but I get why he would make it.
Well, no shit.
My impression is that they feel they can’t prove the other women are lying.
Inorite?
If I am not mistaken, he doesn’t have to. All he has to show is that they said it to 3rd party in some way. He might have to show that it cost him something. That’s defamation. Then the women would have to show that their statements are true.
If the lawyers are sufficiently confident that they can win on those seven cases, let’s suppose that those seven women are drug-whore starfuckers who sniff a payout. No, that’s not misogyny, not all women are drug-whore starfuckers - but not all of them are saintly virgins either. Whores exist, in many forms, and plenty of people of any gender want to fuck stars (and/or get in on a potentially lucrative payout). To suppose that there might be seven such women in the world (or, indeed, in Hollywood) is hardly a slur on women generally. It may be a slur on Hollywood - let’s see the entertainment industry sue for defamation 
That, of course, doesn’t mean that the other women are DWSFs. But 40 isn’t such an unlikely number. By my back of an envelope calculation, it’s 0.000025 of the female population of the US. By contrast, about 1% of the population are schizophrenic, so that’s about 0.5% (over one and a half million) of the female population - and that’s not misogyny either, is it? I bet I could find forty female schizophrenics who think Bill Crosby is a lizard alien who is stalking them and controlling their thoughts. Who wants to bang him up for that too?
You are an astoundingly special snowflake, Jack.
This is broadly correct. He probably doesn’t have to show that it cost him anything, either; accusations of criminal acts are defamatory per se (meaning they are so obviously bad for the reputation that no harm has to be proven).