Sen. Gillibrand Joins Call to Revoke Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom
When the plaintiff’s lawyer asked if Cosby gave the women Quaaludes “without their knowledge”, Cosby’s lawyer interupted which caused the two to argue.
Calls are mounting for other public tributes to the Cosby Show star to be removed, among them a mural at a Washington DC restaurant he has been known to frequent. “For me, it’s about women using their voice”, she said.
On Monday, news surfaced that Cosby testified in 2005 that he gave women drugs for the goal of sex. “The very unfortunate circumstances of the Cosby situation are troublesome and disappointing to all”.
As more companies pull support and distance themselves from the embattled TV dad in light of unsealed court documents in which Cosby admitted to buying drugs for women for the objective of sex, a sexual-violence awareness group is now petitioning the White House to revoke the comedian’s Presidential Medal of Freedom, Time reports.
The message to female View viewers from Raven is that rape is permissible when committed by men in power. “She’s just mad because her television career didn’t pop off”.
When the scandal first got huge previous year, Camille Cosby said she believed her husband to be the victim of these accusations.
“The only reason Mr. Cosby settled was because it would have been embarrassing in those days to put all those women on the stand and his family had no clue”.
Sometimes because the pain is too much to bear and the wounds are too gaping to look at, I rush forward into analysis. I can’t help but look at memes of Cosby, a man who we now know drugged at least one woman for non-consensual sex, with phrases like “pudding popped right in her p****” and think to myself: How on Earth could anyone who knows a survivor find this amusing?
Bill Cosby was once the United States’ favorite amusing man. That status, in more blissfully ignorant days, inspired a number of aggrandizing statues and public murals.
Apatow seems frustrated that people are still counting the allegations against Cosby.
In this particular moment, I’ve seen far less defending of Cosby’s affluent white victims and far more lament about the kind of loss he is to the community. Instead of worrying about “THAT BULLS” of Cosby raping women, Love tweeted blacks should be anxious about the nine people shot in the church in Charleston.