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Over the weekend, several more women came forward to offer more of those sorts of oblique, allusive, graphically detailed “innuendos” that Cosby might have behaved inappropriately toward the people actually averring that he did—including Law & Order: SVU actress Michelle Hurd, comedy club manager Joyce Emmons, Kristina Ruehli (another of the no-longer-anonymous “Jane Does” named in Andrea Costand’s lawsuit), and former model Jewel Allison. Their stories join the very similar ones from a dozen-plus others that have now entered the public record, which is a fact you can check.

Hurd says that, during her days as a stand-in on The Cosby Show, Cosby would subject her to “weird acting exercises where he would move his hands up and down my body,” which set her on edge enough to refuse an invite to “come to his house, take a shower.” Hurd also tells of another Cosby Show stand-in he targeted, who had the experience of being drugged and sexually assaulted—the same as Ruehli, Allison, and Cosby’s other accusers. “We may be looking at America’s greatest serial rapist that ever got away with this for the longest amount of time,” Allison hinted to the New York Daily News in her own sly innuendo, wink wink.

Adding to these subtle, suggestive overtones made by people who claim to have been there and experienced the things they’re accusing him of, Frank Scotti, an ex-employee of NBC, told the New York Daily News he’d been charged with keeping Cosby’s secrets while working as the facilities manager of the Cosby Show studio. Scotti says he was asked to guard Cosby’s dressing room while he “interviewed” models, some as young as 16. He also says Cosby tasked him with sending monthly payments to eight different women through money orders, often for as much as $2,000 at a time, with Scotti saying he’s held onto receipts (known as “the innuendo of paper”).

In response to all these increasingly repetitive, explicitly detailed implications, Cosby’s attorney, Martin Singer, has been working overtime drafting letters that blast his client’s accusers as fame-seeking liars. The story of the 90-year-old Scotti, Singer tells NYDN, is “pure speculation so that he can get his 15 minutes of fame.”

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Singer’s statement concludes by, again, condemning the constant “media vilification” of Cosby—in which the media goes to great lengths to vilify Cosby by reporting these women’s allegations against him, while also reporting Cosby’s assertions that they’re obviously liars who don’t merit a response. (Note: This is an example of actual innuendo.)

[iup=3622481]Cal[/iup] wrote:"...In the land of litigation
The courts are like game shows
'Take what's behind the curtain!'
The jury cries
I'm not going to be the jackpot
At the end of your perjured rainbow
Not if local justice has even one good eye..."

– The Windfall ©Joni Mitchell

Just sayin'.

[iup=3622517]Photek[/iup] wrote:There's a cartoon called lil' bill that my daughter use to watch when she was younger, it was based on Bill Cosbys manhood....

[iup=3622517]Photek[/iup] wrote:There's a cartoon called lil' bill that my daughter use to watch when she was younger, it was based on Bill Cosbys childhood....

BILL COSBY IS INNOCENT
We forget this at our peril.

Brendan O'Neill • Editor

Whatever you think of Cosby – I remember even as a kid I thought The Cosby Show was pants – this media-led public criminalisation of someone who hasn’t been convicted of a crime should chill you. Because the fact is, Cosby is innocent of rape. Just as you are. Just as I am. At least until such a time as someone does the very hard job of proving beyond reasonable doubt that he did rape someone. There’s a phrase for this, I think. How does it go? Ah, yes: ‘A man is presumed innocent until proven guilty.’

Sir Cliff Richard may sue the BBC over its coverage of the police raid on his home.

Richard has strongly denied allegations that he sexually abused a man, now in his Forties, at a Christian rally in 1985. He has not been charged or arrested over the claim.

[iup=3623104]Cal[/iup] wrote:

BILL COSBY IS INNOCENT
We forget this at our peril.

Brendan O'Neill • Editor

Whatever you think of Cosby – I remember even as a kid I thought The Cosby Show was pants – this media-led public criminalisation of someone who hasn’t been convicted of a crime should chill you. Because the fact is, Cosby is innocent of rape. Just as you are. Just as I am. At least until such a time as someone does the very hard job of proving beyond reasonable doubt that he did rape someone. There’s a phrase for this, I think. How does it go? Ah, yes: ‘A man is presumed innocent until proven guilty.’

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[iup=3623131]Fatal Exception[/iup] wrote:Sometimes I think the only reason cal is gay is because he hates women so much

[iup=3623168]Nibble[/iup] wrote:How can Cal hate women? His mum's one.