Poly vote - because we matter! Bill Cosby, bad guy or good?

[Boris Godunov]

It's not just allegations from victims.

One former assistant has come forward saying that he was instructed to pay hush money to victims.

This is damning.

[C0ckney]

while it's impossible to be 100% certain, it's far more likely that bill cosby is lying than that all the alleged victims are. the assistant coming forward is pretty damning as boris said.

[kentonio]

After the rush of 70's celebrities turning out to have commited abuses and rapes, it seems more likely than it would have a few years ago. Then again until the evidence is out there, who the **** knows.

[molly bloom]

As he has yet to be found guilty of anything, then surely he still remains a 'good guy' .

[DaShi]

You need to qualify that entertaining a possibility. 50% chance? 75%? Why do you always play this ambiguity game.

The thing is, Bill Cosby had a legal team go to great lengths to scrub even the accusation from the public eye for a very long time. A lot of the victims were in the entertainment industry and Bill Cosby had pull, major pull. I think there is a possibility Bill Cosby isn't guilty of rape, but i think it is much less likely than him committing fewer than 5 rapes. like 10:1

I think the real question is whether reg's misogyny is greater than his racism.

[-Jrabbit]

That's an awful lot of smoke. I'm thinking there's a fire.

A sad, sad fire.

[rah]

Yeah, a whole lot of smoke. It doesn't look good but we'll see.

Very Sad.

[Kidlicious]

I hope and for the time being believe he is good.

This

[Kidlicious]

You need to qualify that entertaining a possibility. 50% chance? 75%? Why do you always play this ambiguity game.

The thing is, Bill Cosby had a legal team go to great lengths to scrub even the accusation from the public eye for a very long time. A lot of the victims were in the entertainment industry and Bill Cosby had pull, major pull. I think there is a possibility Bill Cosby isn't guilty of rape, but i think it is much less likely than him committing fewer than 5 rapes. like 10:1

****in' Patriarchy!

[Dauphin]

As he has yet to be found guilty of anything, then surely he still remains a 'good guy' .

Like OJ.

[Dinner]

I am going to go with probably guilty.

[Hauldren Collider]

It is certainly disturbing and disappointing if these allegations are true. However that doesn't make all the comedy he's done in the past not funny anymore.

[Kidlicious]

It kinda does
He's probably guilty although I consider him innocent, but he'll be as funny as Woody Allen now.

[self biased]

It is certainly disturbing and disappointing if these allegations are true. However that doesn't make all the comedy he's done in the past not funny anymore.

bill cosby was never that funny in the first place. chevy chase is funnier than bill cosby, and that's a pretty low bar to set. furthermore, his whole holier than thou attitude about not using curse words and being wholesome and **** seems pretty flimsy at this point. not to mention his arrogance with basically trying to be every black person's dad, telling them how to act and ****.

[Hauldren Collider]

I dunno man. I think Jay Leno's funny, so maybe we just have differing opinions on comedy.

As far as I'm aware, the stuff he's said re: being black people's dad is all basically truisms along the lines of buy books instead of shoes, don't have a kid when you're 15, stay in school, etc. I don't know how you can think that's objectionable.