I fully understand where you’re coming from.

But ponder this: The left lies. Period. Full stop. It’s what they do. They are sharks constantly circling, waiting for that scent of blood. Look at Michael Richards. Everybody and their dead grandmother loudly hopped onboard the ‘Richards is racist’ train. With Cosby, blood is in the water.

I’ll also say that because of modern so-called feminism (or Illinois Feminazis as like to cynically refer to them), I now tend to look more askance at rape allegations. When the left made destructive rape allegations political, my trust not only in the system falters, but my trust in the language, itself, falters as well.

Obviously the dam has broken, and it could be that a flood of even more accusations will follow.

As I wrote above, “quantity has a quality all its own.”

There are now 14-15 accusers. A couple accusers doing it to get their 15 minutes of fame, or because they have some reason to try to bring Cosby down–even an ideological one, or because they see such an accusation as a way to make money, maybe, but, 14 or 15 different women?

I don’t think so.

Especially since it was very foreseeable that if a woman came forward with her accusations against such an “iconic” and “beloved” public figure their life would be turned upside down as they were hounded by the press, they would lose their privacy and gain notoriety, would end up being shunned by certain people, and would be raked over the coals by Cosby supporters who would throw every accusation in the book at them.

Given the very predictable and likely very unpleasant, if not disastrous results of coming forward, Cosby’s accusers must have had very powerful reasons to “step out of the shadows.”

I agree, it’s the quantity of allegations, and the common theme of drugged drinks, that persuades me that more likely than not, there is a thread of truth to this.

I don’t want to believe this is true about Cosby. While i could take or leave his standup routines, I enjoyed the Cosby Show and wish there were more like it. I also saw Cosby as one of the few black personalities courageous enough to put a spotlight on the importance of the traditional family and the sad impact of its breakdown in the black community.

Of course that doesn’t mean that some of his accusers weren’t willing participants and/or out for personal gain. And it’s also more than possible that many on the left want to bring Cosby down. It’s not necessarily an either or situation.

As the saying goes, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

Did he or didn’t he?

As they say, “sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.”

Thus, when I see more than a dozen accusers step forward–most of them now middle-aged and with much to lose in terms of reputation and the quiet enjoyment of their lives–moreover, with the statute of limitations long since run out and their accusations having no chance of getting Cosby prosecuted for his alleged crimes, and thus no need for or the likelihood of a big payout to silence them–I take their accusations seriously.

Lending additional weight to these accusations is the fact that the M.O. of the attacks is always the same; pills from the ever so helpful Mr. Cosby for an illness, or a drugged drink.

Some have, in essence, accused these women of having “asked for it,” by trying to use Cosby as a route to stardom, or sticking around after the first attack–although if these women were “rufied,” depending on the circumstances it might be pretty hard for them to remember or to realize that an attack had actually taken place, and in addition to believe such an iconic and apparently kindly figure as Cosby as being capable of such an attack.

Great mind Whoopi Goldberg not to the contrary, it seems to me that–minus a clear mind and informed consent–a rape is a rape, no matter what other circumstances there might be.

As for the theory that otherwise liberal Cosby’s criticism of “lower class blacks” and their lifestyle has angered fellow liberals sufficiently for them to suddenly attack him, or to cease to avert their eyes from what was plainly visible, I do not buy this.

I don’t think that racism directed at Cosby has anything to do with the fact that these accusations are being made, although, as some have pointed out, it seems as if all of the alleged victims were white.

However, if Cosby is guilty as charged, I do think it ironic that Cosby would have taken it upon himself to criticize the misdeeds of “low class” blacks.