Rant #1,465: Garbage Strewn All Around

Bill Cosby has proven to be a piece of garbage.

While entertaining people with his TV antics as one of our most popular comedians, he seemed to live a double life.

It seems that many times when performing on stage, or on TV, or in the movies, when the show was over, he lured young women into his web, and had relations with them.

All the lawsuits thrown his way lately would attest to the quite strong possibility that Cosby had sexual relations with these women, probably just about every one of them; however, the level of these relations--were they consensual or not--has raised eyebrows.

Now we hear that in 2005, in sworn testimony, Cosby admitted to having purchased now-banned quaaludes for the explicit purpose of using them to drug women--or, as he says, "a woman"-- he wanted to have relations with.

Look, many of these allegations against him date from the 1960s, so you really have to wonder why these women took no action if they actually were raped, or at least had relationships that were questionable.

And one also has to wonder about the women who claim that Cosby sexually assaulted them in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and even into the 1990s. These women did nothing to get back at the comedian, and one has to think that they were so embarrassed that they fell for his allure that they pretty much sidestepped the incident that they participated in--until now, of course, when about two dozen women have come out with one allegation or another.

The possibility of money, honey, makes people stronger, I guess.

Look, it is quite obvious why the women did what they did.

He probably promised them fame and fortune--and that he would help their careers--if they came up to his room. Whatever happened happened, they did not find fame and fortune from him, and they stewed, sometimes for generations.

But now that Cosby's testimony has come out in the open, you really have to question both the comic and these women, and there really isn't anything funny about it.

I still stand by my original claim, made months ago, that probably most of these relationships were consensual. He got what he wanted, and the women thought they got what they wanted.

But now, admitting that be bought a drug for the express purpose of making some of these women--or as he says, "a woman"-- wobbly enough that they could not fight off his urges, brings this whole thing to another level.

And his side says that the woman agreed to take the quaaludes to get what she wanted from him.

He really is a piece of garbage, but most of these women missed a golden opportunity to have stopped this type of behavior early, and nipped it right in the bud, but they missed that opportunity simply by not telling the police about what happened.

They stayed mum, others were attacked, and the story appears not to have an ending that will lead to anything but more stories from more women about Cosby.

Whether I, personally, believe them or not really isn't important, but I have my doubts about some of them.

Others now have been fortified with the latest information.

And where was Cosby's wife during this whole deal?

Look, it is probably obvious now, after all the dirty laundry has come out, that they had an open marriage. She had to know that at least he was sleeping with other women, but might not have known the extent of what he may have done to lure these women to the bedroom.

But she has kept strangely silent during this entire nightmare.

I am sure that she has a lifestyle to uphold, a family to shelter from all of this nonsense, but you really have to wonder about her silence.

That being said, Cosby was a smooth talker on stage, and now we know that he was a smooth talker off-stage too.

Why so few women went to the authorities with what they knew still boggles the mind, even if these things happened in the 1960s and 1970s. You don't think that the authorities would have relished putting a high-level, very rich and powerful man--and a black man, to boot--in jail during those times?

Yes, I have to wonder about Cosby, and I have to wonder about the women.

He should be ashamed of himself, and to a certain level, so should they about themselves.

Yes, garbage strewn all around indeed.