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Bill Cosby is in jail now because of his conservative views.
Years ago I watched some youtube video and the guy was saying this, I thought it was crazy but then started thinking about it.
What was Hanibal Buress Saying?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...comedian-reignited-the-bill-cosby-allegations
“Bill Cosby has the fuckin’ smuggest old black man public persona that I hate,” Buress said at the time. “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the ‘80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”
Buress also asked members of the audience to “Google ‘Bill Cosby rape’” when they got home, joking that it would have a whole lot more results than a search for his name, “Hannibal Buress”.
In the following days, the joke went viral, prompting dozens of women to step forward to accuse the star of The Cosby Show of assault.
Then months later the judge unsealed his old civil court case:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/b...e-unsealed-bill-cosby-court-documents-n387861
Saying:
"The stark contrast between Bill Cosby, the public moralist and Bill Cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper (and perhaps criminal) conduct is a matter as to which the AP — and by extension the public — has a significant interest," Judge Eduardo Robreno wrote in a memorandum Monday. The documents were released after a request from The Associated Press.
Robreno wrote Monday that the case "is not about the Defendant's status as a public person by virtue of the exercise of his trade as a televised or comedic personality. Rather, Defendant has donned the mantle of public moralist and mounted the proverbial electronic or print soap box to volunteer his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education, and crime."
Cosby has made himself part of these public issues and therefore has "voluntarily narrowed the zone of privacy that he is entitled to claim," the judge wrote.
Years ago I watched some youtube video and the guy was saying this, I thought it was crazy but then started thinking about it.
What was Hanibal Buress Saying?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...comedian-reignited-the-bill-cosby-allegations
“Bill Cosby has the fuckin’ smuggest old black man public persona that I hate,” Buress said at the time. “He gets on TV, ‘Pull your pants up black people, I was on TV in the ‘80s! I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom!’ Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches.”
Buress also asked members of the audience to “Google ‘Bill Cosby rape’” when they got home, joking that it would have a whole lot more results than a search for his name, “Hannibal Buress”.
In the following days, the joke went viral, prompting dozens of women to step forward to accuse the star of The Cosby Show of assault.
Then months later the judge unsealed his old civil court case:
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/b...e-unsealed-bill-cosby-court-documents-n387861
Saying:
"The stark contrast between Bill Cosby, the public moralist and Bill Cosby, the subject of serious allegations concerning improper (and perhaps criminal) conduct is a matter as to which the AP — and by extension the public — has a significant interest," Judge Eduardo Robreno wrote in a memorandum Monday. The documents were released after a request from The Associated Press.
Robreno wrote Monday that the case "is not about the Defendant's status as a public person by virtue of the exercise of his trade as a televised or comedic personality. Rather, Defendant has donned the mantle of public moralist and mounted the proverbial electronic or print soap box to volunteer his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education, and crime."
Cosby has made himself part of these public issues and therefore has "voluntarily narrowed the zone of privacy that he is entitled to claim," the judge wrote.
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