This morning, Bill Cosby ventured out into the media world to repair his image. Officially, he’s promoting a program that calls for better education in rural Alabama. He’s speaking with teenagers today at Selma High School, where he’s participating in a march over historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. Cosby’s looking to improve his reputation by any means possible. That won’t change the fact that over 40 women have made sexual assault allegations against the comedian. As always, I refer to Vulture’s comprehensive running timeline of events surrounding Cosby.
Cosby sat down with Linsey Davis on this morning’s episode of GMA, and the interview was a muddled disaster. His wife, Camille, was by his side and supportive as always. Cosby previously tried to strongarm an AP journalist into deleting questions about the allegations. He knew he couldn’t get away with that here. Linsey asked, “If a young person comes up to you and says my mom says you’ve done some bad things, how will you answer them?” Cosby kind of muttered around the question and tried to sound “inspirational”:
How would he answer the young person? “I am prepared to tell this young person the truth about life. I’m not sure that they will come like that. I think many of them say, ‘Well, you’re a hypocrite. You say one thing, you say the other. My point is, okay listen to me carefully. I’m telling you where the road is out. I’m telling you where you’re driving you’re going to go into water and it looks like it might only be three inches deep, but you and your car are going to go down. You want to go here or you want to be concerned about who’s giving the message?”
Bill can’t believe this crap: “I have been in this business over 52 years and I have never seen anything like this. Reality is the situation. And I can’t speak.”
His ideas for the future: “I have a ton of ideas to put on television about people and their love for each other.”
[From GMA on Yahoo!]
You can see a video clip of the interview here. Cosby tried to deflect Linsey’s hard-hitting question, and his ramblings made absolutely no sense. He’s clearly uncomfortable but trying to lecture his way out of the sitation. Not gonna work. I’m not surprised that he’s still indignant for being called out by many of his alleged victims. His pattern of drugging women reveals a sense of entitlement. Cosby never cared whether or not he had consent. He simply felt that he could do whatever he wanted. One small bit of victory arrived with NBC’s January axing of Cosby’s planned family sitcom. But he’s still touring, and people still buy tickets to watch him tell “family” jokes.
Here are photos of protestors outside Cosby’s “Far From Finished” tour in Atlanta on 5/2.
Screencaps courtesy of Yahoo! Photos courtesy of Getty & WENN
Clearly, the man is a sociopath.
Yup. I cannot get over how he talks and talks without saying anything.
true that also early onset dementia probably
So, in that you’re driving into the water story, is he saying that he has the answer for how the young people can get out of their bad situations, and they shouldn’t be concerned with anything he has done in the past? I found that hard to follow.
I think he needs to just go away now.
Yeah, he was trying to sound like a philosopher, but really what he was saying was, “It doesn’t matter that I’m a hypocrite, let’s not talk about my problems, let’s just talk about yours”. Which, actually makes him MORE of a hypocrite, being that he is submerged in HOT water, and is furiously treading to avoid repercussions himself, and deflect questions, instead of doing the right thing.
This man is psychologically incapable of doing the right thing.
Yes, so that makes him the perfect candidate to speak to at risk kids?
Of course not. Don’t make me study your poo.ch.
I interpreted it to be “do as I say, not as I (allegedly*) do”. Or, alternatively, if Charles Manson ran into the room saying the building was on fire you might still want to check rather than ignore him.
*the “allegedly” is not an expression of doubt on my part. I believe the women. I just figure he wouldn’t actually say “I did that”.
Great explanation.
GNAT
Have you seen his show? It’s hard to follow too. I caught it about a year before this all came out. He rambles and acts very entitled. It’s his natural state.
He can’t even bring himself to deny any of it. He’s flabbergasted that he’s been caught and called out. He’s outraged, but not because the allegations aren’t true, he’s outraged because he thought he’d never get caught. Can you see an innocent man acting like this and rambling about nothing? I can’t.
+1. I think he’s honestly surprised that people care about what he did. In 52 years he’s never seen anything like this?! Not that he didn’t do it but he’s just surprised the public didn’t silence the women (some tried-ugh) and people believe them & won’t keep him on a pedestal. What a narsassistic, entitled, mysoginisyic pos. Can we stop giving him interviews, speaking platforms & shows. He needs to crawl under a rock & fade into obscurity. Then we need to discuss how the hell this man kept doing this for decades, how he was enabled & try to make raping women a little more difficult……
I love everything you’ve said, MC2 and would only add that we need to also talk about getting rape laws changed so that there is no time limit. Murder has no time limit and rape shouldn’t have one, either.
“Rambling” was a huge part of his comedy schtick, it’s how he used to transition from one bad corny set-up joke to another, and he’s used to it working for him… so it doesn’t surprise me this a**hole is at it again.
I can barely stand to look at him. What fascinates me in a train-wreck sort of way, though, is the wife… sitting there… being ‘supportive’… denying the truth, denying the victims, denying her enabling or complicity, maybe even her own humanity…
That’s what struck me, too, that he really isn’t denying it. He just seems to be upset that he’s being called out on it. He’s unbelievable, so scary.
And could it be that the sociopath in him is part of the reason he won’t flat out deny anything? I could be reaching here, most certainly, but could it be that there’s a part of him that wants the credit? Just a little part, not enough that he’ll ever admit to what he’s done. But a part big enough that it’s getting some sense of sastisfaction out of all this, like he’s being recognized for all his “hard work” (hard work being the serial rape of multitudes of vulnerable women and the subsequent coverup)? Idk. I could be thinking way too deeply into this, but these are the things I wonder.
I agree, Shambles. Psychopaths feel a sense of pride in their wicked deeds. He likely enjoys some of the “attention” he’s receiving,
This^^^^
Exactly. I think this is one of those situations where most men would be screaming from the rooftops that they’re innocent. You’d think he would deny it for sure if he was innocent…hell most guilty guys would be saying they’re innocent. I think that’s why he’s so creepy. He really believes he can just make it all go away.
Other than pure ego, I can’t understand why he won’t just go away and count his lucky stars he never ended up in jail as a serial rapist.
I also can’t understand why a school of all places would invite him to come speak, in the midst of all this. Surely they could have found someone else.
Exactly, why in the world is anyone inviting him anywhere to speak on anything?
I hope that school gets a lot of letters & people boycott his speech. Why the hell would a school invite him?!
I’m so with you. I just went to the website of the organization that invited him and said shame on them for supporting and enabling this monster. You just KNOW they did it, to one extent or another, to bring national attention to their cause.
If anyone else wants to do the same:
http://blackbeltfound.org/contact/
Thanks!
My MIL loves him. So there are people.
IMO it’s not the money, he has plenty.
He was so used to pontificating for so many years that he is in shock that he can’t do that any more. I’m sure his wife and attorney wish he would just stay out of the public eye, but he can’t.
One consolation is that he looks terrible.
I’m so sick of these men getting away with their abuse, harassment and general mistreatment of women. Nobody is being accountable for their actions. The women are being abused all over again.
Unbelievable how nothing sticks to this man.
That is the biggest deflection I’ve seen so far. He tries to talk about how the driver and the road doesn’t matter because it’s the destination that matters? Where the car is going?
Billy, you’re not in Driving Miss Daisy FFS. And if you were we know she’d be roofied.
This mad disgusts on so many levels. His audacity to refuse to go away is appalling. Take the money you have Bill and just GO AWAY!
I would complain to the school if I had a child there, and pull him/her out for the day Cosby was going to speak if they didn’t. Smh.
All I hear is a pretentious windbag attempting to wax philosophical in a moment requiring candor and clarity. He could have simply said that he did not know how he would answer the question — that might have been a good deal more helpful to his beloved “image”. What he did instead was reinforce what has been wrong with this situation since the beginning — his complete unwillingness to acknowledge the ever growing body of accusations about his predatory behavior towards women. I agree with those who think that a pathology may exist. He is clearly narcissistic, but the possibility of antisocial personality disorder is certainly strong, especially given his lack of empathy for the victims involved.
Bloody hell. Fourty women. FOURTY WOMEN. He needs to be put down like a rabid animal.
40 that have come forward. There has to be others too.
So I’m a little behind in the Cosby allegations. Is he going to be on trial for his terrible crimes or is this only going to be interview after interview? I cannot understand the mentality of an organization or any individual who could want to support this monster.
If i was careening off the road towards a body of water, and Bill Cosby was telling me that the only way out was to follow his life advice, I’d happily drown. Or I would smash my window w/ a hammer, swim out, and leave him behind to fend for himself.
I know people are innocent until proven guilty and that’s a fair and just system, however I will say you are not helping your case, Mr. Cosby when you talk like this. At some point– guilty or not– you need to directly answer the questions and address the fact that too many women have come forward with accusations about your conduct. Until you do that, I choose not to watch your shows and to think less of you. It’s a shame because “The Cosby Show” was a favorite of mine growing up and my kids used to love it, too.