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What ? I Paid 'Em for It Afterwards !

Deposition: Cosby paid women to keep affairs secret 

NEW YORK — Bill Cosby, in sworn testimony a decade ago, said he had paid women after sex to keep the affairs from his wife, suggested he was skilled at understanding nonverbal cues for sexual consent and called one of his accusers a liar.

The New York Times reported the revelations Saturday after obtaining a copy of a transcript from a deposition Cosby gave in a lawsuit filed by a former Temple University employee who alleges he drugged and molested her.

According to excerpts from the deposition released a month ago, and first obtained by The Associated Press, Cosby admitted he procured Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with.

The Times, citing the transcript, reports that Cosby told lawyers for Andrea Constand, who worked at Temple in Philadelphia and brought the suit, that he was a “pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic sexual things.”

He said he offered to pay for Constand’s education and paid another woman whom he had met in 1976. He said he funneled money to one of the women he had sex with through his agent so his wife wouldn’t find out.

Cosby’s publicist, David Brokaw, did not immediately return a message seeking comment late Saturday.

So, it's not so much that Cosby drugged and raped women, as that he drugged and raped women, then tried to pay them off afterwards so his wife wouldn't find out.  Well that's much better.

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At points during the deposition, Cosby also described his sexual encounters with the women in detail.

The deposition also paints Cosby as emotionally charming, but he also spoke about disregarding relationships to pursue other women.

He suggested he was skilled at understanding women and nonverbal cues signaling sexual consent.

Wonder what the specific nonverbal cues are for 'please drug me into unconsciousness and then rape me' ?  Completely imaginary ones existing only within Cosby's head perhaps ?

'The Most Prolific Serial Rapist in the United States of America' ?

The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia via user Cirt on Wikipedia.  CC 2.0 

That's how accuser Patti 'PJ' Masten described Bill Cosby on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° after the revelation that Cosby admitted in court to the purchase of Quaaludes, for the purpose of 'hav(ing) sex with' 'young women', because y'know, it's so normal for women to ask to be made unconscious prior to having consensual sexual intercourse with a man.

AP via Jezebel.com

And given the number of accusers already having come forth, and how many could come forward now, given the degree to which this blows to pieces the remaining plausible deniability in this case, she could well be right.

Will Cosby turn out to be the US' equivalent of Jimmy Savile ?*  Were there others in his circles engaging in the same practice ?  Masten did, after all, mention four other men present when she met Cosby in the instance in question for her.

One obvious question is why ?  As both Cooper & Masten say in the segment, this is a man who could have had his pick of women.  Someone who was rich, famous, popular, connected, good-looking.  And who yet nonetheless felt compelled to do that ?

BTW, if we're still in this hyper-politically correct place as would seem in the US, what with banning the Confederate flag even in the context of The Dukes of Hazzard, I feel compelled to point out that a certain US network is and has been showing re-runs of a certain show featuring a man later known as 'America's Dad', and more currently to be known as...

I'm sure it's entirely a coincidence that they happened to pick up this particular show at a time that one of its stars was in the news for all the wrong reasons.


* No, there's no evidence he's a paedophile, but repeatedly drugging women into unconsciousness and raping them is pretty far up there.



Update: And so, without any announcement, suddenly...the show is gone from the lineup, and its presence quietly disappeared from the website.  Strange that.