"THAT WAS ONE EVIL WOMAN": JOY REID'S EX-COLLEAGUES
June 8, 2018
Maybe somebody hacked Joy Reid's brain? Here's how one African-American colleague remembers the MSNBC yakker.
MSNBC star Joy Reid physically threatened a senior colleague, accused a Republican politician of being gay on air and often referred to her hateful blog during a short-lived stint as a radio show co-host more than a decade ago, former superiors at the station told Fox News.But now, Reid faces fresh questions over her conduct during her brief but “toxic” time as a co-host and producer of “Wake Up South Florida” on radio station WTPS 1080 AM between 2006 and 2007.Andre Eggelletion, former lead host of the morning show with Reid, recently spoke out about her for the first time in more than a decade, saying Reid created “the most toxic work environment I've ever experienced” and threatened him with violence.“It was a very unhealthy work environment because of her attitude. She attacked me on a constant basis while I was there. I was even once threatened with physical violence during a break with her,” he revealed to Fox News.The incident was corroborated by Lee Michaels, then-national program director for Syndication One, a network of radio stations of Urban One (Radio One back then) that owned WTPS.“It absolutely happened -- 100 percent,” he told Fox News, noting that he had to put in a lot of effort to convince Eggelletion not to quit over Reid’s conduct.“I do believe she’s not telling the truth about who that person [who wrote the blog posts] was. Maybe she has changed, but back then, that was one evil woman,” Eggelletion said.
I've cut this down quite a bit because there's really not much here. Except the unsurprising revelation that working with Joy Reid wouldn't be much fun.
The real question is why does MSNBC keep covering for Reid? She's not talented or charismatic. She doesn't draw much of a feeling. The lefty network has shed plenty of talent. And most of that talent was more talented than her.
So why?
Earlier media reports were touting Reid's ratings. But after her hacking claims, they dropped again. And when a network is betting hard on Joy Reid, to the extent of ignoring this kind of thing, it must be desperate.
MSNBC
Absolves Joy Reid of ‘Hateful’ Writings
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/06/01/msnbc-refuses-to-punish-joy-reid-after-new-controversial-blog-posts-surface/
MSNBC issued a statement Friday absolving
host Joy Reid of writing “hateful” blog posts — and does not address the FBI investigation that
Reid claimed to have initiated in April while claiming that a hacker wrote
politically toxic sentiments on her old website The Reid Report.
“Some of the things written by
Joy on her old blog are obviously hateful and hurtful,” the statement reads.
“They are not reflective of the colleague and friend we have known at MSNBC for
the past seven years. Joy has apologized publicly and privately and said
she has grown and evolved in the many years since, and we know this to be
true.”
Earlier, Reid issued an
apology for old blog posts featuring 9/11 conspiracy theories, praise for
anti-Semitic statements from Iran’s former president, and a photoshopped image
of Sen. John McCain depicted as the Virginia Tech gunman.
Joy Reid has issued a statement about the latest round of controversy
surrounding her old blog posts.
“While I
published my blog, starting in 2005, I wrote thousands of posts in real time on
the issues of the day,” the MSNBC host said in a statement.
“There
are things I deeply regret and am embarrassed by, things I would have said
differently and issues where my position has changed. Today I’m sincerely
apologizing again.
“To be
clear, I have the highest respect for Sen. McCain as a public servant and
patriot and wish him and his family the best. I have reached out to Meghan
McCain and will continue to do so. She is a former on-air colleague and I feel
deeply for her and her family. I’ve also spoken openly about my evolution on
many issues and know that I’m a better person today than I was over a decade
ago. I am the daughter of immigrants and have worked to be a strong ally of
these communities. There is no question in my mind that Al Qaeda perpetrated
the 9/11 attacks or about Israel’s right to its sovereignty.”
Reid also fails to provide an update on the FBI
investigation that her lawyer claimed would take place back when she was
scrambling to deny that she wrote blog entries full of anti-gay statements.
As
Her ‘Hack’ Claim Collapses, Joy Reid’s Column Is Suspended at Daily Beast
The far-left Daily Beast says it has “hit
pause” on Joy Reid’s columns until its own reporters have had a
chance to investigate her claim that homophobic writings attributed to her were
actually written by a hacker.
In
other fallout news, the embattled MSNBC anchor canceled a public appearance, a
high-profile panel discussion she was set to appear on in New York.
On
top of that, a gay rights group abruptly canceled an award Reid was scheduled to
receive next month.
“We’re
going to hit pause on Reid’s columns,” wrote Daily Beast executive editor Noah
Shachtman in an internal email. “As you’re well aware, support for LGBTQ rights
and respect for human dignity are core to Daily Beast. So we’re taking
seriously the new allegations that one of our columnists, Joy Reid, previously
wrote homophobic blog posts during her stint as a radio host.”
Shachtman
added, “We’ve all said and done things in our lives that we wish we hadn’t
done. We deserve the room to grow beyond our past. But these allegations are
serious enough that they deserve a full examination.”
Hopefully,
Schachtman is not talking about 12-year-old writings being a disqualifier. It
would be outrageous to fire or suspend someone over something they wrote at a
completely different site more than a decade ago. The only thing that should
matter to the Daily Beast is if Reid follows its own editorial policies and
guidelines.
Reid’s
problem, however, is not what was published at her site in 2006. Reid’s problem
is if she is lying in 2018, and by all accounts her story of being hacked is
springing leaks right and left.
But
even if she is caught lying, that might not be enough for her to lose her
status in an establishment media that still parades Dan Rather and Brian
Williams around as Pillars Of Virtuous Journalism. Reid is seen as
intellectually pure, so any loophole that can be found to keep her around will
be.
Already,
despite her crumbling story and the open skepticism being
expressed, even on the far-left, NBC
News is standing by her.
Reid’s
biggest problem right now is that she appears to be blocking any opportunity
for an independent investigation.
According
to the Washington Post,
an anti-Trump publication every bit as determined to destroy the president as
Reid, she and her handlers have added a code to her old site that is
intentionally meant to stop it from being fully archived and therefore fully
examined.
Moreover,
Reid, who has already acknowledged writing homophobic posts and has apologized
for them, has not yet detailed which one of these new discoveries from the 00’s
she wrote and which she claims were written by hackers.
What
we do know is that if Reid was in fact hacked, it happened prior to 2006, which
means someone attempted frame a local radio host … but never sprung the trap.
Or this alleged hacker had the foresight no one else did, was so certain Reid
would become a national media figure the following decade, he planted the seeds
of her destruction 12 years in advance. Or somewhere there is a hacker with a
time machine.
Regardless
of what ultimately happens, NBC News is already a haven for homophobes, rape deniers,
alleged sex abusers, and their enablers. What is one more?
LET US CHAT
ABOUT DECADES OF RAPE AND DRUGGING PERVERSION BY BILL COSBY!
Bill
Cosby Guilty of Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Woman
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/04/26/bill-cosby-guilty-drugging-sexually-assaulting-woman/
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby was convicted Thursday of drugging
and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era,
completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial
barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America’s Dad.
Cosby,
80, could end up spending his final years in prison after a jury concluded he
sexually violated Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban
Philadelphia home in 2004. He claimed the encounter was consensual.
The
verdict came after a two-week retrial in which prosecutors put five other women
on the stand who testified that Cosby, married for 54 years, drugged and
violated them, too. One of those women asked him through her tears, “You
remember, don’t you, Mr. Cosby?”
The
panel of seven men and five women reached a verdict after deliberating 14 hours
over two days, vindicating prosecutors’ decision to retry Cosby after his first
trial ended with a hung jury less than a year ago.
Cosby
could get up to 10 years in prison on each of the three counts of aggravated
indecent assault. He is likely to get less than that under state sentencing
guidelines, but given his age, even a modest term could mean he will die behind
bars.
Constand,
45, a former Temple women’s basketball administrator, told jurors that Cosby
knocked her out with three blue pills he called “your friends” and then
penetrated her with his fingers as she lay immobilized, unable to resist or say
no.
It
was the only criminal case to arise from a barrage of allegations from more
than 60 women who said the former TV star drugged and molested them over a span
of five decades.
“The
time for the defendant to escape justice is over,” prosecutor Stewart Ryan said
in his closing argument. “It’s finally time for the defendant to dine on the
banquet of his own consequences.”
Another
prosecutor, Kristen Feden, said Cosby was “nothing like the image that he
played on TV” as sweater-wearing, wisdom-dispensing father of five Dr. Cliff
Huxtable on “The Cosby Show.”
Cosby’s
retrial took place against the backdrop of #MeToo, the movement against sexual
misconduct that has taken down powerful men in rapid succession, among them
Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey and Sen. Al Franken.
The
jurors all indicated they were aware of #MeToo but said before the trial they
could remain impartial. Cosby’s lawyers slammed #MeToo, calling Cosby its
victim and likening it to a witch hunt or a lynching.
After
failing to win a conviction last year, prosecutors had more courtroom weapons
at their disposal for the retrial. The other accusers’ testimony helped move
the case beyond a he-said, she-said, allowing prosecutors to argue that Cosby
was a menace to women long before he met Constand. Only one other accuser was
permitted to testify at Cosby’s first trial.
Cosby’s
new defense team, led by Michael Jackson lawyer Tom Mesereau, launched a highly
aggressive attack on Constand and the other women.
Their
star witness, a longtime Temple employee, testified that Constand once spoke of
setting up a prominent person and suing. Constand sued Cosby after prosecutors
initially declined to file charges, settling with him for nearly $3.4 million
over a decade ago.
“You’re
dealing with a pathological liar,” Mesereau told the jury.
His
colleague on the defense team, Katheen Bliss, derided the other accusers as
home-wreckers and suggested they made up their stories in a bid for money and
fame.
But
Cosby himself had long ago confirmed sordid revelations about drugs and
extramarital sex.
In
a deposition he gave over a decade ago as part of Constand’s lawsuit, Cosby
acknowledged he had obtained quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex
with, “the same as a person would say, ‘Have a drink.’” The sedative was a
popular party drug before the U.S. banned it more than 30 years ago.
Cosby
also acknowledged giving pills to Constand before their sexual encounter. But
he identified them as the over-the-counter cold and allergy medicine Benadryl
and insisted they were meant to help her relax.
The
entertainer broke racial barriers as the first black actor to star in a network
show, “I Spy,” in the 1960s. He created the top-ranked “Cosby Show” two decades
later. He also found success with his “Fat Albert” animated TV show and served
as pitchman for Jello-O pudding.
Later
in his career, he attracted controversy for lecturing about social dysfunction
in poor black neighborhoods, railing against young people stealing things and
wearing baggy pants.
It
was Cosby’s reputation as a public moralist that prompted a federal judge,
acting in response to a request from The Associated Press, to unseal portions
of the deposition.
Its
release helped destroy the “Cosby Show” star’s career and good-guy image. It
also prompted authorities to reopen the criminal investigation, and he was
charged in late 2015.
The
Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of
sexual assault unless they grant permission. Constand has done so.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/was_the_starbucks_incident_a_setup.html
I
live in an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. Growing up, it was a place
where racism was not only rampant, but seemingly an integral part of the
community's essence – so much so that it was one of the jurisdictions covered
by Section 5 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Any changes made to
election practices or procedures necessitated preclearance from Department of
Justice. I wrote about my neighborhood here.
As
the world turns, times change. Today, while the area is still mostly
white, the balance shows a level of diversity that would have appalled the Mob
wannabes with their baseball bats from back in the day. Blacks now live
in a place where forty years ago they would have caught a beating just walking
through.
In
any case, I bring this up to elucidate two recent instances of bigotry in my
life and the similarity they have to the now infamous Starbucks incident.
Once
a month, I go to a bank in a neighborhood that is probably 95% black.
After conducting business, I go to the supermarket next door. I
have never seen a white person in the bank and only occasionally see one in the
supermarket.
When
you walk in the door of the bank, they have an officer at a reception desk to
answer questions. On this day, I had one. The lady at the kiosk was
helping someone already, so I stood behind him, and a woman stood behind me.
It was a line of two. When the man was finished, he stepped away,
and I stepped up to the counter. The woman at the desk looked up and
asked the woman behind me what she needed help with. My line-mate seemed
surprised but asked her question anyway.
When
entering the bank, I had held the two doors for her and was in front of her
only because she had gone to a separate counter to fill out a bank slip and I
had gone directly to the line. I wouldn't have minded letting her go
first. I'm one of those guys who lets ladies go first. But I was
shocked that the bank lady had skipped me so she could help the person behind
me (they were both black). When it was again my turn, the counter lady
smiled and asked, "Oh, did you have a question?"
It
wasn't a big thing, so I didn't make a big deal about it. I didn't even
respond to the email they send every time I visit the branch asking about my
"banking experience." Live and let live, right?
I
got the picture: I was a white guy, and she was a black woman, and she didn't
want to help someone with so much privilege. I was angry, but I would
never be rude or raise my voice to a woman in public, so I respectfully stated,
"Excuse me, I didn't hear what you said." She smiled a little
and informed me, "You can go there," pointing to self-service.
I
was really bothered by both incidents. It was clearly a black and white
case of different treatment for different races, which was the issue with
Starbucks as well. For me, both incidents were illuminating. This
happened to me twice in the span of several months, but I cannot recall
anything comparable ever happening to me before. I know that Obama set
race relations back decades with his incessant race-mongering, but it never
occurred to me that I would ever be on the receiving end of racially disparate
treatment, however trivial.
I
thought about it, and I realized that it wasn't so long ago that such minor
travesties and often much, much worse were things black people lived through
every day. While it was never something I ever had to worry about in my
life, millions of minorities did have to worry about things like that.
That
being said, I think what happened at the Starbucks in Philly doesn't pass the
sniff test. Two black men went in, sat down, and apparently went unnoticed
for a period of time until one got up and asked to use the restroom. When
told it was only for customers, he declined the opportunity to purchase
something and returned to his associate at their table. After another
unspecified period of time elapsed, the manager, a woman named Holly, asked
them to either purchase something or leave. They said they were waiting
for someone, did not want to buy anything, and wouldn't leave. More time
passed, the option was again proffered, and the double-refusal was again the
response. That's when Holly called "the man."
The
"screws" arrived and made the same offer as Holly, three times.
And just as many times, it was refused. As they were slipping on
the cuffs to take them to the "big house," the ever-elusive "friend"
magically appeared. You get the picture: it was a setup. Why
wouldn't the "friend" just buy a cup of Joe so they could all sit
down and chant, "No justice, no peace"? How did he already know
not to? How did he know to soldier on for the cause?
It
was a win-win for the unprivileged. Getting arrested was the goal, but if
they weren't arrested when the friend came in, it would validate the claim that
white people are treated better than blacks.
The
only things I would have done differently are, I would have put one in a suit
and have the other dressed as a woman – but tastefully, you know, flats with
perhaps a below-the-knee summer dress and some nice hoop earrings. A
little intersectionality would have created a bigger payout.
But
hey, it worked out great anyway. That million dollars each of them will
get from the settlement will come in handy. I would, however, watch the
bank accounts of the friend. I have a feeling his accounts will see a
large deposit once the inevitable lawsuit is settled – and that would be the
"smoking gun" the left is always seeking but can never seem to find.
I would wager that the left won't find it here, either.
Yet
I can't get out of my mind all the times something like that really happened
back when nobody cared.
Yet
again, it's stunts like this, perpetrated by an immoral left with the purpose
of keeping and widening the racial divide for all time – while getting rich in
the process, of course. They always get rich.
The
saddest thing is what their stunt did to poor Holly. So afraid that the
world was going to deck the halls with boughs of Holly, she quit her job.
Those
on the left willingly sacrificed one of the little people for their cause.
Remember when people sacrificed themselves for their cause?
Oh,
the hypocrisy!
GHETTO
BLACK TERRORISM IN AMERICA…. BLAME WHITEY?
In
2016, 7881
blacks were murdered, 90.1% of them by other blacks; 7100 blacks
killed by other blacks. FBI crime facts show only 16 unarmed blacks were
shot by police. CHRIS KEMBLE – AMERICAN THINKER
THE SUBCULTURE OF GROSS IGNORANCE, HIP HOP, MURDER,
VIOLENCE, CHILD ABUSE, ABORTION and DRUGS…. And yet they blame whitey!
More Joy
Reid Anti-Gay Writings Discovered — MSNBC Host Claims Site was Hacked
Joy Reid’s old blog, The Reid Report (2000-2014), is littered with even
more anti-gay posts than were originally discovered, reports the far-left blog Mediate.
The MSNBC host is claiming these latest discoveries were not written by her,
but by hackers as a means “to taint my character.”
Earlier
this year, Reid admitted to authoring a number of posts on her old site that mercilessly
ridiculed then-Republican Florida Governor Charlie Crist as a homosexual (even
after he married a woman). Reid was clearly using homosexuality as a pejorative, as a
weapon of ridicule, so the left-wing MSNBC anchor’s homophobia has already been well- established.
Nevertheless,
after she apologized for this (and because she is not a conservative), Reid was
allowed to resume a media career that traffics in conspiracy theories, race-baiting, and uninformed Trump-bashing.
Here
are some the new finds on Reid’s old site that she claims she did not write:
Keeping
it real … most straight men feel exactly the same way, and would have the exact
same reaction to the idea of stripping naked in a sweaty locker room in close
quarters with a gay teammate. Most straight people cringe at the sight of two
men kissing… Most straight people had a hard time being convinced to watch
‘Broke Back Mountain.’ (I admit that I couldn’t go see the movie either,
despite my sister’s ringing endorsement, because I didn’t want to watch the two
male characters having sex.)
Does
that make me homophobic? Probably. And I’m not exactly proud of it. But part of
the intrinsic nature of “Straightness” is that the idea of homosexual sex is …
well … gross … even if you think that gay people are perfectly lovely
individuals. For the record I’m sure gay people think straight sex is gross,
too, it’s the that the nature of political correctness is that gay people are
allowed to say straight sex is gross but the reverse is considered to be patently
homophobic.
While
defending a Marine General who declared homosexual acts “immoral,” Reid (or her
hacker) wrote in 2007…
“Some
people use the [word] ‘immoral’ when they really mean ‘distasteful’ — I think a
lot of heterosexuals, especially men, find the idea of homosexual sex to be …
well … gross, and they lump it in with immorality.”
Mediaite
adds that Reid (or her hacker) went on, “And then there are the concerns that
adult gay men tend to be attracted to very young, post-pubescent types,
bringing them ‘into the lifestyle’ in a way that many people consider to be
immoral… Ditto with gay rights groups that seek to organize very young,
impressionable teens who may have an inclination that they are gay.”
Other
posts included a list of the top five “totally not gay celebrities” that
included CNN’s Anderson Cooper, and singer Clay Aiken, who were only
rumored at the time to be gay. In 2005, seven years before he came out, Reid
said that Cooper is the “gayest thing on TV” and added that she has
it “on good authority that Cooper is totally gay.”
Interestingly
enough, Mediaite adds that Reid repeatedly wrote about opposing same sex
marriage.
Reid’s
hacker must have been fairly busy and thorough because dozens of politicians
and celebrities were hit with gay jokes, according to Mediaite, including one
aimed at her current colleague, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
Here
is Reid’s full denial:
In
December I learned that an unknown, external party accessed and manipulated
material from my now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, to include offensive and
hateful references that are fabricated and run counter to my personal beliefs
and ideology.
I
began working with a cyber-security expert who first identified the
unauthorized activity, and we notified federal law enforcement officials of the
breach. The manipulated material seems to be part of an effort to taint my
character with false information by distorting a blog that ended a decade ago.
Now
that the site has been compromised I can state unequivocally that it does not
represent the original entries. I hope that whoever corrupted the site
recognizes the pain they have caused, not just to me, but to my family and
communities that I care deeply about: LGBTQ, immigrants, people of color and
other marginalized groups.
Even
the left-wing Mediaite is skeptical:
It
is worth noting, however, that Reid does admit these posts came from her blog …
with the caveat that they were added by nefarious hackers after she had the
site shut down. It’s unclear when the nefarious hackers would have hacked her
site and added the controversial content, since it has been defunct for years
and still is. More importantly, NBC could or would not specify exactly which
posts Reid is claiming were doctored.
NBC
probably does not care about this because the far-left, anti-Trump outlet is
already a haven for homophobes, sex abusers, and enablers.
On
top of Reid, there is Saturday
Night Live star Alex Badwin, who has long history of
homophobia. Morning
Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski slut-shamed a woman who had
photographic proof disgraced ex-Senator Al Franken (D-MN) groped her. Despite
credible allegations of “stalking, groping and making
explicit comments to female colleagues,” NBC still hired Mike Tircio
to anchor the Winter Olympics. Andrea Mitchell is a rape denier. NBC paid off a staffer who accused Chris
Matthews of harassment, and no fewer than six NBC staffers were fired for various acts of
sexual misconduct, which in some cases went on for years.
Being
a homophobe, sex abuser, or enabler, appears to be the opposite of a
disqualifier at NBC News, so Reid has nothing to worry about.
'He doesn't have a plane, you a**hole': Guilty Bill Cosby screams out in
court tirade, after DA claims he is a flight risk and asks $1M bail be revoked
as disgraced comic faces dying in jail for sexually assaulting drugged woman
·
Bill Cosby lashed out
after a jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of sexual assault
after 14 hours of deliberation on Thursday
·
His outburst came as DA
Kevin Steele demanded the comedian's bail be revoked
·
Cosby said 'he doesn't
have a plane, you a**hole' after being dubbed a flight risk
·
He was convicted of
drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004
·
The jury found the
80-year-old actor guilty of all on three counts of aggravated indecent assault,
and each charge carries a maximum penalty of ten years
·
Cosby refused to make a statement
at a press conference following the verdict and was driven immediately home in
a black SUV
·
Judge Steven T O'Neill
said Cosby was not to leave his home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, unless for a
bail hearing
By LAURA COLLINS IN NORRISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA FOR
DAILYMAIL.COM and KELLY MCLAUGHLIN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:13 EDT, 26 April 2018 | UPDATED: 18:01 EDT, 26 April
2018
Bill Cosby's true colors showed as he lashed
out in court before speeding home in a large SUV after he was found guilty
of drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand.
As DA Kevin Steele demanded the comedian's
$1million bail be revoked because he is a flight risk, Cosby, who was all
smiles as he walked in to court ahead of the verdict, yelled out that 'he
doesn't have a plane, you a**hole' in outrage.
It came after the jury of seven men and
five women unanimously found Cosby guilty on all three counts of
aggravated sexual assault: administering an intoxicant, rendering his victim
unconscious and penetrating her without consent.
The 80-year-old actor now faces spending the
rest of his life in prison as each count carries a sentence of up to ten years
imprisonment.
After the verdict was read, defense attorney
Tom Mesereau met briefly with the press and said: 'The fight is not
over.'
Cosby refused to make a statement at a press
conference following the verdict and was driven immediately home in a black
SUV.
Judge Steven T O'Neill said Cosby was not to
leave his home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, unless for a bail hearing.
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Bill Cosby has been found guilty of drugging
and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in his home in 2004
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Cosby waved to the crowd as the left the
courthouse on Thursday after being found guilty of sexual assault
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As DA Kevin Steele demanded the comedian's
bail be revoked because he is a flight risk, Cosby, who was all smiles as he
walked in to court ahead of the verdict, yelled out that 'he doesn't have a
plane, you a**hole' in outrage
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Cosby was flanked by police officers and his
spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, after the guilty verdict was read
+34
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After the verdict was read, defense attorney
Tom Mesereau (right) met briefly with the press and said: 'The fight is not
over'
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Cosby stood next to spokesman Andrew Wyatt as
his defense team gave a statement to the press
Upon Steele's request to have Cosby's bail
revoked, Judge O'Neill asked: 'What is it that you're saying will occur? That
he will flee? What evidence do you have …to revoke the bail of an individual
who has shown up for every single hearing over the past two years.'
Steele argued: 'The defense said at the
beginning that $3.38million is nothing to him.
'I don't think any amount of bail can assure
his presence under these circumstances. We ask that bail be revoked.'
Asked where he thought Cosby would go, Steele
said: 'Anywhere. He has a plane.'
At this Cosby yelled that 'he doesn't have a
plane you a**hole!'
O'Neill called for order but went on to
berate Steele, who has not made any move to have bail raised throughout the
past two years for seeking to have it revoked.
He said: 'Based upon his age and his medical
condition I'm not going to simply lock him up at this stage.'
O'Neill said that Cosby was not to leave the
courthouse until they had determined that the court held his passport but said
that there was no reason why he should not then return home on the $1
million.
O'Neill told him he was not to leave his home
unless for a bail hearing.
After the court cleared Cosby stood, huddled
with his defense. He walked out aided by spokesman Andrew Wyatt and flanked by
court officer.
When asked about Cosby's outburst in court
later, Steele said: 'I guess you got to see a brief view of who he was. That's
just him acting out. I think everybody got to see who he really is when each of
those prior bad act witnesses got to testify.
'The guy was an actor for a long time and it
was an act. It was an act. We got to see who he really was.'
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Cosby refused to speak at a press conference
following the verdict and was driven home in a black SUV
+34
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Judge Steven T O'Neill said Cosby was not to
leave his home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, unless for a bail hearing
+34
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While it's unclear who was outside Cosby's
home, two men were seen hugging on the front steps after Cosby arrived
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Cosby's large SUV drove directly from the
courthouse in Norristown to the comedian's home in Cheltenham
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Cosby accuser Lili Bernard let out a sob
as the foreperson delivered the guilty verdict on each charge.
O'Neill thanked the jury for their service,
'for removing themselves from their families and lives.' He told them 'you have
sacrificed much for you country and justice.'
Cosby did not immediately react to the
verdict, but instead sat sat in silence with his eyes cast down. His wife was
not in court.
Andrew Wyatt, Cosby's spokesperson who has
spoken so vehemently in the disgraced actor's defense throughout the trial, sat
in stunned silence, leaning forward in his seat with his face a mask of
misery.
Women's rights attorney Gloria Allred and
several Cosby accusers made statements after the verdict was announced.
Gloria Allred said: 'Justice has been done!
We are very thankful. It took a great deal of courage, in the beginning many
were not believe.
'We are so happy that finally we can say
women are believed and not only in #MeToo but in a court of law where they were
under oath, where they were smeared and denograted and attacked and after all
that they were believed.
'Proved beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury
believed women and I'm the happiest I have been about any court decision in 42
years.'
Allred added: 'It's been a very long
journey but this is a historic result. This is her story. The story of Andrea
Constand.
'The story of women who took the risk of
taking on a rich powerful man, took the risk of being shamed and blamed so
their truth could be known and believed.
'And yes the MeToo movement is alve and well
and living in Montgomery County and throughout this nation and this world.'
She went onto thank Steele and his team for
taking a risk for justice.
Bill Cosby convicted of sexual assault
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Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand (center)
reacts after the guilty on all counts verdict was delivered in the sexual
assault retrial at the Montgomery County Courthouse
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Constand hugged her friends as she celebrated
the guilty verdict on Thursday afternoon in Norristown, Pennsylvania
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Flanked by supporters, Andrea Constand smiled
in court upon hearing Cosby was found guilty of sexual assault
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Cosby did not react to the verdict, but later
lashed out when DA Kevin Steele demanded the comedian's bale be revoked
Accuser Chelan Lasha said: 'I feel like the
judicial system works. 32 years of tears and nightmares are over.'
Another accuser, Lise Lott Lublin, said: 'I
am extremely grateful that the jury was able to see past his defense attorneys
lies. I truly hope his long list of victims will now be able to find some kind
of peace.'
A third, Janice Baker-Kinney, said, 'I am
overwhelmed with joy relief and gratitude. Joy that finally justice has been
served, relief that this toxic chain of silence is finally over.'
In his own press conference, Montgomery
County District Attorney, Kevin Steele said: 'Andrea Constand came here to
Norristown for justice and that's what 12 jurors from Montgomery County
provided her.'
'Today we're finally in a place to say that
justice was done. We have a responsiblity to seek justice and we have to go to
wherever and whomever it takes us. I want to step back to a point that was
pretty important
He said a Federal judge's decision to unseal
of Cosby's deposition in 2015 was key in that its contents revealed the stark
contrast between Bill Cosby the public moralist' and a very different Cosby
'guilty of improper and possibly criminal conduct.'
Steele also detailed how Cosby's sentencing
would play out.
He said: 'A sentencing date will be
issued by the judge that is within 60 to 90 day period of time. There's a
pre-sentence assessment that will be done, a sexually violent predator
assessment that will be done.
'These assessments will then be used by the
judge. The defendant may be facing years in prison - technically up to 30
years however we have to look at merger of those counts to determine what the
final maximum will be.
'When a sentencing occurs there's also an
assessment for the cost of prosecution. We will be arguing that the costs of
both the trials, the sequestration, the sheriff's department will go to the
defendant on this.
'When the defendant was talking about
$3.38million as a paltry sum or a nuisance, clearly the costs will not be a
problem for the defendant.'
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As DA Kevin Steele demanded the comedian's
bail be revoked because he is a flight risk, Cosby yelled out that 'he doesn't
have a plane, you a**hole' in outrage
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The jury of seven men and five women
unanimously found Cosby guilty on all three counts of aggravated sexual assaul
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The 80-year-old actor now faces spending the
rest of his life in prison as each count carries a sentence of up to ten years
imprisonment
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Andrew Wyatt, Cosby's spokesperson who has
spoken so vehemently in the disgraced actor's defense throughout the trial, sat
in stunned silence as the verdict was read
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Cosby grasped spokesman Andrew Wyatt's arm
for support after hearing the news that he was found guilty
The verdict is a devastating blow to Cosby's
lead attorney, Thomas Mesereau - the man famous for securing Michael Jackson's
acquittal in 2005.
But it is vindication for Constand, the five
other accusers who testified in this case and the more than 60 others who claim
to have been assaulted by Cosby over the years.
It is a career-saving victory for Montgomery
County District Attorney Kevin Steele who rode to election on his promise to
bring Cosby to justice.
Last June jurors failed to reach a verdict
after hearing Constand's testimony that she lost consciousness after taking
three little blue pills from Cosby who told her they were 'her friends' and
would help her relax.
She claimed Cosby then digitally penetrated
her and assaulted her while she was immobile and 'could not fight him off.'
After close to 53 hours of deliberation they
remained 'hopelessly deadlocked' and O'Neill was forced to declare a mistrial.
Back then Steele vowed to re-try the case and
promised that the re-trial would not be a re-run of the first.
And at the beginning this seemed to be true
of both the prosecution and the defense.
For a start there actually was a defense.
Cosby's previous defense led by Brian McMonagle, assisted by Angela Agrusa
lasted just six minutes.
McMonagle painted Constand as a bitter
ex-lover out to punish Cosby when their affair went south.
'It's a relationship,' he bellowed in his
closing statement as he urged the jury to 'end this madness'.
This time Cosby had switched out McMonagle
and Agrusa for a superannuated team led by Los Angeles attorney Thomas
Mesereau, famous for getting Michael Jackson acquitted in 2005.
'Justice has been done!' says Cosby victims
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Cosby accuser Lili Bernard (left, with fellow
accusor Caroline Heldman) let out a sob as the foreperson delivered the guilty
verdict on each charge
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Attorney Gloria Allred stands with accusers
of actor and comedian Bill Cosby after a jury convicted him in a sexual assault
retrial
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Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin
Steele (center) speaks to reporters at Montgomery County Courthouse after
Cosby's guilty verdict
Victims burst from court in tears as Cosby is
found guilty
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Joined by co-counsel Kathleen Bliss, Becky
James, Lane Vines and associates Rachael Robinson, Jaya Gupta and Jason Hicks
their sheer numbers made them a formidable presence.
According to Mesereau, a striking courtroom
figure with his mop of snow-white hair, honeyed voice and hand-tailored suits,
this case was all about 'money, money and lots more money'.
Constand was a manipulative 'con-artist' out
to extort a lonely old man.
He even had a witness - Marguerite Margo
Jackson previously excluded on the grounds that Constand had claimed not to
know her - who would tell the jury that Constand once shared an idea to falsely
claim that a celebrity had assaulted her for the sole purpose of bringing a
lucrative lawsuit.
That was always her plan according to the
defense. And when she brought a civil suit and settled for $3.4 million in
2006, Mesereau crowed, 'She pulled it off'.
He said the prosecution's attempt to depict
Constand as 'some innocent babe in the woods' who naively took drugs from Cosby
that night was ludicrous.
According to Mesereau she was a woman whose
dreams fame and fortune had fallen flat. A career in sports broadcasting had
come to nothing.
She was a misfit with a history of drug
issues and financial problems, who stiffed former roommates on credit card and
utility bills and once ran a pyramid scheme with her then close friend Sheri
Williams.
The prosecution team was the same - Steele,
deputy District Attorney M Stewart Ryan and Kristen Feden who is now in private
practice in Philadelphia but returned as a special prosecutor.
But where last time O'Neill had permitted
just one of the more than 60 other women to have accused Cosby of sexual
assault to testify, this time he admitted five.
The first to testify to his 'prior bad acts'
was Heidi Thomas. She was a 24-year-old aspiring actress and model when, in
1984, Cosby invited her to a remote ranch house in Nevada with the promise of
mentoring her. Asked to do a 'cold read' of a drunk woman he offered her a
glass of wine to use as a prop.
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Exhausted jurors ended day one of its
considerations after rehearing excerpts from Cosby's old deposition evidence
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Cosby stands accused on three counts of
aggravated indecent assault, and each charge carries a maximum penalty of ten
years
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Cosby appeared positive as he walked into
court on Thursday morning ahead of the verdict. At one point he pointed to the
sky
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Cosby did not react to the verdict, but
instead sat sat in silence with his eyes cast down. He's pictured above before
jury deliberations on Thursday morning
Jurors deliberate Bill Cosby's fate for
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She said she lost consciousness after sipping
the Chablis and had only 'snapshots' of memories of the next four days.
She recalled him on top of her trying to
force himself into her mouth. And she remembered her head at the bottom of a
bed and his voice telling her 'your friend's going to cum again'.
Thomas called him 'a serial rapist' from the
stand.
Chelan Lasha was next. She wept, barely able
to breathe at points, as she said she was a 17-year-old-model when she took
pills offered to her by Cosby that he said would help the cold from which she
was suffering.
She had visited his suite in the Las Vegas
Hilton on the understanding that he was her friend and mentor. Instead she lay
helpless as he pinched her breasts, humped her leg and grunted until she felt
something warm on her leg.
In a moment of high emotion Lasha had looked
across the courtroom and said 'You remember don't you Mr Cosby?'
Cosby remained impassive.
Janice Baker-Kinney, the third woman to take
the stand, was a 24-year-old bartender at Harrah's Casino in Las Vegas when she
and a friend went to a 'pizza party' at Cosby's invitation when he was
headlining there in 1982.
She admitted to taking what she thought were
two Quaaludes. Her next memory is of waking up naked in bed with Cosby, with a
'sticky wetness' between her legs and a certainty she had been violated.
The world's first super-model Janice
Dickinson was the fourth on the stand. The prosecution's star witness of sorts,
Dickinson was also a risky choice given her infamous volatility.
She once stated that if she ever came face to
face with Cosby - whom she accused of drugging and raping her in Lake Tahoe -
she would demand, 'How f*****g dare you?' and punch him in the face.
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As Cosby walked into the courtroom on
Thursday morning, he appeared to have a tight smile on his face
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Cosby, pictured with his spokespeople, twice
said 'good morning' as he entered the courthouse on Thursday morning
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Cosby greets a man inside Montgomery County
Courthouse on Thursday before jury deliberations started
But she proved a poised witness as she
recounted being 'jolted awake' to find Cosby entering her after going to his
room following a dinner at Lake Tahoe during which he had given her pills that
he told her would help menstrual cramps.
She recalled thinking how 'very, very wrong'
it was to have 'America's Dad' on top of her.
Maud Lotte Lublin, the fifth woman to take
the stand, had no memory of any assault at all.
But, 25 years on she told the jury that she
had visited Cosby in his suite in the Las Vegas Hilton and lost consciousness
after taking two shots of Amaretto he offered her to help her 'relax'.
The prosecution hoped to show a sinister
pattern of behavior with this parade of women. Steele spoke of 'design' and
urged the jury to see that what happened to Constand 'was no accident'.
Mesereau set out to destroy the credibility
of Cosby's accusers.
The only discernible pattern he saw was that
each woman was out for fame and money - specifically a chunk of the $100
million fund that women's rights attorney Gloria Allred (who represents three
of the accusers) has demanded Cosby establish for his alleged victims.
But before the jury had heard from any of the
other women they had listened to forensic psychiatrist Dr Barbara Ziv.
She was there to dismantle our assumptions as
to how a victim of sexual assault 'should' or does act. She referred to these
largely erroneous beliefs as 'rape myths'.
The assumptions that a victim will flee,
immediately report and then shun all contact with her assaulter are wrong, she
told the jury.
Eighty-seven percent of victims know their
abuser and just seven percent, or less, report the crime. The vast majority
retain some sort of contact with their assailant in an attempt to 'make sense'
of what happened.
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Cosby accusers Lili Bernard and Caroline
Heldman pose for a selfie while waiting in line before the courtroom opens at
the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday morning
In the post #MeToo culture the prosecution
hoped that jurors would be more open to the idea that women may not report an
assault until long after the fact.
They also did their best to head off the
issues last years' jury had with inconsistencies that peppered Constand's
accounts to law enforcement.
Feden had Ziv explain this too and she duly
said in 20 years of practice she had yet to encounter a woman who gave a
coherent, chronological account of a sexual assault.
Yet in a he said/she said the truthfulness of
an accuser's claims is often judged on her ability - or inability - to give a
clear and consistent account.
Knowing this, Mesereau honed in on what he
presented as a particularly damning inconsistency.
In Constand's account of the assault in
January 2004 she made a point of saying that she arrived at Cosby's home on an
empty stomach. It was why she was reluctant to drink the wine he pushed on her,
she said.
Yet when she made her first report to
Cheltenham Township police she pinpointed the date as mid March. She said she
had gone back to his house after a group dinner at a Chinese restaurant. She
would have just had a 'big Chinese meal' Mesereau observed.
Challenged by him Constand said she'd just
got 'confused' and that she was 'nervous.'
Mesereau went onto mock the notion that she
was oblivious to Cosby's 'romantic interest' in her with relentless questioning
about dinners alone with him at his home and one evening when she drove several
hours to spend the evening with him at a casino in Connecticut.
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Judge Steven T. O'Neill of the Montgomery
County Court of Common Pleas smiles while walking towards the courtroom for the
verdict of Cosby's retrial
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Attorney Gloria Allred talks with members of
the media during a lunch break in Cosby's sexual assault retrial on Thursday
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Defense attorneys Kathleen Bliss (in red) and
Tom Mesereau (second right), walk into Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday
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Defense attorney Tom Mesereau, who was caught
snoozing in court on Wednesday, walks through the courthouse on Thursday
Bill Cosby's wife Camille attends his retrial
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She ended up in Cosby's room post dinner - to
get some baked goods she said. Mesereau scoffed at the idea and reminded the
jury that she ended up 'laying in bed with the defendant'.
Last June, Constand had stridden into court,
smiling and confident. This time her affect was very different.
She seemed diminished, thinner and older. Her
hair was cut more closely. Her jaw was set more tightly. There was, she said,
'no upside' for her in this prosecution.
She had been 'relieved' to think that it was
all over when, in 2006, she signed her $3.4million settlement in the civil suit
she brought against Cosby.
When a Federal judge granted a request to
have Cosby's civil suit deposition unsealed in 2015 Montgomery County Detective
Bureau chose to re-investigate the case they had set aside ten years earlier.
Steele took the unsealed deposition as new
evidence, brought in just under the wire for Pennsylvania's 12-year statute of
limitations and the stage for this high profile trial was set.
Cosby did not testify in either trial but the
court heard section of his deposition read aloud. In it he admitted to giving
Quaaludes to young women with the intention of having sex with them.
And he gave his account of the night in
January 2004 on which Constand claimed he drugged and assaulted her.
What Constand described as assault Cosby said
was consensual. He told investigator that they engaged in 'a petting and
necking session' during Constand had an orgasm.
And for all the billable hours expended, the
witnesses called, experts recruited and millions of dollars thrown at this case
by both sides this is what it all boiled down to: He Said/She Said - that
simple, complicated, dynamic and whether or not that left room for belief
beyond reasonable doubt.
FIVE BILL COSBY RAPE ACCUSERS WHO HAVE TESTIFIED AT
RETRIAL
Five women who have accused Bill
Cosby of sexual assault have testified at the comedian's retrial.
It was a big increase from the first trial,
where there were just two women who took the stand - plaintiff Andrea Constand
and Kelly Johnson.
This time Constand was joined by Janice
Baker-Kinney, Janice Dickinson, Chelan lasha, Lisa-Lotte Lublin and Heidi
Thomas.
Prosecutors had been hoping to have 13
women testify alongside Constand to speak to a pattern of behavior exhibited by
the defendant.
Cosby, 80, has been accused of drugging and
raping over 40 women.
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Janice Baker-Kinney claims that in 1982
(left) she woke up naked in bed with the comedian - and he told her to
keep their encounter to themselves
JANICE BAKER-KINNEY
Kinney said she was 24 in May 1982 when she
and a friend met Cosby at the casino where she worked in Reno, Nevada.
She said the three of them went back to
Cosby's apartment, where he gave her some pills.
Baker-Kinney willingly took two pills and
said she began to get blurry vision while playing backgammon with Cosby.
Hours later, she claims, she woke up naked
in bed with the comedian - and he told her to keep their encounter to
themselves.
'I was mortified at what had happened,'
said Kinney back in 2015 when she went public with her allegations at a press
conference.
'All this time, and for many, many years, I
felt that this was my fault.'
The defense tried to deny Baker-Kinney's
admission as a witness by arguing that her story is 'nothing like Ms.
Constand's' because she only met Cosby once, 'voluntarily' took quaaludes and
apologized for passing out.
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Janice Dickinson (left in 1982) claims that
Cosby sexually assaulted her in 1982 after giving her an unknown pill while
they were in Lake Tahoe
JANICE DICKINSON
The supermodel claims that Cosby sexually
assaulted her in 1982 after giving her an unknown pill.
Dickinson said in that 2014 interview that
Cosby invited her to dinner to discuss a role on The Cosby Show and at one
point offered her a glass of wine and a pill.
'The next morning I woke up, and I wasn't
wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually
assaulted by this man,' she told Entertainment Tonight.
'I remember waking up with my pajamas off
and there was semen in between my legs.'
Dickinson said her last memory of the night
was of Cosby taking off his robe and climbing on top of her, and that the next
morning she remembers 'a lot of pain.'
The supermodel claimed the incident
occurred in Lake Tahoe, California in 1982.
In her memoir, Dickinson detailed some of
her evening in Lake Tahoe with Cosby but told a very different story.
She said she was drinking with Cosby at
dinner and after being invited back to his room told him she was tired, at
which point he slammed his door in her face.
Legal claims made by Cosby and his team may
be why she decided not to print her current version of the story.
She said back in 2014 that she came forward
because she believes the other victims who have spoken publicly, and that it is
the 'right thing to do.'
As for what she would say to Cosby if she
saw him, Dickinson did not mince words.
'How dare you,' she said.
'Go f*ck yourself. How dare you take
advantage of me. And I hope you rot.'
She is also currently preparing to face off
with Cosby in a defamation lawsuit filed because of his response to her
allegations.
Soon after that 2014 interview aired,
Cosby's attorney Marty Singer responded to requests for comment by disputing
Dickinson's claim that she was drugged and raped by his client and calling the
allegation 'an outrageous defamatory lie.'
A judge ruled in November that because he
sent out that statement and a subsequent press release Singer will also face
claims in the case.
'We fail to see how justice is served by
granting Singer a windfall immunity based on Cosby’s pursuit of a meritless
motion,' wrote California Second District Court of Appeals Associate Justice
Laurence Rubin.
It was also ruled that Dickinson could
recover all legal costs related to the appeal from Singer and Cosby.
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Chelan Lasha (left in 1986) claims that
Cosby attacked her when she was just 17 in 1986 when she was an aspiring model
CHELAN LASHA
Lasha said in a 2014 press conference that
Cosby attacked her when she was just 17 in 1986 when she was an aspiring model.
She said her stepmother had sent pictures
of her to the star and he called her at home in Las Vegas, inviting her to the
Hilton Las Vegas, where he was performing and she had a job.
She then went up to Elvis Presley suite to
meet him and after telling him she had a cold, he gave her a blue pill, which
he said was an antihistimine, with a double shot of Amaretto.
She said: 'He was rubbing my neck and
saying that he might have to have someone come in and give me stress therapy.'
She claimed he told her to change into a
Hilton bathrobe and wet her hair to see the modelling scout.
Someone did briefly come up to the room,
pertaining to be from the Ford Modelling Agency -telling her to she needed to
lose 10 pounds - and taking some pictures.
Then, Chelan said, Cosby walked her to the
bedroom and gave her another shot of Amaretto, which he claimed would help her
cold.
'I laid down,' she said: 'He laid down next
to me on the bed and began pinching my left nipple and humping my leg while he
was grunting.
'I could not open my eyes. I couldn't move
or say anything. I felt something warm on my legs. Then I blacked out.
'Thirteen to sixteen hours later I woke up
by hearing Mr Cosby clapping his hands and saying 'Daddy says wake up'. He gave
me $1500. He said the money was to buy something nice for me and my grandmother
and he also invited me to go to the Temptations show with my grandmother.
'My grandmother went but I did not go
because I was too sick. Then he invited us to his show. My grandmother really
want to go. I did not, but I went with her and heckled him. As a result, I was
fired my from job.'
Lisa-Lotte Lublin (left in 1989) believes
she was sexually assaulted by Cosby while passed out in his hotel in 1989
LISA-LOTTE LUBLIN
Lublin said she met Cosby in 1989 at a
hotel in Las Vegas and that he asked her to perform an improvisation so that he
could evaluate her acting.
According to the ex-model, she and Cosby
were in the Elvis Suite at the Hilton Hotel when he offered her two drinks and
proceeded to pet her hair.
A short time later she passed out, but she
remembered the color of the walls in the room and a flood of bright light she
said in a 2015 press conference.
She said that she believes she was sexually
assaulted by Cosby while passed out in the hotel.
Prior to this, she and her mother had gone
for a run with the comedian.
The defense argued that Lublin assumes she
is a victim based on other media accounts but can only remember Cosby stroking
her hair.
Heidi Thomas (left in 1984) said she found
herself in bed next to a naked Bill Cosby who was 'forcing himself' in her
mouth back in 1984
HEIDI THOMAS
In 1984, Heidi Thomas, nee Johnson, was a
24-year-old model from Denver, Colorado, who was dreaming of a career in
acting.
Thomas was being represented by the city's
top modelling agency, JF Images, but by 1984 she was questioning whether or not
she wanted to stay in the business.
Then one day in the spring of 1984, she got
a call from an agent who told her that a famous entertainer was searching for
young talent to mentor.
Thomas said that Annie Maloney, of JF
Images, instructed her to travel to Reno, Nevada, where she was supposed to
meet with Bill Cosby, who allegedly had expressed interest in becoming her
acting coach.Cosby greeted Thomas at the entrance and ushered her inside,
according to the woman.
The aspiring actress began by performing a
monologue for Cosby, who then asked her to do a cold read of a person who was
intoxicated.
Thomas said Cosby was not impressed because
to his mind, she was not convincing as a drunk.
She recalled that Cosby wanted her to
relax, so he poured her a glass of Chablis.
The married music teacher said that her
memory of the next several hours is very hazy, but when she woke up later that
night, she found herself in bed next to a naked Bill Cosby who was 'forcing
himself' in her mouth.
According to the woman, the married
comedian then got on top of her and said to her: 'I'm your friend... your
friend is gonna [ejaculate] again,' according to the 54-year-old mother of
three.
Thomas said she was confused as to what
happened and eventually stormed out of the room and slammed the door behind
her, but she later apologized to Cosby for being rude.
She spent three more days with Cosby and
said they were all hazy and a blur.
The defense argued she has given three
versions of her story.
MSNBC'S JOY REID CALLED FOR ETHNICALLY CLEANSING
JEWS FROM ISRAEL
MSNBC continues to maintain its red wall of silence on Joy
Reid. But the ugliness just keeps rising.
The old blog posts by the progressive personality reek of every
bigotry that the left claims to condemn. And, as Bre Payton at the Federalist
notes, there's even a call to ethnically cleanse Jews
from Israel.
Iran's pres strikes again Says "move Israel to
Europe"
...
"You believe the Jews were oppressed, why should the
Palestinian Muslims have to pay the price? You oppressed them, so give a part
of Europe to the Zionist regime so they can establish any government they want.
We would support it. So, Germany and Austria, come and give one, two or any
number of your provinces to the Zionist regime so they can create a country
there... and the problem will be solved at its root."
I hate to admit that Mr. Amadinejad has a point ...
Not only is Joy Reid a a racist, but she's illiterate. So there
are two things that qualify her to work at MSNBC.
(and a plurality of the Israelis are former German nationals,
plus lower castes consisting of Eastern Europeans, Russians, Sephardic Jews
from the Mediterranean and at the bottom of the social pyramid, Falasha
Africans ...)
Actually a majority of the Israelis are from the Middle East. Most
of them having come from Muslim countries where they were persecuted.
Most Israelis are not and were not German nationals. Eastern
Europe would be more on the money early on. Ben Gurion and Netanyahu's
father were Polish Jews. As were many other Zionist leaders. Golda Meir was
from Ukraine and then Milwaukee. The part of Russia today known as Belarus produced
many others. I don't believe that a single Israeli prime minister was a German
national or descended from them. German Jews made important contributions to
building Israel. But the idea that they were the ruling elite is more racist
nonsense from Joy Reid.
Reid's "lower castes" actually ran Israel.
But while Roseanne's comments were enough to get her fired and her
show canceled, no amount of vile posts from Joy Reid will get MSNBC to dump
her. Because there's a double standard here.
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