Decades-old sexual assault allegations against comedian Bill Cosby have been percolating again in recent days. But when asked about the scandal on NPR on Saturday morning, Cosby went completely silent.
“This question gives me no pleasure, Mr. Cosby, but there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days,” NPR host Scott Simon said toward the end of a Weekend Edition interview.
Cosby said nothing.
“You’re shaking your head no,” Simon said. “I’m in the news business. I have to ask the question. Do you have any response to those charges?”
Again, silence from Cosby. Simon pressed one more time.
“Shaking your head no,” he said. “There are people who love you who might like to hear from you about this. I want to give you the chance.”
Nothing again.
You can listen to the exchange here.
Pathetic hypocrite. Can dish out the UT but can’t take any personal accountability himself.
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I’ve met Bill and have dined with him and his family a few times back in the 1970s and 1980s.
He’s been a different man and pretty much crushed since his son Ennis was murdered in was murdered in the late nineties. That broke his back.
Wonderful person and a very strong family man.
I have no idea, and neither do YOU, if he’s guilty or innocent of these accusations. All I’m saying is that from my personal experience I really doubt it.
And why is this very Huff Post/National Enquirer worthy article showing up on TPM?
Slow news day?
I was annoyed with Scott Simon’s ambush question. The story was about the Cosby’s art collection and Simon took it off topic with a gotcha question. There should be a discussion about the rape accusations, but that interview was not it. I don’t know what he expected Cosby to say but the question shut the interview down.
The point is his lack of personal accountability of the situation. He’s always at the ready shooting off his UT mouth judging others and giving passes to those with their feet on the necks of those still at the bottom. Where’s that personal accountability from his side in addressing the allegations whether they be true or not? That’s the troubling aspect, not whether we know if he’s guilty or not. Then again, who knows if anybody’s guilty or not of anything ever. Still doesn’t stop him though from assuming all poor blacks in the ghetto are guilty of their own circumstances. What’s good for the goose and the gander and all that stuff, I say.