CNN Host To Accuser: Why Didn’t You Bite Cosby’s Penis To End Rape?

Don Lemon arrives at the 55th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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CNN’s Don Lemon took it upon himself Tuesday night to explain how a woman who accused actor Bill Cosby of rape could have avoided the situation — explicitly, that she should have used her teeth as a weapon.

Lemon sat down Tuesday night with Joan Tarshis, a former actress who said this week that Cosby raped her in 1969. The two had this extremely awkward exchange:

LEMON: Can I ask you this, and please, I don’t mean to be crude, OK?

TARSHIS: Yeah.

LEMON: Because I know some of you, and you said this last night, that he — you lied to him and said “I have an infection, and if you rape me, or if you have intercourse with me, then you will probably get it and give it to your wife.”

TARSHIS: Right.

LEMON: And you said he made you perform oral sex.

TARSHIS: Right.

LEMON: You know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn’t want to do it.

TARSHIS: Oh. I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn’t even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have.

LEMON: Meaning the using of the teeth, right?

TARSHIS: Mmhmm. Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking you’re —

LEMON: As a weapon.

TARSHIS: Yeah, I didn’t even think of it.

LEMON: Biting.

TARSHIS: Ouch.

LEMON: I had to ask.

TARSHIS: No, it didn’t cross my mind.

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  1. Avatar for don don says:

    Bill Cosby is a sad, emotionally broken old man. Just leave him alone.

  2. yep, sounds like 1969 to me, women thinking that it would be ‘rude’ to bite the penis that was attacking you.

  3. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Leave him alone? Fuck no. Make his life a living hell.

  4. Yes, a sad, emotionally broken man who still makes several million a year for performances and appearances.

  5. Avatar for pine pine says:

    Don I would assume you are talking from expierience.

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