The Cosby Accusers In Brief

The allegations below have been collated from various on-line sources. The complainants are presented here in alphabetical rather than chronological order. Yes, McKee should technically come before Masten! We need not concern ourselves with the Lachele Covington incident (or non-incident) as far as these for the most part gravely serious allegations are concerned, but the one that started the ball rolling was the complaint filed by Andrea Constand in 2005. Once this allegation found its way into the public domain – as was inevitable – a familiar process was set in motion. One person reports seeing a flying saucer, and suddenly its Independence Day.

This first wave fizzled out, but for some reason, in October 2014, a joke by the comedian Hannibal Buress went viral, and the original allegations reappeared with a vengeance, women crawled out of the woodwork to accuse Cosby of unspeakable acts, some crawled out of the gutter, and one or two out of the sewer.

As the number of accusers has increased, even most of the media skeptics have bowed to the fallacious premise that there can be no fire with this much smoke. The truth though is that most of these allegations are comical, but that is no bar to either the gullible or the greedy. In the UK, the late Jimmy Savile has now been accused of sexually assaulting literally hundreds of girls, women, and a few boys. These claims are parroted uncritically as the lawyers – one firm in particular – have set about dismantling both his legacy and his estate, the latter – ostensibly – to compensate his victims. The overwhelming majority of the claims made against Savile can be neither proved nor disproved, but a fair number have been shown to be false or just plain ridiculous, including the original Duncroft allegations.

Just as we need not credit the claims that Savile was a dedicated sexual predator, likewise we need not credit any of the more outrageous claims against Cosby. Those who insist otherwise simply do not understand human nature, in particular its venality, its capacity for self-deception, or what Charles Mackay called the madness of crowds.

There is though one delusional female who deserves a special mention here, that is Gloria Allred. Although known as a feminist lawyer, Allred is also a rape victim. She was raped at gunpoint in 1966 while holidaying in Acapulco. She has claimed she never reported the rape because the perpetrator was a doctor, and she thought no one would believe her. We have only her word this rape happened, and in view of some of the dubious victims she has paraded before the camera in this case, it is tempting to believe it was actually a consensual encounter – one which resulted in her having an illegal abortion. We should though give the lady more credit than that, and her bouncing back from not one but two life-shattering experiences gives the lie to much of the specious feminist narrative that rape is the worst possible thing that can happen to any woman and inevitably destroys lives.

We can also see why she has been going after Cosby with such venom; this is not a race thing as some people have claimed, it is personal. Allred was raped by a powerful man, a doctor, who if he did not destroy her life certainly altered its course drastically. And she nearly died from her abortion. Many rape victims are said to exhibit guilt and shame; why this is so, remains to be seen, few women, or men, exhibit guilt and shame for being stabbed, shot or otherwise injured by all manner of assaults, unless there is a specific reason why they should. This could be the case with Miss Allred though, and it does not take a psychiatrist to see why. Perhaps she didn’t resist him enough, after all, unless an armed perpetrator ties up the victim or otherwise immobilises her, he has to put the gun down at some point to carry out the rape. Perhaps she could have seized it and stopped him? Perhaps she could have cried out? She didn’t report him because she was a foreigner and felt she would not be believed. Now she wants justice (and a hundred million dollars) for all those other vulnerable women who have been abused, degraded and had their lives ruined by this powerful man – Cosby, this untouchable doctor, Heathcliffe Huxtable, who is, unbelievably, an obstetrician, a man who routinely puts his filthy rapist hands on women’s vaginas. How dare he? How dare you, Bill Cosby?!

Alas, she is wrong on both counts. The women who are accusing Cosby are largely society’s losers, even Janice Dickinson, one-time supermodel has a train wreck of a personal life: substance abuse, serial marriage, bankruptcy. Cosby did not cause that; he did not cause the overt madness of Beth Ferrier or the admitted madness of Joan Tarshis. As for rape being a fate worse than death, any bad experience can destroy us, but only if we allow it; the freak show Miss Allred has exhibited to the world, women weeping into their handkerchieves on cue, has nothing to do with rape, at least not their rape at the hands of Bill Cosby, but it does have a lot to do with her own experience nearly half a century ago. Does she believe them? Let’s put it this way, if she had exhibited the slightest critical faculty, she would have researched their backgrounds, and politely shown all or most of them the door. Gloria Allred may not be a conscious player in this ad hoc conspiracy, but like most indeed all of the mainstream media, she is wilfully blind.

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