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ByDan CollinsCBS/APOctober 3, 2003, 6:11 AM
Arnold Apologizes To Women
California gubernatorial recall front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged that he has "behaved badly" to women in the past and offered an apology Thursday.
Schwarzenegger's remarks, as he kicked off a four-day bus tour of the state in the final days of the recall campaign, came after a Los Angeles Times story published Thursday in which six women accused him of sexually harassing and groping them.
"When I am governor I want to prove to the women that I will be a champion for the women, a champion of the women," Schwarzenegger said at a rally in San Diego. "Now let's go from the dirty politics to the future of California."
Tarshis is the fifth woman to publicly accuse Bill Cosby of raping her. There is now a sixth: model Janice Dickinson. In a civil suit brought by Andrea Constand, some 13 women were set to testify that Cosby had raped them too. They ultimately did not testify because Constand settled with Cosby. Tarshis says she was not among those 13, and so the total number of accusers appears to now stand at 15 including Dickinson.
You've missed the point. In the South, there was a perfectly visible and easily identifiable reason white people lied about the guilt of black men. They were racists living in a racist society.
What's the equivalent reason here?
"Without a compelling one (reason), your refusal to take the testimony of 15 women against the denials of a man who's left plenty of anecdotal evidence he's guilty is a political decision, whether you see it that way or not."
Their testimony is the evidence.
On your silly grounds, no one knows much of anything, since most of what passes for common knowledge isn't really known since few "witnessed" it.
Jesus, bks, you're acting as though I am defending Cosby, but I'm only defending his right to offer his defense in a court of law.
One equivalent reason could be that racism today for blacks in America is as it was 60 or 70 years ago.
That Cosby's a successful and wealthy black entertainer who has served as an inspiration to many, including those not of African descent, cannot be ignored.
I'm surprised anyone here would like to see the scumbag lynched before his day in court.
I never can understand how anyone can not smoke, it deprives a man of the best part of life.
With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe,
nothing can touch him,
literally.
Thomas Mann
45 CLARENCE THOMAS For those who fret over the hegemony of the Political Correctness Police (and who doesn't?), it is good to know that at least one confirmed cigar smoker sits on the Supreme Court. Thomas served as an assistant district attorney in Missouri, went into private practice for Monsanto, and later chaired the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. George Bush nominated him in 1991 to replace Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court. He is occasionally seen at Cigar Aficionado's Washington Big Smokes.
82_28 » Fri Nov 21, 2014 5:18 am wrote:I don't know what he can do, true or false. Admit or be cagey. I just don't buy it 100%. Sure, say "yes I had sex with some ladies in my past." But I'm beginning to think that he is actually "innocent". I think that there is strong possibility that Cosby was famous, getting richer by the day, attractive when he was young, outspoken etc. I am not sticking up for him at all. I just think there is more to the story given this book, some new show in development and the cancellation of cosby show re-runs on TV. Oh and Queen Latifa saying adios.
Bearing in mind Ennis, there has to something more to this and I think we must find what that something is. Even as a kid I didn't care for the cosby show -- all the kids would talk about it at school in the morning. There has to be something more to this on a social control level. Honestly, if only Hugh was still around.
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