You ever have one of those situations
in life or a series of events that happened that you had hoped was
gone and no one would bring up again? I'm sure Bill Cosby does. For
the past few weeks his history of rape allegations has been front and
center in his life and while it was known by the public for quite
some time it didn't come to the forefront again until a stand up
routine by comedian Hannibal Buress where he made this statement.
“And it's even worse because Bill
Cosby has the fucking smuggest old black man public persona that I
hate. Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the '80s. I
can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom. Yeah, but you
raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a couple notches. I
don't curse on stage. Well, yeah, you're a rapist, so, I'll take you
sayin' lots of motherfuckers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren't a
rapist. I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby
Show reruns. I've done this bit on stage, and people don't believe.
People think I'm making it up. That shit is upsetting. If you didn't
know about it, trust me. You leave here and Google ‘Bill Cosby
rape.' It's not funny. That shit has more results than Hannibal
Buress.”
Since then it has resulted in shows
canceling interviews with Cosby, more allegations or various forms of
sexual misconduct, the cancellation of an upcoming Netflix series,
and interviews that are uncomfortable for everyone except the
interviewer because this stuff gets views and attention. I think the
interviews bother me because it is the perfect
example of the “gotcha media” that Sarah Palin's crazy ass used
to complain about.
