There you have it, or so it now appears.

A comedic icon known for his good-guy image, his upstanding moral character and his distaste for the way some contemporary comedians lace their acts with four-letter words has been revealed as the sexual predator his victims have accused him of being.

So long, Bill Cosby.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lawyers-cosbys-drugs-sex-admission-could-help-womens-suit/ar-AAcErQw

The Associated Press has obtained heretofore sealed documents that contain admissions from Cosby that he drugged women and then had sex with them. The documents appear to bolster the contentions leveled by several women that he did some terrible things to them over the course of many years.

This story is heartbreaking in the extreme for those of us who have laughed until we hurt at Cosby’s comedic genius. Now we hear that he quite likely betrayed his own image.

I recall sitting at West Texas A&M University’s event center not too many years ago in a packed house roaring at Cosby’s jokes. My wife and I watched him needle students in the audience, poke fun at then-WT President Russell Long and finish his two-hour routine with his classic routine about having to function with his mouth shot full of Novocain.

Now, after seeing this report from the AP, it was all a lie.

Not once did Cosby ever say while the allegations piled up that he didn’t do those things. He hasn’t ever denied it. That was a clue to some of us who were waiting for the magic words: I didn’t do it.

Well, the man has acquired significant wealth over the years.

My bet now is that he’s going to need most — if not all — of it to settle with the women he has defamed (allegedly) by accusing them of lying.