{"id":12168,"date":"2015-12-31T03:02:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12168"},"modified":"2015-12-31T03:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:02:39","slug":"is-it-the-end-of-the-line-for-cosby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12168","title":{"rendered":"Is it the end of the line for Cosby?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_bill_cosby.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10058\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_bill_cosby-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"2011_Bill_Cosby\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_bill_cosby-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_bill_cosby-841x1024.jpg 841w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/2011_bill_cosby.jpg 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrea Constand says Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged crime, though, occurred a long time ago. Ten years ago, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities have arrested the iconic comedian\/actor\/social commentator and he posted bond on $1 million bail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/celebrity\/bill-cosby-freed-on-bail-in-sex-assault-case\/ar-BBo3w5o?li=BBnb7Kz\">It&#8217;s looking like the end of the line <\/a>for Cosby. His public image is in shambles. Universities that bestowed honorary doctoral degrees have pulled them back.<\/p>\n<p>Then again &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The allegations from Constand and seemingly countless other women have ravaged Cosby&#8217;s once-stellar reputation as a role model. He was seen as the consummate family man. He portrayed one on a long-running television show, blazing trails for other African-American entertainers in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the accusations from women that he drugged them, forced himself on them without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>These allegations are troubling &#8212; and disgusting &#8212; in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to ask one simple question of Andrea Constand and perhaps all the others: Why did you wait so many years before leveling these horrendous charges?<\/p>\n<p>It is the delay in coming forward that troubles me to a large extent, although not to the extent that the allegations themselves have troubled me.<\/p>\n<p>If any of these cases ever get heard in a courtroom, I am quite sure an inquisitive public will hear plenty of reasons why these women waited so long.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Constand says Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her. The alleged crime, though, occurred a long time ago. Ten years ago, to be exact. The authorities have arrested the iconic comedian\/actor\/social commentator and he posted bond on $1 million bail. It&#8217;s looking like the end of the line for Cosby. His public image is in shambles. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is it the end of the line for Cosby?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[632,4235],"class_list":["post-12168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-legal-news","tag-bill-cosby","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12169,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions\/12169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}