{"id":35492,"date":"2019-02-15T01:05:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35492"},"modified":"2019-02-15T01:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:05:33","slug":"bill-cosby-hes-no-mandela-mlk-jr-or-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35492","title":{"rendered":"Bill Cosby: He’s no Mandela, MLK Jr. or Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t usually comment on convicted criminals, but I cannot let this issue pass without offering a brief response.<\/p>\n

Bill Cosby, the formerly revered comedian and actor, is now a convicted sexual assailant. A jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a woman. He’s now spending three to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n

But now he says he doesn’t feel remorse because he is a “political prisoner,” in the mold of Nelson Mandela, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Mahatma Gandhi.<\/p>\n

No, he isn’t.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hmm. Mandela was held on Robben Island for 27 years because he protested apartheid in South Africa; Dr. King was held in jail because he opposed oppression of African-Americans in the United States; Gandhi was imprisoned because he wanted independence for India.<\/p>\n

Yep, those great men were political prisoners.<\/p>\n

Bill Cosby is in the slammer because he was convicted of sexual assault<\/em>. There is absolutely zero<\/em> moral equivalence between what he did and why the men to whom he compares himself were denied their freedom.<\/p>\n

Be quiet, Mr. Cosby, and do your time.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t usually comment on convicted criminals, but I cannot let this issue pass without offering a brief response. Bill Cosby, the formerly revered comedian and actor, is now a convicted sexual assailant. A jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a woman. He’s now spending three to 10 years in prison. But now he says … Continue reading Bill Cosby: He’s no Mandela, MLK Jr. or Gandhi<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[632,8391,3108,3251,4235],"class_list":["post-35492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bill-cosby","tag-mahatma-gandhi","tag-mlk-jr","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492","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=35492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35493,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions\/35493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}