[font size="4"]Dr. Huxtable & Mr. Hyde[/font]
by Robert Huber | June 9, 2006
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/dr-huxtable-mr-hyde/
For the past two years, Bill Cosby, 68 years old, has been trying to fix peoples stories, all over the country. Hes dropped in on cities, mostly Detroit, Newark, Baltimore, Milwaukee staging these call-outs... Hes trying to get Americas underclass to take responsibility, to act. Actually, given the sorry, and declining, state of lower-class blacks, its much more than that: Bill Cosby is trying to save them.
Thats why he talks so firm, here in Greenwood, on giving in to a scourge like drugs: He stole my car thats my child. He punched me in the face when I told him no more money. He pushed me down the steps. And youre going to protect the drug dealer.
You are not making sense.
You got to
think, people.
But theres something else, along with the plight of poor people, dogging Bill Cosby. His lawyers have gotten it pushed to the back burner, down to a simmer, and maybe it will amount to nothing, yet there is also the possibility that it will bubble up to destroy him. A young Canadian woman he met in Philadelphia through Temple University is accusing him of drugging her and then, when she was in a near-comatose state, molesting her. It went nowhere legally the woman, Andrea Constand, waited a year before going to police, it boiled down to a he said/she said (Cosby claimed the sex was consensual, according to ABC News), and the police dropped the case for lack of evidence. But Constand filed a civil complaint in federal court in Philly last year, suing for an unspecified amount of money over $150,000. It is still Cosbys no against her yes, except for one difference: Thirteen women are waiting to be deposed in the suit; in a court filing, Constands lawyer says that all of them with nothing to gain, with no payout waiting, with their own statutes of limitations run out have stories about Bill Cosby as well, and some of them will claim a similar drug-and-fondling M.O.