This week, disgraced singer R. Kelly was found guilty on all nine federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges he faced. The six-week trial ended after nine women and two men took the stand to accuse him of decades of sexual humiliation and violence.
But at least one person thinks Kelly got a “raw deal” — fellow disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby.
Cosby, of course, was accused of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand; he was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault back in 2018. His conviction was overturned this year because the previous attorney general had promised him he wouldn’t be charged over Constand’s accusations. Justice at its finest.
Still, Cosby is the exact opposite of someone whose insights on sexual assault should be considered valid.
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But when TMZ caught up with Cosby’s spokesman, Andrew Wyatt, here’s what Wyatt reported Cosby had to say:
“The guy was railroaded,” Wyatt quoted Cosby, telling the interviewer he’d just talked with his client about the case that morning.
“As [Cosby] said, Gloria Allred did the same thing with [R. Kelly] and she did with him. You parade women out, and you stir up the public sentiment to go against him, and that’s what they did to R. Kelly… What we see in America today is an assault on Black men. This is an assault on successful Black men who are doing great things.”
You can watch the full clip below:
Thad
“Doing great things” = assaulting women.
Matthewnow
How much farther can Cosby lower himself. And why are stations still playing is show?
MISTERJETT
my feeling on the show is Dr Huxtable didn’t do anything wrong. why take it out on him? Bill Cosby, however, should never be allowed to walk free ever again.
MANSUMM
Because MISTERJETT, Bill Cosby still profits when his show is aired.
GentlemanCaller
You can add US Representative Danny Davis (D-IL) to that list: he thinks Kelly deserves “a second chance.” Honestly, where do these people and their weirdass values come from??
Mack
Bill Crosby has in his head that he was released for being NOT GUILTY. He was released because there was a deal made with a previous DA not to prosecute him and the current DA did prosecute him. Hell, if he’s charged anywhere else he’ll be back in jail. Two different things. R Kelly has no deal like that.
Fahd
There are innocent people who have been wrongfully convicted, but I don’t think R. Kelly is one of them and Bill Cosby neither. With that set of guilty verdicts, R. Kelly’s team has to try any appeal or other way of avoiding the consequences. I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t wind up in prison for a very long time, but stranger things have happened.
Openminded
The “Me Too” movement has not targeted “successful black men”. Both Cosby and R. Kelly have ample evidence against them to prove they are guilty as charged, no matter what color they are. There have been way more white men targeted for sexual misconduct than blacks, both in number and percentage of population, so Cosby is just grasping at straws with that claim. How can anyone lie to themselves about wrong doing when they know they drugged women without their consent?
Invader7
NO Bill Cosby. Your decades long binge as a PREDATOR /RAPIST was exposed . People EXPOSED you and R. Kelly as the EVIL cretins you both are. You got off drugging and raping myriad women. Got caught, sent to prison. You’re disgusting and EVIL …
MISTERJETT
birds of a feather………
paul dorian lord fredine
just going by the headline i thought it was going to donny t.
Doug
This is no different than listening to a Trump supporter who lives in their own bubble. The denial is just incredible; the self-pity and the need to be constantly seen as a victim seems to never stop.