Anyway, the "25" number is only damning if you assume that they are independent accusations, which the timing indicates that they are not (coordinated to align with an existing story and not independent copycats). That's specifically what I have been saying all along and yet people keep going back to that meaningless number. You wouldn't count the boy's parents as additional accusations in the Michael Jackson extortion case, so you have to show that these are not similarly organized to count them separately here.
No, they are 26 independent accusations from different women who have each alleged that they personally were molested in some form by Cosby. You don't count the boy's parents as victims in the Michael Jackson case because Michael didn't actually molest them; he (allegedly) molested their child. That's completely different from 26 women saying "he did this to me." To make them comparable, you'd have to have one woman saying Cosby raped her and 25 other women saying "yeah, he totally raped her."
He could be a rapist or it could be an organized extortion plot that was set in motion in 2006. A ring leader may have been coaching new seemingly-unrelated "victims" and plaintiffs ever since. It isn't that much different from the McDonald's Monopoly scam where the winning pieces were distributed to seemingly unrelated people for kick backs or where the scam artist woman paid for a finger from an out-of-state industrial accident to put in her Wendy's chili.
He was first accused in a police report in 2000, then again in 2004 and settled in 2005 with the lawsuit brought on behalf of Andrea Constand and 13 anonymous "victims." If these women were really scheming to get paid, wasn't that their best chance? Why wait an additional ten years to bring things back in front of a public that had all but forgotten the accusations ever happened? And how did they manage to pick up 12 additional accusers, some of whom are successful professionals who would jeopardize their entire career with a false accusation against a beloved celebrity? It's completely unbelievable.
He's a lot bigger than you seem to realize. He's right in line with many of those names. His net worth is estimated to be $400 million and it was a lot more before all this. His past accusation is what makes him an easier target along with his penchant for privacy and the contrast with his wholesome image makes it that much more bombastic, sensational, and inflammatory. If you understand the way the media works then you would see that he would be a better mark than any of those other names.
No, I know that. I can look up celebrity net worth too. And I did. And I specifically chose people who are higher up the lifetime earnings chart than Cosby. If the point is to extort money from someone, you don't choose a celebrity that NO ONE will believe committed the crime in question. If these women had accused Simon Cowell, people would be like, "Yeah, that guy seems like an egotistical asshole who wants to assert power over women; he probably did it." But Cosby? He makes no sense as a mark for a
false accusation. You might as well accuse Mr. Rogers of fondling little boys. It doesn't seem credible. If you know the accusation is blatantly false, you want to take every step possible to make it seem more likely or you aren't going to get paid.
Obvious: Guilty in the court of public opinion, like he seems to be now, can be worse. It's the same reason Michael Jackson paid up. He was a weirdo, but he likely was not a child molester. The jealous father wanted a house and a screenwriting deal and so many other things and admitted that he didn't care how any of it affected his son.
I don't know about Michael. Something definitely happened (the kid accurately described Michael's dick for God's sake), but he was exonerated by the courts, and he's dead now, so whatever. I only brought him up because it's the ONLY example I could think of of a celebrity getting accused of the same sexual malfeasance by multiple accusers. I guess you could toss Dave Letterman in there, but he admitted to his affairs and they were all consensual (although potentially sexual harassment depending on how you view things). And there's the recent Stephen Collins announcement that he molested three young girls decades ago... but those weren't false allegations, so it doesn't really address this presumed conspiracy.
It wouldn't be unprecedented. If it is an extortion plot then they have had ten years to assemble accomplices, develop, and execute this plan.
It would be unprecedented because we've never had this volume of victims step forward and say "this celebrity sexually molested me" ever. Well, once, with Jimmy Savile in the UK. And guess what? He actually did it. So, no, we have never, ever, seen a situation where a target is falsely accused by dozens of people in an extortion scheme. Never. It has never happened. That makes it unprecedented.
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