By now, we all know Dr. Huxtable is no longer that endearing family man we all remember and, at one point, loved. We’ve got this former celebrity with several claims against him accusing him of rape. Bill Cosby has even admitted to planning on using Quaaludes “for young women that [he] wanted to have sex with.”
In the testimony, he admitted?he was given a?number of prescriptions for Quaaludes and kept them on hand as “part of a consensual sexual relationship that he had with another adult.”
Ok. We TOTALLY believe you (not really).
After obtaining the Cosby deposition from a 2005 sexual battery suit against him (which he wanted to be sealed by a judge), the New York Times reported Cosby came off as
“…annoyed, mocking, occasionally charming, and sometimes boastful, often blithely describing sexual encounters in graphic detail.”
He admitted his prowess for detecting?when a woman secretly and silently wanted it.
“I think I’m a pretty decent reader of people and their emotions in these romantic, sexual things, whatever you want to call them.”
But no, he’s not a sexual predator, and Cosby’s attorney even goes as far as to call him a victim in an interview with Shepard Smith. Yes, I know. I was watching Fox News. Shepard Smith is just entertaining. Bite me.
I digress…
Monique Pressly spoke with Shep explaining that they have asked the court to?keep a 2005?sexual battery suit (which was settled out of court) sealed.
“The other thing that we argue is the confidentiality agreement the parties?entered into many years ago has now been violated, and we will be asking for further relief but because we’re trying to adhere to the confines of the agreement. We’re seeking that relief through a magistrate judge the way that agreement calls for us to do.”
Relief…
Shep asked:
“By definition, when you seek relief you are saying that your client is the victim here, that Bill Cosby is the victim of the accuser?”
And so began the argument of semantics.
Victim, according to Pressley, is not the correct word to use, and Shep again asked her that if you ask for relief from damages would the client, by definition, be the victim.
So, what does it mean? According to Pressley, it means the “client was injured.”
Let’s take a trip to the online dictionary.
Relief is defined as, “alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress,?oppression, etc.” Victim is defined as, “a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency/a person who is deceived or cheated, as by his or her own emotions or ignorance, by the dishonesty of others, or by some impersonal agency“
She eventually laughed and said that?Shep has his words, and she has hers. I suppose I would want to move?on too.
She continued to maintain Cosby denies?any wrongdoing, denies any nonconsensual sex with the woman, denies giving?Quaaludes, blames the media – you get the point.
When Shep asked her what she would if she was the mother of one of those young women, she completely dodged the question.
Yes, it’s all the media’s fault that your client had legal Quaaludes for women back in the 70s (which is illegal – it was his prescription). Yep, it’s all our fault that your client has talked his way into a corner of guilt that he can’t worm his way out of.
If I know that I’m entirely innocent, I’m not going to settle out of court. Ever. I’ll go down fighting. You would think that a lawyer, who had faith in their case that their client was innocent, would pursue the case – not settle.
The fact that anyone could even refer to Cosby as a victim, even in the most roundabout of ways, is distasteful, disgusting, and a desperate attempt at victimization. Pressley, on top of this, is a motivational speaker and an ordained minister. Go figure THAT out.
