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Bill Cosby’s wife defends him

Dec 16, 2014, 6:07 AM | Updated: 9:09 am

Bill Cosby’s wife Camille has finally issued a statement defending her husband against sex ac...

Bill Cosby's wife Camille has finally issued a statement defending her husband against sex accusations from at least 27 women, by one count. (AP file photo)

(AP file photo)

Bill Cosby’s wife, Camille, has finally issued a statement defending her husband against sex accusations from at least 27 women, by one count.

She ended her statement by asking “Who is the victim?” Implying it just might be her husband.

She has a point in that there are probably thousands of men who’ve done the same things, but are of zero interest to social media because they never played a funny, lovable, father figure in a hit sitcom.

Whereas Bill Cosby now walks in a swarm of unconfessed sins wherever he goes, the funny fatherhood routines aren’t funny anymore, and the serious speeches about personal responsibility now sound hypocritical.

His wife compared it to the now-infamous Rolling Stone article about a rape allegation at the University of Virginia that the magazine had to withdraw, at least partially.

Except Bill Cosby doesn’t just have one accuser, he has 27. One website ran a piece that dug up some dirt on five of them, but that would still leave 22.

If he is a victim, as his wife says, it’s another reminder that social media now sets the news agenda and it has no off button. Which leaves the accused two choices: confess, and find forgiveness over time or fight back and expose the liars.

The one thing that doesn’t work:

“There is no comment. I don’t talk about it,” Cosby has said.

The one thing that doesn’t work is to stay silent and expect it to go away. In a world with no off button, if you don’t speak for yourself, plenty of others will.

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