Last night, the Associated Press released an interview that one of its reporters recently conducted with Bill Cosby in which the comedian refused to comment on the multiple allegations of sexual assault that have been leveled against him, after which he asked that any footage of him refusing to comment be cut from the interview.
Glenn Beck discussed to topic on his radio broadcast today and lashed out at the media, saying that “journalism is the most dishonorable, dishonest, callous, cynical, mean, stupid, stupid people and industry I have ever seen” and fuming that Cosby’s reputation is being ruined because he is being unfairly vilified in the court of public opinion.
This is, of course, particularly ironic coming from someone like Beck, who is currently being sued for having spent several days in 2013 publicly accusing one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing of being an Al Qaeda terrorist responsible for that very bombing.
Cosby himself admitted during the exchange in question that “we didn’t say that up-front [that questions regarding the allegations were off limits] because we thought that AP had the integrity to not ask” and the AP also clarified that it “had made no agreement to avoid questions about the allegations or to withhold publishing any of his comments at any time.”
Despite being totally wrong about the very issue that served as the foundation of his entire rant, Beck nevertheless blasted the AP for asking Cosby about the allegations and then releasing the footage of him refusing to comment, saying that by doing so, “you’ve just raped Bill Cosby.”
“You want to talk about rape? That’s media rape, right there,” Beck said. “You said you would not do that. Since when does your ‘no’ mean ‘yes’? Do you know the definition of ‘no,’ sir? You’ve just raped Bill Cosby. You said you wouldn’t do it. You just did it and then you blamed it on him. My gosh, maybe we should have a lesson on rape”:
