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Bill Cosby continues march toward inexplicability

If you're Bill Cosby, successful comedian, writer, actor, and speaker beloved by many generations and races of Americans, you would think it would be reasonably easy to maintain a lovable grandfatherly image as you recede from the public eye into your dottage. Instead, he's decided to go the route of constantly blaming poor young black people for the problems they face, and slipping roofies to women so he can grope them.

Yesterday at a ceremony at University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health, at which Bill Cosby was awarded a Porter Prize, "in recognition of exemplary performance in health promotion," he took one more little step down the ladder of respectability.

During his speech, he criticized parents who are careless with their children's diets, saying: "children can't make it off Coca-Cola and a bag of chips" for breakfast. "This food is not funny that we're eating."

Perhaps not the best choice of examples for a man with a famous routine entitled Chocolate Cake for Breakfast.

categories: Celebrities, Health, Race
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