The facts of comedian and Presidential Medal of Honor winner Bill Cosby’s rape allegations by countless — nearly 50 in some reports — women who continue to emerge from the shadows have not been adjudicated in a court of law.

The closest the public has come to learning of any admission of guilt from the nationally-beloved Cosby is a recently published Associated Press story revealing court documents from 2005 in which Cosby admitted under oath that years prior he gave quaaludes, a powerful relaxing and mood-altering drug, to women with whom he sought sex.

President Obama Comments Indirectly About Bill Cosby & Rape

This admission fueled growing demands that Cosby be stripped of his 2002 medal awarded him by then president George W. Bush. African American White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks April Ryan posed the question about President Obama’s possible revocation of Cosby’s medal.

President Obama responded:

“If you give a woman — or a man, for that matter — without his or her knowledge a drug and then have sex with that person without consent, that’s rape… . I think this country, any civilized country should have no tolerance for rape.”

Sens. Kirstin Gillibrand (D-NY) & Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) Sign Petition

Angela Rose, executive director of Promoting Awareness Victim Empowerment, insists that the president could issue an executive order rescinding the medal, make a personal statement that it should be rescinded, or simply ask Cosby for the medal back.

“Revoking the medal would send a powerful message to America’s youth on the critical importance of consent,” said Ms. Rose. Her petition to the White House demanding that Cosby’s Medal of Freedom be revoked has received about 12,500 signatures this morning and must receive 100,000 by August 7, to be formally recognized by the White House.

Two senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) have signed Rose’s petition. Last week, a spokeswoman for Gillbrand, who is known — like McCaskill — for pushing for reform in how sexual assault allegations are handled in the military and on college and university campuses, told Politico that the senator supported a drive to strip Cosby of his medal “because we need to set a clear example that sexual assault will not be tolerated in this country, and someone who admitted using drugs for sex no longer deserves the nation’s highest honor.”

Camille Cosby Blames the Women

Bill Cosby’s wife of over 50 years — Camille Cosby — has stood solidly by her man over accusations of his sexual misconduct, and she’s not the first woman to do so. But reports that surfaced last week about Camille’s views of her husband’s alleged history with women riled many women, including Anne. Camille Cosby became suddenly complicit in her husband’s alleged actions.

The New York Post ran a story on Sunday, quoting a source employed by the Cosby family that “Camille still doesn’t believe that Bill provided drugs and had sex with women without their consent… She’s well aware of his cheating, but she doesn’t believe that her husband is a rapist.”

One can imagine Camille Cosby taking such a position in acknowledging her husband’s infidelities. Quotes from a second source who spoke of a recent crisis meeting with advisers at the Cosby’s Shelburne Falls, Mass. home caused a shudder among many women.

Camille Cosby, 71, who is also her 78-year-old husband’s business manager, demanded last week at a crisis meeting with advisers that their lawyers and p.r. specialists “get back out in front of this,” the business source said.
“I created him, I knew what I was getting and we’ll fix this,” she told the gathering at a meeting at the couple’s Shelburne Falls, Mass., home Tuesday night.
“They are making him out to be such a bad guy, a monster,” Camille said, according to the source.

The New York Post continues its damning story, quoting the second source as saying that Camille Cosby “stopped being embarrassed long ago” by her husband’s infidelities but that she can’t tolerate the “invasion of privacy” the couple is not subjected to. The infidelities were “personal, between Bill and I”, Camille is alleged to have told members of her inner circle.

The source continued quoting Camille as saying, “You have to allow for space to let your partner do what he wants. I have done that and (Bill) has done that and there’s no jealousy, no friction.”

Related:Camille Cosby, another victim of the controversy? by Blue Telusma for CNN and the Grio.com