I don't see it that way either, but many other people find it very difficult to separate the message from the messenger, just as you've done from my (brief) com

I don't see it that way either, but many other people find it very difficult to separate the message from the messenger, just as you've done from my (brief) comment. >>Haven't you ever seen a man in prison, pleading with his son not to turn out like him? Does the father's murder conviction undermine his admonition against violence? Except, as others would argue, a more similar analogy would be a man in prison continually protesting his innocence. In that situation, I'm not sure that the man would be telling his son to do anything differently without an admission of guilt, except perhaps to be very cautious in their dealings with women. The point remains that the drama and conviction(s) surrounding Bill Cosby's numerous sexual assaults caused him to be an ineffective messenger even if the underlying message remains sound.