Disney removes Cosby statue from Florida theme park --taken down already

[riversedge]

That was quick (think the flag in SC is still up while the state assembly 'debates)



Allegra Kirkland ‏@allegrakirkland 20m20 minutes ago

Disney removes Cosby statue from Florida theme park in wake of new sexual assault revelations: http://bit.ly/1Mfs34W



ByAllegra Kirkland

Published July 8, 2015, 3:16 PM EDT

Disney’s Hollywood Studios removed a statue of Bill Cosby on Tuesday after the theme park closed for the night. The company’s decision, first reported by the Orlando Sentinel, came in the wake of new revelations that the iconic comic admitted to drugging and sexually assaulting multiple young women.

[procon]

1. Why would a theme park have his statue in the first place?

Even before he was exposed as a pervert, he's only a comedian, not some national leader or hero.

[pinboy3niner]

2. It's only a theme park, not the National Mall or the Capitol's Statuary Hall

Disney may even have statues of cartoon ducks and mice, for all we know.

[cwydro]

6. Disney has topiaries of all of those!

I worked there way back in the day.

[pinboy3niner]

9. Cool! That's an E-Ticket post! :)

Who doesn't love those animated characters? Way back in the day I went to Disneyland when it was new--and before that, my brother and I had the full Davy Crockett outfits with the Fess Parker pic on the shirt breast.

[cwydro]

10. Uh oh. You just dated yourself with the E-ticket reference lol!

I loved working at Disneyworld. The tunnels underneath and all that.

It was a great company to work for back in the '80s. I enjoyed it. I just hated Orlando.

Escaped and moved to Key West, which was the true fantasy land lol.

I had a coonskin (fake I hope) hat when I was a kid too!

[pinboy3niner]

13. Yeah, but a lot of us here remember that, so I'm in good company :)

When I was a fed employee living in Northern Virginia around 1980 or so I took a vacation to Disneyworld. VA had a blizzard coming in and moving South, and as I drove South I'd hear on the radio about highway patrol ferrying stranded motorists off a bridge 5 minutes after I'd crossed it. When I reached Jacksonville, it had snow falling.

Checked into a Disneyworld hotel that night and visited the park next day, but the cold rain hitting us convinced us to check out, jump back in the van, and head straight down to Key West, where we had a wonderful time. The motels were full, but we were able to get guest quarters at a military station there.

After the trip, when I got back to work, they were still talking about the horrors they experienced in the storm. I had a much better story, but all I got was glares. Jeez, I thought they'd be happy for me.

[cwydro]

15. Ah Key West!

I lived there over 20 years.

[onehandle]

3. It's in an area near a television themed attraction with a couple of dozen statues.

All television icons. Lucille Ball, Bob Newhart, etc...

It's an ugly area of the park, if you ask me.

[procon]

11. Thanks for putting it in perspective, it makes a bit more sense now. nt

[cwydro]

7. Probably because before all this came out -

he was the first to make a successful sitcom showing an upper middle class black family. Disney was trying to recognize him for that.

I liked that show. I liked him back in the '60s.

I find this to be ineffably sad.

[Adrahil]

16. It was at Hollywood Studios. nt

[rocktivity]

4. Complete with the trademark smirk and the fatherly knit sweater

And another famous Pennsylvanian bites the dust...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/120416776


rocktivity

[Gothmog]

5. This is very appropriate

[olddots]

8. In L.A. we should have statues of Coke & Ludes

It's part of a terrible history that repeats it's self over and over again.
The bigger the pedistal we put people on the farther they have to fall but we never get it .

[Rex]

12. But but but...innocent until proven guilty!