There’s a story I read a while back about Jim Bowie. He’d gotten into a spot of trouble; after he got out of it, he asked one of his friends why that friend hadn’t stood up for him.
The friend told Bowie, “Well, Jim, you were in the wrong on this.”
And Bowie said, “Hell, that’s when a man needs his friends the most, when he’s wrong.”
What brings this to mind?
- “Cosby is just the latest in a long line of public figures on whom Goldberg has shone her light of forgiveness. In 2007 — on her first day on “The View” — she defended football star Michael Vick after he pleaded guilty to dogfighting charges.”
- “The line between business and friendship had always been blurred with Cosby and the Ali family. The star has never invested and has no ownership in Ben’s, family members have told me, and the family has never paid Cosby for his appearances at ribbon-cuttings, anniversaries and the like. Perhaps more to the point, I’ve heard this expressed by family members over the years: Cosby stood by them and helped them during their darkest hours. Theirs is a relationship not based on a business contract, with its need for legal obligations and remedies, but on a friendship that dates back more than 50 years.”