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The Digiday Vitriol-o-Meter: What outrages you? - Digiday: 4. Bill Cosby
This fall was supposed to be the 77 year-old comic’s victory lap: He had a Netflix special slated to run, a possible deal with NBC for a new sitcom and he was the subject of a glowing biography. But as decades-old rape allegations have resurfaced with renewed vigor, the special and the show have been ripped away from him. America’s dad, in the popular imagination, is done.

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