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R. Kelly Says He’s Like Bill Cosby, But Not The Way You Think
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Jan 21, 20167:01Now PlayingR. Kelly gave a strange interview to GQ. During the interview he compared himself to Bill Cosby. Ana Kasparian, Kim Horcher (Nerd Alert), and Margaret Howell (The LipTV) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“In a new GQ interview that is not least remarkable for the way it’s written, R. Kelly agreed to speak with author Chris Heath about everything, “without restrictions”—the sexual abuse, the statutory rape trial, his alleged marriage to Aaliyah. They address it all, but only to the extent that R. Kelly is willing to speak about those things—which, once you read it, is really not so much at all.
“R. Kelly’s Confessions” touts itself as one of the first times in recent history Kelly has been willing to speak directly on a range of topics, including his alleged systemic sexual predation on underage girls, which is mostly true; in New York’s recent feature on Kelly, for instance, hard questions posed to Kelly like “Do you have a sexual attraction to underage girls?” were met with, as writer David Marchese put it, “almost bored[om].” In New York, Kelly sounds decidedly flippant and defers to his lawyers. In GQ, he is decidedly less flippant but still defers to his lawyers. Regarding the video shown in court of a young woman being urinated on by a man who looks like R. Kelly:”
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