It’s all a slimy act by him & lawyers

Just because he shows up in court like an old blind man on the arm of his youngest TV daughter — Keshia Knight Pulliam, who played Rudy Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” — doesn’t mean Bill Cosby is not a hideous monster playing the part of the kindly old grandfather. Little Rudy never met the monster. Hell, Cosby’s such a good actor that he convinced us all that he was the world’s wisest and most kindly doctor/dad. Didn’t he? He pulled this off while allegedly raping, drugging and assaulting dozens of women.

OK, I must — in print — call Cosby an “alleged rapist,” even though he and his lawyers have been quite free to call his accusers “liars” or “complete liars.”

Did you ever hear them refer to his accusers as “alleged complete liars?” Several women filed defamation cases against him for it, and one case has already been dismissed.

Yes, folks, 60 women from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, somehow got together and colluded against him because they wanted what? Publicity for pretending to be raped and drugged? Not likely.

And now the alleged monster’s lawyers (those who haven’t quit him yet) are again bringing the victims’ credibility into question because his accusers waited so long to come forward.

Maybe his defenders should instead ask America’s Dad why he didn’t come forward when his own daughter, Erinn Cosby, told him that she had been sexually assaulted by Mike Tyson in 1989.

Maybe they should ask “America’s Dad” why it took his daughter three years herself to come forward with her allegations. Was it because her own father didn’t call the cops? Was it because her own father’s lawyers simply told the boxing champ (who would be convicted of rape a few years later) to go find a good shrink?

Maybe Cosby’s soulless lawyers should ask “America’s Dad” how only one month after Erinn said Tyson had sexually assaulted her, he would give an interview to the Los Angeles Times telling them of his daughter, “(Erinn is) not a person you can trust . . . . You think you’re not a good parent because you don’t answer the call. But you can’t let the kid use you.”

Meanwhile, women say Cosby was assaulting them during that same period when he was denying helping his own kid find justice.

Why? Because Cosby is the worst kind of monster, a man who held all the power on the planet over his family and the women who came in and out of his life: the women he used and abused for over 50 years.

No, I’m not shocked that Cosby’s victims didn’t come forward at the time of their alleged assaults. Yet here are his lawyers this week laying out a case against them in court by citing a choice that simply didn’t exist for women even a decade ago.

Sure, in the past few years famous men have started getting knocked off their perches like wooden ducks in an arcade. That’s because after decades of struggle, women are finally able to come forward to tell their stories of rape and assault, hoping to be be given a fair hearing. Of course victims are still being branded liars and opportunists by the accused, their lawyers and the press. But years ago they didn’t even stand a chance to make their cases. Now at least, women know how to find the arcade.

Cosby’s defense attorneys’ rationale just doesn’t hold up. The women couldn’t come forward when they were assaulted because there wasn’t even a door for them to walk through at the time.

Women now have the power to change the scenario, to open the door, to walk right the hell into the arcade. We might not be able to prevent an assault, but we can’t be held back from reporting it — no matter how rich and powerful the monster.

Cosby’s victims should not be judged by what they didn’t do decades ago — but Cosby should be.