Whilst I can quite believe the allegations, it does come across as trial by media, as our late Queen is often quoted "recollections may vary" and in this case I wouldn't levy that at any of the women, but more at RB, wondering if his recollections are somewhat hazy due to a combination of being off his face and/or not quite believing what took place wasn't consensual. Not that is any excuse. The entertainment industry is a murky old world in many respects and certainly has a dark underbelly, I think it's possible when some reach the heady heights that egos come so inflated there is maybe a loss of reality in that "don't you know who I am?" sort of way, or in his case all sexual acts were consensual because "of who I am" so of course women, many falling over themselves to sleep with him anyway, there couldn't possibly be anyone who is going to say no!
I often wavered between a like and extreme dislike of RB during the time span of his ascendancy from a relative unknown into mega star. First discovering him on the BB after show, at that time finding him quite amusing in an effete sort of way. I went right off him over the Andrew Sachs's granddaughter debacle and I thought that he, and Jonathan Ross who I'd always considered through his show staggeringly awful around women anyway, so much so, in the end I couldn't watch him anymore, showed themselves up to be a couple of misogynistic, boorish, bastards. JR, who is always going on about his own offspring, I wonder how he would feel if his daughters were discussed and picked over in the salacious manner that they publicly mocked AS's granddaughter 
So from that time on both of them were pretty much two men I avoided tuning into. I think RB popped up on one of the QTs when I watched it a few years ago and at that time I thought he was quite ridiculous when he said something along the lines of "don't listen to them politicians" I remember I shouted "those politicians" at the telly and wondered why they'd even got him on, what is and was to all intents and purposes a fairly serious programme, I deemed him as a lightweight yet to realise then he has a far more serious side and the brain to go with it.
Moving on a friend of mine quite recently said listen to him on "You Tube" what he has to say regarding the WEF and some of their questionable ideology is pretty interesting and I changed my opinion of him, not that I buy into all the conspiracy theories mooted, but the "don't listen to all them politicians" resounds far more with me these days feeling the pessimism I do about politicians of all persuasions. I'm not sure you even have to like the person who presents the underlying disquiet many feel about lobbyists, corporations and un-elected bodies holding so much sway. Farage of late springs to mind as one such person who has drawn the public's attention to the de banking scandal, would we have known just how many people have suffered that fate otherwise.
I didn't watch Dispatches but I gather some of the content was appalling and certainly doesn't show him in a good light, as I said I have no reason to disbelieve women who come forward with such allegations in many ways that takes courage and I would never want to dismiss or brush a sexual assault or rape under the carpet, I think it's important to show a solidarity with those who have been a victim of sexual abuse.
