Kanye West Declares Bill Cosby’s Innocence

Accused serial rapist Bill Cosby may not have many (any?) supporters left in his corner these days, but Kanye West is apparently one of them. Yes, Yeezy did as Yeezy is wont to do and made a comment that sent the masses into an uproar. On Tuesday, West lent support to the old adage, “Some people shouldn’t have Twitter accounts,” when he tweeted the below, which was posted shortly after an LA judge dismissed Janice Dickinson’s defamation claim against Cosby.

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/697199554807099394

Kanye has become synonymous for doing or saying something ridiculous only to backtrack some time later, from upstaging Beck at the Grammy’s to antagonizing Michael Jordan in a song, the latter of which he already apologized for shortly before the Cosby tweet. So in all likelihood, there will probably be some retraction issued by the time you read this post. In the meantime, here are some of Twitter’s best reactions.

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/697200360105123840

.@kanyewest pic.twitter.com/abKXlRtVWG

— Anthony Bartoloni (@YoAnty_) February 9, 2016

Everybody hang on. Maybe Kanye means a different Bill Cosby.

— Brian Grubb (@briancgrubb) February 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/rachelpage_/status/697199850815787008

https://twitter.com/benvdub/status/697202196052516864

I officially retract that time I said Kanye was a genius https://t.co/lQJmK8jQnQ

— Bethany Cosentino (@BethanyCoast) February 9, 2016

And, of course, Daniel Tosh was quick to respond:

https://twitter.com/danieltosh/status/697202420263157762

So yeah…that happened.

[Editor’s note: Rachel Mack also contributed to this story.]