CNN's Don Lemon To Cosby Rape Accuser: “You Know, There Are Ways Not To Perform Oral Sex If You Didn't Want To Do It”

CNN Host Tells Joan Tarshis How She Could Avoid Being Raped

From the November 18 edition of CNN's CNN Tonight:

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LEMON: Can I ask you this, because -- and please, I don't mean to be crude, OK? 

TARSHIS: Yeah. 

LEMON: Because I know some of you -- and you said this last night, that he -- you lied to him and said “I have an infection, and if you rape me, or if you do -- if you have intercourse with me, then you will probably get it and give it to your wife.”

TARSHIS: Right. 

LEMON: And you said he made you perform oral sex. 

TARSHIS: Right. 

LEMON: You -- you know, there are ways not to perform oral sex if you didn't want to do it.

TARSHIS: Oh. Um, I was kind of stoned at the time, and quite honestly, that didn't even enter my mind. Now I wish it would have. 

LEMON: Right. Meaning the using of the teeth, right? 

TARSHIS: Yes, that's what I'm thinking you're --

LEMON: As a weapon. 

TARSHIS: Yeah, I didn't even think of it. 

LEMON: Biting. So, um --

TARSHIS: Ouch. 

LEMON: Yes. I had to ask. I mean, it is, yeah.

TARSHIS: Yes. No, it didn't cross my mind.

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Bill Cosby Accuser Joan Tarshis to CNN: 'I Blamed Myself'

Previously:

Rush Limbaugh: CNN Reporting On Bill Cosby Rape Allegations Because Cosby Told Blacks To Step Up