Bill Cosby's legal team publicly addressed the rape allegations against him for the first time on Wednesday, one day after making a legal filing saying the entertainer had been smeared by news media accounts. Cosby's lawyer told Good Morning America that even though Cosby may have given women Quaaludes, as he admitted in a 2005 deposition published by The New York Times over the weekend, that doesn't mean that he did not have their consent to do so. Instead, Cosby's lawyers contend that he was just one of many who "introduced Quaaludes into their consensual sex life in the 1970s."
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