the last book i wrote "enough" was about bill cosby and cosby saying "we've got problems in the blacknce of the drug culture. we have to stop this." and cosby, all of a sudden he was labeled a bad guy, he's airing dirty laundry. look at what's going on in washington. a republican who says "maybe we should have some tax hikes. " now he's a rhino, a republican in name only. to be a real republican you have to stay with the club, believe what the crab tells you and don't deviate. so you can't have a debate with somebody else. you can't have a conversation. >> jon: are we confusing, though, criticism with persecution? are we overreacting to the criticism as well? you know... do you have five minutes to stick around? >> for you... >> jon: seven. >> that's a deal. >> jon: "muzzled" is up on the bookshelves right now. we'll have more on the

i suggest now on the black politicians engage in a kind of bill cosby moment, especially if they haveor national office. they have to show the country that they are not beholden to black communities and often that means engaging in a little reprimanded of black people often the black poor, so i would call that his bill cosby moment, and i think if we look at other young black politicians trying to have a position beyond the black community you also find the have moments of reprimanding black communities. >> in democracy remixed first where did the remax come from? >> it comes out of hip-hop culture and does speak to kind of making sure the culture, the voice from the ideas of young black people are first and foremost writing this including in the title. >> is there an important politically to hip-hop culture? >> i think it is. first we have to recognize hip-hop culture as something created by young black and latino zandt to kind of recognize that and acknowledged that they have this creative ability to influence not only that the country but the world. if you travel anywhere in the wo

i suggest that young black politicians engage in a bill cosby moment especially if they have ambitionsor national office. they have to show the country that they are not black communities and that means engages in rep pri mending. i call that the bill cosby moment, and if we look at other young black politicians trying to have a position beyond the black community, you'll find there's moments of rep premending black communities. >> host: where did the remix come from? >> guest: from hip hop culture and it speaks to making sure the culture, the voices, the ideas of young black people are first and foremost in writing this book including in the title. >> host: is there an importance politically to hip-hop culture? >> guest: i think there is. we have to realize hip-hop culture is something created by young blacks and young latinos and acknowledge that that they have this creative ability to infliewps not only the country, but the world. if you travel anywhere in the world, we notice young people are listening to and engaging in hip-hop, but two it's a genera that resinates with young peop

let me not get in a fight with bill cosby please. i'll lose.aughter] >> you will. >> yes, i will lose. but anyway, i think he's right, and something needs to be done about this and we need to take it on ourselves to do it. >> right. >> but there's the larger world that also bears some reeponsibility for this and they have to, to pay a price too..3 >> do you think america is a racist country? >> gee, i hate to say that. i think that there are too many racist attitudes in america. >> mm-hmm. >> let me put it that way. i don't want to blame the whole population or say every person who was born here is, you know, some kind of evil person or not, so i don't want to say that. >> right. but you think that racism is alive in this country. >> oh, surely. i know it is. >> to the same degree that it was 24 years ago? >> no, no, no. no, noo very different. >> yeah. >> this is a much different, much better country now -- >> right. >> -- than it was when i was a kid. >> articulate the difference please. >> well, again, it's where i can live, where i can work

cosby was injured last season too and we spent a lot of time together while we were recovering we supported and cheered on our teammates when we could we keep in touch and i know that his recovery is going well too and he's training on the ice already he's a nice guy in a big star who's already won almost all the trophies in hockey and he has no superiority complex has been edging toward his to his cabinet every year but there are still no olympic medals in his collection and undoubtedly it's one of his career it is for the new future. enjoy your i haven't won a lot with a national side for me it's a great honor to play for my country all the greats like mario lemieux and wayne gretzky won the olympic gold cosby's already grabbed gold too so i'm determined to win the olympics and not only in such a one medal is never enough. despite many honors the star where remains a straightforward almost reserved person while still greedy for victories on the ice at the age of twenty five the career of the england's forward is just starting and spectators booked in north america and in russia should enj

. >> right, he was bill cosby at first.iences were not accepting of o him, so and then he had a faithful meeting with ishmael reid who taught him how to develop those characters as a great satirical writer who still lives in the california. and so, but, and so like you said, he was able to make those characters, a wino and so forth, human and that's why bringing it to the written, the written form is really important because it expresses the humor and humanity of our grandmothers. we all have a mom's mabeley in if our family or a crazy old uncle that we keep locked in the closet, or at least in my family. [laughter] but it's important to rejoice with those characters because they live with all of us. >> so, and i believe our diversity within our community is as important as diversity itself. you know? and so i love the diverse voices. >> yeah, exactly. >> now, let's get into one more thing before we begin to open it up for questions and answers. and we're talking about the history of african-american humor. we've referenced

show was there was a lot of back and forth in many circles about whether the cosby show was good forre bad for race relations. what my chapter focuses on is what the white audience seems to demand since the 1980s of african-americans in public life. and one of the things that came out of the debate over the issue of race in the cosby show was that the cosby show mitigated, at least this is what some of its defenders said, mitigated some of the criticisms about why is it showing the more economically typical african american experience, and the criticism was mitigated by people who said but it's showing women in very, very commanding roles, and almost hero roles. claire huxtable is almost the hero of the show in many ways. i cite that as an example to say yes, in a book i addressed the idea that so much of the most iconic popular culture of the 1980s remains persistently chauvinistic, and stranger at a time when women were making real strides in actual society. >> right there and to kind of -- you know, talking about sort of the message, burn your draft card. and to me some of this is

we remember bill cosby when he was young, you know, and mail with a name that was taken from a bill cosby carried it is patterned after joe namath, cutting himself in doing staff. these regroup with guys. again, trained at the time are going to spew whatever we can and try to do some team with the ravishment. so although they were in hunt club, they were clever enough to have a representative in the pageant because it is the student activity and anyone could nominate people. i go through some of the stories and staff. the surprising part was that i won. they've never been in a pageant before and i have lots of help from people although for. but he did win. i fell down the steps walking up the steps. the guys that built the steps are here, so i better not say anything bad. they were elwell, the people aren't built wide enough to hold the chair in the crows sitting in it and all the other people that certainly ran up on stage. anyway, we almost had an accident. i did fall down, but a fixed link to and got back up. i thought that was the worst that would happen. nothing compared to what happ

cosby and you have a right to health care even if you are practicing these disreputable practices. so i think that on the one hand nationalism at its most broad is a core love for blackness and black people, a preferential option for blackness which so doesn't exist, that having a preferential option for blackness that appears for anything like who you buy your car from when you go to the dealership and you're like the black guy, even if he's cheating at least the cheating is going to a black guy, right? [laughter] >> or saying, no, i actually don't want to live in the white -- preferential option for blackness in a variety of ways but the danger is that it can also limit what we think an appropriate blackness and certainly -- and manning's book on malcolm does that in that it's trying to retain malcolm x as the core leader of african-american politics at this moment and simultaneously deconstruct who we think this black body is. and suggest to us that it is more challenging, more difficulty, more complex and more at the boundaries of its own blackness than we would typically allow

you know, we're all so old we remember bill cosby. [laughter] when he was young, you know? and mel was a name taken from a bill cosby character that, i think, was patterned after joe namath doing the shaving commercials and stuff, cutting himself and stuff. but these were the group of guys that were the un club, and, again, the trend of the times, we're going to spew on anything we can and try to do something with the establishment. so these guys although they were an un club, they have a club enough to have a representative in the pageant because it was a student activity, and anyone could nominate people. and they called me up and nominated me, and i go through some of the stories and stuff on that. the surprising part was that i won. because i had never been in a pageant before, and i had lots of help from people all over. and, but i did win. i fell down the steps walking up the steps. of course, they had the big -- and the guys that built the steps are here, so i better not say anything bad. they were built well -- [laughter] but they weren't built wide enough to hold a

we remember bill cosby when he was young. [laughter] >> you know, and nell was a name taken from a bill cosby character i think patterned after joe namath after the shaving commercials and cutting themselves. these were a guy part of the young club. randy of the time we're going to spew on whatever we can and try to do something with the establishment. these guys, although they were an young club they were a club enough to have a representative in the pageant because it was a student activity and anyone could nominate people. and they called me up and nominated me and i go through some of the stories and stuff on that. the surprising part was that i won because i'd never been in a pageant before. i had lots of help from people all over. and -- but i did win. i fell down the steps, walking up the steps. of course, they had the big -- the guys that built the steps are here so i better not say anything bad. they were built well. but they weren't built wide enough to hold a chair and a girl sitting in it and all the other people

. >> reporter: carol lee cosby will lose that way of life friday when nasa lays her off along with more than 2,500 others. this has got to hurt. >> deeply. deeply. i can't believe that this is happening, that our country has allowed this to happen. we're losing control. >> reporter: small businessman curtis diller, whose printing business depends on nasa, says the end of the shuttle has left a cloud of uncertainty over the local economy. >> my business is hurting; other businesses are hurting, but i think we still have yet to see what the full effect is of all the layoffs. >> reporter: but diller and his fellow businessman rob losle refuse to give up hope. >> a lot of educated people in this area that i think they'll find jobs. if they don't maybe they'll go somewhere else. it is scary, but i guess we're all just hoping for the best. >> reporter: the best thing this community can hope for is a new space program to carry american astronauts into earth orbit and beyond. nasa officials insist that will happen but, bob, no one can say when. >> schieffer: okay, thank you, chip. well, with th

i make bill cosby look like joan crawford. >> julie, what -- here's the thing. think -- we live busy lives in our democracy, the sense here is we elect people who are smart to go in and do the tough things that have to be done, negotiate, come to compromise. now we have taken this view compromise is a bad thing and that the thing you go to washington to do is stand your ground and don't let the other side win. >> well, and i think what you've seen with the rise of the tea party, is that exactly. you have a bunch of people who have no experience in elected office going in with a strong ideological and doing mattic point of view and it's their way or the highway. washington has always been about compromise. you never get 100% of what you want. i thought these guys were going to come to that conclusion before we defaulted but i'm thinking they may be that nuts, the guy that's going to put the girl on the train tracks and let it run over here. they are going to tank this country. it's unbelievable. >> they need a civics lesson, that's what it is. >> a combination of

and in seoul, the cosbie was up and as samsung slid by almost 2%. it posted a 26% slump in second-quarter profits. the sale of flat-screen tvs and computers slump. looking ahead to the start of wall street, u.s. futures to a pretty healthy open. it's in the shadow of the big jobs number out tomorrow. >> indeed. we'll have to see what difference this makes. now, in the u.k., an enormous story, really, that is shaking the government in some ways. certainly putting the prime minister under pressure in parliament. police are theying there will be a full investigation into new hacking allegations, into "the news of the world." it's a sunday newspaper. advertisers are turning their backs on the u.k.'s most popular sunday read. the tabloid stands accused of hacking into the phones of a missing schoolgirl that was later found dead. as well as relatives of the 2005 london bombings six years ago. and the families of soldiers killed in iraq and afghanistan. revelations have made waves across the u.k. and even led to a debate in parliament. and definitely in th

record of the least getting something done in accomplishing something that being said you know bill cosby famously said that if you're pleasing everybody you're doing something wrong or i think that's the quote or something like i don't know the key to to to to give in doing things right but the key to doing things wrong is when you're pleasing everybody something that attracts and so i would actually be a little concerned if every single person on this in this country was saying that they're absolutely elated with barack obama president say you know i think so far so good in terms of actually falling following through on some of his campaign commitments we have the repeal of don't ask don't tell on the horizon health care reform capturing the some of that which isn't even something i believe he promised on the campaign trail so that was sort of like an extra bonus thing so all of these people who are saying they're disappointed he's not getting anything done i'm not really clear on that and where that's coming from it's fair enough but they say i'm disappointed they don't agree with some

bill cosby is there more than i am. >> you are beginning to sound defensive. >> it doesn't ever come up. >> i don't think of you as a lesser guy for going to the playboy mansion all the time. >> of course not. and the fact it obsesses that i've gone to the playboy mansion parties. they're just parties. a guy with a nice backyard generous with his liquors and a lot of hot chicks around, i have been to other parties that could be described the same way. >> come back after a break and talk to you about this job, whether you wanted it. >> this job? i have a job. [ male announcer ] you don't make the world's best chicken by pressing a button. it takes a cook. we're kfc and we've got a certified cook in every restaurant freshly making the colonel's original recipe, today and every day. 11 herbs and spices, hand-breaded, hands down the world's best chicken. today is a kfc day. so bring home a real meal -- 10 pieces of that famous chicken, 3 large sides and 6 biscuits. enough real food to feed a family of four or more, just 20 bucks. today tastes so good. >>> back with bill maher. when you t

bill cosby is there more than i am.d to get on his case. >> you sound defensive. >> it just never, ever, doesn't come up. whatever interview you do. >> i don't think of you as a lesser guy for going to the playboy mansion all the time -- >> but the fact that it obsesses people. they're just good parties. a guy with a nice, big backyard who's very generous with his liquor and there's lots of hot chicks around. i've been to other parties that could be described the same way. >> we'll come back and talk to you about this job and whether you wanted it. >> this job? >> yeah. >> i have a job! [ male announcer ] things seem better with travelocity's best price guarantee. our girl's an architect. our boy's a genius. we are awesome parents! biddly-boop. [ male announcer ] if you find a lower rate on a room you've booked, we won't just match it. we'll give you $50 towards your next trip. [ gnome ] it's go time. >> back with bill maher. bill, i know you took part in larry king's final show. it was quite moving. i've been a huge fa

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we are actually bill cosby; right?so what it didn't leave room for is you have the right to be a citizen even if you're not bill cosby and you have a right to health care if even if you practice these practices. it's a core love for blackness and black people, an option for blackness which so doesn't exist that having a preferential black perp, the black guy because if he's cheating you, than at least the cheating is going to a black guy; right? [laughter] or saying no, i don't want to live in the white neighborhood. it's option for blackness in a variety of ways, but the danger is that it can also limit what we think and prompt blackness is, and i think manning's book on malcolm does that in that it's trying to retain malcolm x as core leader of african american politics at this moment and simultaneously deconstruct who we think this black body is and suggest to us it's more challenges, more difficult, more complex at the boundaries of blackness than we typically allow it to be in our mythology. >> real quick, we disa

bill cosby is there more than i am.d to get on his case. >> you sound defensive. >> it just never, ever, doesn't come up. whatever interview you do. >> i don't think of you as a lesser guy for going to the playboy mansion all the time -- >> but the fact that it obsesses people. they're just good parties. a guy with a nice, big backyard who's very generous with his liquor and there's lots of hot chicks around. i've been to other parties that could be described the same way. >> we'll come back and talk to you about this job and whether you wanted it. >> this job? >> yeah. >> i have a job! ♪ [ slurp! ] [ female announcer ] hey, ladies, here's a little something [ chomp! ] you'll find irresistible, cinnamon toast crunch, with a delicious cinnamon and sugar taste that's amazing. crave those crazy squares. t the motorola expert from sprint. its powerful tools help you work faster and smarter so you can get back to playing "angry birds." it lets you access business forms on the go, fire off e-mails with the qwerty keypad, and

and he played an exhibition against bill cosby as well. he used to sit on the bench with our team. it was a co-ed team. that's still my core business, world team tennis. it is ironic because here we go. so anyway, we're going to a concert together and he said i want to write you a song. i'm blushing. i thought he was teasing, you must be joking. no, no, i'm serious. he said what are we going to call it? i said, i don't know. i'm so embarrassed by this time. and he goes, how about philadelphia freedom? that would be great. i love that. i love philadelphia -- whatever. so i go, hey, that would be a great gift to the people of philadelphia. and of course, i'm playing team tennis for them which is a co-ed league. so i'm thrilled. so he wrote it, he brought a rough mix to our, at the end of the year, at the end of the season, i mean. i had the whole philadelphia freedom team standing around in locker room. depends on which country you're from. he said i hope you like it. i loved it. first of all -- >> what an honor. >> he's been a friend since '73. this was '75. and you're not kidding,

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so what it didn't leave room for was you have the right to be a citizen even if you are not till cosby so you have a right to health care even if are practicing these disreputable practices so i think on the one hand nationalism at its most broad is a core love for blackness and black people, a preferential option for blackness which so doesn't exist that having a preferential option for blackness. you figure even if he is cheating you than the cheating of going to a black guy, right? [laughter] so there are all these -- are saying no i don't want to live in a white neighborhood. preferential option for blackness in a variety of voice but the danger is that it can also limit what we think and propria laxness is and certainly i think manning's book on malcolm does that in that it is trying to retain malcolm x as the core leader of african-american politics at this moment and simultaneously deconstruct who we think this blackbody is answered just it is more challenging, more typical than more complex and more the boundaries of its home likeness than we would typically allow to be. speech

bill cosby is there more than i am. >> you are beginning to sound defensive. >> it doesn't ever comenk of you as a lesser guy for going to the playboy mansion all the time. >> of course not. and the fact it obsesses penal that i've gone to the playboy mansion parties. they're just parties. a guy with a nice backyard generous with his liquors and a lot of hot chicks around, i have been to other parties that could be described the same way. >> come back after a break and talk to you about this job, whether you wanted it. >> this job? i have a job. >>> back with bill maher. when you took part in larry king's final show, it was quite moving. i've been a huge fan of his as well. i can tell for you it meant quite a lot actually. >> it meant so much he wanted me to be there and meant a lot that he wanted me to be the one he announced he was stepping down to. and we have a secret, larry is going to say something. i was on that show so many times, it was almost like my therapy. every couple of months i would show up here and unload and vent for an hour and i felt a lot unburdened when i left.

. >> jimmy: since the cosby show. i'm so thankful to you and everyone at "the voice."ch. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: do you ever think -- >> saving networks is this thing we do. >> jimmy: yeah. did you ever think you would be on tv? >> no. no. i don't plan on being on it ever again after "the voice." >> jimmy: yeah. that was it. >> i'm not a tv guy. i'm a country singer. >> jimmy: yeah. but to have fun. >> it is a lot of fun. that's what i'm saying. i don't see a television job after that because that's the perfect job for a country singer. for television, anyway. >> jimmy: it's interesting. do you like doing that and finding new talent and guiding people? >> i do. yeah, it surprised me because honestly, i probably learned more from some of those kids i was working with than they learned from me just because, you know, they still have that passion and that urgency of wanting to make it, you know what i mean? i think somebody like me, been doing it so long somewhere along the way, you kind of lose that. they remind you how lucky you are, back before i started fo

we played a competition against bill cosby as well. he used to sit on the bench with our team.my core business, world team tennis. so it's ironic because here we go. so anyway, we're going to a concert together. he said i want to write you a song. and of course i'm blurk by now. i thought he was teasing, right? joking. you must be joking. no, no, no, i'm serious. he said, what are we going to call it? i go, i don't know. i'm like so embarrassed by this time. and he goes, how about philadelphia freedom that sn that would be great. i love that. i love philadelphia. good. it's iambic. whatever. i went hey that would be a great gift to the people of philadelphia. of course i'm playing team tennis for them which was a co-ed league so i'm thrilled. and so he wrote it. he brought a rough mix to our -- at the end of the year at the end of the season, i mean. and i had the whole philadelphia freedom team stand around in this dirty little dressing room, locker room, depends which country you're from, and he said, oh, i hope you like it. it was a rough mix. i loved it! first of all, he's

tennessee's rate is only about one-third, and cosby hopes harris can help make it even lower.aqed a mile in their shoes. he's been there. they can directly relate to him. they know he's experienced what they've experienced. that's the value of having david come back and talk to the offenders. >> david got his law degree in december. but the hurdles were not over. with the now-pregnant melissa cheering him on, david two weeks ago faced a hearing before the tennessee bar association to decide if this ex-con was worthy, if he has changed enough to be a lawyer and thus be allowed to take the bar exam. >> i love you. i love you. >> he knew judgment days like this come often for a man with a prison record. >> today is the day. >> the hearing was held behind closed doors. as melissa waited and waited. >> i just want to know. >> until finally the decision. >> they're going to let him take it. [cheering] >> last week david took the two-day bar exam. he will hear if he passed some time in the fall. and, as always, he can handle success but also face failure. what do you do? >> i will be