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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Jake Tapper on Idealizing Our Political Past and Improving Our Political Future | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 38)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore weighs in on Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and President Donald Trump’s latest antics (1:00). Then, he is joined by CNN's chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper to dive deep into political history (12:37), the role of a journalist in our current climate (30:45), and the Twitterization of politics (40:14). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alright, welcome back everybody. This is Larry Wilmorem. I am black on the air. Back after a couple weeks off, it seems like this used to happen on the nightly show guys.

0:15.0

Whenever we would go off the air for any amount of time, everything started happening. Like the world would turn inside out.

0:24.0

And that was the case these last couple weeks because just everything happened right when we went down. But before I get to that, some people who follow me on Twitter on Instagram still see that I got a new dog yesterday.

0:36.0

His name is Buster. He's right here. How you doing, Buster? You doing good. He's just hanging out. That was that was a human doing. Buster's just I would have them close to me here guys, but he'd be you know that you would hear that in the background.

0:50.0

You think what's wrong with Larry? What's going on? But he's here. He's just looking on. He's just chilling right now, sitting with Brandy and he's doing good. Very happy about that. If you want to dog, you're looking for a dog. I highly recommend it guys. It's a lot of work. But man, they bring instant joy to your life. He's a cutie. I'll be posting pictures. I'm sure all the time. I'll be the worst dog owner posting pictures ever. It's horrible. But Buster, here's what happened. So we go down the day we go down.

1:19.0

Cosby, he gets convicted, right? God, I don't even have the facts in front of me. It's just all the feelings. Ain't got facts. I just got feelings today. You guys, because I really wanted to say some things that day, but we had just dropped our podcast. And I thought, maybe I should do an emergency one. And I'm like, well, I'll just wait whatever. And I was traveling. It was just kind of difficult. Of course, the first thing I want to say is that's right, motherfucker. I have not forgotten about you. And thank God something actually happened. A lot of people point to the day.

1:48.0

Point to the Cosby incident or the Cosby thing phenomenon. I don't know what you want to call it. It's kind of, you know, sweeping into me to movement and that type of thing.

2:01.0

But there is a big distinction. I always wanted to make with that Cosby thing. And like many people would ask me, you know, well, why are you so after Cosby, man? What do you got against Cosby? I'm like, I don't have anything against Cosby. I have something against rape.

2:13.0

And I have something against powerful men being able to get away with this through the collusion of society of not wanting to upset that apocard.

2:23.0

You know, it's rape that I've always been against to restate this and not just rape, but the type of horrendous crime that Cosby did, people say alleged, but he's convicted now.

2:34.0

So at least we can say he did in this one incident, but just the number of women who came out against them over the number of years was it was devastatingly breathtaking to me.

2:47.0

I mean, I could not believe it that it happened for so long and this guy got away with it. And he basically got away with it because he was famous and the way in which it was gotten away with for so many years.

3:01.0

Like people that worked with them and that type of thing, hey, I wouldn't ride an elevator with him alone. Hey, be careful. Like people knew they knew something was going on.

3:11.0

You know, even if they didn't have the details, they knew there was a Cosby creepiness happening, you know, warning you, you know, not to eat any of that jello pudding because it was going to knock you out.

3:23.0

That's crazy, you guys. And it took Hannibal Burr is doing his act for some momentum to start happening about people getting upset about it. And of course we did it on my show, you know, just calling it out, not wanting people to forget.

3:37.0

And I was very passionate about that and I still am, you know, and it's that collusion of silence that really touched me more than anything that none of these women were believed.

3:50.0

And in fact, with Hannibal Burr is talking about it once again, the irony of it took a guy talking about it to have, you know, it's start to go viral, but nonetheless.

3:59.0

The fact that none of these women were believed. And finally, there's going to be some justice in this, I think is a good thing. And the me to movement, which has come on the heels of that.

4:10.0

Man, there's something happening all the time. You saw the New York Attorney General Eric Schneider, man, I think is the same thing with me, he's name wrong.

4:17.0

But here's a guy who apparently was an ally in this movement. My head is still spinning because the news just happened on this. Supposedly, you know, according to the women he's been involved with have been abusing them. It's just terrible, terrible and horrible on the one hand, but also good that these things are coming out, you know, anyhow, that was one of the things that happened.

4:38.0

Sorry, I'm a little scattered because I'm thinking about Buster. The other thing was Kanye, you guys. So my boy, Zach was in here. We were talking about Kanye. Thanks, Zach. You were so cool. The other week. And Zach's over there laughing. And then Kanye kept going. It was one thing we were talking about being Trump's friend. Everybody lost their heads, which I don't think that was a big deal. But then he's on TMZ. And I know you guys all saw this.

5:00.0

But he's, he said slavery was a choice, you know, for a year's man, that feels like a choice to me. And it feels like Kanye truly is in the sunken place at this point. I feel like if he hadn't gone there voluntarily, people have put him there now. And it's kind of interesting to see what's going on. And I don't think Kanye can even hear the words that he's saying. Like here's one of the things that he said. One of the points I wanted to make on this is that he's not relying on thoughts and strategy.

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