as his speaks person. let s listen. it was irresponsible of pepsi cola. companies make trillions of dollars in the united states who hire a man who pitch their product who is in my opinion subverting the values of the united states. just not ludacris, all of corporate america in my opinion needs to rethink their responsible responsibility to this country. how is it this guy who has this many cases of sexual harassment who appears to be serial. is the chief moralizer at fox news? is there a structure to this? i ve been saying for a week now, bill o reilly needs his handle the difference between bill cosby and bill o reilly is hannibal burris. everything that hannibal burris said in his stand-up routine is roane.
the loofah. and, so, i said, so this is a ratings question, right? he said, yeah. meaning when o reilly goes back on the air, we re going to watch what happens to the ratings. if they go down, he s gone. if they don t, he s not. so he went back on the air. the ratings did not go down. in fact, they went up. because there was interest in what is this guy going to say. if the ratings went down, that would be the end of o reilly. that would be the end of this. in the meantime, we re wait for hannibal burris. and promos. thank you my friend, lawrence o donnell coming in on the weekend. coming up next rex tillerson finally has to make eye contact with america. don t go away. have fun with your replaced windows. run away! [ grunts ] leave him! leave him! [ music continues ]
that was bill cosby, and they saluted him. ed rendell thanked him for all he had done for the city. the congressman declared, quote, we need to have bill cosby month in philadelphia. that right there is how philadelphia felt about bill cosby as recently as a year ago. it s hard to overstate how beloved bill cosby has been, for decades in his native philly. here he is being presented with the distinguished pennsylvania artist award by governor dick thornburgh in 1984. he s featured in murals around the city, including one that puts him up there, well, the late nelson mandela. bill cosby regularly headlined philadelphia civic events and youth athletic fens aevents and benefits for education. when there was a spike in homicide rates in 2007, it was bill cosby who led the march against violence. at his philadelphia alma mater, temple university, cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. he served on the university s board of trustees for more than three decades. and i
influence. and how the wealthiest americans continue to tilt the field their ways. and from alexander hamilton to caitlyn jenner and everything in between. that s awesomer than anything in the last movie. the year in pop culture when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. after decades of rumors, formal accusations, and public denials, america s most famous iconic accused serial rapist was arraigned today on charges of aggravated indecent assault, a second-degree felony. and even after everything we ve learned about bill cosby in the past year, in which dozens of women came forward to accuse him of wrongful sexual misconduct, the image of the man formally regarded as america s dad taking a perp walk is a stunning one. the new charges stem from an old case. in 2004, a woman named andrea constand accused cosby of drugging and sexually abusing her at her home in philadelphia. she was an employee of temple university where cosby had graduate
accolades continued. bill cosby wouldn t go off into the sunset unless there was something to happen to trigger a change. that trigger would be an up and coming comedian named hannibl burris. he called out cosby in a stand-up routine. i can talk down about you with a successful sitcom. great, bill cosby. but you rape women, turn the crazy down a couple notches. he accuses bill cosby directly of being a racist and of being a rapist and that changed everything. it changed everything because on that evening, a reporter from philadelphia magazine was in the audience recording this video with his phone. great, but you rape women, bill cosby. comedian hannibal burris.