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joining me is the one and only melis melissa harris-perry. the office watching and we're like, oh, cool, it's melissa. what is your understanding of why that happened. >> what i like is i think you and i have a similar disposition about this. >> it is not really fun -- no. it suction, if i can say that. >> it is the nature of public life. i said to folks that i had this feeling when i saw mrs. romney on the election night and how down cast her face was. and as the wife after man who ran for public office, i guess that moment. whether we agree or don't agree -- >> a human moment. >> if it's not fun, who cares. my feelings are not what in question here. but what is worth asking the question is about is why? why this, of the various spots that all of us have done. many hours of television i've produced on the show, what is it about this that raises the ire. i think for me, that's what is intellectually enjoyable the past week, to figure out what it is about those statements that distress people so much. >> and so the next question is, what is it

joining me now is melissa harris-perry, also lauren ashburn. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you. >> tonight, melissa, let me ask you, did republicans flunk those classes they took earlier on how to talk to women and minorities? i mean, minority. >> you know, it's funny. it's like listening to the rand paul lecture very closely. it's like they were excited about this moment in american history when republicans were, in fact, the party of progressive, racial change. right? so they are thinking, all i've got to do is remind people that this label republican used to be on the people who were for integration or at least for full human equality against slavery, that sort of thing. the problem is, we already read the books. we already know that history and the way in which it shifted. the party now is going to have to make a claim about the party that it is today, not the party from the 19th century. >> lauren, not only read the books. i mean, we talked to our parents, our grandparents, my mother, father, and bishop were republ

i'm melissa harris-perry. yes, that melissa harris-perry. the melissa harris-perry who has heard from many of you about a promo by me running on this network. haven't seen it? well, here it is. >> we have never invested in much in public education as we should have. your kid is yours and totally your responsible. we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. so part of it is we have to breakthrough the private idea that kids belong to their parents and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments. so what i thought was a relatively benign statement about the need to invest more resources into the public education system has caused quite a conservative motion. as we trace the fish tail back that has garnered thousands of responses in the form of tv segments, e-mails, tweets and phone calls started as a short item on a conservative blog's weekend traffic. it wasn't enough for sarah palin to find the spot un-flipping

joining me now is melissa harris-perry and bob shrum.ou for being here. >> saying he advanced the cause. it's clear he's not going to let that be an impartial jury, he's going to try to influence that jury because for him to now rewrite what has been for us more than a decade of war, an ill-defined enemy, we can't really know when there's a victory, responding in the way that he did to the context of 9/11, as the president said at the moment of his election, we're going to shift this back to the people who are responsible for 9/11. what does the president do, ultimately is responsible for the death, capture of 9/11. george bush moved us in a false war built on pretense and lies into iraq. how does that advance the cause of freedom? >> and then when you look, bob, at the former chief of staff for president bush, andy carr, talking about president bush's economic record, listen to what andy carr said. >> president bush probably has the best track record of any modern president in terms of fiscal discipline at the federal government level a

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i'm melissa harris-perry. the associated press made news this week with a major linguistic change to its style book. considered the industry standard for journalists. on tuesday the decision was made to banish the use of illegal when writing about, quote, people living in a country illegally. kathleen carol had this to say about the the change. the style book no longer sanctions the term illegal immigrant or the use of illegal to describe a person. instead it tells users that illegal should describe only an action, such as living in or going to a country illegally. i know that sounds like parsing a lot, but truly this move is no small thing, especially when it inspires this. >> to me it blows me away. that's how you describe somebody who comes here illegally. i don't understand why people are trying to carve up those words? the reason they say don't use illegal alien, illegal immigrant, illegal anything. this is the way of doing some cheerleading. trying to push immigration reform in congress. the a.p. is push

and melissa harris perry wants your kids taken from you and raised this communes to become god less slaves of the state. and beyonce and jay-z celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary in cuba. should we be outraged or were they uh -- were they havana good time. >> what a great play on words. >> i am putting that on parcheezy. >> you mean nothing to me. let's welcome our guests. well, she knows district courts like i build pillow forts. a first time guest, john gnaw spilbore. and if he was balloon animals, clowns would blow him at a party. , joe devito and my repulsive sidekick, bill schulz. and if thoughtful commentary was a gong he would get banged during the song "knights in white satin." >> a block, the lede, that's the first story. take it away, greg gut-field. i know what i said. >> what is the point? i want to point out that we have a jonah and a john gnaw and a joe. so at any moment we may get the wrong camera. i am saying hey, joe and they may go to jonnah. there, they did it again. >> and my cabaret name is juju. >> and you are catholic. >> let's do a story. is it country or an a

coming up next is melissa harris-perry. right wing criticism, this morning she doubles down with a show dedicated to the notion that yes, in fact, we are a community. that is melissa harris-perry. check that out coming up next. we'll see you here tomorrow at 8:00. thank you for getting up. we're all set to bundle your home and auto insurance together. i'll just press this, and you'll save on both. [bell dings] ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, llllet's get ready to bundlllllle... [ holding final syllable ] oh, yeah, sorry! let's get ready to bundle and save. now, that's progressive. oh, i think i broke my spleen! bjorn earns unlimited rewards for his small business. take these bags to room 12 please. [ garth ] bjorn's small business earns double miles on every purchase every day. produce delivery. [ bjorn ] just put it on my spark card. [ garth ] why settle for less? ahh, oh! [ garth ] great businesses deserve unlimited rewards. here's your wake up call. [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one an

i'm melissa harris-perry.aily newspapers are up for grabs in a fire sale after the company that owns them emerged from bankruptcy needing to dump the its most precious assets. the publications are the latest casualties of the recession and has debilitated the american newspaper industry over the last decade and a half. all of the papers owned by the tribune company, the chicago tribune, the los angeles time. the baltimore sun. the sun sental in sou florida. the morning call, the daily news. okay, listen. valued at $623 million but it can be yours if you have the highest bid. among the buyers who have that kind of pocket change lying around and are exploring the possibility of making investment are billionaire brothers charles and david coke sound effects by dave. according to a story this week, with me is bob herbert, long time journalist. and now dr. linsor who is the managing editor of msnbc.com. kirk gladstone, most and managing editor of npr and sports editor of the nation. on that story, amy who joins us

and the third thing, a truly remarkable and amazinging response from melissa harris perry. first, a cliffs notes version of what melissa is responding to in her latest lean forward ad. she makes the argument that caring for our children is not just a parent's job. it's a community job, also. see also hillary clinton's it takes a village. yet to the right wing noise machine, this idea is tant enough to -- seriously. here's rush limbaugh giving this measured reaction. >> what she is saying here is as old as communist genocide. >> more thoughtful analysis was provided by fox. >> msnbc has declared war on the american favorite. >> she's passing the buck to chairman mow. this is basically a way to advocate responsibly to the government. >> when you get to be a teenager, you grow up and turn to the collective insight, i never asked to be born. >> melissa responded to the conservative distortions with a measured, generous blog, of course, parents can and should raise their children with their own values in a community that provides safe places for children to play, no individual h

i'm melissa harris-perry. >>> if you are a person who cares about your health, then eating right is at the top of your list. think for the 1990 nutrition labeling and education act, any food in a package must have labeling consistent with health and human services definition. so the label ons bag of chips. honestly, it tells me, girl, don't even think about it. at least that's my translation. and on this bag of cookies, yeah, it also tells me that even though i might like to eat the whole thing, it is not going to make up for nutritionally balanced meal. reading labels is what a responsible consumer does. but what if there are no labels. take this apple for instance. i mean, it seems perfectly fine, nutritious. that's what an apple is supposed to be. it grew on a tree. it's anapple, for goodness sake. i don't need a label. i know what it is. maybe i do need a label because sometimes an apple is more than meets the eye. when it comes to our food, even if it is not in a package, it is important to know what happ

take a look at nbc new ad featuring one of their stars melissa harris perry a left wing professor at tulane. she thinks children are the property of the collected. listen closely. >> we have never invested as much as much as public education as we should have we have always when a private notion of children. your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. so part of it is we have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. once its everybody's responsibility and not just the household's, then we start making better investments. >> wow. so once again, another attack on the nuclear family or as we have seen and heard this time before about how bold. >> we need to point out that isn't necessarily just her words. it's broadcast on msnbc. msnbc is out of touch. msnbc has declared war on the american fabric. they are determined to change our life, our lifestyle, how we think, how we act from. radicals like al-tha

i'm melissa harris-perry. grumble, grumble, boo his, it is tax time. listen, i hear ya. i don't like doing my taxes. writing that check to the irs or even seeing how much i already paid is just ugh. whether you're the kind of taxpayer who shakeser her fist at the heavens and yelling about the man or you quietly tear your hair out in a late night turbo tax session that is probably going to happen tonight, we're all participating in that annual american ritual. i wonder, though, what really gets us down about tax season? i started asking, is there any bill that you enjoy paying? for some of us, that downpayment on a new house or even the monthly mortgage check is a point of pride. there's a sense of self-satisfaction in being able to meet that debit which finances your home and hearth. maybe for others, buying those back to school clothes and notebooks for your kids is the kind of damage that you happily do to your wallet or for the luckier among us, maybe paying that preschool tuition that is literally an inves

i'm melissa harris-perry. this has been quite a week. monday's tragic bombings at the boston marathon finish line set off an extraordinary and unprecedented set of events that ended with a surprisingly subdued ending on friday night. 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev was pronounced dead after a dramatic shootout with law enforcement early friday morning. his 19-year-old dzhokhar escaped on foot precipitating a shelter in place order for the entire boston area. but the much sought after armed and dangerous teen was found wounded and incoherent in a boat parked in the backyard of a suburban watertown home. discovered not by the hundreds of armed officers who had been searching for him for hours but by the home's owner, reportedly out for a smoke. with one assailant dead and the other in police custody, the people of watertown and the entire boston area expressed their enormous gratitude and sense of relief with spontaneous cheers and applause on friday night. the crisis is over. now the politics begin and this is wh

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an msnbc ad featuring weekend host melissa harris perry is attracting harsh criticism, still. an unusual argument for increasing government spending on education. >> we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. part of it is we have to break through our private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. >> bret: reaction to this claim has been strong, particularly from conservatives. the week's matt lewis likens her beliefs to or wellian society. sarah palin tweeted apparently msnbc don't think your children belong to you unflipping believable. one catholic blog calls into question how she pro-choice can take such a position. i thought she advocated the private decision of a mother to kill her own children since she wants the kid to be public commodities owned by the private then pro-right add vote cats are right to fight for their protection since they are our children, too. today she responded to all the backlash. she says she has no intention of changing the family struct

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matt lauer, brian williams, nbc news that operates under the guys of journalism is putting melissa harris perry to tout the leftist agenda. watch this. >> america will always want some level of -- people who work hard, sacrifice and saab their money and make major contributions, we think they should earn a little more and have more resources and that's fine. but we also, however; to have a floor under which nobody falls. if you are below that, especially if you are a child and you are below that, we are not going to accept that. you do have the right to healthcare and to education and to decent housing and to quality food at all times. >> obama phones, obama food, obama housing. only hardworking people. you just get a little teensy, and also bit more. and the promo we heard last night, let's remind our audience of the linecy that's being pro no, sirred by nbc news. >> we have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've had a private notion of children. your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our child

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you know when you have someone like melissa harris perry over at msnbc talking about how we have a collective responsibility for our children. then look at what the statistic is in the black community. only 30% of black children have mothers and fathers in the home. look at these inner-city communities like detroit. look at what is going on with the gun violence and gang violence in chicago. my own neighborhood in atlanta, georgia, which of course was exact same neighborhood that dr. martin luther king, jr. grew up, if you walked down auburn avenue which used to be a thriving center of black entrepreneurship and small business, it is just a shell of itself. so, we have to be very concerned. and we have to start breaking away from this dependency society and get back to an opportunity society and, promoting the right type of policies that enable that to occur. neil: allen, i was thinking of you today when i heard the president mentioned as he released his budget, very late, i might add, didn't want to do anything that would put pressure on the backs of the middle class and poor, by inference m

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i'm melissa harris-perry. there are -- almost 54 years ago this week, the first ever team of american astronauts was assembled and soon after this picture was taken of the mercury 7 all suited up and ready to blast off. photographs by the company that manufactured those spacesuits, this perfect 7 helped nasa to capture the hearts and minds of the country, not to mention their tax dollars. because americans space exploration needed a good pr day. before the united states could even get nasa off the ground, we were rocked by the soviet launch of sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. in the midst of the cold war, president kennedy was mired in the bay of pigs fiasco when the soviet union followed up with the first successful human space flight in april 1961. with no intention of being out done or outgunned, kennedy fired back with a big bold mitsch tiff. the moon. >> i believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and re

new reaction to a show, promotion on the cable network msnbc raising eyebrows and it hosts melissa harris perryggesting the community should play as influential a role as parents and family when it comes to raising children. take a listen. >> we have never invested as much in public education as we should have, because we've always had kind after private notion of children. your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility. we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. part of it is we have to breakthrough our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kid belong to their families and recognize the kids belong to whole communities. once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household's then we start making better investments. rick: in a column today rich lowry editor of the national review had a response to that line of thought writing, quote as the ultimate private institution the family is a stubborn obstacle to the great collective effort. he goes onto say, quote, that the family is so essential to the well-being of children has to be a consta

. >> this is melissa harris perry, professor at tulane university.msnbc. this is part of an ad campaign for the entire network. when you first heard that, what was your reaction? >> well, i was thinking, where were they when i was changing the diapers of my five kids. this idea of collectism that everyone but no one is responsibility. it is a nutty notion, gretchen, but a staple idea of the left. this is the 201 version of hillary clinton. this is the intellectual love child of the great society and the sexual revolution where everyone but no one is responsible. it's insane but it's a reality of the way the left thinks, the way they view our children. >>gretchen: to a certain extent, i understand what she means, that, yeah, people in the community do affect the lives of your children. i'm thinking about teachers, coaches, you know, sunday schoolteachers, piano teachers, neighbors. but that's a little bit different than a theory that those people are responsible in completely raising your child; right? >> yeah. first off, this idea that our children b