University of Pennsylvania Associate English Professor Dr. Salamishah Tillet argued that the principle that black lives don’t matter is “re-surfacing” on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. Tillet started by discussing “state-sanctioned” violence against black people, adding “or you have individuals, as
A panel on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on Saturday dreamed of women having the costs of freezing their eggs covered under the Affordable Care Act during a discussion on Facebook and Apple agreeing to cover the costs of such a procedure.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid argued that “urban legends” that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan lied to get into the US, were the result of thinking that “the body of an African is itself kind of a weapon” on MSNBC’s “Melissa
MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Melissa Harris-Perry argued that supporters of personhood amendments are trying to take away birth control on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC. After Harris-Perry expressed support for fetal homicide laws, saying “sometimes we want to protect
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry compared complaints about “outside agitators” stirring up violence in Ferguson to the rhetoric of Eugene “Bull” Connor on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” Some of the reports of outside agitators instigating violence in Ferguson have been made by
In relation to last weeks controversy and protests surrounding the police fatally shooting Michael Brown, Saturday MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry made the argument that black men in America are still being treated as they were when slavery was still legal in
On her Saturday MSNBC program, Melissa Harris-Perry railed against those protesting the flow of unaccompanied illegal immigration children across the southern U.S. border. She particularly took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s use of his state’s National Guard at the border
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Political Nation,” host Al Sharpton and fellow MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry discussed the Republicans opposition to President Barack Obama, in particular rhetoric from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the “ugly” lawsuit Speaker of
On Saturday’s broadcast of Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC program, sing, songwriter and activist Harry Belafonte offered his theory on where the hip-hop culture went wrong.
During her Sunday program on MSNBC, left-leaning host Melissa Harris-Perry mispronounced the U.S. Marine Corps motto “Semper Fi,” short for Semper Fidelis. (h/t Newsbusters)
A few days ago the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a piece proclaiming MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry “America’s foremost public intellectual.” Coates didn’t really make much of a case. In fact, most of the piece was about Mitt Romney. Here’s the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel, conservative commentator Ann Coulter weighed in on the controversy surrounding MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry’s remarks about former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s grandchild and her subsequent apology. Partial transcript as
Mitt Romney on “Fox News Sunday,” accepting the apology of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry:
On the same show that host Melissa Harris-Perry was forced to apologize for her attack on Mitt Romney’s adopted African-American grandson, MSNBC kept up its drumbeat of dealing the race card against its enemies by declaring that the core of
Crying her way through yet another apology by an MSNBC host, Melissa Harris-Perry backpedaled, saying her previous week’s show was not intended to mock the adopted African-American grandchild of Mitt Romney. Last weekend during Harris-Perry’s New Year’s segment which included
Moments after Melissa Harris-Perry’s apology on the Saturday broadcast of her MSNBC program for mocking former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s black adopted grandchild, guest Katrina vanden Heuvel of the The Nation attacked the Tea Party…
On Tom Joyner’s radio show on Thursday, CNN anchor Don Lemon offered his thoughts on MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry who attacked the former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for his black adopted grandchild. (h/t Mediaite)
Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene and Sirius XM radio host David Webb debate the controversy surrounding Melissa Harris-Perry’s remarks about former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s black adopted grandchild…
Monday, via Twitter, Melissa Harris-Perry apologized to the Romney family for a segment on her Sunday MSNBC show that mocked Kieran Romney, Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandson. The baby was mocked by Harris-Perry’s panelists as a token who “doesn’t belong
In a tweet that speaks for itself, former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who is now at ESPN, ripped his former employer on Twitter for allowing host Melissa Harris-Perry and her panel to mock Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandchild. “Any adults
Using her verified Twitter account, MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry tweeted out an apology to the Romney family Tuesday. “I am sorry. Without reservation or qualification,” Perry wrote. “I apologize to the Romney family.” — I am sorry. Without reservation or
On Melissa Harris-Perry’s weekend MSNBC program, Harris-Perry and her panel mock former Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s black adopted grandchild in the show’s “What’s So Funny About 2013?” segment… (h/t The Right Scoop)
On Saturday’s broadcast of “Melissa Harris Perry” on MSNBC, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Sherrilyn Ifill blamed the country and not President Barack Obama for the shortcomings of the federal government, which are reflected
During MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show Sunday, Republican strategist Ron Christie and Harris-Perry spar over false charges of Tea Party racism from the 2010…
This weekend, as reported by Mediaite’s Noah Rothman, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry opened her show by claiming “ObamaCare” is a derogatory term designed by rich white men to delegitimize President Obama. Harris-Perry stated: I want to talk today about a
Melissa Harris-Perry, who filled in last night for Rachel Maddow on some MSNBC show I don’t usually watch, asked Filner’s new chief of staff if it was discriminatory to bar women from having private meetings with Mayor Filner. Eight women
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry thinks she has the answer to the ages old question of just when life begins. Her answer: life begins whenever parents “decide” it does. Practically since the beginning of the national abortion debate the most fought over
Nationally syndicated radio host Dennis Miller skewered MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry for sporting tampon earrings on the air as a symbol of solidarity with the pro-abortion protesters in Texas. Miller took to Twitter to lambaste Harris-Perry in a way only
UPI: On her MSNBC show Sunday morning, Melissa Harris-Perry called attention to recently passed abortion regulations in Texas with a pair of tampon earrings. During a second special session of the Texas legislature — after a successful filibuster by state
In support of the women who weren’t allowed to bring tampons to protest Texas’s recently-passed abortion safety bill, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry replaced her earrings with tampons on air Sunday.
Saturday morning on MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry called John Boehner a super-villian…
Melissa Harris-Perry: On the one hand he’s got to be able to make a claim about the we’re getting traction, Things are starting to get better without overselling it. For ordinary people on the ground, the housing market may be
Sunday on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry compared Guantanamo Bay detainees to American slaves during the 19th century. “This is the time to reaffirm our Americanness,” she said in response to a hunger strike by the terror suspects. She continued: “I
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry : “I also appreciate that the hunger strikers are not trying to die. They’re trying to generate autonomy in the context of something that strips their humanity-something we certainly know about from the experience of American slavery.”
Did MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry really compare a North Carolina law to the kidnapping of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight in Ohio? It sure seems like she did. In a segment that was introduced with the dramatic 911
It took the left a week to figure out how to attack the New York Times after of the paper of record published a front-page investigative article on Pigford. But the pushback has begun in earnest, using the Big Lie that criticisms
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY, MSNBC HOST: I’ve been waiting for a front page story about Pigford, because this is such a part of our history and our contemporary practices. But then the frontpage story that we get, and I’m sorry I have
In response to More Mindlessness From Melissa Harris-Perry: “My father grew up in the Jim Crow south. And he would give me birthday cards, and instead of signing them ‘Love, Daddy,’ always signed them, ‘the struggle continues, Daddy’… I was
In another promotional ad for her weekend show, Melissa Harris-Perry doubled down on dumb: “My father grew up in the Jim Crow south. And he would give me birthday cards, and instead of signing them ‘Love, Daddy,’ always signed them,
