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Democratic president whos absolutely divisive and doing class warfare. >> so i really do -- i mean, so i started this with what i was hoping would feel like a counterintuitive thesis, you know, for the start of msnbcs sort of liberal african-american girls show. i actually want a strong republican party. >> only up to a point. >> but up to the point that if its strong enough to have its own set of ideas that are not just "no 0," then we can govern. if the idea is no, then there cant be collectiv...

Celebrating their life, not mourning the death. i want to jump back a tiny bit, the authenticity issue weve talked about with black enough and embraced later and i think again, like michael jackson, we remember too many of the bad things of whitney toward the end and fixated on that and did not understand the stress and anxiety and emotional human difficulty of being a superstar, and its a dream life and many of us want those problems rather than the problems of being working class. >> sure. >> ...

P 80s with powerful men to expose her to all the powerful marketing machine thats possible and make them the biggest stars in the world. so theres this interesting arc that theyre able to take advantage of, you know, malcolm glad well talks about good historical timing is important to becoming a superstar. they get that. >> the great talent that we know exists in black churcheses like new hope, actually becomes pop culture because of the historic moment in which it finds itself. its interesting ...

Polit politics, its far more compelling to talk about ultrasound bills and conservative social issues and how the gays are coming to wreck your marriage. >> i am going to make it very exciting because in our next segment were going to leave this conversation a little bit, although well take some of this culture war conversation with us. because i want to have an opportunity actually to think through what culture -- how culture fluinfluences all of th. we have these broad daddy issues but sort of...

Melissa, why now? we know it came up because of president obamas health care plan, but i have this thought that maybe the republicans have decided the economy is getting a little bit better and so its kind of not going well for them and they need to resurrect, bring back these social issues. now, that santorum as well, because he cares a lot about that. thats really where he comes from. but i keep wondering, why now? so i wonder if the political moment is because economics is beginning to lean t...

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He said he wasnt supportive of the ballot initiatives. how much of this is a problem for romney in that it plays into flip-flop, he takes one position one time, another position another time. problem or a blip on the radar? >> you know, the other problem for romney who is standing on the steps of the place where they were making calls for support for this measure -- >> right. >> -- according to the embed there, yeah, you know, its a problem. his biggest vulnerability is this authenticity issue. ...

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