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>> he was obsessed than saying im more famous than my father. i make more money. more americans see me. when i came back an hour later it looked like confetti. >> my dad was always trying to live up to his father, i think. >> its very interesting insight to see this guy, this alpha guy was dealing with his father image, these daddy issues. >> that was quite a revelation. we talk to a lot of his colleagues and family and friends and that was the nilt that kept getting beaten. he was very famous o...

To promote marriage and fatherhood. cleo is with me. he is, also, by the way, a native of chicagos south side. matt welch and thea, elan white is a comedian and creator of this week in blackness. a look at race, politics and pop culture. you have heard my take, what is your reaction? >> im interested when the president talks about his daddy issues. it happens in a predominantly black audience. its one that can happen. it happened in the bush administration promoting marriage. its a moment whic...

August 12th. for those of you generous us enough to join us on the weekend, we wanted to leave you with a little look at all the fun we have had so far. good morning, im melissa harris-perry, last week i asked if the name trayvon martin meant anything to you. the question is -- are there daddy issues at play. who did he think he was talking to? what is it that citizens united did? >> how did this potentially impact the meaning of privacy. if the number of women were in power was greater or e...

>> now you can go on-line to get porn and you dont have to go into the woods and find it behind the school. >> when you had to go into the rooks and get what you buried there a week ago where big raccoons have done something to it. thats what makes porn so special. porn is just competition beautiful, real women like you. >> no. those girls have major daddy issues and we are 100% okay over here. >> not all. you cant categorize all of those girls. some just love that thing. >> they are not making ...

Thats not -- >> as long as its not the sole focus of the investigation. i mean, you want the policies. you want the family history. you want the religious and moral views because they inform how they might behave and where they come from and trying to impose their views on you, the nation and citizenry. so its important but i dont think it should be the only. >> if i could put a number on it, it should be 10%. thats only because i live in new york city because this is the psychotherapy capital o...

Terms while his father only won one. political scientists and voters alike tend to analyze candidates by their psychology as much as their policies. face it, we like to get into the heads of our possible future heads of state. and when it comes to presidents, biography 0 counts. the legacy of george romney was suspected to give mitt romney insurmountable home field advantage in michigan. what if the son specter of the father looks on? peter edelman, professor of law at georgetown, dorian warren ...

Generational at the time. dwight eisenhower is a father figure in a different way. >> yeah. >> ronald reagan is a father figure in a different way. and so when -- and it comes particularly on the republican side. >> right. >> somebody who really we can look to or they want the person to look to as a father in a generational sense. >> i want to go to a critical moment when romneys daddy issues became clear. it was john king on cnn asking mitt if he was going to do what his father did relative to ...

National psyche or the human psyche, although we should talk about moms, too. >> yes. >> but in this case it coincides, the reaction to daddy, with the direction of the republican party. >> right. >> the lesson that both romney and others and certainly george w. bush have taken from their fathers losses has been to move to the right. and so i think that we can analyze many problems from different disciplines so youve got psychology and youve got politics. >> right. and in this case theyre moving...

Well, they want a daddy state that directs and tells people who what to do with their bodies, women in particular. >> dorian warren giving me the object of rick santorum as my daddy telling me what to do with my body. its not even noon. i cant manage that. >> thats perfect. theres also the father as disciplinarian. >> right. the authoritarian. >> right. the tough love, the idea that poor people just need to work harder. sort of if you want it hard enough, the beating of the child is done by the ...

Ends with birth because if you look at their priorities they dont care about early childhood education, they dont care about quality public education, they dont care about the quality of life for people throughout their lives. >> theyre not interested in covering neonatal health care even. >> then at the end of life they dont care about seniors trying to stay above the poverty line. so the crux of the matter is, control, going back to our discussion of daddy issues, wanting to have control over ...