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Democratic president who's 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 msnbc's sort of liberal african-american girl's show. i actually want a strong republican party. >> only up to a point. >> but up to the point that if it's 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 can't be collective governing. i mean, the fact is that the pool and rosenthal have this score and when they show...

Celebrating their life, not mourning the death. i want to jump back a tiny bit, the authenticity issue we've 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 it's a dream life and many of us want those problems rather than the problems of being working class. >> sure. >> fine, i understand that, but at the same time we understand whitney is not living a pampered life....

'p '80s with powerful men to expose her to all the powerful marketing machine that's possible and make them the biggest stars in the world. so there's this interesting arc that they're 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. it's interesting to hear you say that she feels like michael jackson in a certain way. certainly the loss feels...

Polit politics, it's 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 we're going to leave this conversation a little bit, although we'll 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, what does daddy mean to us culturally? how can we think in the broadest sense about how all of ...

Melissa, why now? we know it came up because of president obama's health care plan, but i have this thought that maybe the republicans have decided the economy is getting a little bit better and so it's 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. that's 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 toward the democrats. >> it still strikes me as odd. >> it's bizarre because three out of four wom...