Melissa Harris Perry just tore the RW economic "expert"

[Surya Gayatri]

on her show a new one about social justice, income inequality and the hazards of poverty!

You go MHP! She has some other really good guests on.

[XanaDUer]

1. It was great!

the "expert" is expert at eye-rolling.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. What a tool she was--but the others at

the table had her boxed in, especially the British gentleman sitting next to her. He was awesome!

[JoePhilly]

2. That was pretty amazing.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Her genuine anger surprised herself!

Beautiful to see!

[malaise]

28. She literally silenced her

Delish!!

[goclark]

3. She is one of my favorites

I always tape her show

[hlthe2b]

4. Yes she does, but I wish she wouldn't let her guests--especially female roundtable talk over each

other. I find that annoying.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Agree! Earlier in the show, I had to turn down

the sound. The decible level was just too much with the women all screaming over each other.

[Coexist]

5. I know - watching

I love her show.

[TDale313]

8. That was a beautiful thing to see.

Love Melissa Harris-Perry.

[Booster]

10. That was great. Wish we could see more tv people get angry like that. Go, Melissa.

[PrBelvr]

11. Just saw this myself!

This is what it is going to take to put this conservatives in their place! To have the notion that the poor or those relying on the safety net do not live risky lives is devoid of any decency to take care of those who need it.
When is the media going to get some spine like MHP and call these false mouth pieces for the right and expose them for what they are? I am sick and tired of these so called conservatives trying to dominate the air waves and dictate that their way of thinking is the right way for the rest of us.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. They have to be slapped down, politely but firmly,

every time they open their lying mouths.

[Surya Gayatri]

23. Forgot to say "welcome" to DU, PrBelvr!

[barbtries]

12. i really hope the video turns up

this is the second thread about it, i want to watch. no tv here.

[Surya Gayatri]

15. You can watch on-line, barb! I can't get

American cable TV here in France, so I watch on-line at:
http://www.cvinetwork.tv/channel/274

You can also watch the show (delayed) on the msnbc site:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46979745/

[barbtries]

17. thanks Surya Gayatri!

i watch rachel online all the time but never mhp

[Dokkie]

19. there is the link for you.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46979745/#48870824

enjoy

[barbtries]

30. perfect

thanks so much

[Vinca]

14. That was jaw dropping!

I think it's the only time I've heard a host yell at a guest. It was great!

[Surya Gayatri]

16. And no-one deserved it more than that RW tool

who insisted on talking over and interrupting everybody!

[bluedigger]

18. If I had been there, I would have stood up and cheered.

[Surya Gayatri]

20. I was cheering and punching the air in front of my computer screen! LOL!

[Tennessee Gal]

21. Sorry I missed it. Can someone recap for those of us

who are not able to watch a video at the moment?

[bluedigger]

22. Sure

On her show Saturday morning, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry grew visibly frustrated over a guest’s assertion that the “big thing” missing in the President’s “you didn’t build that speech” was an emphasis on taking risks, raising her voice and slamming down on her desk as she gave an impassioned rebuttal insisting that, no, the real risk is in being poor in America.

“What is riskier than living poor in America?” Harris-Perry demanded. “Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky. No. There is a huge safety net that whenever you fail will catch you and catch you and catch you. Being poor is what is risky. We have to create a safety net for poor people. And when we won’t, because they happen to look different from us, it is the pervasive ugliness.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/harris-perry-loses-cool-over-guests-comment-yells-i-am-sick-of-the-idea-that-being-wealthy-is-risky/

[Tennessee Gal]

24. Wow! Thanks for posting that! nt

[mick063]

25. The comment about losing 250K small business in the last ten years.

I'll bet WalMart put half of those under water.


This is what I don't get. As an entrepreneur You swear by a Darwinist's form of capitalism and it eats you alive. Sure there is risk from starting a small business. The risk is that a huge mega corp will do one of two things:

1) Use you as an outlet for their product and force you to abide by their vision of what your business should be as well as dictating the prices for selling "their" product. You take the financial risk for selling "their" product. If your supplier fails at the national level, you fail at the local level.

2) View you as a small competitor and squash you like a gnat. They have the resources to undercut, outproduce, and out market you. They get the benefit of being large so that politicians will provide "incentive" to lure them in to your community and declare they are creating jobs yet not reveal the potential impact on existing small business in the community.

There is a hell of a risk to start a small business and even if you are good at it, you have to consider that it is the same OWS 1%ers that appear to be the culprits behind making a good entrepreneur either fail or become their puppet.

[senseandsensibility]

26. Very good example of the disconnects that the republican base

thrive on. Small business owners tend republican, and love Walmart. Many redstaters hate the federal government, and yet receive much more benefit from it than people in the blue states. And so on.

[Surya Gayatri]

29. Laissez-faire, vulture capitalism--the small

fry are just dinner for the big boys further up the food chain.

[oliverrams1]

27. I have never seen her upset at any guest on her show before.

We need more of this!!!!!!!!!

[sosilly]

31. Her passionate response was moving.

She was so incensed by the attitude of her guest...and she was spot on in her response.

I was just about to turn the TV off when that exchange happened...glad I caught it.

[Surya Gayatri]

33. I got a lump in my throat just hearing her!

[barbtries]

32. just watched it online.

i may watch it again. she needs to go off more often.

[Surya Gayatri]

34. Her outrage was completely genuine...that's what made the tirade

so powerful.

No faux poutrage or fake umbrage for MHP!

[barbtries]

36. i recommend the entire show

if you haven't watched it. it's meaty. i'll be watching her closely from now on.i actually had not been all that impressed with her when she guest hosted rachel's show, but i think she's really grown into being on camera, she's much more comfortable and it shows. and her politics of course mirror mine so her eloquence is a thing of beauty.

[Surya Gayatri]

38. I saw the whole two hours. She's definitely getting better and better...

And her production team is improving, too.

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. didn't she just lose her home in the storm?

[barbtries]

37. she did.

if you watch the entire program she shows a picture of the home ruined by a huge tree.

[bluedigger]

40. A property she intended to be her home.

It was uninhabited and they hadn't started rehab yet, from what I could tell. It's a tear down now.

[avebury]

39. Totally totally awesome!

Thanks to those who posted a link to that segment.

Her response to the RW Hack was a righteous one and the way she talked about the risk poor people face is spot on and what needs to be said.