We asked you for Melissa Harris-Perry questions, the Jezebel readers responded and so did the host of MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry show. And the Tulane Professor gave us a bunch of goodies so, without further ado, here are Dr. Harris-Perry's answers!
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As part of the battle for ratings dominance via coverage of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, the hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe spoke with some experts about the plane Monday morning. (Here "spoke with some experts" = postulated wildly about nothing at all and then yelled at each other. It was a normal day.)
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Congrats to NBC's Tamron Hall! After filling in now and then, she's officially been hired to co-host the third hour of Today. Hall, who listens to Bun B to get hyped up for work and names Lena Horne as her inspiration, is the first black woman to have one of the anchor seats on the Today show; she will continue to host …
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The cable news network announced on Monday that it was adding Joy-Ann Reid permanently to its programming schedule. Reid joins Melissa Harris-Perry, Al Sharpton, Karen Finney, Tamron Hall, Touré, and Craig Melvin as the network's seventh African American host. She's also MSNBC's 12th female anchor.
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America's longtime battle with Bieber fever has escalated to critical with yesterday's news of the pop star's arrest in Miami. Hence this video from Uproxx, in which MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell interrupts Congresswoman Jane Harman of California and her talk of the NSA's data collection practices with BREAKING NEWS from…
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When she's not being steamrolled on a daily basis by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski takes time to help young women. On Tuesday evening, after a panel discussion at Columbia University Journalism School, Brzezinski took out her phone and called up a friend to see if she could get a young woman who had asked her for…
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Comedian Russell Brand was invited to appear on MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday, ostensibly to talk about his controversial world comedy tour Messiah Complex.
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The guest lists of TV news shows have long been dominated by white men. From ABC's This Week to CBS' Face the Nation, opinions on the day's events are largely created, dictated, and debated by white dudes. It's so much fun for everyone, but mainly (exclusively) for white guys.
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Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are both pretty accomplished media powerhouses. So it makes sense that in a photo of the two of them featured in this month's Vanity Fair, they'd both be posed similarly. Ha! Just kidding. They put Mika on a tabletop kicking her leg in the air and gazing back inscrutably at Joe, who…
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Sandra Fluke spoke at the Democratic National Convention tonight, and pretty much called Mitt Romney out for being a coward. In front of eeeevvvveryone. If she'd made her speech in a lunchroom with middle school Democrats on one side and middle school Republicans on another, there would have been a low, rumbling "Ooooo"…
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For most women, the idea of carrying four of their own children is more than enough. But one woman did that much and then kept right on going. Meredith Olafson, of Fargo, North Dakota, has delivered 15 babies. That is approaching Duggar levels of birthing. Unlike the Duggars, though, most of the babies didn't belong to …
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Rick Santorum went on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning where Joe Scarborough asked him if he regrets bringing the issue of contraception into his campaign. Rickles got flustered and turned pissy fast. He said, "I've never had any record or anything about talking about access to contraception." Umm. Not to cross you, oh …
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Man alive. Just when you think Rick Santorum's campaign has done every dumb thing covered in How to Lose Everyone's Vote for Dummies, they manage to pull another trick out of their hat. This one comes courtesy not of Santo-Claus himself but from Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for his campaign. She was on MSNBC today…
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Political celebutante Meghan McCain is still around, serving as the Official Poster Child for Young Republicans and trying to paint herself as a cool conservative who isn't into all that icky hateful stuff young people find abhorrent. But as hard as she tries to sit at the cool kids' table, her act still comes across…
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What does it take to be a repeatedly steamrolled female cohost to a loudmouth morning television personality? Mothering, exercise, and sexy female assistants, that's what!
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When he started working for Michael Jackson — and even when the pop icon died — Dr. Conrad Murray was in debt. He was behind on child support payments, owed money to credit card companies and medical equipment suppliers, and was described as being "cash-strapped." Yet at his trial — during which he did not take the stand …
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What do you get after watching Morning Joe every day for three months? Why, thirty goddamn examples of host Joe Scarborough talking over co-host Mika Brzezinski while she tries to complete a goddamn sentence. Honestly, how does she do it?
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Jezebel's Jenna Sauers joined MSNBC's Tamron Hall for a "Gut Check" on NewsNation. Take a look at the clip above!
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This morning on MSNBC, things got awkward when Mika Brzezinski attempted to report the story of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest and sexual assault charges. Joe Scarborough seemed intent on making light of the situation, and Brzezinski had to scold: "I'm trying to keep you from making jokes about a serious…
