Tonight's guests:
- Congressman Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts
- Mayor Cory Booker, Democrat of Newark, New Jersey
- Lizz Winstead, comedian, Daily Show co-creator, author, "Lizz Free Or Die"
Here's executive producer Bill Wolff with a preview of tonight's show (musical pairing here).
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It is a shame that discrimination has reared its ugly head once again in the USA. America does not seem to be the land of the free where everyone is equal and has the same opportunity. People are being categorized again! If you are gay - then you are evil! If you are a Muslim - then you are a terrorist. If you are for Health care for everyone then you are a communist. Shame America -shame! What happened to this wonderful country = and No it has nothing to do with President Obama! It is the attitudes of the general population that since you now have to struggle through a bad recession that you are willing to blame everyone and everything!
And nothing about Elizabeth Warren, the Ward Churchill of Harvard?
Bill I was in line at Radio City Music Hall last night on 50th Street I looked up there were lights on what looked like Floors 7 through 9 I said "One of them is Bill's office so I am asking which one was?
I like you Maddow... but you've just spent 25 minutes of your show going on, and on, and on, and on about the president's statement regarding his evolution on gay rights...
and as lefty as I may be, it's frankly annoying the hell out of me.
You could have said it in 5 minutes.
Next topic, please.
Rachel, opening 15 minutes of your show tonight: PERFECTION. Our president, Barack Obama: MY HERO!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THE QUEERS LIKE ME!!
Ok, I can't stand it any more.
I'm a stay-at-home wife and mom, and I've always got MSNBC on in the background. Today has absolutely driven me nuts! It seems that at least one guest per hour holds the opinion that anyone in North Carolina who won't vote for President Obama because of his stance on all-inclusive (my term) marriage, wouldn't have voted for him anyway. Are you kidding? In North Carolina? One guy tonight even suggested that those who won't vote for a pro gay marriage Obama probably wouldn't even vote for blacks. Hello!!! Some of the same people who will vote on gay marriage as a single issue, VOTED FOR A BLACK MAN IN 2008!
In a SEA of Christians, Conservatives, Republicans, and Dixiecrats, I am a true Moderate. My husband is conservative. So's my mother, one of my daughters, and the vast majority of my friends AND family, and I'm not writing you from Lizard Lick; I'm writing this from Raleigh!
Yesterday, I couldn't turn my 87year old mother, but my husband, my conservative daughter and most of my friends voted AGAINST Ammendment 1, not because they are pro gay marriage, but because they are pro civil union. If I had been given another 6 months, I would have been able to turn my mother, just based on the fact that Mitt Romney was getting ready to take away her precious 21 year old granddaughter's next five years of health care.
And then I came home. Dammit. To find that President Obama was probably, 6 months before an election that I was sure even we Democrats could not screw up, going to have to announce that he would support same sex marriage. Really? NOW?
Look, I know this is just my little microcosm, but your on-air guests are wrong. North Carolina is filled with single issue voters, and you just picked their single issue.
I sure hope everyone who wants President Obama to serve a second term not only gets out TO vote, but gets out THE vote. Because this North Carolinian is here to tell you; the race in this battleground state just went from "Oh my god we're going to win it again!" to "Oh my god. How could we have lost that!".
What a sad, sad commentary.
We always say how much we long for a politician who doesn't play politics. We long for a President, Representative or Senator who will stand on principles, say what they mean and truly believe, and not hold back for political reasons.
Now we have to worry about President Obama losing in November because he finally admitted his evolution is near completion? (I say "near" completion because words are meaningless without action. Back up that backing with actual guarantee of rights.)
I'm glad your husband, conservative daughter and most of your friends voted "AGAINST Amendment 1." As you state, this was because they are pro civil union. Better still, would have been a vote against this amendment because one is pro civil rights.
Then again, civil rights and matters of basic, human decency, allowing people to live, love, support in a dignified manner, should never be put to a vote. Gay families have the same concerns that straight families do--ensuring family security in the event of illness or death, making sure your family can stay healthy, protecting them from financial peril, providing the basic human needs, making them happy, etc. They should be afforded the same rights and mechanisms to tend to those concerns.
David Sirota wrote an interesting piece on this issue before the President's endorsement: http://www.salon.com/writer/david_sirota/. Take his advice and insert your favorite oppressed group into a statement asserting that the President should not come out in favor of equal rights for that group before the election because it would not be politically wise. Then come back and comment.
Do we want a politician who doesn't play politics or not? Do we want leaders who stand on principles or not? Voters can be the biggest flipfloppers of all on these simple questions.
The fat man in Jersey is a case that proves your point. And, of course, it is unconscionable to subject civil rights to a popular vote and, in my opinion, unconstitutional.
Cory Booker is a leader whose eloquent words need to be announced far and wide.
I hope so bad that Booker is our (NJ) 2013 next Governor I dislike Governor Christie almost as I dislike The New York Giants and FOX News
I've been watching Cory for a long while now. He needs to go on a much bigger national scene. Seems to be a most honorable man, articulate and intelligent.
Cory Booker is a corporate whore selling out to the tune of a mere $100,000.00 from Nestle- one of the most boycotted companies in the world (in the top 5) for giving Nestle access to teach NJ kids how to fight obesity. ARE YOU SERIOUS, BOOKER???? A company that CAUSES obesity being put in change of a program to combat obesity??? What a coup for Nestle. What a tragedy for New Jersey. Nestle logos all over the podium as this was announced? Really??
Cory Booker is NOT a leader. He is a corporate hack- selling out NJ kids to Nestle's disgusting and insidious marketing tactics in the guise of "anti obesity" education. What a sick joke. Cory Booker sells out New Jersey kids to Nestle- this is not a man who we want to lead us. Nestle is in the business of selling crappy baby formula and crappy snack foods. Get a clue, Booker. Get a clue, Rachel.
Well, I like Nestles Crunch. "N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles makes the very best..CHOCOLATE"
Obama's position will cost him votes, like the Republican evangelicals who were going to sit out this election because they were unable to vote for a Mormon. Those people are now going to hold their noses and vote for Romney.
Amazing: how long Cory Booker could talk (on tape and live) about marriage for same-sex couples without saying "gay" or "lesbian." Politicians, of all ideologies, are astonishing.
I am shocked as an outsider looking at Mitt Romney as a presidential Candidate. Here is a reporter recounting a very disturbing and sad story about Mitt Romneys youth. He denies remembering it but is chuckling at a story that should have shocked him. ...and a person like this is running for President - the most powerful person in the world? What else is he going to find humourous? Putting People out of jobs...starving people...poor people whom he does not care about (since there is a safety net?)