Melissa Harris-Perry did something that many Liberal talking heads on TV rarely do. She called out a lie immediately.
"Melissa back in November eight in ten voters said that the economic situation that they currently find themselves in or that they feel they are in is the number one issue as to why they're voting for whatever members of congress that they voted for," said Robert Traynham. "We now know that the vast majority obviously voted for Republicans. This moment that we are in reminds of ...."
Melissa Harris-Perry immediately interrupted Robert Traynham. She did not wait for the lie to metastasize.
"No! No! No! Back up That's not quite right," Melissa Harris-Perry said. "So there are more Republicans who won not because there was a vast majority more Americans who voted for them but rather because of the way that districts are measured."
The reason the Right Wing is so effective is because they know a distinct tenet of our psychology. If one continuously hears the same message over and over again without any push back, the message tends to become truth in ones psyche irrespective of the message being truthful or deceitful.
Melissa Harry-Perry was correct for immediately stopping Robert Traynham from lying to her audience. Too often many Liberal hosts allow misrepresentations, lies, or deceitful messages to go unchallenged.this i believe is a major part of our problem for 6 years the Progressive party was not backing the Pres. they failed to pull his coat when he thought in the beginning that he was dealing with reasonable people who cared as much as he does, his failure to fight back at first i considered they would play the angry Blackman card and he wanted to avoid that at all cost but sometimes you have no choice but to fight fire with fire.
i love Melissa, she is one of the redeeming factors of MSNBC. she's got the right stuff and temperament to deal with the republican liars this guy Traynham i despise him he is that house "N" i refer to he defends their position vehemently knowing full well what they stand for and it's not his family or him. i only wish the video had more coverage
