Watch the first hour of Up With Chris Hayes, Sunday, Nov. 6th.
Mississippi's vote on personhood Tuesday inspired a powerful debate among our panelists today. We were lucky to have one of the foremost philosophers on the subject, Princeton Prof. Peter Singer, with us, along with Michael Brendan Dougherty of BusinessInsider.com, economist Robin Wells and writer Michelle Goldberg.
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With "Twilight of the Elites," Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
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The solution to people on the west coast not watching your show at 4AM is not to tell them to "get a friend to DVR the show". That's the equivalent of saying ...."Quit whining. I don't care."
Seriously, if you have to buy new equipment just to watch the program, it's highly unlikely you're gonna bother.
And what is wrong with the internet viewing solution?
Seriously, buying a dvr is a good general recommendation. It is like a computer- you must have one. It will change the way you think about tv. If you don't have one, get one before you get an ipad or new phone or camera.
What is wrong with the internet viewing solution? The long delay.
And I have zero interest in investing in a DVR. No, it's NOT "like a computer", and No, it's NOT a must.
Asking viewers to jump through hoops to view your program is ludicrously counterproductive. They are already paying for cable. To have to pay for another piece of equipment in order to compensate for stupid programming choices by the channel is just...well, stupid.
Not on the post but ... I'm on the west coast. I watch on the Internet. I'm here to watch today's show now. I can't seem to find the second hour of yesterday's show. It's such a great show! I'll always watch but I did write to MSNBC and beg them to repeat it during the day.
Podcast. Audio podcast. Please...
Seconded!
Your embryo as person segment was unwatchable. It started out okay as everyone agreed that an embryo is, of course, not a person, then descended into utter nonsense as you all 'debated' the rightness of a law that declares that an embryo is, in fact, a person. Your show rises or falls depending on how full-of-themselves your guest panelists are. Sometimes it works very well, and, sometimes it doesn't.
I will only add that Michelle was the only one on the panel trying to speak the truth. The Princeton Prof was in la-la land arguing the merits of a position that was totally untenable, a total waste of time and oxygen. The 'token' Republican had already conceded the proposed law was a fringe-group effort not worthy of further consideration as a viable proposal, which I thought was fairly remarkable, coming as it did from an avowed pro-lifer. And yet, the arguing continued, at which point, I split.
"The Princeton Prof was in la-la land." I think you mean Peter Singer, who was billed as a "bioethicist", as pompous and self-regarding a title as anyone could come up with.
Love this show. Why can't MSNBC repeat the show later in the day?? Far better than repeats of prison porn.
Your first hour on Sunday was about the personhood initiative in Mississippi. This would have been a great chance to speak of personhood as it relates not only to the fetus but to the corporation. If Mississippi passes this law does that mean that personhood is not granted to corporations? The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are, in effect, persons. So is Mississippi going up against the Supreme Court ruling re corporations or the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade?