papantonio, thank you for being with us tonight, appreciate it. there is breaking news out of wisconsin tonight, bad news for scott walker, plus it has been one year since the wisconsin 14 hit the load to stop the governor s radical plan, i ll have a few words about that coming up. republicans demonnize entitlements but red states are more reliant on government programs than blue states. we ll tell you why many americans keep voting against their own self-interest.
asians, that is racist, how do you feel about that? i was like huh? i missed that. to me i think my point was not there is different rules for asians. let me make that very clear. race is race, dignity is dignity i ll let you answer that question, mr. liu. ed, thank you for having me on, i want to pull back a half-step and say this is awesome, this is awesome we re having this conversation in the first place, the whole phenomenon is a great thing for all people, not just for asian americans but all americans, that radio clip you were playing earlier from the talk show, not by accident. the kind of call for offensive jokes followed right after they were acknowledging that this is a great american success story, because these two things are often right in combination, just when america is really opening up and living up to its promise
and letting folks of all different kind of back grounds in positions of prominent and authorize and success, that you get this kind of churn, the ugly under side of fear and anxiety from a lot of folks, what does this mean for me. it doesn t surprise me how do you combat it? i think a couple things, ed. in the first place, let s celebrate what is going on here, to me, amplifying and amplifying again millions of people, we re not just talking about asian americans, certainly i and my fellow asian americans are over the moon about how this is unfolding but celebrating the fact people of every background in this country are seeing themselves in an asian american. seeing themselves in, identifying with that person. that is a new thing in our pop culture. is that going to solve racism,
comes to racism and asian americans? jeremy lin is smashing stereotypes but not for everyone. that discussion, next. ezra klein breaks down today s big vote on the payroll tax cut extention, that is ahead. the republican war on women s health is in full swing. and they don t want to let women have a voice. i was so stunned when the chairman made the decision to not allow me to speak. daily show cocreator lizs winstead will have reaction.
no, i want to amplify that. the second thing i think we have to remember is context. context is everything. just aweek or two ago you talked alot about this on msnbc, pete hoekstra, republican candidate aired this incredibly insensitive race-baiting ad, a woman of chinese descent we take your job away, our economy very good, things like. that something like that is so obviously patently wrong, something like the call on this talk radio show you were talking about is so patently wrong we have to come down hard on that, that is not just asian americans, anybody who thinks about people simply having their own dignity. we have to come down hard. it hits every platform, even in entertainment. here is how conan o brien skewed the stupidity of them using the