muhammad ali. race and identity seem to remain throughout the year front and center both in the campaign trump won by playing on those themes as well as sports and pop cull cur. beyonce aligning herself with the black lives matter veme in her super bowl halftime performance that seemed to pay tribute to the black panther party. colin kaepernick refusing to stand the very next season for the playing of the national anthem. sandwiched between the hip hop musical hamilton nominated for a record setting 16 tony awards and winning 11. and two long-form projects that focused on the life of o.j. simpson. this made i us think long and hard about what it means to be american. joining me now, abraham riseman for new york magazine. erin gloria ryan, senior editor at the daily beast. good to have you guys here. hey. whatever, it s kind of ridiculous to pose a theme on a year s pop cultural production. if you take the beyonce super
trump won by playing on those themes as well as sports and pop cull cur. beyonce aligning herself with the black lives matter movement in her super bowl halftime performance that seemed to pay tribute to the black panther party. colin kaepernick refusing to stand the very next season for the playing of the national anthem. sandwiched between the hip hop musical hamilton nominated for a record setting 16 tony awards and winning 11. and two long-form projects that focused on the life of o.j. simpson. this made i us think long and hard about what it means to be american. joining me now, abraham riseman for new york magazine. erin gloria ryan, senior editor at the daily beast. good to have you guys here. hey. whatever, it s kind of ridiculous to pose a theme on a year s pop cultural production. if you take the beyonce super bowl performance, colin kaepernick taking a knee and think about the campaign and the constant white identity politics
well, clearly, the difficulties affect a domestic violence issue that puts the onus on women. asks want women have done. blames women for choices rather than looking at a cultural violence. a cull cur that con sis at no timely demonizes women. when we look at the fact that men who are accused and convicted of killing domestic partners and spouses face only the the 2-6 years. we see the various cultural and legal obstacles that she s facing.
the press doesn t like mitt romney. they re for obama, obviously, we know that. there s no use whining about it. you work with what you have, and that s the situation we live with. romney s problem was telling an obvious truth which is culture effects outcomes. and in the case of israel and the palestinians, israeli cull cur s more conducive to economic success than palestinian culture. who could argue with that? and by the way, i d love to hear the obama people who are agreeing that it is racist, i d love to hear them explain why it s not true, because they can t. bill: i think i found someone that would argue with you. [laughter] first of all, you always blame the media when you don t get what you want. romney told carl cameron, i wasn t talking about the palestinian culture. he clearly was talking about the palestinian culture, and then he s got an op-ed out in the national review talking about the palestinian culture when the palestinian economy can t be compared to the israeli e
law. the presidential executive order already bars funding under the law except in cases of rape or incest. now, we want to know what you think about lawmakers discussing the issue right now. our carol costello has your responses. carol, i imagine a lot of people had something to say about this. they do. and welcome back, cull cur wars. the culture wars are on again. you thought the mid term election results were about jobs, jobs? oh, no. the talk back question of the day, is this the right time for congress to debate the abortion issue? we did get a lot of responses. here they are. this is from real ware man. he says it is absolutely the right time. how long were they expecting the issue to go unnoticed? this from kim. she says will denying a woman the right to choose what is best for her and her life create jobs? get to work on things that matter. from joy, she says when innocent, defenseless human lives are at stake no delay to try and spare their lives is justified. and this from