it s doing a disservice to not tell the history, which is that the confederacy lost and wanted to break apart the union over the issue of slavery and they lost. they re losers and praising them has nothing to do with kind of, you know, crapping on the south. there is great southern culture. i lived in the south for some time. so did you, i know. and so we can embrace the south and the stories of the south without trying to rewrite an awful chapter, maybe the darkest chapter in our nation s history as anything other than that. i need to get ron in. ron, i ll give you the last word here. real quick, i think the pronoun is really revealing because for the people pushing this these efforts, it s not our kids. it s somebody else s kids. and you re talking about a texas republican party that is overwhelmingly centered in the non-urban, the rural predominantly white christian parts of the state setting rules for a public school system three quarters kids of color trying to control wha
i don t know. you know there have always been efforts to sort of tell the confederate story as if the confederacy was heroic but not actually about slavery. it was about property or whatever it was but i think it s really. tariffs. it s doing a disservice to not tell the history, which is that the confederacy lost and wanted to break apart the union over the issue of slavery and they lost. th they re losers and praising them has nothing to do with kind of, you know, crapping on the south. there is great southern culture. i lived in the south for sometime. so did you, i know. and so we can embrace the south and the stories of the south without trying to rewrite an awful chapter, maybe the darkest chapter in our nation s history as anything other than that. i need to get ron in. ron, i ll give you the last word here. real quick, i think the pronoun is really revealing
bloomberg news is handling it. gayle king asked about the coverage of this. he was dismissive of the concerns reporters have about they re not going to investigate bloomberg or other democrats. even your own news reporters complained. think they it s unfair they re not able to investigate other democratic candidates. you have to learn to live with some things. they get a paycheck, but with your paycheck comes some restrictions and responsibilities. now the bloomberg reporters are not going to be allowed inside trump rallies as a result of this. erin, what do you make? i think bloomberg whose default mode is contempt is doing a disservice by including the journalists who work with him condition that scope of contempt. they have not been known for taking a partisan point of view. by rendering bloomberg news a
vetted thoroughly. he s the best candy get to get through the process. not just policy, but attacking personally that s politics. ed: the new york times pointing out all the issues, it was a three-hour debate debate. the times points out questions like reproductive rights and the gender pay gap were entirely absent. how is that possible, rochelle? democrats talk about that all the time. seems like the debates in the questions being asked at these debates is based was leading the headlines at the time. instead of it being the issues that are very important regardless it s a headline of the new york times, we should be talking about reproductive rights, talking about the gender pay gap. if it s leading the headlines, doesn t make it to the pate stage and it s doing a disservice to the people. there s a lot of issues that didn t make the cut. i guess you could parlay that
dream. but he got to the oval office. okay. all right. i ll give you that. does it seem as if the democrats are already kind of eating their own at this point? absolutely. they are eating their own. it s doing a disservice, what i would have liked to have heard more on that debate stage is how they plan to beat trump if that is the goal. they re attacking each other more and more, and what s going to end up happening is, you re going to split people, the focus should be on getting those voters that voted for obama, and then turned around an voted for trump. we should be focused on getting those people back for the 2020 election. and you re not going to do it with racial justice issues. they re very important, but that s not going to track those people back. you have to talk about the real issues that are impacting them. i think people are concerned about moral character, so that is also a really strong talking point that i think they need to drive home as well. arena, if you re p