Melissa Harris-Perry Responds To Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin attacks..

[HipChick]

Melissa Harris-Perry penned an in-depth response to her critics on Tuesday, saying that she has "no intention of apologizing" for her ad.

In a blog post, she said that she received "hateful, personal attacks" after conservatives targeted an MSNBC ad in which she said that "kids belong to whole communities." She went on to defend what she called an "uncontroversial comment," and called out her critics.

"Allow me to double down," Harris-Perry began. "I have no intention of apologizing for saying that our children, all of our children, are part of more than our households, they are part of our communities and deserve to have the care, attention, resources, respect and opportunities of those communities."

She wrote that she has "no designs on taking your children," adding, "That is not what I was talking about, and you know it."

ORIGINAL STORY: After a day filled with attacks from members of the conservative media over her MSNBC "Lean In" commercial, Melissa Harris-Perry tweeted a response to her critics.

Last week, Newsbusters reported on Harris-Perry's "Lean In" ad, in which the MSNBC host argues for the U.S. to invest more in public school education. "We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children," Harris-Perry says in the commercial. "We haven't had a very collective notion of 'these are our children.' So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that 'kids belong to their parents,' or 'kids belong to their families,' and recognize that kids belong to whole communities."

Newsbusters compared what Harris-Perry's comments to communist China. Sarah Palin called the ad "unflippingbelievable." Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck also took shots at the MSNBC host on Monday.

Later that day, Harris-Perry tweeted:

@MHarrisPerry
Melissa Harris-Perry
Matthew 5:44.
April 8, 2013 11:14 pm via Twitter for iPad Reply Retweet Favorite

The biblical passage reads:

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/09/melissa-harris-perry-rush-limbaugh-sarah-palin_n_3044279.html

[JaneyVee]

1. Bravo, Melissa!

[spanone]

2. the right is mentally unstable...collectively

[TDale313]

3. Heard the ad, and knew...

That if the Right picked up on it they'd go after her for it. It is such a common sense thing, and yet goes against everything the Right stands for. Basically another rephrasing of the "It Takes a Village" concept, which they blasted HRC for.

[Volaris]

5. Which is ironic, as that "Village" is what Glenn Beck is proposing building...

Individualism, by Commune. Way to go, there, Glenn.

[bluedigger]

4. How is she supposed to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opposition?

You go, MHP!

[Hekate]

6. KnR

[Cha]

7. They're such idiots to attack the irrefutable!

thanks HipChick