Have you ever wondered what Jeff Garlin impersonating Eugene Robinson would sound like? Here you go. Better still, Alex has the real deal joining her in the studio today, perhaps she will ask him to do his best Jeff Garlin? Tune in to find out. Also on the show:
Joy Reid, Managing Editor, theGrio.com/msnbc Contributor (@thereidreport)
Jacob Weisberg, Chairman, Slate (@jacobwe)
Ari Melber, msnbc Host, “The Cycle” (@arimelber)
Jonathan Alter, msnbc Political Analyst/ Author “The Center Holds” (@jonathanalter)
Jennifer Senior, Contributing Editor, New York Magazine (@jenseniorny)
First up, the reactions to and implications of the Zimmerman verdict continue to reverberate throughout the country. It has become something of a political rorschach test, with everyone taking away from it whatever best supports their political agenda. Rush Limbaugh managed to reduce the trial to just another round in the ongoing battle between left and right in America, as if somehow Zimmerman’s acquittal was a victory for the conservative movement:
The progressives, the liberals out there are having a little temper tantrum because they didn’t get their way. But really, folks, how often are they on the losing end of anything anymore? They’re getting gay marriage, they got Obamacare, they’ve got Obama…This verdict is not part of a string of defeats for the left. It is an interruption in a string of victory after victory.
Yet at the same time, there is a continued refusal on the right to acknowledge that race played any role in the verdict. In fact, the mere acknowledgment of the existence of racism in America, and that it did play at least some role in the the Zimmerman case, has continually been derided as liberals’ “injecting race” into the case. As long as these attitudes persist, is it even possible to have a dialogue about race in America? What role does race have in the justice system?









