Mia Love, who won a congressional seat on Tuesday representing Utah’s 4th district, last year took part in the Media Research Center’s annual “DisHonors Awards” where we ridicule left wing journalists. On behalf of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry she accepted, in jest, the “Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis.”
Love began by assuring the audience: “Please do not confuse us. We don’t all look alike. We certainly don’t think alike.”
Harris-Perry had “won,” via the vote of the audience at the September 26, 2013 event, for her MSNBC promotional spot in which she despaired “we haven’t had a very collective notion of these are our children” and asserted “we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents.”
Love quipped that her father could have advised her that when it comes time to vote, “please do not think for yourself. You are black: Vote Democrat.” She described herself, thanks to her parents, as “a self-sufficient, independent woman, who, by the way, is a Democrat’s nightmare.”
Harris-Perry’s quote in full:
“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. Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility. 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. Once it's everybody's responsibility, and not just the household's, then we start making better investments.”
