Thanks, I had no idea who she was actually. First time ever heard about this person and MSNBC host.
Melissa Harris Perry has had her Saturday and Sunday morning show for a while but I first started seeing her appear as a guest on Maddow maybe once or twice a week , and like with her weekend show as a maddow guest she was always :
1) Introduced as a brilliant professor and subject matter expert, and praised endlessly
2) Always smiling and looking upbeat even though her topics (expertise) are/is beating up on evil racist Republicans or white males or ‘the rich’ who are irrational haters or greedy or stupid whatever.(this is contrast to many of the male hosts like Sharpton)
My conclusion is that they were prepping the audience for her eventual show.