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Richard Kim, TheNation.com executive editor, spoke with Chris Hayes on MSNBC's All In last night about the conservative defense of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson -- and offered some soundbites: 3:16: "This is more reality than A&E can actually handle. If you have reality TV premised on finding buffoonish characters, cartoon characters, manipulation, cruelty, you're probably going to get a lot of homophobia, misogyny, and racism in there somewhere too and I think it actually would be great to show that on air more than not... Show them in context." 4:45: "Homophobia is a political structure. It's supported by institutions, and laws, and whether or not Duck Dynasty airs next season, I just don't think it has a whole...

With the media continuing to reel from insensitive comments made by Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, MSNBC host Chris Hayes and The Nation reporter Richard Kim had an interesting take on the incident on Thursday night’s episode of All In. Riffing off the crude language used by Robertson in his interview, the pair shared when the wondered whether Robertson and his supporters in politics really know what it is they are missing.

Girls creator and star Lena Dunham's voting virginity ad caused a ridiculous freak-out on the right, with equal parts prudish fanning and triumphant over-reading of its significance fueled by the prudish standard that makes people think this ad is edgy, and hence, desperate. Surely, the hepcats at Up With Chris Hayes will put the whole thing in perspective, and in record time, no less. Let's see how Up panelists Richard Kim of The Nation, The Guardian's Ana Marie Cox, The New Yorker's George Packer, and TheGrio.com's Sophia Nelson handled it:...

On her show today, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry led a panel discussion on all the factors surrounding the Colorado shootings at a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises early yesterday. She brought up possible cultural factors connected to the shooting, and The Nation editor Richard Kim drew a comparison between Gotham City, "a failed state," and where the United States currently stands, even making the link to vigilantism and suggesting that George Zimmerman did what he did because "we've cut all these police forces."...

In a discussion Sunday on MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes, The Nation's Richard Kim disputed there was an overlap between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the tea party. Kim argued that one of the major differences between the two groups was that that the tea party didn't want to help African-Americans. "One of the key polling points around that is that when you poll tea party people they think government does too much for black people, and that's one of the markers of whether you are in the tea party or not in how you respond to that question."...