Hayes and 'All In' Panel Hype Racism While Ignoring Evidence to the Co

July 17th, 2013 4:40 PM
On the Monday night edition of All In, Chris Hayes featured a segment decrying what he considered a racially-motivated overzealous prosecution of Marissa Alexander, an African-American Florida woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after firing a warning shot in the vicinity of her estranged husband, with whom she was having a dispute. [Link to the audio here] Hayes hosted a panel…

MSNBC's Dyson Complains Zimmerman Has Become 'Icon' and 'Patron Saint

July 16th, 2013 4:50 PM
On Monday's All In with Chris Hayes, MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson declared that George Zimmerman has become "a kind of patron saint of the right wing in a very serious way" as he complained that he has "been made an icon" and will receive external support in his freedom. Host Hayes fretted that Zimmerman would not sufficiently have to face his conscience as he quoted a tweet.…

MSNBC's Hayes Reins In Guest Who Calls for Riots if Zimmerman Acquitte

July 15th, 2013 11:53 AM
On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes took exception with one of his guests, attorney Seema Iyer, who proclaimed that "there should be" riots if George Zimmerman were acquitted. The normally far-left Hayes found himself in the position of having to pull his panel of guests back a bit from the far left:

MSNBC's Hayes Sees Republicans 'Really Embrac[ing] Not Caring About th

July 12th, 2013 8:20 PM
On Thursday's All In show, as Chris Hayes complained about the vote by House Republicans to separate the food stamp program from the farm bill, the MSNBC host accused GOPers of taking the action "so they could focus solely on the farm stuff and really embrace not caring about the poor." Hayes also charged that Republicans had "jettisoned 47 million hungry Americans." The MSNBC host began the…

MSNBC’s Hayes Criticizes Wal-Mart’s 'Raw Assertion of Power' Again

July 12th, 2013 4:36 PM
On the Wednesday night edition of All In, host Christ Hayes devoted a segment to discussing the contention in our nation’s capital the introduction of Wal-Mart stores into the District. Basically, the new law would force the discount retailer to pay its employees at least $12.50 an hour in each of its proposed six new stores in the city limits. Hayes tried to argue that instead of opposing…

MSNBC Host Chris Hayes Summarizes GOP on Immigration: 'Blah Blah Blah

July 12th, 2013 8:32 AM
With the ratings for his new show “All In” tanking, MSNBC host Chris Hayes has been trying desperately to be more assertive and populist in the hopes it will get viewers to stop tuning him out. Instead he is just coming across as a petulant brat. On Wednesday’s edition of of his program, Hayes paraphrased the GOP statement on the Senate immigration bill in a way that can only be described as…

MSNBC's Hayes: FNC and Conservatives Treating Black Americans Like Zim

July 11th, 2013 6:52 PM
On Wednesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained of a "right-wing trope about the specter of racial violence" if George Zimmerman is acquitted, and suggested that FNC hosts like Bill O'Reilly are trying to manipulate their audience by frightening them, cracking that "a good Fox News audience is a fearful Fox News audience." As he interviewed University of Connecticut Professor…

Liberal Luxury: MSNBC to Broadcast from Pricey Essence Festival, Still

July 5th, 2013 9:00 AM
The liberal chorus at MSNBC has made it a relentless mission to attack Republicans as unconcerned about the poor. Evening hosts Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes are just two recent examples, the former claiming the GOP “spent months...trying to keep black people and poor people from voting,” and the latter slamming Republicans for an “anti-food stamp jihad.” The hypocrisy of these attacks may…

MSNBC's Chris Hayes Compares Rush Limbaugh to Brutal, Repressive Dicta

July 2nd, 2013 5:17 PM
Far-left MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on Monday night jokingly compared conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh to a repressive, brutal dictator. The host reported that Jennifer Lopez had preformed for Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. He then sneeringly compared, "Beyonce did sing at a new year's eve bash entertaining the family of Moammar Gadhafi and Elton John performed at fourth…

MSNBC’s Hayes Bashes GOP as ‘Maniacally Obsessed,’ ‘Cruelly In

July 2nd, 2013 4:46 PM
On the Monday night edition of All In with Chris Hayes, host Chris Hayes sneered at Republican opposition to ObamaCare, deriding the "manically obsessed," "cruel" GOP. Going off on a fact-free soliloquy, Hayes hypothesized that the “worst caricature of a Republican” would be “maniacally obsessed with destroying Barack Obama, cruelly indifferent to the fates of the non-rich, [and a] cartoonish…

MSNBC's Hayes Celebrates 'Sweet, Sweet Victory' of Gay Marriage Ruling

June 27th, 2013 6:48 PM
On Wednesday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes opened the program rejoicing over the "sweet, sweet victory" of the Supreme Court ruling against the federal Defense of Marriage Act, calling it a "watershed moment in the centuries-long struggle for equality in this country." After playing clips of news coverage of the ruling, Hayes declared:

MSNBC's Hayes Hypes 'Absolutely Epic' Filibuster by Texas Democrat to

June 27th, 2013 3:32 PM
On Wednesday's All In show, host Chris Hayes celebrated a filibuster by Texas Democratic State Senator Wendy Davis to thwart the passage of a bill restricting abortion, calling her 11-hour filibuster "absolutely-epic" and "one of the most remarkable acts of political leadership that I've ever seen." Hayes plugged the segment recounting a Twitter response to the speech from President Obama,…

MSNBC's Hayes: GOP Making Immigration Bill 'Less Humane' and 'Worse fo

June 25th, 2013 3:23 PM
On Monday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained about Republicans trying to increase the number of border agents and to bar illegal immigrants from collecting Social Security benefits based on taxes they've paid into the system. After recounting the time when he worked with several illegal immigrants in a bakery who paid Social Security taxes, and the efforts by Republicans to…

MSNBC's Hayes: 'GOP's Jihad on Those in Need Gets Uglier Every Single

June 20th, 2013 4:05 PM
On Wednesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes again claimed that House Republicans are waging a "jihad" in trying to cut the food stamp program, asserting that "the GOP's jihad on those in need gets uglier every single day." The MSNBC also fretted again over the possibility that violent felons may lose benefits while MSNBC contributor Joy Reid tried to link racism against minorities to…