MSNBC's Hayes: GOP Pursuing 'Fake' 'Witch Hunt' Benghazi Over 'Big, Ba

May 13th, 2013 6:37 PM
On Friday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes led the show by recounting the news of the "big, bad, scary" scandal of President Obama's IRS targeting conservative groups, but also chided Republicans for continuing to push Benghazi, which he referred to as a "witch hunt" and a "fake, ginned up scandal." After reading a quote from a Tea Party group which brought up Benghazi in reacting to the…

MSNBC's Hayes Gloats Over Kidnapping and Murder Stories Preempting Ben

May 9th, 2013 2:53 PM
On Wednesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes was gleeful over media coverage of the Benghazi hearings being preempted by both the story of three girls kidnapped and held prisioner for a decade in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as the verdict in the Jodi Arias murder trial. Hayes flippantly referred to the crime stories as "the next Lifetime original movie" as he teased the segment at the top of…

MSNBC's Hayes: 'Far-Right Fringe' NRA 'Might Be Spelling Their Own Dem

May 6th, 2013 2:40 PM
On Friday's All In show, with the words "The Sickness" displayed on screen behind him, MSNBC host Chris Hayes began the show with a commentary in which he tagged the NRA as a "far-right fringe organization" that "might be spelling their own demise" by celebrating the defeat of the universal background check proposal. Hayes:

Is ‘All In With Chris Hayes’ Making MSNBC’s Prime-Time Ratings F

May 2nd, 2013 11:14 PM
When MSNBC announced in March that Ed Schultz's weeknight program, “The Ed Show,” was being replaced by “All In,” which is hosted by 34-year-old Chris Hayes, the executives of the "Lean Forward" network hoped that the new hour-long program would hold onto the channel's liberal audience and even draw in younger viewers. Instead, the ratings for Hayes' broadcasts in April were down 18 percent…

MSNBC's Hayes Sees 'Insane Right-Wing Dystopia' and 'Voter Suppression

May 1st, 2013 5:26 PM
On Tuesday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes asserted that, since Republicans have taken control of the North Carolina state government, the state is moving toward becoming an "insane right-wing dystopia," and claimed that the GOP wants to engage in "voter suppression" in the state. Hayes:

MSNBC's Hayes Marks 'Real Milestone' of Jason Collins Coming Out

April 30th, 2013 5:53 PM
On Monday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes celebrated the coming out of gay NBA player Jason Collins as he tagged the development as a "real milestone," a "watershed moment," "something momentous," and "big, big news." He later hosted a panel that included liberal gay activist Dan Savage, known for trying to spread the flu to a GOP presidential candidate headquarters in 2000, and with…

MSNBC's Hayes Lauds Obama's 'History-Making' Abortion Speech, Laments

April 29th, 2013 5:46 PM
On Friday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes not only praised President Obama for being the first sitting President to speak to Planned Parenthood in the group's history, but he also seemed to lament the fact that pro-choice Democrats are not confident enough to actually use the word "abortion" more openly, as he noted that the President avoided the word during his speech. The MSNBC…

MSNBC's Hayes Links Bush Admin to Texas Plant Explosion

April 26th, 2013 6:08 PM
On Thursday's All In, MSNBC host Chris Hayes hinted that, if only Barack Obama had been successful in his efforts while he was a Senator, the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas might not have happened, as the MSNBC host also suggested culpability from the Bush administration for transferring chemical plant regulation from the EPA to the Department of Homeland Security. The MSNBC host…

MSNBC's Hayes Raises Miranda Rights Issue While Covering Standoff with

April 22nd, 2013 5:09 PM
On Friday night, during MSNBC's live coverage of the police standoff with bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, host Chris Hayes seemed to still be worried about the issue of "Mirandizing" the terror suspect, as he took time to ask NBC's Pete Williams whether the authorities would be "proceeding according to the textbook" in giving him "due process." A few days earlier on Tuesday's All In show…

MSNBC's Hayes: 'Bizarre and Perverse Mismatch' In Battling Terrorism V

April 18th, 2013 5:29 PM
On Wednesday's All In show on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes devoting a segment to fretting over what he viewed as a "bizarre and perverse mismatch" at the country's willingness to act aggressively in response to deaths from terrorist acts, but the difficulty to get a response to the many gun deaths. He also described the 30,000 people who die from gun shots each year as "martyrs on the altar of the…

MSNBC's Chris Hayes: Obama Engaged in 'Crazy Vagina Politics

April 6th, 2013 2:11 PM
Something very rare and equally odd happened on MSNBC Friday. Not only did an anchor criticize President Barack Obama on the air - horrors! - All In host Chris Hayes also accused the current White House resident of engaging in what he called "crazy vagina politics" (video follows with LexisNexis transcript and commentary):

MSNBC’s Hayes: Let Released Gitmo Detainees Live in U.S., with Paid

April 5th, 2013 12:32 PM
MSNBC’s newest liberal darling Chris Hayes has just been given a promotion, going from weekend anchor to host of his own primetime show, All In w/ Chris Hayes.  So how does he celebrate? By arguing that Guantanamo detainees should be paid restitution and allowed to live in the United States, with a path, ultimately to citizenship, of course. In an article posted on MSNBC.com, Hayes criticized…