Vox's Ezra Klein recently interviewed MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Hayes makes a compelling case that Donald Trump has zero interest in being leader of the United States. Instead, he's much happier leaving all the tough decisions to his staff so he can focus on watching cable news ...read more
Let’s play a game. Imagine just for a moment what the front pages of newspapers or home pages of websites would look like if we removed articles about the hacking of emails in the 2016 election. Now go even further and imagine how a cable news hour and its line up of stories ...read more
For months now, various state investigations have been clearing Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing over the allegations surrounding fetal tissue donation, allegations which have been loudly and falsely been spread by Republican politicians. On Monday, the whole issue came full ...read more
Republicans have a new thing to blame President Obama for, and it is Donald Trump's racist, fascist anti-Muslim platform. The theory goes that since President Obama won't acknowledge the role of a twisted interpretation of Islam in attacks like those that occurred recently in ...read more
This is the same kind of stupidity that lets Republicans forget that 9/11 happened on George W. Bush's watch, or that leads people to think that Donald Trump was some sort of Karnac for "predicting" 9/11. Republican strategist Katie Packer literally made Chris Hayes' jaw drop ...read more
There were some minor fireworks on Tuesday night's All In when host Chris Hayes challenged director Spike Lee over his new film, Chi-Raq. Specifically, Hayes asked Lee to respond to the criticism that his film's focus on "black-on-black crime" is a red herring that is frequently ...read more
Chris Hayes has a hilarious alternative to shutting our borders to Muslims and maybe torturing the ones who are left here. Here's his suggestion for the panicky Trump fans: "When I am fearful, I find a little bit of milk and a little bit of toast calms me right down." ...read more
Oops! Chris Hayes just accidentally called abortion a "touchstone of human evil." I think the word he was looking for was "slavery." ...read more
The Republican Farty: Many a true word is spoken in jest, or something. Let's see if right-wingers hate Bill Nye enough to have a conniption over this: https://youtu.be/Vk_S6HDuNOw "You meet people around the world who hate the United States, hate me, hate everything, I ...read more
The Atlantic magazine just published a lengthy piece by author Gabrielle Glaser that challenges the efficacy of Alcoholics Anonymous. Entitled, "The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous," the article takes aim at the organization and never lets up, and on Wednesday night's All ...read more
Let me preface by saying I like Chris Hayes and think All In is one of the best shows on cable news. Meanwhile, I usually find myself disagreeing with most of what Bill O'Reilly says on The O'Reilly Factor. But what happened on Monday night is yet another example of the ...read more
As a political reporter and commentator, you get used to a certain baseline level of dumbshit, and when a foreign policy issue arises, that dumbshit spreads exponentially like it's been thrown into a jet engine. It's one of the reasons I resist writing about that stuff, because ...read more
Casual Pepper Spray Guy has met his match, in the form of the dude from MSNBC's Gaza conflict B-roll, which played over Chris Hayes' brief commentary on the newest ceasefire in the most recent Israel-Palestine flareup. While everyone else in this clip is hitting the deck behind ...read more
Breitbart News editor Ben Shapiro got some mild pushback from Fox News' Megyn Kelly when he called the Obama White House a "borderline Jew-hating administration" for urging Israel to show restraint in responding to Hamas rocket attacks, but as criticism of Israel goes, Obama's ...read more
On Tuesday night's All In with Chris Hayes, host and passionate climate change activistChris Hayescompared the burning of fossil fuel with the institution of slavery, and in mid-comparison, insisted to his audience that "I am not comparing slavery to the burning of fossil ...read more
The Bundy Ranch fiasco is the gift that keeps on giving wingnuts a chance to come out of the woodwork. On Friday night's All In with Chris Hayes, host Chris Hayes did a live remote with Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who says she's been camped out with the Bundy mob for six ...read more
Consider this advance warning: If you're a big fan of Chris Hayes's show on MSNBC, or maybe simply someone who laments the tragic dearth of intelligent, thoughtful programming on cable news in general, you may want to start planning your 140-character-long expressions of ...read more
As a guy who's been married and divorced three times I obviously have no problem admitting when I'm wrong. And I was certainly wrong about what Chris Hayes's new MSNBC show, All In, would look like. When I wrote about the audacious, revealing choice MS was making by casting ...read more
Call it one hell of a shot across the cable news bow. In the span of just 24-hours MSNBC has made it perfectly clear exactly what kind of network it wants to be. The outraged populist with the combative tone, force-of-nature personality and tendency to let his constantly ...read more
