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Chris Hayes Drags Down Rachel Maddow; MSNBC Promises 'Tweaks'

Chris Hayes Drags Down Rachel Maddow; MSNBC Promises 'Tweaks'

As though MSNBC doesn’t have enough ratings problems, the recent decision to dump the working class Ed Schultz for Rachel Maddow doppelganger Chris Hayes is also blowing up in the Lean Forward network’s face. MSNBC president Phil Griffin probably thought

Chris Hayes Drags MSNBC Ratings Into Toilet

Chris Hayes Drags MSNBC Ratings Into Toilet

Chris Hayes debuted his new, prime time MSNBC show, “All In,” in April. In theory, the show was poised to have a big debut as it rode the very busy news cycle with the hyper attention paid to the terror

Chris Hayes' Quotas

Chris Hayes' Quotas

The Columbia Journalism Review talked to recently promoted MSNBC host Chris Hayes about how he maintains such a balanced roster of guests. His answer was simple: he and the producers maintain quotas. We just would look at the board and

Chris Hayes To Take Over Ed Schultz's MSNBC Slot

Chris Hayes To Take Over Ed Schultz's MSNBC Slot

Alternate headline: “Ezra Klein Hit Hardest.” NYT: Chris Hayes will take over the 8 p.m. time slot on MSNBC in the next month, the channel is planning to announce on Thursday morning, the day after the current host of that

Dr. Ben Carson To Be A Featured Speaker At CPAC

The ACU made the announcement, this morning. Via Twitchy: “Dr. Ben Carson represents the optimism and hope of the future of theconservative movement, while at the same time he articulates the deepfiscal and social challenges that our Nation faces,” said

MSNBC Panel Race Baits Connecticut Massacre

MSNBC Panel Race Baits Connecticut Massacre

Leave it to the shamelessly craven NBC News cable outlet MSNBC to find a race-baiting angle on the Connecticut school massacre tragedy.  On the Sunday morning edition of “Up” with Chris Hayes Salon.com columnist David Sirota claimed that the debate

Maddow, Hayes Desperately Debate Taxes With Giuliani

Maddow, Hayes Desperately Debate Taxes With Giuliani

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and her counterpart Chris Hayes work very, very hard to put words in Rudy Giuliani’s mouth in their post-debate interview Wednesday night. They work extra hard to re-frame extending the current tax rates as a tax cut

Chris Hayes Apologizes to Soldiers

Chris Hayes Apologizes to Soldiers

Statement from MSNBC Host Chris Hayes, via the Huffington Post: On Sunday, in discussing the uses of the word “hero” to describe those members of the armed forces who have given their lives, I don’t think I lived up to

Former Obama Official: Ann Romney Has 'No Empathy For People'

Former Obama Official: Ann Romney Has 'No Empathy For People'

This morning on Up With Chris Hayes on MSNBC, former Obama administration economic official Betsey Stevenson attacked Ann Romney. This makes her the third Obama-connected individual to attack Mitt Romney’s wife, after Hilary Rosen, who stated that Ann hadn’t worked

Newsweek Columnist: Ann Romney Like Hitler, Stalin

Newsweek Columnist: Ann Romney Like Hitler, Stalin

As if Newsweek‘s latest “Obama The Gay Archangel” cover wasn’t enough, yesterday, Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg spoke out against the scourge of motherhood on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes. She attacked Ann Romney for talking about the glories of being

OWS Leader Rejects Representative Government, Cites Marx

OWS Leader Rejects Representative Government, Cites Marx

This weekend, Marina Sitrin of the Occupy Legal Working Group appeared onMSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes.” Hayes introduced Sitrin as someonewith a “radical perspective outside” the world of Washington politics. Trueto her billing, Sitrin offered a vision so far outside themainstream

MoveOn Recruits for '99% Spring' Training

MoveOn Recruits for '99% Spring' Training

Moveon.org has launched a massive recruiting and training program across the country to prepare for a “99% Spring in America.” Here is a link to several videos, including Van Jones being interviewed by Chris Hayes on MSNBC. They are enlisting