Home » Topics » chris hayes (Page 3)
Mona Eltahawy: ‘I’m proud I was arrested’ for defacing anti-Muslim ad
Journalist Mona Eltahawy defended her recent arrest in New York Sunday on Up With Chris Hayes, saying it was in line with the American tradition of lawful disobedience. “I don’t think we should be quiet or silent or be bullied into silence in the face of racism and hate,” she…
Chris Hayes: GOP now ‘smoking what they’re dealing’ on Romney poll numbers
Saturday on MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” host Chris Hayes likened Republican “poll truthers” to crackheads, saying that the GOP is “smoking what they’re dealing.” He invoked the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls)’s “Crack Commandment” Number 4 to prove his point. On the posthumously-released 1997 album “Life After…
Chris Hayes: Romney tapes reveal ‘plutocracy’ just ‘whining’ about everything
“This is what plutocracy looks like,” Chris Hayes told his audience on Sunday after viewing the now-infamous Romney 47% tapes. “The first thing that jumps out is that a lot of the question [asked of Romney] are really inane.” “The folks in the room all but advise Romney to tour…
Colbert schools ‘Comrade’ Chris Hayes in ‘gravitas’
On Thursday night’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert welcomed up-and-coming political commentator, author and host of MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” Chris Hayes, who has recently released his first book, Twilight of the Elites. Colbert began the interview by bringing up “the elephant in the room,” the…
Chris Hayes to AZ immigration law architect: convince me this isn’t about racism
On “Up With Chris Hayes” Sunday, the show’s titular host challenged one of the architects of Arizona’s tough immigration law to convince him and his viewers that the law is not, as critics contend, steeped in racism. “You need to convince me and convince folks on the other side that…
Krugman: Ireland ‘doing everything the right wants,’ and ‘it’s not working’
In a conversation between New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and MSNBC host Chris Hayes on Tuesday at the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, D.C., they agreed that the right’s economic policies are actually running a “natural experiment” in Ireland, and it’s not working out so well.…
Hayes: Romney prefers tattooing the unemployment rate ‘on his forehead’ to saying anything
MSNBC weekend host Chris Hayes explicitly explained Tuesday afternoon how Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would prefer if he could to remain quiet and say nothing all the way to the November election. On Now with Alex Wagner, Hayes was responding to Romney’s latest flip-flop, in which he denied earlier in the…
Hayes: ‘Why the hell’ won’t Ben Bernanke listen to Ben Bernanke?
MSNBC host Chris Hayes lambasted Federal Reserve Chairman (FED) Ben Bernanke Saturday morning for what he and a number of notable economists across the political spectrum feel is Bernanke’s lack of urgency in turning around the country’s economy. Hayes was so bemused by Bernanke’s lack of aggressive action that he…
Hayes: Calling soldiers ‘heroes’ all the time is ‘uncomfortable’
MSNBC host Chris Hayes offered up a not so common perspective on Memorial Day Sunday, sharing that elements of the day, including calling soldiers “heroes,” makes him “uncomfortable.” “Why do I feel so uncomfortable about the word ‘hero?’” Hayes asked himself on Up with Chris Hayes. “I feel uncomfortable about…
Hayes’ guest: ‘Plutocracy doesn’t work’ anywhere
Barnard College economics professor Marcellus Andrews candidly expressed his dismay Saturday at the growing threat of America’s rich having full control of the nation’s power and direction. Andrews appeared on MSNBC’s Up with Chris Hayes and took a quick observation at some of the big events in the past few…
Brand new on Raw Story
- John Oliver: Republicans resisting immigration reform ‘like a child with vegetables’
- North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un urges top officials to read Hitler’s Mein Kampf
- Maddow points out ‘fetal masturbation theorist’ is vice chair of House’s health panel
- Rand Paul slams U.S. spy chief for lying to Congress about NSA surveillance
- Doctors urge Obama to provide independent medical examiners to Guantanamo detainees
- Internet freaks out as Facebook goes down
- Young American pianist resurrects lost works of Nazi concentration camp inmates
- Actor Edward Furlong charged with assaulting ex-girlfriend
- Study: Painful and extreme rituals enhance social cohesion and charity
- Conservative Republican at IRS casts doubt on conspiracy to target tea party
Commentary
Republicans’ latest abortion ban is staggeringly stupid
By Ana Marie Cox, The Guardian
The Orange Couch does Mad Men: S6E12, “The Quality of Mercy”
By Amanda Marcotte
The Center For Inquiry Likes Atheism’s Cranky White Guy Image, So Screw You Ladies
By Amanda Marcotte
Raw Exclusives
Featured Video
Follow Us!
