Tag: Chris Hayes

Rant of the Week: Chris Hayes – What To Do When Democracies Make Mistakes

MSNBC host of “All In” Chris Hayes explores the similarities of Brexit and The Trump administration.

Rant of the Week: Chris Hayes – One Man, One Vote

When we vote in local elections, we vote directly for our local and state representatives – one man, one vote. But for the most powerful office in the country, President of the United States, that rule does not apply. He is elected by the electoral college, winning the majority of American votes does not count. …

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Rant of the Week: Chris Hayes – White Supremacist Threat

in his opening monologue before a live audience Friady, MSNBC host Chris Hayes spoke on the threat of white supremacy to equality and an open democracy.

Rant of the Week: Chris Hayes – Torture Apologists And Moral Idiots

Adapted from Rant of the Week at The Stars Hollow Gazette

“The moral universe is not zero sum.” Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s All In, gets it.

   “Now the appropriate response to this new what-aboutism is twofold. First, as a basic matter of both moral law and principle, killing enemies in combat is sometimes permissible. Torturing them, however, never is. The prohibition on torture is categorical.

   In the American justice system, for example, you can sentence someone to death — though obviously I oppose that. You cannot sentence them to be tortured because torture occupies a special category of moral taboo.

   The second response to these latter-day what-aboutists is more or less the same one I would suggest we give the Soviets. It’s true. Many aspects of this government’s targeted killing program — maybe the entire thing — are morally odious and constitutionally suspect. They deserve criticism — heck, they even deserve outrage, though I would note the people who devote outrage to them tend to be the people who devote outrage toward torture, like ACLU and Amnesty International, and not Fox News.

   But that has no bearing whatsoever on whether it’s okay to pour water down someone’s nose until they foam at the mouth, to threaten to sexually abuse someone’s mother, or to anally rape someone with a feeding tube.

   And only a moral idiot would fail to see that.

(emhasis mine)

h/t karoli at Crooks and Liars for the partial transcript and this thought about what Chris’s “wisdom”:

Well, maybe he did include Scarborough in that rant through the back door. Because it’s obvious to anyone watching that Joe is indeed a moral idiot.

The Oscars: An Old White Boys Club

The Oscars and the Demographics of the Academy



Transcript can be read here

Chris Hayes talks to film critics about an actual Oscar ballot released by an anonymous Academy member

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Three Things On The Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for January 2, 2014

1. “Hold ma hand, just want you to hold my hand”

2. Why did the wild turkey stalk the mail delivery service man?

3. When your leading lady is a dog.

Three Things On The Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for December 26, 2013

The good, the bad, and the bizarre: Chris Hayes revisits the best Click3 clips from a very eventful year in Internet videos.

Three Things On The Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for December 16, 2013

Three Things On The Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for December 10, 2013

1. Blues Brothers mall chase, Legos style.

2. Christmas trees being loaded onto a truck by a helipcopter

3. Moon orbiting earth!

Three Things On The Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for December 6, 2013.

1. Christmas cats relaxin’ by the fire.

2. Democratic Rep. Polis gives a spirited speech on reforming immigration law.

3. German dudes prance around behind weather woman as crazy storm whips through Germany.

Three Things on the Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for November 26, 2013

1. The only useful review of the Hunger Games;

2. a road you don’t want to be on;

3. and a sinister snowman scares everyone.

Three Things On The Internet

The team of All In with Chris Hayes puts out a daily request on Twitter asking their followers to send them the things they find most interesting on the internet. These are their finds for November 19. 2013

1. A new way to watch a Bob Dylan classic;

2. modern coverage of a historic event;

3. and grown-ups relive the past.

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