MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Confronts His Daily Mail Alter Ego, ‘GOP Strategist Chris Haynes’

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by Frances Martel | 2:01 pm, February 11th, 2012

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Is the Daily Mail trying to tell us something about MSNBC host Chris Hayes? During this morning’s Up, Hayes noted that he got a shoutout of sorts in the British paper– or at least his photo was in the paper, accompanied by a bizarre caption. In an article about Clint Eastwood‘s Super Bowl ad, the Mail ran a screencap of an episode of The Rachel Maddow Show hosted by Hayes with the caption: “GOP strategist: Chris Haynes, guest hosting The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday night, charged that the ad was ‘politically potent.’” Naturally, Hayes the progressive columnist found the idea of Haynes the GOP strategist hilarious.

During this morning’s “Now We Know” segment, Hayes introduced his “alter ego Chris Haynes, GOP Strategist,” from the caption on this article. Aside from the caption, a part of the article reads:

Republican media strategist Chris Haynes, guest hosting The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday night, also reflected on the controversy boiling over the ad.

‘If you doubt the potential effectiveness of this message, if you doubt its political potency, all you have to do is look at the conservative backlash against the Clint Eastwood ad today,’ Mr Hayes said.

“We now know why I have a weekend show– so I can run my GOP consulting business on the weekdays!” Hayes joked. “You can thank me for the sweater vests.” His staff also “dug up” this amazingly well-done doctored photo of “GOP strategist Haynes” with Rick Santorum.

Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be a real Republican media strategist named Chris Haynes, at least upon first look. But if there is, let us pray to the media gods that he get booked on Up, at least for one day.

The clip via MSNBC below:

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

Good old Daily Mail. It is a London rag only lunatics take seriously.
Anonymous

good article
Anonymous

Mmmm. The self-deprecatory irony of the hepcats. Our country’s stronger than ever.
Anonymous

I really like your show, I think the discussions are interesting, hip, and your co-host are so charming and intelligent, but for crying out loud, please Chris, have Michaela Angela Davis do something with that hair. She is very smart, talented, and interesting, but I am so distracted by her out of control brassy colored hair, that it drowns out her conversation. Sorry, normally I don’t comment on things like this, because they are trivial, but sweet Lord, I just couldn’t over look it. Like I said it is distracting. I will still watch every weekend.
Anonymous

The “Daily Mail,” must be part of the MSNBC media conglomerate since it too, like MSNBC, has a “lunatic” conection in the make-up of its audience.
Anonymous

Commenting on the show, I am perplexed at the claim made by the Rick Santorum, that the Obama administration is trying to control the Catholic church. When it’s the Catholic church who want to control what women are entitled to have, their right to choose the size of their family, and to have the right to say what happens with their bodies. The nerve of the Catholic church to have anything to say about children, when they looked the other way while so many of them were being violated. Who are they trying to kid with their ridiculous attack on the man who bought this country back from the abyss. What disrespect for the office of the President and the man himself. The Republicans, like Rick Santorum, don’t deserve the White House; they only see it as a cash register of our money.
Anonymous

I have long since lost my faith, passion, and respect for the Catholic church. When I was a kid we ate fish on Friday because they said so, When I went to Catholic School, we were told that gambling was a sin, but Bingo is fine. They say homosexuality is a sin, but pedophilia seems to be okay. They are just a bunch of hypocrites. The name of God had no business coming out of any of their mouths. The hell with them all!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

Oh, no. The Daily Mail is dedicated to be a gatekeeper against the peasants. You may not know what I am talking about, but I can’t be arsed to explain.