MSNBC’s Hayes Blames Too Many Twitter Mentions for Hillary Defeat
By Nicholas Fondacaro | December 30, 2016 | 12:10 AM EST
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In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in November, the Democrats and the liberal media have been in a frenzy trying to find a reason for their comeuppance. At first they ran to their usual cries of racism and misogyny, but on MSNBC’s All In Thursday night the straw grabbing got weird as host Chris Hayes literally blamed too many people on Twitter talking about Clinton’s controversies.
“A new report released by Echelon Insights perfectly illustrates the problem journalists had in covering Donald Trump during the campaign,” Hayes announced at the start of his Thing Two segment. The chart Hayes displayed showed the sear volume of Twitter mentions each controversy received during the election, and for both candidates
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