On Thursday's All In show, MSNBC's Chris Hayes repeatedly used words like "screwing over" to describe Republican policies toward the poor, and claimed that Tea Partiers in Congress believe in "poverty as punishment" as he fretted over a delay in the extension of unemployment benefits and then hyped Georgia Republican Rep. Jack Kingston's suggestion that school children do chores in exchange for subsidized lunches.
After characterizing recent statements by congressional Republicans as being like immaturely declaring, "Yeah, and your mother," the MSNBC host a bit later whined:
Jack Kingston
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MSNBC's Roberts: 'We Need to Just Be Complacent in the Fact That We Can Send Our Children to School to Be Assassinated?”
By Matt Vespa | December 18, 2012 | 3:51 PM EST There’s media bias – and then there’s just plain being unhinged. MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts exhibited the latter in his interview this morning with Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) was egregious and irresponsible. Roberts insisted that the United States has incredibly lax gun regulation while Kingston argued that mass shooting still happen in places where gun laws are stringent – namely in Europe. In turn, Roberts sneered, “so, we need to just be complacent in the fact that we can send our children to school to be assassinated?” [See video below page break. MP3 audio here.]