In this corner we have MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the beta male Al Gore has declared “this generation’s Edward R. Murrow.” He confessed to becoming “physically enraged” at the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act decision but also kicked off his Twitter career by sharing that he was quietly crying into his sweater. A complex fellow to be sure. Could it be that he has a hidden conservative streak? No, it couldn’t.
In this corner we have Vox.com, which seems to be moving into Buzzfeed territory with not a factually challenged graph or map but a quiz — sorry, make that an “interactive political calculator.”
Quiz here is interesting, but also gets my politics totally wrong: http://t.co/VECUsjsCy2
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 10, 2014
Hayes took the quiz but found it got his politics “totally wrong.”
@chrislhayes You're an Obama supporter. of course your politics are totally wrong.
— Evan (@Mr8rightsid3) November 10, 2014
So true it hurts. But are Vox’s quizzes any more accurate than their map-making and map-reading skills?
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/531902888495550465
@CrankyGordon Maybe @chrislhayes needs to come out of the closet. On his politics of course. ? @voxdotcom
— Daniel Snyder (@danmsnyder) November 10, 2014
@chrislhayes Not even close for me, either.
— Joshua Gray (@BumpinFresh) November 10, 2014
@chrislhayes UGH, just because I go to church does not mean I'm anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-sex
— Brooke Natalie Oyana (@BrookeNatalie) November 10, 2014
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@chrislhayes Yeah, started out accurate them went way, way wrong.
— Andrew Griffith (@glovestudios) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/alkr25/status/531904234565144576
@chrislhayes Yep, turns out I'm a conservative Republican.
— Lee M. (@thinking_reed) November 10, 2014
@chrislhayes I'm WAAAAAY more liberal than my quiz results.
— Michael Salerno (@MikeNJD) November 10, 2014
@chrislhayes according to that, I am the ultimate Republican….oh, so, so wrong!
— T. M. Strait (@TMStrait1) November 10, 2014
There’s the basic flaw right there: would the “ultimate Republican” even take a Vox.com quiz?