If you believed everything newscasters say, you’d think “Bernie Sandals” and “Bernie Sandwiches” were candidates Tuesday night in the New Hampshire primary.
At least that’s how Fox News host Megyn Kelly and MSNBC host Chris Hayes mistakenly referred to Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
“Fox News has projected that Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary on the Republican side,” Kelly said. “On the Democratic side, Bernie Sandals.”
She quickly caught herself and made a joke.
“Sanders, Sandals — it could catch on in the summer months — he has bested Hillary Clinton,” she said:
Meanwhile, Hayes clearly had delicatessen delights on the brain when comparing Sanders’ rhetoric on wages to Trump’s.
“You see that in both Trump’s particularly closing message and railing against pharmaceutical companies and the like and Bernie Sandwiches — Sanders’ — message from the beginning,” he said.
Hayes later tweeted an explanation:
In my defense I was literally watching people being served dinner when I said #BernieSandwiches
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 10, 2016
Watch Hayes’ comment below:
h/t: Mediaite
