Chris Hayes mistakenly called Sanders 'Bernie Sandwiches'
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Bernie Sanders doesn't have a particularly tricky name, but during the rush to report his New Hampshire primary win over Hillary Clinton, not every talk show host was on their pronunciation game.
There was Fox's Megyn Kelly: "Fox News has projected that Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire primary on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, Bernie Sandals."
Her mistake may be a good campaign tactic when the weather gets warmer:
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"Sanders, Sandals — it could catch on in the summer months — he has bested Hillary Clinton," Kelly said, laughing.
MSNBC's Chris Hayes topped her with an even more creative Sanders flub.
"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.
We'll accept this excuse. Julie Kliegman
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