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Steve Kornacki, MSNBC’s Brainy Replacement For Chris Hayes, Just Wants to be Useful

The New Guy

He’s an encyclopedia of U.S. political history, and quite possibly the brainiest guy on TV. David Freedlander talks to the network’s new It boy.

David Freedlander
David Freedlander
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The columns Steve Kornacki recently wrote for Salon.com include one comparing Rand Paul to Robert Taft; another comparing Paul Ryan to Sargent Shriver, Geraldine Ferraro, and other vice-presidential losers; and another that looked at the presidential-primary processes of 1988 and 2000.

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“I don’t want to say ‘encyclopedic,’” Kornacki says in an...

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