If you write books people are willing to pay money to read you should get paid, regardless of what the books are about.

I was just commenting on how conservatives believe that any liberal who's good at doing what conservatives think only they are good at must be a hypocrite. Liberal tycoons and entrepreneurs, like Soros and Buffett, are constantly being dismissed as phonies, while conservatives who do the exact same thing are considered heroes. Its as if being a liberal somehow disqualified them from being good at business or even talking about business.

And its not just writers. If you want to write
or perform songs, or make movies, or teach courses, about how crappy capitalism is, you have every right to do so if people are willing to pay for your product.

And if you are rich because you are a rock star, or an athlete, you are rich because people buy what you do. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're obligated to cover up for the rich and make excuses for them, it doesn't mean you're not entitled to opinions that aren't (ahem) politically correct for conservatives. Just because you have money or a good income doesn't mean you have to give it away to the poor before you can speak out against a system that's rigged.

What Chris Hayes and people like him do is not illegitimate because some people find it uncomfortable, or embarrassing, or even threatening.