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Chris Hayes from MSNBC is uncomfortable with calling war dead heros
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Posted on 05/30/2012 9:26:08 AM PDT by moonshot925

"It is, I think very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking the word valor, without invoking the word heros. Why do I feel so uncomfortable about the word hero? I feel… uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers, and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I’m wrong about that"



TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chris; hayes; heros; msnbc

1 posted on 05/30/2012 9:26:13 AM PDT by moonshot925
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2 posted on 05/30/2012 9:35:23 AM PDT by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: moonshot925

What a damn flaming liberal!


3 posted on 05/30/2012 9:40:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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It’s okay, I feel uncomfortable calling him a journalist.


4 posted on 05/30/2012 9:47:44 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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To: moonshot925

THE question is: “Will advertisers ‘feel uncomfortable’ sponsoring any TV segment with Chris Hayes on it?”


5 posted on 05/30/2012 9:59:43 AM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: VA_Gentleman

I feel uncomfortable calling him “him.”


6 posted on 05/30/2012 10:35:39 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: Graewoulf

No, I mean, it’s not like he did something really bad, like calling a slut a slut.


7 posted on 05/30/2012 10:37:13 AM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: VA_Gentleman

” I feel uncomfortable calling him a journalist”

Don’t feel uncomfortable. This is what Journalists do, as opposed to Reporters who tell you What is happening instead of what they think of it.

“Don’t call me a journalist. I’m a reporter.” Matt Drudge

Mr Hayes needs to sign up, do basic, hump gear, and if he survives that, see our HEROES risk their own lives to protect each other before he Slanders them again.

No BTDT Chris? Then STFD and STFU.


8 posted on 05/30/2012 10:53:13 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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