Posted on 05/27/2012 6:17:15 PM PDT by robowombat
Chris Hayes: I'm 'Uncomfortable' Calling Fallen Military 'Heroes' By Mark Finkelstein | May 27, 2012 | 09:21
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In fairness, Hayes and the other panel members distinguished between their respect for the valor of the individual military members who had given their lives with the worthiness of the various causes in which they fought. Even so, what does it say about the liberal chattering class, which Hayes epitomizes, that it chokes on calling America's fallen what they rightly and surely are: heroes? Watch the hesitant Hayes in what almost seems a parody of the conflicted intellectual.
CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that'll be happening tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible]. Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it's interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Um, and, ah, ah, why do I feel so comfortable [sic] about the word "hero"? I feel comfortable, ah, 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: 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.
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Let’s wrap him in some body armor and put an M4 in hands, then chuck him into the middle of a fire fight. I bet his comfort zone experiences some drastic modification.
Hayes fails to understand how warfare has changed. Where once upon time a “hero” might be someone who braved enemy fire to save buddies or other deed, today in an irregular war fought with IEDs every trooper is indeed a hero when she/he puts them self in harms way by going on patrol.
I’m steeped in WWI and WWII history and veteran of Vietnam and appreciate how the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan in which my son and many friends fought are so very different.
IMO, troops who were in Afghanistan and died or survived are each a HERO in every sense of the word.
In this turd’s “mind”, no doubt the real heros are the bomos and trannies. MSNBC needs to be flushed.
Sounds like he's butt-hurt...
Because you're a coward and a traitor, Chris.
That's why you work for the enemy - so you don't have to stand up to them.
That's also why you said "comfortable" instead of "uncomfortable," when you meant the latter, so that you would have technical deniability covered by the impression of misspeaking.
And that's why you hesitated while speaking, in order to give the impression of thoughtful, reasoned caution, when you were actually reading from a pre-determined script.
Your soul is dead, Chris. You are a traitor to life itself, and freedom, and goodness, and peace, and love. And hell awaits you with slavering fangs.
“Let’s wrap him in some body armor and put an M4 in hands, then chuck him into the middle of a fire fight.”
First, let’s get this whiney little pussy through boot camp.
I went to MSNBC.com and Hays’ email contact two clicks away by searching his name. I sent him a scathing email and found the activity quite satisfying.
I suggest you do the same.
Well said. I'm amazed at the young men and women who keep coming in to the military, with the knowledge that a greater number of them will be deployed to a place where killing Americans is in vogue. Not at all uncomfortable calling our warriors heroes.
Simply turn this cow pie over to my sister in law who lost her Hero Marine Lieutenant son in Fallujah.
She’d put the needed smackdown on this maggot.
Thanks robowombat.
I would think it instructive to put this guy in a plane with a parachute and push him out the door over the Sudan or North Korea and tell him to survive in those societies for a couple years.
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