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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libtards never change, never!
Don’t have to look at the video to say “F him”.
Personally, I’m ‘Uncomfortable’ Calling iiberals anything but disgusting traitors.
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This effeminate little POS seriously must lose his job for making a remark like this on Memorial Day, of all days.
I’m uncomfortable allowing Chris Hayes to impersonate an American.
freakin lib is nothing but a POS....haven’t changed since the Viet Nam war!!!!
I’m uncomfortable calling ‘Rat voters “basically good people.”
And the left wails when we say they are unpatriotic. Go figure.
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When they sign on the dotted line and choose combat arms they have already reached the threshold. When they are KIA or WIA they cross the threshold. Jmo.
“This effeminate little POS seriously must lose his job for making a remark like this on Memorial Day, of all days.”
Considering the sorry-assed excuse for a “man” in the White House, no way. Sissies impressing sissies with their pedantic use of the English language. Unless - he pisses off the Moose.
“But maybe I’m wrong”
Yes you are you prissy dweeb.
This country has been so blessed and so spoiled to peace (except 9/11 and Pearl Harbor), people have forgotten the cost.
While the rules for logic and rhetoric differ, it still would be interesting to hear Mr. Hayes attempt to defend this point of view. While I salute the bravery of any soldier who jumps on a grenade to save his brothers in arms, it doesn't make me want to do so and it certainly doesn't make me want to see other young men do so. The only rhetorical proximity there is the useless fluff stuffed into Mr. Hayes's head by academic fools.
I bet this guy feels uncomfortable when he stands up and pees.
I’m uncomfortable calling Chris Hayes a human being.
Does anyone know the web address for MSNBC and this little twerp in particular so a FReeeper like me can register a protest?
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