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MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes
Fox News ^ | 5/28/2012 | fox news

Posted on 05/28/2012 5:13:08 PM PDT by tobyhill

The MSNBC host, who on the eve of Memorial Day said it makes him “uncomfortable” to describe fallen soldiers as heroes, apologized Monday after outcry from a top veterans group.

"On Sunday, in discussing the uses of the word "hero" to describe those members of the armed forces who have given their lives, I don't think I lived up to the standards of rigor, respect and empathy for those affected by the issues we discuss that I've set for myself," Chris Hayes, host of "Up With Chris Hayes," said in a statement. "I am deeply sorry for that."

The comment was made while kicking off a panel discussion on his show and he noted, it's "very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.'"

Hayes tried to explain why that makes him uneasy: "I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war."

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KEYWORDS: chrishayes; msnbc
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To: tobyhill

Hard for these types to know a hero beyond Alinsky.


41 posted on 05/28/2012 5:51:40 PM PDT by hope
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To: tobyhill

Precisely.

I don’t understand this fetish our culture has for “apologies”. Especially an “apology” from a person that meant what they said. And, when he knows as well as we know, that not only did he mean it, but that he’d say it again if he could get away with it.

He’s sorry all right. He’s sorry we are so stupid.

For a member of the liberal intelligentsia, the guilt is not in the doing, it is in the getting caught.

I’ve gotten more sincere apologies from 3rd graders that got caught punching another kid on the playground.


42 posted on 05/28/2012 5:53:26 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: tobyhill
I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

Marxists in America believe their comfort trumps American rights, law, and decency. I'll chip in $2 toward a one-way ticket to North Korea for this nitwit. Ten years there might help him reconsider the meaning of the word "comfort."

43 posted on 05/28/2012 5:54:59 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: unixfox

Oh My Gosh, It’s Meghan Mcains sister!


44 posted on 05/28/2012 5:54:59 PM PDT by hope
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
He is only sorry he said it out loud.

Exactly...

He probably thought he was "speaking power to truth" or some other BS left wing meaningless pablum... they think is powerful and inspiring

45 posted on 05/28/2012 5:56:41 PM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus to follow...)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I have no doubt the apology was forced by management. Obama is on a veterans support spree now in order to look like a normal prez, Chrissy’s statement is counter to it, even though Obama likely agrees with him.


46 posted on 05/28/2012 5:58:52 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I have no doubt the apology was forced by management. Obama is on a veterans support spree now in order to look like a normal prez, Chrissy’s statement is counter to it, even though Obama likely agrees with him.


47 posted on 05/28/2012 5:59:03 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: tobyhill

FUCH


48 posted on 05/28/2012 5:59:34 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Popman

He’s only sorry that he created a Sh*t storm!


49 posted on 05/28/2012 6:01:24 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: tobyhill

Chris Hayes apologized for not living up to “...standards of rigor, respect and empathy for those affected by the issues we discuss that I’ve set for myself.”

He apologized to himself for not living up to his journalistic standards.

He did not apologize to veterans and the rest of us for denigrating the honor of our fallen hero warriors.

There is no bottom for the left. They are lower than whale shit.


50 posted on 05/28/2012 6:01:50 PM PDT by Amadeo
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To: tobyhill

That little POS made my list...the list of a****les that I will gladly pay the fines for what happens after we meet.


51 posted on 05/28/2012 6:02:17 PM PDT by gilor (Pull the wool over your own eyes!)
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To: Roscoe Karns

LOL! Now THAT is funny!


52 posted on 05/28/2012 6:02:51 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: Roscoe Karns

LOL! Now THAT is funny!


53 posted on 05/28/2012 6:03:07 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (If my Fluffy had a puppy, it would look like the puppy Obama ate!)
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To: tobyhill

Up With Chris Hayes? How about “Up Yours, Chris Hayes”? Seems much more apropos.


54 posted on 05/28/2012 6:04:15 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.)
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To: tobyhill

The worst thing about these people is that they have no balls. They are afraid to defend publicly what they actually believe.

They have no honor.

They are beneath contempt. I shall have no pity on them when the time comes.

None.


55 posted on 05/28/2012 6:05:59 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: raccoonradio; unixfox

Thanks for the pics.

Probably the horn rims would allow him to blend in with the Harvard OWS, but his head is tipped to his RIGHT.

The bottomless vanity shades place him in 1 %, but his head IS tipped to his LEFT.

No, the unixfox pic is out, definitely! Way to many teeth showing, which displays to much heroic aggression, even for PMS MSNBC.

Maybe a pinko shirt would help?

BTW, is Jay Carney stepping down? You laugh, but why else would Chris Hayes send up this trial balloon on Memorial Day Weekend?


56 posted on 05/28/2012 6:07:47 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Dictator Baby-Doc Barack's obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND U.S. Constitution.))
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To: tobyhill

He is chief editor for the “Nation” a commie rag. From where the wimp arse commie spews his filth with impunity, for no real American reads it. On MessNBC he forgot where he was at and got caught out.


57 posted on 05/28/2012 6:09:31 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (I'll be a nice to you as you'll let me be, or as mean as you make me be.)
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To: Popman
A little more tidbit about this POS. His wife works for Dear Leader and his daddy in Law was a reporter for ABC in Chicago for a lot of years and is now (snicker) head of the Better Govt. Association in Illinois. His name is Andy Shaw and he sees nothing wrong with how the Madigans and Rahmbo are running things. (cough cough Bullsnort)

Kudos to JD Hayworth on WLS 890 AM this AM broadcasting what this POS said. I made certain hosts on WLS 890 Chicago Don Wade and Roma as well as Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft know about this. Mr Shaw for lack of a better term, washes up as a guest from time to time on these programs. Hopefully the above hosts will have the cojones to call out Mr. Shaw but don't hold your breath.

58 posted on 05/28/2012 6:10:19 PM PDT by slapshot ("Were not gonna take it anymore" Twisted Sister)
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To: HerrBlucher

Want to REALLY apologize, Chris??

Then suit up, pack up, put down the Perrier water, get out of the air-conditioned MSNBC studio, say goodbye to your wife and kid, and get your A** on the FIRST plane to Afghanistan and DO SOME GD embedded REPORTING on those men and women whom you classify as “not heroes!!!!” Get right in there with ‘em, Chris — right out there in the bright hot sun.

Freaking ‘effen IDIOT!!!

After that, you can do a stop by Ft. Leavenworth and check in with my friend whose husband was blown to smithereens last year in his humvee while on a tasker in olde Afghan. She’s dealing alone with a family of 5 kids now, the youngest being around 6 years old.

Perhaps you’d get a look, then, at a REAL live hero, you PIG!!!

Oh hell, you probably couldn’t even make it to the check-in counter without having a total meltdown.

These people make me SICK.


59 posted on 05/28/2012 6:13:28 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: slapshot
Also this douchnozzle is on a very short list of people who I would sucker punch in public. And believe me this little beeooootch will stay down
60 posted on 05/28/2012 6:15:05 PM PDT by slapshot ("Were not gonna take it anymore" Twisted Sister)
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