I Actually Feel Sorry For Chris Hayes
Posted by Tommy in Blog, News on May 27, 2012 10:13 pm / 13 comments
A lot has been made over the comments MSNBC’s Chris Hayes made today regarding our fallen soldiers. In case you missed it, here’s what he had to say:
“I feel comfortable, ah, uncomfortable, about the word [heroes] because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war,” he stammered.
“Um,” he added, “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.”
As a veteran, I couldn’t disagree more strongly with what Hayes had to say, yet I can’t quite bring myself to be angry about it. Instead, I find myself feeling sorry for him. I don’t feel sorry for him because of the giant crapstorm that has rightfully befallen him, but for another reason.
I feel sorry for Chris Hayes because sadly, this is his worldview. It’s how he thinks. It’s his value system, and it’s sad. This is a man who over and over again has spoken with greater reverence about the ‘Occupy Movement’ than he did today about our fallen service members. He’s painted ‘Occupy’ as do-gooders and the police as evil, and now says he’s ‘uncomfortable’ with referring to fallen as heroes.
I feel sorry for Chris Hayes because he’s never had the same privilege that I had of wearing the uniform. He’s never had the honor of serving next to people who were willing to lay it all on the line for something they believe in. He’s never got a knock on his barracks door telling him to grab his gear. He’s never had to spend a birthday or a holiday in Korea. He’s never spent months and months in the sweltering heat of the Middle East, and I’m sure he has no clue what Camp Demi and Camp Dobol are.
Worst of all, Chris Hayes has never had the experience of being a part of something that is greater than him. I don’t care that he never served. Serving is a personal choice and not required to comment. I don’t care that his show is nothing more than a weekly 2-hour commercial for Obama 2012. He’s a liberal shill, I get that. It’s what he is and what he will always be. I do care when he says things that are disrespectful to those that have given what Lincoln called “the last full measure of devotion.”
You know what I want Chris Hayes to do? Take a step back and ask himself the following question:
Why do I treat the ‘Occupy Movement’ with more respect than I do people who gave their life while serving their country?
I sure would love to hear his answer. I might even tune in to his awful show to hear it.
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I really like what you have to say. Thank you – and thank you for serving our country. You are a hero and thank God you are a living hero.
I don’t watch MSNBC either. Chris Hayes is a typical person from that network. I say person because they can hardly be called reporters. They are commentators of their own beliefs.
I now understand why you feel sorry for him, but you are very generous. I feel more disgust toward him. He should be fired! Thank you again.
Thank you for such an intriguing viewpoint on this. I think you are right, it is sad that he has somehow come to this point while living in the greatest country in the world that is protected everyday by men and women who are willing to sacrifice their life for the greater good. We don’t pick the wars, we just fight them. We fight them because we voluntarily take this oath:
I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
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The US gov’t does not care what you call them as long as they keep dying in endless wars for Israel, it all started a decade ago after a false flag attack.
9/11, US and Israel.
This feigned outrage is ridiculous. I’m sorry but being in the military is a job. My husband was in the Army for 8 years. He would be the first to say he is not a hero just because he showed up for work. The U.S. has become a wimp state where every kid gets a trophy. It cheapens the significance of heroism to spread it so thin. Chris Hayes is spot-on.
mmb1 – I’m not a brain surgeon. No one dies if I make a mistake at my office. I’ve never done anything heroic in my life that I can think of. My dad served two campaigns over seas in WWII as a Marine. He was a hero and he lived, but his life was never the same. We didn’t have a real dad and my mom lost a husband because of alcoholism. So, doing your job in the military is sometimes more costly than most will ever know about. If you don’t recognize your husband as a hero; it’s you I feel sorry for you lady.
Perhaps part of the problem here is the lack of coverage of the successes from Iraq and Afghanistan on the commercial news. Years ago, there was a feature on the news that I guess was called the “death count”, which should have been the most important information ever. But the commercial news failed to report the day to day successes, just reporting on Abu Grahb (SP?) and other crap like that, so that’s all people saw, at least the ones who didn’t make the effort to look a bit farther.
So it is a matter of context. The commercial news only showed the bad things, so that’s all people watching the news saw, and that might be a reason why this commercial news guy said that. That being said, I now feel sorry for him too thanks to your info here.
Just to be clear, should we also refer to the Bosnian Serb soldiers involved in the genocide in Srebrenica in the 1990s as heroes? While we’re at it, should we also call the Iranian soldiers masquerading as students who took 62 of our citizens hostage as heroes? And closer to home, should we call the Army intelligence officer who sliced the penis of a taxi driver more than 20 times before realizing he was not an al-Qaeda operative,a hero too?
This outpouring of feigned outrage disgusts me.