Right-wing blogs freak out over Chris Hayes "hero" comments

[limpyhobbler]

Blogs rip MSNBC's Chris Hayes on 'heroes'

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Kurt Schlichter at Breitbart blasted Hayes for his comment, writing, “Memo to Chris: they are heroes, and you don’t get a vote.”

“So, like so many other useless progressive fops who glide from cocktail party to panel discussion, Chris Hayes continues to push his progressive vision of collectivist serfdom from behind the unbreachable wall of American warriors,” Schlichter wrote. “He has not stood with them and, in fact, is unworthy of doing so. He is a parasite taking sustenance from the exertions of better men and women.”

He also picked apart Hayes’ line, “rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.” The MSNBC host, Schlichter blogged, “sounds like one of my commie grad students trying to impress credulous freshman girls after a choom session in the quad.”

And Newsbusters’ Mark Finkelstein dubbed Hayes “the human embodiment” of the word “effete” and mocked him for what “almost seems a parody of the conflicted intellectual.”
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76799.html

[immoderate]

1. Wing nuts love to equivocate. It's a verbal trap.

--imm

[NYC Liberal]

2. Breitbart and Newsbusters

Two prestigious institutions known for their excellent critical analysis and peerless commentators.

[Old and In the Way]

3. I'll bet Chris loses sleep with this attack from the 101st Chairborne. nt

[limpyhobbler]

5. yeah they have that whole pot/kettle thing going on.

Chris Hayes did apologize though.


http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/28/11924150-statement-from-chris-hayes

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But in seeking to discuss the civilian-military divide and the social distance between those who fight and those who don't, I ended up reinforcing it, conforming to a stereotype of a removed pundit whose views are not anchored in the very real and very wrenching experience of this long decade of war. And for that I am truly sorry.

[Democrats_win]

4. I was wondering if he'd get into "trouble" for saying that.

I figure it was an opinion--one that I agree with, given how much I dislike bush's folly in Iraq. Chris Hayes' point is arguable and it's too bad these right wingers just gave an existential argument.