MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes

Fox News ^ | 5/28/2012 | fox news

[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."

[gilor]

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

[JaguarXKE]

LOL! Now THAT is funny!

[JaguarXKE]

LOL! Now THAT is funny!

[Past Your Eyes]

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

[Lurker]

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.

[Graewoulf]

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?

[Sea Parrot]

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.

[slapshot]

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.

[LibsRJerks]

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.

[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

[iceskater]

Non-apology apologies are insulting.

I despise the LSM.

[Chaffer]

But Chris... are they heroes ?

(Waiting)

[class8601_nuke]

anybody got a list of sponsors for his show?

[kempster]

Wonder if both the people that heard his original comment also heard his apology.

[I_be_tc]

That brought tears to my eyes. How sad! This man is despicable.

[stylin19a]

I keep trying to find an apology and I can't.
There's no “there” there.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks tobyhill. His apology is complete BS, just another lie from his lying, shilling tongue, and made under duress. Here's his original heinous comment:

"I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war."

IOW, he fits right in with the other shills at MSNBC, Partisan Shill HQ for US media.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

"I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war."

He should be deported just for using the term "rhetorically proximate."

[Last Dakotan]

Does he/she even have enough testosterone in her system to grow a beard?

[bad company]

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests [hearts] and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

— C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

[Vendome]

FU butt boy and that was not an apology but a self serving parsed statement

[Vendome]

FU butt boy and that was not an apology but a self serving parsed statement

[raccoonradio]

It was also played/exposed on:
—Bill Cunningham, syndicated, Sunday night

—Col. David Hunt in for Howie Carr, Howie network in
New England, today

[Larry381]

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things;
the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

[Leo58]

Something about this part of his apology doesn’t sit well with me

“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”

The problem wasn’t that he hates the military it was that he didn’t follow the high standards he set for himself.

[EveningStar]

Ping to post #11

I'm temporarily handling the Iowahawk ping list while dighton is away.

Please let me know if you want to be added to or removed from the list.

Please ping me to Iowahawk articles. Thanks. :)

[rcrngroup]

" Chris Hayes, host of "Up With Chris Hayes,"

This was a typo! The actual show is called "Up Yours Chris Hayes." /s

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

This is SOP for MSNBC commies and cowards. Insult our troops and them lamely apologize in order to keep their “phoney, baloney jobs”.

Fire his ass. Looks like the MSNBC (Mentally Ill, Nothing But Crap) bus undercarriage is getting awfully crowded.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Godwin1]

This piece of crap’s wife works as a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office. Thiese are the people who rule us now. How long can we put up with it?

[Kickass Conservative]

Well, thank goodness he didn't call anyone a Slut.

That being said, I assume this is the kickoff of “The Democrat's War On Fallen Heroes”.

[Kartographer]

Not sorry he said it, just sorry he got caught saying it.

[philman_36]

Did he try to get away with it because he knows his viewing audience is so low that it might go unnoticed?

[RichInOC]

Heh.

[QT3.14]

Jane Fonda with a penis. Or maybe not...

Or as Ann Coulter tweeted last night: "'Uncomfortable' Calling Fallen Military 'Heroes' – Marines respond by protecting his right to menstruate.")

[donozark]

Chris Hayes may well be Rachel Maddow's sister. But she has a better haircut.

Then again, I may be confused as to which one "she" actually is...

[lodi90]

"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."

Exactly right. His beard works in the White House. Another perfectly timed obama own goal.

[elhombrelibre]

He’s a perfect example of an effete illiberal Liberal worm.

[Graewoulf]

Chuckle time PING.