Reporter "Uncomfortable" Using the Word "Hero" to Describe Fallen Soldiers? (Miami, examples)
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That's just great, something else for Sean Hannity to whine about for a couple of weeks...
Heck yeah! This comment proves why FOX is the number-one rated news network. FOX reporters and announcers have no problem calling our heroes what in reality, they are. Viewers know this.
I can say it. I am deeply respectful for what they did, and I think they always deserve to be treated with honor.
This.
I have nothing but the deepest respect for our military and those who serve. Most of my family has served. However, I do think the word "hero" is thrown around a bit too much.
Review your post. I recall Clinton's "nation-building".
Funny that your post, to the word, can be applied to leftist radicals, with the exception of two words: "Republican" and "patriots".
Actually, it just shows that rightwing extremists are incapable of independent thought and use projection when the truth gets too painful.
Seriously? He had to pick Memorial Day weekend for this?
"The TV host said: 'I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes".
'I feel... uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.'"
Granted he backpedaled but Memorial Day weekend isn't the time for this.
I have to agree with the OP. It's not the day to discuss this, just like you don't discuss the evil someone did the day of their funeral. I suppose Chris Hayes thought he was being very profound, but this affected me like a screed about fathers in my local paper on father's day. Both of my parents were veterans, and I would give anything to see them again.
Unconvincing. I'm old enough to remember when Memorial Day was always May 30. While people obviously didn't get a three day weekend every year; they also weren't out putting flowers on graves (any more than is done now), going to solemn ceremonies, etc. Mostly, it was a day off in the middle of the week, swimming pools usually opened that day, and people picnicked, swam and visited.
Seriously? He had to pick Memorial Day weekend for this?
"The TV host said: 'I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes".
'I feel... uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.'"
Granted he backpedaled but Memorial Day weekend isn't the time for this.
Only a liberal reporter on MSNBC could stoop so low today.
Is he going to tell her that her son isn't a hero?
Why is her son a hero?. He was getting paid to be a soldier, that was is job. Perhaps he became a soldier to go to war. if soldiers go to war and come back after killing, enemies, woman and children, for what ever reason. is an ocasion to celebrate. but if they get kill, people act like if they were inocent, and were taken advantage of them. they went to another country and invaded that country, and that country is in wrost shape than before. its not like if they where protecting america from invation or something. And get ready couse we might invade iran with the same pretext we use to invade irak.
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