Memorial Day 2012: "Rhetorically Proximate"

This is how the American Leftists "celebrate" Memorial Day on MSNBC. From NewsBusters.org:



Chris Hayes of MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes says he is "uncomfortable" calling fallen US soldiers heroes.

CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that'll be happening tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people [inaudible]. Um, I, I, ah, back sorry, um, I think it's interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Um, and, ah, ah, why do I feel so comfortable [sic] about the word "hero"? I feel comfortable, ah, uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, 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.

American Leftists fail to see the obvious squarely before them. Everything in their world in nuanced, gray, squishy, negative. They are GOWPs: what I term Guilty Overeducated White People: effete, superior, sanctimonious. They are educated, but they have not learned.

More and more, I find myself "uncomfortable" calling Leftists, Demorats and "Progressives" actual Americans.

God bless the American Soldier.

BZ