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[eclectic_boy]

Is this what we're going to be on about for the next week or so? MSNBC's Chris Hayes does a show on Memorial Day weekend about public perception of soldiers, and utters a money quote that manages to appear simultaneously disrespectful of fallen military and intellectually presumptuous (I'll let you google it for yourself; it's the only part of the

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[indecisionwins]

Honestly, just looking at a clip I see online, I don't have any problem at all with what he said. The fact that soldiers are always, unquestioningly considered heroes makes me kind of uncomfortable, too. Obviously, I do have some respect for the fact that they're doing something that I wouldn't want to do...and as Chris Hayes said, there are some individual soldiers who do things that are truly heroic in battle, and they deserve to be commended

[sildra]

the potential negative effect here is that his comments would make some people in the center mad at all liberals, and inspire them to vote Republican

It's May. The election's in November. And furthermore, it was a pundit not a politician who said it, so it can't really be thrown in anyone's face in October. No one's going to still remember this by then. Not even people who might actually really care, and certainly not the vast majority of the population that barely listens to this stuff, has their emotional reaction, and then moves on.