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No hiding for MSNBC and Chris Hayes: Repugnant remarks spark 'MSNBC Heroes' hashtag; Update: Hayes apologizes

As Twitchy reported yesterday, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes mentally stroked himself by disgracefully saying that calling our fallen “heroes” makes him “uncomfortable.” He’s totally intellectual and sophisticated and stuff, you rubes! Oh, yeah, and morally bankrupt.

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He subsequently tried to backpedal and failed, miserably.

Twitter users refuse to let MSNBC and Hayes hide from this and the hashtag #MSNBCheroes is now taking off. Leave it to Twitter to teach someone a much-needed lesson. Media accountability, baby! Hayes made the mistake, in a fit of deplorable moral relativism, of saying out loud what the Left thinks and believes. At least admit it, MSNBC.

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Update:

On his program today, Hayes issued an apology. Via HuffPo:

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. I am deeply sorry for that.

As many have rightly pointed out, it’s very easy for me, a TV host, to opine about the people who fight our wars, having never dodged a bullet or guarded a post or walked a mile in their boots. Of course, that is true of the overwhelming majority of our nation’s citizens as a whole. One of the points made during Sunday’s show was just how removed most Americans are from the wars we fight, how small a percentage of our population is asked to shoulder the entire burden and how easy it becomes to never read the names of those who are wounded and fight and die, to not ask questions about the direction of our strategy in Afghanistan, and to assuage our own collective guilt about this disconnect with a pro-forma ritual that we observe briefly before returning to our barbecues.

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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.

Reactions were mixed.

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And then, well, there’s The Nation‘s Katrina vandenHeuvel, off in a class by herself:

Face, meet palm.

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