Marc Ambinder: Chris Hayes and the New Politics of Stigmatization

Veteran political journalist Marc Ambinder recently relocated from DC to California and, in parting, wrote a much-discussed piece on things he learned about Washington while living there. I asked Ambinder to reflect on the controversy surrounding MSNBC host Chris Hayes’s famous Memorial Day weekend remarks about the word “heroes”. In particular, I asked, do the attacks on Hayes reflect a change in the quality of Washington discourse?  

You can watch the whole conversation on BhTV.

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