Read more at NewsBusters | Insisting that the best weapon to deploy against terrorists was "thinking," MSNBC host Chris Hayes on his January 13 All In program lamented various reactions to last week's Charlie Hebdo spree shooting as uncritical, unthinking overreactions. Lumped in with controversial tweets by Rupert Murdoch and Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas), Hayes blasted the lower house of the French National Assembly for voting overwhelmingly to ramp up airstrikes against ISIS.
"France is already on a war footing," Hayes whined, "with its defense minister proclaiming that ISIS must be wiped out and the country deploying 10,000 troops to boost security within the borders of France." Hayes then connected the dots to the American Left's favored bogeyman, George W. Bush and his response to the 9/11 attacks,