Reasons to boycott Chris Hayes?

This is a little tongue in cheek.

There was a tweep commenting yesterday about how s/he was going to boycott Chris Hayes' show if he keeps inviting the traitorous Glenn Greenwald to spout his seditious ideas.  Greenwald is "dangerous to the country," is I think how s/he stated it.

I rarely respond to tweets I don't agree with, but on this occasion offered something like: Greenwald is a danger to the corporate state--true. To the deep state. To Permanent Washington. But not to the USA.

Of course that went over like a lead zeppelin. End of discussion with that tweep.

Today (I think) I put put something to the effect of:

If you're going to boycott Chris Hayes' show, don't do it because he invites Glenn Greenwald on. Would you like me to name a few other reasons?

No one picked up on that on twitter, so I'll state a few reasons here.

1. Chris Hayes is part of the corporate media industrial complex. He will never--because he's not allowed to--criticize the sponsors who place ads, nor the corporation(s) which own MSNBC. His product is not news delivered to viewers, it's eyeballs delivered to advertisers. Didn't he once make some statement that not all the soldiers dragooned into one of our military misadventures were heroes, and then he had to walk it back the very next day?

2. Chris Hayes is part of the so tiny as to be insignificant table tennis match that I call Red Hat Vs. Blue Hat. Whenever there is something wrong, it's because of the red hats, almost exclusively. The blue hats, of course, are usually beyond reproach. If you're going to play this game, at least use a full-size tennis court.

3. Red hat vs. blue hat is a little like the Spy Vs. Spy comic strip in Mad Magazine. Funny for a few panels, but that's about it. When Chris Hayes gets the platform to define political analysis so narrowly, he and the majority of stenographer colleagues do us all a disservice.

Now, it should be said that I don't want to get sucked into some oppositional vortex here. Chris Hayes is allowed to do whatever he needs to do to support himself and his family. It's not so much the facts that he presents which I would dispute, it's the analysis and conclusions.

Quoting Jello Biafra, I don't get mad at the media. I become the media.