Appearing on the February 17 edition of All In with Chris Hayes, liberal radio talk show host Bob Kincaid essentially argued that the CSX freight-rail company was a graver threat to Americans than ISIS. Kincaid was on the program to discuss an oil-train derailment and fire in West Virginia.
For his part, Hayes did not attempt to reel Kincaid in from such an outlandish statement:
KINCAID: This is terrifying stuff. And sadly it happens in a state where terrifying accidents seem to be the norm, where human beings' well-being is sacrificed for corporate profit. It's kinda hard for me not to notice that this isn't ISIS that did this or any other foreign enemy of the United States. This is a good old domestic American corporation. And they seem to be doing more harm in West Virginia than any foreign power.
HAYES: This is CSX, of course, which is one of the largest rail shippers in the country, which has, has rolled out these new, according to them, safer versions of this and, your point, Bob, I think is important, this not if but when [an oil-train catastrophe happens inside a densely-populated American city].
Of course, given how Hayes thinks global warming is the world's single gravest threat, perhaps it's not all that surprising that he didn't try to walk Kincaid back from the ledge.
