On the January 29 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, NBC correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin impugned Iraq war hero Chris Kyle, the subject of the movie American Sniper, as a "racist" who went on "killing sprees":
NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin: “When you juxtapose it [the movie American Sniper] with the real Chris Kyle and what has emerged about what kind of personality he was.... a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims as he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues – ”
Host Joe Scarborough: “Wait, wait. Killing sprees? Chris Kyle was going on killing sprees?”
Mohyeldin: “When he was involved in his — on assignments, in terms of what he was doing, a lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.”