MSNBC Fires Martin Bashir
deogol
Michigan
Since Alucard started the whole "just in from CNN":
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/mart…
Makes me wonder what loser will replace him.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/mart…
Makes me wonder what loser will replace him.
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The stupid Obama criticism creates a problem IMO. It blunts real criticism and debate. Rather than debating whether his use of drones is counterproductive we hear that he's a Marxist. Rather than debating his administration's use of the NSA we hear that he was born in Kenya. Frankly, if he was a Kenyan and neither McCain nor Romney were smart enough to find evidence...well just let's say I wouldn't want them as president if they could dig up that evidence. But the country SHOULD be discussing real issues and we're not.
Bashir SHOULDN'T have apologized. He should have said "I won't apologize for what I said. Ms. Palin compared the debt to slavery. There are important issues associated with debt, but if you think the Chinese are going to sail across the Pacific and enslave us like white folks enslaved Africans you should shut up. I gave an example of what real slavery was. Obviously I don't wish anybody would defecate in Ms. Palin's mouth or on her."
And if he was coo-el, he would have added "Unless, of course, Ms. Palin digs the Hot Karls. In which case it is my sincere hope that Mr. Palin accommodates her. Good for a relationship to accommodate you partner's wishes, doncha know..."
Palin is way smarter than we give her credit for. She trolls the left knowing somebody will slip and say something over the line. Then she cries bloody murder. Bashir fell into her troll trap. And he got his ass fired for it. At least standing firm would have allowed him to leave MSNBC as a rebel. He could have been a hero. Instead he was a dumbass.
The story is *not* that he was fired, but that it took so damned long for MSNBC to do it.
IME it has been persons at the opposite end of the political continuum than those mentioned in the above quote.
Proverbs 22:7 (NIV)
The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is slave to the lender.
Just sayin....
How many slaves made $7.40 an hour?
@zipman the reason Bashir had to appologize/quit is that the network needs to keep a higher standard than the Palin/Limbaugh/Gohmert types so they can look down on them and continue to shame them for the things they say
As for who will replace him... I imagine Joy Reid as she seems to be filling in (remember to turn to the channel today to check) and she has often done filler hosting. Plus I think they would want to get another dark skinned host, so if not her then perhaps Jonathan Capehart (he's also gay so gets bonus liberal points)
@likes2look -- you're missing the whole "Palin is a troll" point. Like her declaration at one point that attacks on her were "blood libel". Followed by saying "I didn't know there were any connotations of anti-semitism". Palin says outrageous shit with just enough plausible deniability so her supporters can go apeshit when somebody responds. I'm actually surprised that she didn't quote proverbs saying "of course this is all I meant, nobody should have interpreted it as a reference to race-based slavery...my opponents are SO thin skinned doncha know..." Maybe wink so the conservative men will go ga ga.
Stand by my statement that Palin is smarter than most people think. She enjoys playing gotcha and says shit like this so she can do so. Bashir got himself super double-bluff trolled by the QUEEN OF TROLLS. Dude lost. You don't troll a troll my friends.
Shit Palin is such a good troll that SHE SHOULD POST HERE!!!!
I merely pointed out that it was ONLY that Palin used slavery/slave that Bashir said what he did.
zipper, I agree that Bashir shouldn't have commented in the manner he did, but Palin wasn't trolling. She made the comments to a group of like minded people. If she was talking directly to Bashir it might be considered trolling.