Posted on 11/27/2013 4:54:42 AM PST by Kaslin
Like most MSNBC hosts, Martin Bashir has been hypersensitive to slights aimed at President Barack Obama, real or imagined. He was shocked at a picture in January 2012 showing Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer pointing a finger at Obama on the tarmac in Phoenix. He somehow imagined the disrespect was "unprecedented!"
When then-Rep. Joe Walsh decided to skip an Obama jobs speech before Congress in the fall of 2011, Bashir was shocked. "Are you able to be as disrespectful to the office of president by simply walking away from something that every member of the Congress is going to attend? Is that also" -- here it comes -- "because he's black?"
These demands on Obama's behalf make Bashir's astonishing disrespect of Sarah Palin all the more glaring. Even liberals are still lamenting how Bashir lectured on Nov. 15 that Sarah Palin's face should be urinated and defecated on.
Rush Limbaugh was right. Just imagine the liberal fury had Bill O'Reilly proposed this be done to Obama.
Outraged that Palin in her "long-deceased mind" would dare suggest our national debt to China is going to feel like slavery when the note comes due, Bashir read from some slave owner's diary dating to 1756. "A slave named Darby catched eating canes; had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, s*** in his mouth." In another incident, the cruel master "flogged Punch well, and then washed and rubbed salt pickle, lime juice and bird pepper; made Negro Joe piss in his eyes and mouth." Bashir concluded Palin would be an "outstanding candidate" for these excretory punishments.
Bashir is no stranger to crazed historical analogies for conservatives. He has compared Rick Santorum to Stalin, and the National Rifle Association to Hitler. But he's never suggested a politician deserved to be someone's outhouse.
The next Monday, Bashir apologized on the air. "My words were wholly unacceptable ... and they have brought shame upon my friends and colleagues at this network."
But there was no punishment from the allegedly shamed MSNBC. The news channel suspended Ed Schultz for a week after he called Laura Ingraham a "talk slut" and David Shuster until he quit for suggesting Hillary Clinton "pimped out" her daughter Chelsea on the campaign trail. Years ago, mere political donations took Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann off the air. So why no mandatory time off for Bashir?
Because this is MSNBC, and having someone defecate in Palin's mouth is just not a big deal.
While the liberal networks all blew gaskets over Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a "slut," not one of them has covered Bashir's remarks. How's that for hypocrisy? Associated Press media reporter David Bauder filed at least three stories, but there was mostly silence outside of Fox News. The Washington Post and USA Today published nothing, and it only came up in The New York Times as a clause of a TV listing about the subjects of "Fox News Sunday." There was nothing on ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR or PBS. CNN only touched on it once during its "New Day" morning show and once on its "Reliable Sources" journalism program.
One obvious answer for this blackout is that Limbaugh is far more popular in America than Bashir, who few watch. But another obvious answer is media liberals despise Limbaugh and Palin, and sympathize with Bashir and the audience that loves this kind of hate speech toward conservatives.
Other MSNBC hosts wouldn't condemn Bashir either. When Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple tried to pin down Chris Matthews, he refused to comment (perhaps for the first time in his life). When asked for his thoughts by radio host Steve Malzberg, Scarborough replied he was on a book tour and didn't hear about Bashir's rant until after the apology on Nov. 18. But "touring" Scarborough sat in his MSNBC studio that Monday morning before the apology and said nothing. Cash the check and keep the mouth shut.
Not all liberals have been so callous. Alex Jones at Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center told the TVNewser blog that Bashir "cheapens and mocks the whole idea of serious discourse on a news program." He can't believe MSNBC is tolerating this "escalation of vulgarity."
On Nov. 25, suddenly MSNBC publicists acknowledged that Bashir was taking a "pre-planned vacation," which was not pre-announced. A guest host would handle Thanksgiving week. They're still trying to keep the whole sordid "Bashir Outhouse Address" out of the media mainstream.
There's a concept with which the folks at MSNBC are manifestly unfamiliar. Honor.
I expect nothing from the Washington Post; what little integrity it ever had it shed long ago and is now just available as a cheap alternative for Venezuela’s shortage of toilet paper.
Marxist have to defecate on their enemies to make sure the masses don’t listen to them. It is simply a way to promote the agenda. Imagine if Americans took Palin seriously, it would be the end of them.
Pray America is Waking
When then-Rep. Joe Walsh decided to skip an Obama speech, Bashir was shocked. ".... every member of Congress is going to attend? You are not. ---- Is that "because he's black?"
When NYT's Maureen Dowd heard someone say “boy” and "Obama" in the same sentence she "knew" this was "racist";
Timothy Noah's “When ‘Skinny’ Means ‘Black,’ ” claiming that references to Barack Obama’s slender and ectomorph qualities were an invitation to fixate on his tawny hue.....he could not stop thinking, “He’s black!” when he looked at Obama;
MSNBC's hearing is especially fine-tuned to discern all the racist dog whistles; talker Lawrence O’Donnell hears “PGA tour” as code for “deep-rooted white insecurities about black male sexuality.......”
And who could forget the sap-happy, brain dead liberal teacher who said "peanut butter and jelly sandwich" was actually hatred of immigrants (b/c latinos do not eat PBJ's).
Crazy Joe Biden told Blacks---a President Romney's gonna put them back in c--h--a--i--n--s....emphasizing "chains" as if it were five syllables.
Baldwin bashes Bashir.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/26/Baldwin-Blasts-Bashir-MSNBC-s-Double-Standards
I have friends from all spectrums of the political sphere.
It comes with the territory. I don’t mind discussing issues with people who have different opinions as long as the discussions are based on fact and reality.
MSNBC has managed to kill a friendship with a flaming lib I’ve known for years.
What Bashir said was inexcusible. I realize Palin is the left’s favorite “dope,” but nothing can mitigate the utter depravity of his mind and he should have been fired.
What is MSNBC’s excuse for not firing this guy? Surely they have been asked for their reasoning?
Bashir is a third-rate “talking head” and was never worth watching anyway.
Racism, straight up.
Since the invective was hurled by a black against a white, no harm, no foul.
Get used to Prog Think.
While I agree that Bashir’s conduct was reprehensible I do think that it’s worth mentioning that MSNBC’s ratings are roughly equal to those of a random test pattern.
Hardly anyone actually watches that crap. Who cares who MSNBC fires? Television viewers have long since fired the entire network.
Bashir made his claim to fame by finding a deadbeat family to claim Michael Jackson raped their children...the whole family got outer as liars during the trial...and US media rewards Bashir for helping Jackson beat pedo charges.
But, hey, same network has the Grand Wizard of the Black KKK on its payroll
“Hey..our ratings are better than MSNBC”
- Random Test Pattern
;)
MS who ?
Is this Bashir a muslim or just another islamist facilitating democrat?
Bashir is a ball-less Muzzie.
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