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Martin Bashir Out at MSNBC in Wake of Palin Remarks (Phil Griffin destroying NBC News)
The Baltimore Sun ^ | Wednesday, December 4, 2013 | David Zurawik

Posted on 12/04/2013 3:29:04 PM PST by kristinn

You can fire 10 Martin Bashirs and it won't start to repair damage done to NBC News

Martin Bashir, the embattled MSNBC show host who on Nov. 15 urged a crude and graphic form of punishment for Sarah Palin, resigned from the channel Wednesday.

MSNBC could afford to do nothing less than force Bashir out in the wake of his hateful speech.

Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, tried stonewalling the mounting criticism even after Bashir delivered an on-air apology, but the words and actions were too gross and hateful to allow Bashir to return.

SNIP

Under Griffin's leadership, MNSBC has become the leading proponent of such ideologically-charged, rabble-rousing rhetoric.

They don't do news at MSNBC any more. They just do propaganda. And you can only attack your ideological enemies so long before you find yourself in the realm of hate speech as Bashir did.

I hope this event will help Comcast come to understand how deeply Griffin and his cynical programming strategy have damaged the brand of NBC News and the network in general.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: comcast; deportmartinbashir; liberal; liberalattackdog; martinbashir; msnbc; nbc; nbcuniversal; palin; pds; philgriffin; sarahpalin
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To: SandRat

To get something really hateful Bashir had to go to British controled Jamaica to find a foul example—there were not that terrible in the USA—and old south.


41 posted on 12/04/2013 5:01:11 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: omega4179

Put Liary O’Donnell somewhere near the top of that list.


42 posted on 12/04/2013 5:03:12 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: kristinn

If Obama had a son, who grew up to become a political pontificator, he would look like Bashir.


43 posted on 12/04/2013 5:13:05 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: kristinn

MS who ?


44 posted on 12/04/2013 5:15:57 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Ann Archy

“What is LOWER than MSNBC.....Al Jazeera?”
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I see a number of post that consider AlJazera to be lower then low. Other then FOX, it is the only international TV news that I get. Yes, it comes from Qatar, which is my gateway from Europe to the Philippines, via Qatar Airways, one of very few five star airlines.
The few times that I watch Aljazera, I do not notice political opinions. I doubt that they could be as bad as CNN or PMSNBC. I would be interested in hearing some examples from those who say it is as bad as MSNBC.


45 posted on 12/04/2013 5:32:08 PM PST by AlexW
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To: SandRat
GOOD! Let’s hope that no one else hires him.

Al jazeira, with it's 30,000 viewers will find a prime time slot for this hater tw_t.

46 posted on 12/04/2013 5:38:29 PM PST by USS Alaska (If I could...I would.)
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To: kristinn

Never fear. PMSNBC will replace him someone equally obnoxious if not more so.


47 posted on 12/04/2013 5:42:51 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: kristinn
If Bash-Head went back to the camel turd country from whence he came, the locals would recognize him for the queer that he is, AND STONE HIS DUMB FAGGOT ASS to death. Hey, YO! BASH-HEAD:


48 posted on 12/04/2013 5:44:21 PM PST by ConradofMontferrat ( According to mudslimz, my handle is a HATE CRIME. And I HOPE they don't like it.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
MS·NBC
/em?s ?nbese/
noun, verb

1. noun: A propaganda network that employs otherwise-unplaceable clinically-insane individuals.
2. verb: To be completely and utterly disassociated from reality in any way, and still opine on news matters of the day.
3. verb: To be willing to parrot exact talking points, however bizarre and contra-indicated from even casual observation, from the Obama White House.
4. verb: To, in a deranged and unhinged way, accuse all people who have any view other than your own, of racism.5. verb: To engage in crazed, psychotic, babbling and bizarre rants utterly devoid of any basis in fact and in complete opposition to demonstrable facts, and still be given access to a camera and a microphone.

Syn: Barking Moonbat, Certifiably Insane

Ex: "Did you see Chris Matthews? He MSNBC'd that poor conservative!"
49 posted on 12/04/2013 5:45:47 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: kristinn

Phil Griffin is an idiot...one who puts his likeness in prime TV time slots ..Madcow, whom he calls “our quarterback” didn’t even own a TV when he gave her primetime. This is a “lean-forward” network incapable of unbiased commentary, ie., matthews, maddow and sharpton are shining examples of how he thinks and operates. Bashir is just a drop in the liberal bucket...and according to a 12/2/2013 interview in The New Yorker magazine Griffin recently asked Ed Shultz to return to weekdays...to quote Griffin “Ed’s voice was missed”. Good grief.


50 posted on 12/04/2013 5:48:15 PM PST by DefeatCorruption
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To: kristinn
This was printed in the Balto Sun?

Well knock me over with a feather.

51 posted on 12/04/2013 5:50:35 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: ReformationFan
Never fear. PMSNBC will replace him someone equally obnoxious if not more so.

Maybe so. But what can they do or say about her to top Bashir!? He's set the standard for that cable entity for this generation.
52 posted on 12/04/2013 5:51:53 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: bigbob

The All Gore channel.


53 posted on 12/04/2013 5:59:08 PM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: Mase

It was a TV columnist’s rant, not really an editorial or front-page news story.


54 posted on 12/04/2013 5:59:12 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Paladin2
id that Islamist-B-Gone solution finally work?

LOL! "I-Be-Gone"...

55 posted on 12/04/2013 6:27:18 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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To: F15Eagle

Yeah, but we don’t want them back.


56 posted on 12/04/2013 7:03:25 PM PST by the scotsman (i)
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To: F15Eagle

It’s a start!


57 posted on 12/04/2013 7:22:41 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

excellent, informative post, thanks


58 posted on 12/04/2013 7:28:27 PM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: EDINVA

Just think of all the valuable time you’ve saved by NOT watching them.


59 posted on 12/04/2013 7:41:57 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: Col Freeper

Ha! bttt


60 posted on 12/04/2013 7:52:40 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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