Posted on 12/05/2013 6:43:09 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Conservative America just lost one of its talking points about left-leaning network MSNBC. For the past couple of weeks, the network’s critics have slammed it for a lack of accountability in l’affaire Martin Bashir, who on Nov. 15 made nasty comments suggesting how Sarah Palin, who had foolishly compared public debt to slavery, should be treated to a most horrific form of slave punishment: Defecation in mouth. In his next broadcast, Bashir apologized, but people wanted something more.
Today they got it. Bashir has resigned from the network, an occasion marked, as always, by dueling releases of boilerplate. From Bashir:
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Well, I’d like to think that most of us would be mortified if someone said that about Sheila Jackson-Lee, Hillary Clinton or Rachel Maddow.
We don’t want to become them.
When Sarah Palin was talking about slavery, she was talking about Proverbs 22:7. Liberals don’t understand that.
Definitely not a conservative. In “foolishly” comparing public debt to slavery? In liberal land, a white person can only mention slavery when wearing sackcloth and ashes, and publicly flagellating themselves with thorns, all the while exclaiming how bad and evil they are.
I’m not sure whether he sees Bashir’s loss as a bad thing because of what Bashir said, or whether he’s glad that conservatives no longer have a talking point because he’s gone.
Bingo!
Certainly, never in an open forum...
With Hillary’s ascension the left realizes they need to distance themselves from their deplorable misogynistic rhetoric about Sarah Palin in order to position themselves as guardians of all things female. They will sacrifice many of their own in order to carry that faux-chivalric mantle.
My take...They falsely equate their success with race specific voting blocks with gender.
The Left has now decided that the S-word can only be used in one context: black-American slavery. No other use of the word is allowed - unless, of course, a lib tries it. Metaphors are verboten.
Liberals are opposed to individual liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The only real issue they have with chattel slavery in America two hundred years ago is that the slaves were privately owned.
They are all orgasmic over the idea of slavery to the state.
Democrats never pass up on opportunity to tell us why enslavement by the state is for our own protection and our own safety, because life under the anarchy that conservatives want to impose is just too risky and dangerous. We can't have any of that inhumane"on-your-own economics" that conservatives advocate.
Thereby proving that you no longer have to be black to be an Uncle Tom.
Yes.
Bashir was "indiscreet", but he was also an excellent lightning rod while he was in place.
We do not lack for any number of other "lightning rods". But it takes additional effort to develop a strategy and act to cut off the target from the rest of the herd.
Take them down, one by one, and soon the herd is pretty well thinned out.
It’s ridiculous. “Debt slavery” is practically a cliche.
As I recall, 16 tons is about the life of a coal miner.
A coal miner who was "another day older and deeper in debt", and who "owed his soul to the company store". The song wasn't about the mining; it was about the debt.
It’s hard to imagine ANYBODY who’s not Bill Maher bat-poo crazy actually DEFENDING what Bashir said.
Are you hard of reading?
MSNBC needs to get some people on whom people will watch! They were fools to fire Keith Obermann. They need people who are more than Angry Commies. maybe some real marxists for a change—some Russians maybe. Maybe some raving, foming at the mouth Arabs who hate the west and all.
Never fear this bunch has an endless supply of nasty bastards to draw on!!!
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