EXCLUSIVE: Martin Bashir, out at MSNBC over Palin slur, was previously suspended

Fox News ^ | December 5, 2013 | Howard Kurtz

[2ndDivisionVet]

Turns out Martin Bashir’s mouth has gotten him into trouble before.

Bashir resigned from MSNBC Wednesday over the sliming of Sarah Palin after meeting with the network’s president, Phil Griffin.

But this isn’t the first time that Bashir has had to apologize for his remarks about a woman. While working for ABC News in the summer of 2008, he was addressing an Asian American Journalists Association convention in Chicago, with his “20/20” colleague Juju Chang also on stage. He began commenting on her dress.

As New York magazine reported in a brief and little-noticed item, Bashir said that "I’m happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes.” And, he added, “I’m happy that the podium covers me from the waist down.” He said a speech should be “like a dress on a a beautiful woman — long enough to cover the important parts and short enough to keep your interest — like my colleague Juju’s.” Some audience members booed, the magazine said.

A little digging reveals that ABC quietly suspended Bashir after the incident....

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Gaffer]

If he is not a citizen, his H1B visa or whatever should be revoked and he should be deported.

[a fool in paradise]

As New York magazine reported in a brief and little-noticed item, Bashir said that "I’m happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes.” And, he added, “I’m happy that the podium covers me from the waist down.” He said a speech should be “like a dress on a a beautiful woman — long enough to cover the important parts and short enough to keep your interest — like my colleague Juju’s.”

Is it a "hate crime" to call Martin Bashir a pig?

[Billthedrill]

"I’m happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes.” And, he added...

So that was the chink in his armor...

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!

[bigbob]

The weasel would never dare make statements like this to these womens faces. Palin for one would knock him on his ass and that would be that. He’s a nasty little coward.

[2ndDivisionVet]

You and I are in more danger of deportation, methinks.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I would’ve guessed he plays for the other team.

[corlorde]

It’s all part of the left’s/MSNBC’s war on women.

[Zhang Fei]

Benny Hill humor is one thing, and his remarks about Palin quite another.

[molson209]

The newest member of the Al Jazeera Team ?

[3Fingas]

Liberals are the true women haters. Conservatives, essentially real Americans, have respect for and value all people who are worthy of it. Real men know how to treat women with respect.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Palin for one would knock him on his ass and that would be that.

This morning on Fox & Friends, Sarah said that she accepts his apology, in the spirit of her Christian faith, but if she ever heard him attack anybody else she'd "put on her gloves and her heels" and take him down a peg. I loved the image of that.

[JennysCool]

Wow. Making comments like that in a speech at a public forum is more than a little creepy.

[trisham]

He is a pig.

[a fool in paradise]

I would’ve guessed he plays for the other team.

Many of the cattiest journalists who attack Sarah Palin DO!

[GraceG]

He can either go back to the Police State UK or go back to the godforsaken hell’s a-hole his ancestors came from (probably Pocky-Stan) but he can’t stay here....

[a fool in paradise]

CAIR may come after you.

[sickoflibs]

I couldnt help laugh when listening to him
He was nuts

Were we supposed to take him serious?

Turns out he made MSNBC look stupid.

BOOM!

[trisham]

I doubt it.