Martin Bashir Out at MSNBC in Wake of Palin Remarks (Phil Griffin destroying NBC News)

The Baltimore Sun ^ | Wednesday, December 4, 2013 | David Zurawik

[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.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

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.

[cherokee1]

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

[PhiloBedo]

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

[Eric in the Ozarks]

MS who ?

[AlexW]

“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.

[USS Alaska]

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.

[ReformationFan]

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

[ConradofMontferrat]

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:

[Lazamataz]

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!"

[DefeatCorruption]

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.

[Mase]

This was printed in the Balto Sun?

Well knock me over with a feather.

[Resettozero]

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.

[RipSawyer]

The All Gore channel.

[Resettozero]

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

[Albion Wilde]

id that Islamist-B-Gone solution finally work?

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

[the scotsman]

Yeah, but we don’t want them back.

[Cen-Tejas]

It’s a start!

[Cen-Tejas]

excellent, informative post, thanks

[ReformationFan]

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

[Liberty Valance]

Ha! bttt