Posted on 06/05/2013 3:26:12 PM PDT by Kaslin
Just when you thought the folks at MSNBC couldn't go any lower in defending the current White House resident, someone there stoops to new depths.
On the Martin Bashir show Wednesday, the host actually said that investigating the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service is a racist Republican attack on "the black man in the White House" (video follows with fuller transcribed highlights and commentary):
MSNBC's Bashir: Investigating the IRS is a Racist Republican Attack on 'Black Man in White House'
After playing a clip of Mitt Romney making a joke about his birth certificate, Bashir said, “That was the moment that proved that the rhetoric of racist insults and slanderous attacks on the President had moved from the lunatic fringe to the very center of presidential politics.”
Bashir then pointed to a number of books about the president from conservatives including David Limbaugh and Dinesh D’Souza.
“All of these books played an important role in preparing the groundwork that eventually allowed a presidential candidate to make a racist comment, in front of the cameras, without any fear of contradiction,” said Bashir.
“And now,” he continued, “the IRS is being used in exactly the same way as they tried to use the President’s birth certificate.”
“You see, for Republicans like Darrell Issa – who knows something about arson – the IRS now stands for something inflammatory. Those three letters are now on fire with political corruption and malfeasance burning hot just like that suspicious fire that engulfed Mr. Issa’s warehouse back in 1982. And, despite the complete lack of any evidence linking the President to the targeting of Tea Party groups, Republicans are using it as their latest weapon in the war against the black man in the White House.”
Numerous clips when then played of various Republicans addressing the IRS scandal. When they concluded, Bashir said, “This strategy is nothing new, and it was explained way back in 1981 by Lee Atwater who was Bush 41’s chief strategist”
I guess Bashir is too clueless to know that Reagan was president in 1981 and that Bush 41 didn’t become president until 1989.
Regardless, he then said, “In a tape recording, Mr. Atwater revealed how Republicans evolve their language to achieve the same purpose. He said:
“You start out in 1954 by saying n*****, n*****, n*****. By 1968 you can’t say n*****. That hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like ‘forced busing,’ ‘states rights’ and all that stuff and you’re getting so abstract. Now you’re talking about cutting taxes. ‘We want to cut this’ is much more abstract than even the busing thing and a-hell of a lot more abstract than n*****, n*****.”
“So this afternoon,” Bashir continued, “we welcome the latest phrase in the lexicon of Republican attacks on this president – the IRS. Three letters that sound so innocent, but we know what you mean.”
Absolutely unbelievable.
Is this really what the folks at NBC want to be affiliated with?
Martin Bashir is nuttier than a squirrel turd in a pee-can grove.
You can say that again
When is this English twit going to be deported along with that other twit Piers Morgan?
For a more nuanced discussion, let's stipulate that Zer0 is a mulatto without a drop of Slave Blood.
FO Arab man.
We know what side you align with.
Anyone on FR could debate yer lazy intellect and demonstrate the paucity there of or make the case that you are intellectually bankrupt.
Just need to file the paper work for an indigent mind.
Bashir is the boy who cried wolf...wait, is that racist too?
Ah, yes...the race card, last bastion of defense of the intellectually challenged who shrink from reality.
Are there ANY SANE people on that network? I think not.
The man’s IQ does not rise to the level of pudding’s IQ.
Bump
Only if you wear sap gloves. Promise?
Don’t forget Soros after his citizenship is revoked
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