[2ndDivisionVet]

Three page article.

[basil]

I didn’t read the article, but I would tell him to go eat dirt until he died.

[faucetman]

“If you were his PR adviser, what would you have told him to say or do?”

RESIGN, immediately! and then go crawl into a hole and die.

[EagleUSA]

“..Could Bashir have handled this better?”

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Yeah, he could have just kept his sick, twisted, liberal, DemoRat mouth shut. But their mental disorder just keeps getting in the way of sane and civil behavior.

[Cyber Liberty]

Find another line of work, like dog-walker.

[Gaffer]

As apologies go, to me it was only about apology and error. However, there are some actions that are so egregious that any apology still isn’t enough to clear the slate. He deserved firing outright.

Additionally, there is also the question of this coupled with Alec Baldwin’s debacle. My guess MSNBC had no excuse to keep Bashir even though they didn’t care what he said. They couldn’t take the risk of a Baldwin out there making trouble.

[JoeDetweiler]

I think the article sort of misses the point. It doesn’t matter what sort of apology Bashir offers to Palin. The real point is that someone as foul and stupid as Mr Bashir should never have been on national television in the first place.

[DManA]

Unfortunately for Bashir, MSNBC fired Baldwin for remarks (off camera) that were 1/10 as offensive. Bashir wasn’t getting the heat, MSNBC was.

[Robert DeLong]

Eat “S-*-*-T” and then resign.

[a fool in paradise]

For example, Bashir’s apology, like Paula Deen’s series of apologies this past summer, went on for too long and focused too much on the mistake itself. Moreover, Bashir’s statement undermined his own credibility when he noted that his words were “unworthy of anyone who would claim to have an interest in politics.” He also failed to talk about his future behavior.

Missed the point completely. OF COURSE he had to focus on the mistake and his credibility HAS been compromised. He's a libtard prone to potty mouth outburts about scatalogical fantasies. What part of misogyny is this PR specialist in the dark about? Because it was "just Sarah Palin" it was okay? Sounds like someone who lives inside a bubble, not the real world.

[Cicero]

I won’t read the article, but I will say that I cannot imagine how even the most insane leftists would have gone to MSNBC because they wanted to hear what this jerk had to say.

He never opened his mouth without decreasing their ratings. Even mention of his name worked against them.

[Texas Fossil]

It is a stupid stance for some “expert” to tell him how he “should have” apologized. THE NETWORK, told him exactly what to say under threat of paying him nothing if he did not. And blackballing him from further employment.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

It seems to me, this scandal turned out pretty good.

The original perp, turned in a later apology by which in my opinion, the genuineness of apologies will henceforth be measured.

At the same time, the guy went over the line. And it turns out, he paid the price for that.

I’ll hand it to him, he climbed down pretty big. And Palin kept this pretty low key.

I would say this turned out well.

[dhs12345]

Glad that Bashir the "basher" is gone.

Basher definition, fits perfectly:

A individual who is unfriendly and/or commits harmful acts to group of people or an individual due to prejudice and/or ignorance.

[Robert DeLong]

What I find interesting is the comments left by readers. I wasn’t aware that so many conservatives read Politico. Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised. It’s good to hear a majority of conservatives posting on a highly liberal website.

[GOPJ]

If MSNBC had immediately suspend him for two months without pay - and he had come back after the suspension and made an abject apology he might have been able to keep his job. He is at a tacky liberal station after all - and their standards are none too high.

So if his PR man had wanted to help he would have asked MSNBC is suspend him. Too bad MSNBC lacked the wit and class to do it on their own.

[GOPJ]

If MSNBC had immediately suspended him for two months without pay - and he had come back after the suspension and made an abject apology he might have been able to keep his job. He is at a tacky liberal station after all - and their standards are none too high.

So if his PR man had wanted to help he would have asked MSNBC is suspend him. Too bad MSNBC lacked the wit and class to do it on their own.

[certrtwngnut]

“Your new audience will not be as large as the one you had before”.
So his audience will be cut in half. From 6 viewers to 3 viewers.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here is what's wrong with the entire frame of this article.

When Rush Limbaugh made a comment about Donovan McNabb on ESPN during a football game, he was not given the opportunity to apologize with the intent of keeping his position. He was summarily fired.

When Michael Savage made a comment about gays on his short-lived MSNBC TV show, he was not given the opportunity to apologize with the intent of keeping his position. He was summarily fired.

When Don Imus made a comment about the Rutgers Women's basketball team during an MSNBC simulcast of his radio show, he was not given the opportunity to apologize with the intent of keeping his position. He was summarily fired.

However, this article is supposing that Martin Bashir should have had the opportunity to retain his position, if only he had handled the apology differently. There is no accepting of the inevitability of his summary firing.

Rules for liberals are different than rules for conservatives.

-PJ

[Vaduz]

The left is in slow death mode.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I read the entire article and most advice included a suggestion that Bashir go on an apology tour, which is absurd on its face.

No conservative believes that Bashir actually regrets his comment. He regrets the consequences of his comment. If he could pay to see someone defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth, he would do so with no qualms about it.

So Martin Bashir can stick his apology where the sun doesn't shine and take up residence in the gutter where he belongs.