Posted on 12/10/2013 12:37:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Whoops, there it is: Sarah Palin’s fear of enslavement to the Chinese may actually be true. “Don’t wish for something, you just might get it” is a paraphrase of the often-cited Chinese proverb. The former GOP vice presidential nominee had called on MSNBC to cancel Martin Bashir’s talk show. Bashir was, at the time, serving as the conscience of the network, striking fear into those who defied political correctness.
Not since King George has a Brit been so brash. Leaving aside Piers what’s-his-name, perhaps.
To no one’s surprise, a few weeks ago. Marty found something Ms. Palin said to be idiotic. Like that is new? This is the reason Roger Ailes at Fox News decided not to renew her contract, a polite way to say, to quote a great line from the movie “Moneyball,” that “she lacked confidence” at her position as political commentator. Even the Foxy conservatives had long grown tired of Palin’s woe is me conservative victimization routine.
But Marty, trying to earn his bones, as Tony Soprano might have said, couldn’t resist. Had MSNBC not left him twisting in the wind but instead at least done an Ailes-light thing — suspend him, censure him, make him kiss the right behind in Times Square after waiting an hour for a crowd to gather – Mr. Bashir would be in the same place, with a daily television talk show and no real audience. But they refused. He then apologized, hoping this would stem the political bleeding. But an apology without punishment is just spin, a pound of flesh needs to be taken, so to speak.
Since I and many others had called for him to be fired, his resigning is de facto the same thing....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Huh?
Palin didn’t say anything about the matter for a week after the public on-air insult.
She never said a word until Bashir apologized.
Then she made a rather gracious comment and did ‘let it go’.
It’s the left that won’t let it go. Ever.
I am no Sarah fan. Most of you know that. But in all of the interviews on this I saw her accept his apology and say we need to move on.
Not sure what this guy is talking about.
The sort of thing that an online GOPe rag would publish.
first off, she did let what he said go.
Someone asked HER to comment on Bashir. She said quite graciously that “I need to forgive him and move on”.
The Left has a problem with that apparently.
On many separate occasions, Congressional committees have conducted hearings investigating (witch-hunting) into alleged gasoline price fixing. Every single one came up empty, even though the politicians driving the hearings desperately wanted to find such price-fixing. If BOR and others want to conclude nonetheless that :everyone knows” that price fixing is going on, evidence be damned, then that is their liberal-mindset problem.
PAUL, I think the dump should have been directed in your mouth
Huh? AFAIK, Palin herself never said anything but basically that she’s used to being attacked. So what exactly was she supposed to let go?!
Leftism is a mental illness...
Bashir was, at the time, serving as the conscience of the network, striking fear into those who defied political correctness.
So, he was an enforcer of political correctness.
Got it. A kapo, a goon, a verbal thug, yep.
They can't seem to find any problem with crooked congress members either, who could have foreseen that?
Do you remember Price Wars, or was that before your time?
That Congress has a conflict of interest in investigating itself has absolutely no bearing on Congress’s ability to investigate whether petrobusinesses have price-fixed retail gasoline.
And my age has nothing to do with the lack of evidence. I can read. I am sure you can too, but you don’t want to go read the numerous Congressional reports, or even summaries of them, because that just might challenge your LIBERAL fixation on the non-fact that gas prices are fixed by eeeeevil big corporations.
Nice chatting with you, but I’m done now, whether or not YOU are.
I was just passing on a tip for a Canadian ignorant of U.S. law. I don’t know how many other Canadian airports have U.S. customs outposts, but it’s probably not a good idea to try to sneak it past customs at Pearson. Just put it in the trunk of your car when you go shopping in Buffalo.
Thanks! I don’t smoke or toke anymore. Maybe the odd glass of wine or odd beer on a hot summer evening. When I stopped drinking vast quantities of beer, I think it effected the share price of Molson’s stock!
Until I am back to work full time, and get the divorce resolved, I don’t expect to be taking any trips south for a while. Next winter, the good Lord willing, I’ll spend a couple of weeks in the mountains outside of Panama City with some friends who winter there. The way they describe it, it will be tough to come back!
I remember the night of Jan 4, 1994, at the Valhalla Hotel in Kitchner, -25 F, wind howling like a bashee, sitting in the dining room nursing a pasta primavera and a Molson’s. It gets cold in the great white north. Friggin’ cold.
No.
“Did Palin herself suggest that Bashir’s show be cancelled?”
No.
Which means this guy’s article is discredited from the very first paragraph.
But does he care about truth? Not at all.
AFA driving, I think it is worse on the Prairies. Usually, a cold snap, lower than -10F, only lasts a day or two in ON, then it warms up to where salt and calcium on the roads melt the ice and snow.
Not the same on the Prairies, where the cold can last a week or longer, cold enough that calcium does not work. Several days after a snowstorm, with all the traffic on main arteries, the snow becomes ice and is polished by all the tires braking, making intersections very difficult and icy. A man was killed on Deerfoot Trail (major expressway in Calgary) yesterday, when he had an accident, got out of his vehicle to inspect the damage and was killed when another vehicle hit the two disabled vehicles, which ran him over.
Really Paul, really?
Pretty BAD conscience, eh? :)
What you read is more important than how well you read.
Before OPEC there was true competition in the Gasoline market after OPEC our indigenous producers were happy to raise their price to match the Market Price set by OPEC.
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