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How Low can MSNBC Go?
Townhall.com ^ | November 23, 2013 | Jeff Crouere

Posted on 11/23/2013 2:00:58 PM PST by Kaslin

MSNBC, the network of far left lunatics has taken their extreme hatred to a new level. Last week, host Martin Bashir called former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a “world class idiot” and a “resident dunce.” For good measure, he claimed she possessed a “long deceased mind.”

What provoked Bashir? In a recent speech, Palin said that “Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children, and borrowing from China. When that note comes due and this isn't racist, so try it. Try it anyway. This isn't racist. But it's going to be like slavery when that note is due.”

While this view may be controversial and even misguided, it did not merit such a malicious response from Bashir. Sadly, the host did not stop with nasty insults; he then related to his viewers the story of a long deceased slave master who committed horrible acts of brutality, including defecating on those he kept in bondage.

At that point, Bashir incredibly wished Palin would suffer such barbaric treatment. He read aloud a curse word for excrement and said that Palin “qualified” for a “dose” of such “discipline.” In effect, he wished that Palin would be kept in bondage and that an inhuman slave master would defecate on her.

Immediately after calling for the torture and mistreatment of Sarah Palin, this broadcaster should have been fired by his network bosses. Unfortunately, nothing happened to Bashir because he works for MSNBC, the same network that gives a prominent daily platform to Reverend Al Sharpton, who perpetrated the Tawana Brawley hoax.

Clearly there is a problem with MSNBC’s programming. This is the same network that was shamed into suspending the host of a weekly program, actor Alec Baldwin, for uttering anti-gay slurs. This is the same network that had to suspend Keith Olbermann for donating to Democrat candidates and suspended Ed Schultz for calling talk show host Laura Ingraham “a right-wing slut.”

Since MSNBC allows Bashir to remain on the air, it reflects poorly on the entire network. The decision reveals the type of liberal hate that permeates their management and on-air staff. If a similar comment had been made on CNN or Fox, the anchor would have been immediately fired. Evidently, MSNBC has much lower standards than its competition and must have to scrape the bottom of the broadcast barrel to find enough liberal blowhards to fill their schedule.

This episode also exposes the double standard about treatment toward conservatives, especially Sarah Palin. No one would dare make a similar comment about Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama or any prominent female leftist. In contrast, renowned members of the media savage Palin on a regular basis. If she is so extreme and such a disgrace, why does she engender so much hate? Undoubtedly, liberals are scared by her conservative message and her ability to effectively communicate. As a result, they demonize her and through their hate speech figuratively “defecate” on her. It is time for this obscene mistreatment to end.

NBC News operates MSNBC and must condone the hard left programming, but it is surprising that it allows hate speech to permeate their airwaves. Until MSNBC changes direction, let’s hope viewers and advertisers continue to abandon the network.

It is time to elevate the political discourse in our nation. We should encourage networks to allow a variety of views on their airwaves including a spirited debate on the important issues that impact our country. However, in the process, Americans should demand that all broadcasters show basic human decency toward each other and those in political leadership, even conservatives like Sarah Palin. As of today, on these important criteria, MSNBC is failing miserably.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: martinbashir; msnbclsd; sarahpalin
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Sarah Palin will be interviewed tomorrow by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday
1 posted on 11/23/2013 2:00:58 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Is this one of those calculus questions? I hated that course.


2 posted on 11/23/2013 2:02:22 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: Kaslin

How low will they go?As low as they’re ordered to go.


3 posted on 11/23/2013 2:05:15 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Kaslin

How Low can MANBC Go?

Lower than Whale Crap on the Ocean Floor.


5 posted on 11/23/2013 2:06:57 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Farmer Dean

White House marching orders. She is white and a woman conservative. Exactly the opposite of what leftists like.

In other words, she is a normal American.


6 posted on 11/23/2013 2:07:41 PM PST by dforest
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To: Kaslin

leftists who have any sense of shame or decency are switching to Al Jazeera.

Nobody watches Al Jazeera.


7 posted on 11/23/2013 2:08:57 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Kaslin

Seems to me the media of perpetual outrage has pretty much lost any ability to justify future faux outrage.


8 posted on 11/23/2013 2:09:59 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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Sarah Palin will be interviewed tomorrow by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday

I would love to hear her say that if Bashir thinks he has the cojones to try it, bring it on.

9 posted on 11/23/2013 2:13:25 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark, and reminder to watch.


10 posted on 11/23/2013 2:13:43 PM PST by miserare (Sebelius is Obama's Mengele.)
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To: Kaslin
While this view may be controversial and even misguided, it did not merit such a malicious response from Bashir.

Palin's "view" is precisely correct.

11 posted on 11/23/2013 2:15:30 PM PST by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: miserare

How Low can MSNBC go? All the way to Hell. Who do you think is running the show?


12 posted on 11/23/2013 2:17:22 PM PST by Rodm
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To: Farmer Dean

“How low will they go?”

To the cosmic depths of the utmost insanity that has ever infected the world.

IMHO


13 posted on 11/23/2013 2:24:17 PM PST by ripley
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To: Kaslin

Can we get lower than 0 rating just asking


14 posted on 11/23/2013 2:25:35 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Graybeard58
Palin's "view" is precisely correct.

Sometime, when you're having a discussion with a liberal, try this: when they talk about the need for some new government program, or more money for an existing program or "service," just calmly say, "We're trillions in debt. There is no money." When they continue on their ramblings, say it again. My experience is they just look at you, blink, and carry on. And this has happened with a few libs I know. It's like their mind cannot process there being no money left for more government. They literally cannot even imagine it.

15 posted on 11/23/2013 2:25:49 PM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: dforest

She is also the most logical person to oppose Hillary in 2016.

That’s why the MSM is playing the Knockout Game with Sarah Palin


16 posted on 11/23/2013 2:26:44 PM PST by miserare (Sebelius is Obama's Mengele.)
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To: Kaslin

MS what? NB what..


17 posted on 11/23/2013 2:26:47 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Kaslin
as low as it has to, to keep the LOW information voters watching...
18 posted on 11/23/2013 2:30:25 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Kaslin

Well there is the Marianas Trench. Then there are whales. Then there are things that whales do. MSNBC is below that.


19 posted on 11/23/2013 2:33:03 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Chode

why would anyone agree to go on his show, essentially perpetuating the insane hatred?


20 posted on 11/23/2013 2:34:05 PM PST by stanne
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