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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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To: Kaslin
How Low can MSNBC Go?

Is this a trick question?

41 posted on 11/23/2013 4:01:36 PM PST by stevem
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To: miserare

You can watch it on your local Fox channel. It also is repeated on FNC, I have my cable box set so it records it automatically from the regular Fox channel and then watch the video after Fox and Friends. This way I can forward the video when Chris Wallace has a commie on


42 posted on 11/23/2013 4:12:11 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

MSNBC has long been rather unhinged.

But nowadays it’s adding a downright creepy/perverted vibe. It’s become the roadside restroom stall of the news industry.


43 posted on 11/23/2013 4:13:37 PM PST by greene66
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To: Clintonfatigued

You must have a very strong stomach if you can watch that channel.


44 posted on 11/23/2013 4:15:19 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: jjotto

He may have to use the back door of the Church after all of this week’s fun.What a douche he is.


45 posted on 11/23/2013 4:21:01 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
While this view may be controversial and even misguided

Oh bullcrap. If we don't get ahold of our spending, we all are going to be sucking at the teat of the fedzilla for all of our needs.

If that doesn't constitute slavery, then I don't know what does.

46 posted on 11/23/2013 5:23:21 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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To: JennysCool

You’re forgetting the orchards full of money growing trees in the Potomac Basin...


47 posted on 11/23/2013 5:53:54 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: Kaslin

Hatemongering from the left. It will only get worse.


48 posted on 11/23/2013 7:14:22 PM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; Impy; GOPsterinMA

But the problem is, hardly anyone else watches it except the hardcore Marxist moonbats and those monitoring the network for the opposition. Unless someone on our side happens to notice what’s being said, it’s largely going to go ignored with the general public (and even if it is reported, since their ideological buddies aren’t going to rat on or criticize them on the other networks).


49 posted on 11/23/2013 10:38:07 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Kaslin
Evil is what evil does. Evil has reason to believe it has gained the upper hand.God will have something to add to the mix, but we will all suffer until He decides to set things right.
50 posted on 11/24/2013 3:38:15 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; Impy; NFHale

Einsatzgruppen is the answer.


51 posted on 11/24/2013 8:52:44 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (You're a very weird person, Yossarian.)
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To: Farmer Dean

He probably does to his wife what he suggests for Palin.

He is definitely a perv. Pakistani men are brutes.


52 posted on 11/24/2013 12:33:17 PM PST by miserare (Sebelius is Obama's Mengele.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If that doesn't constitute slavery, then I don't know what does. HMMMmmm...

Tax FREEDOM day was WHEN last year?

53 posted on 11/24/2013 1:56:44 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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