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Martin Bashir Resigns from MSNBC, Disappointing Dozens of Viewers

Posted on | December 4, 2013 | 62 Comments

When you think about all the evil things the liberal media have said about Sarah Palin over the years, you know it took a special kind of stupid for Martin Bashir to say something so grossly offensive he had to resign from MSNBC because of it:

“Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments. . . .
“I deeply regret what was said, will endeavor to work hard at making constructive contributions in the future and will always have a deep appreciation for our viewers.”

Liberals are better than you and me because . . . they’re liberals,” as I observed at the time of Bashir’s fateful comments. Believing that their politics makes them inherently superior, liberals feel no obligation to cultivate ordinary virtues or even simple courtesy.

Allahpundit recounts a few of Bashir’s lowlights:

This is a guy who took Mormon-themed digs at Mitt Romney; brought on a shrink to analyze the allegedly violent, possibly psychotic tendencies of tea partiers; accused Republicans of treating the word “IRS” as a racist dog-whistle against Obama; and wondered if Rick Santorum wasn’t some sort of theocratic second coming of Stalin. When Steve Jobs died two years ago, he turned his on-air eulogy into an excuse to — ta da — bash Sarah Palin again. All of this is par for the course on MSNBC so imagine Bashir’s surprise, after all of that, upon finding out that introducing a little actual rhetorical scat into the figurative scat-flinging at righties was an unpardonable sin worthy of suspension. I’ll bet he’s mystified even now.

Via Memeorandum, with more blog commentary from Jeff DunetzEd DriscollWeasel ZippersAndrew Johnson at National Review, Patrick Howley at Daily CallerRoss Kaminsky at The American Spectator and William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection.

By the way, Sarah Palin spoke at Liberty University today and said, “There are the world’s standards of perfection and God’s standards of perfection.” And then there are the MSNBC standards.

 

Comments

62 Responses to “Martin Bashir Resigns from MSNBC, Disappointing Dozens of Viewers”

  1. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:25 pm
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    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:25 pm

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  4. Citzcom
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:25 pm

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  5. jwbrown1969
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:25 pm

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  6. MattMackowiak
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm

    –> RT @MrEvilMatt: Martin Bashir Resigns from MSNBC, Disappointing Dozens of Viewers — http://t.co/7gkKkcfhRp

  7. robertaho
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm

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  8. minyetchik
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:29 pm

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  9. frelling_cute
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:30 pm

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  10. RS
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:32 pm

    One of the many reasons, I don’t have cable.

  11. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:34 pm

    Even if you get the lowest cable or dish service available, they always throw in MSNBC. That tells you something.

  12. Bookwormdearlor
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:36 pm

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  13. _MGrey_
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:37 pm

    @smitty_one_each Chris Mathews and Tommy Christopher are not dozens.

  14. rsmccain
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:38 pm

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  15. SmallgGay
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm

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  16. exposeliberals
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:39 pm

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  17. NJIvorygirl
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:40 pm

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  18. librarygryffon
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm

    I just think of the other ways you can interpret “special” and wonder if Bashir really wanted us to think of MSNBC that way (although they are all apt).

  19. WWren
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:41 pm

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  20. Iain Murray
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:42 pm

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  21. Tweet4_Life
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:43 pm

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  22. Dana
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    Once again, you have erred by using the plural of “dozen.”

  23. Mark604YVR
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm

    RT @rsmccain: Martin Bashir Resigns from MSNBC, Disappointing Dozens of Viewers http://t.co/t3oFicZth1 #tcot

  24. Brandt Hardin
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:45 pm

    Bashir only too elegantly put what we all have been thinking for the past five years. Since she quit her post in Alaska, Palin hasn’t run for public office but still plays the part of politician who calls her constituents “fans.” What exactly does she do other than essentially proposition her self and image to the highest bidder? Sounds like Sarah is America’s highest paid escort! See how down and dirty she’ll get for the money at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ecstasy-of-sarah-palin_15.html

  25. Dana
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:47 pm

    And here Mr Hardin tells us exactly what he really thinks. I appreciate his honesty; it’s so rare from the left.

  26. briankellykelly
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:49 pm

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  27. Dana
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:51 pm

    I have to wonder why Mr Hardin was resigned. After all, given the demographic of MSNBC’s audience, he was speaking only to people who agreed with him! He wasn’t chasing his 11 viewers off, and might even have inspired them to to watch MSNBC more, and thus see more of their ads for erectile dysfunction medications, which we know that liberals need anyway.

    Except for the lesbians, I suppose.

  28. TiminAL
    December 4th, 2013 @ 5:56 pm

    I just thought he was being generous

  29. JadedByPolitics
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:04 pm

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  30. FenelonSpoke
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:07 pm

    Who’s “we all”? I have never, ever thought that I would like to shit in somebody’s mouth or anywhere else on them.

    I prefer not to click on your link.

  31. Bibowen
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:09 pm

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  32. BProhodski
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:10 pm

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  33. RS
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:12 pm

    I do find it amusing that Ms. Palin has taken up residence in your mind, rent free, to the point where you’re reduced to peddling your rather primitive creations by dropping comments on other peoples’ blogs. And, even though you aspire to some sort of chic, sophisticated salience, your comment nonetheless manages to misuse the word “constituents,” even though you acknowledge that Ms. Palin holds no political office and thus, has none, not to mention attempting to turn the word “proposition” into a transitive verb, which it is not. I suppose literacy is not a prerequisite to “back of the matchbook” art courses.

    And, BTW Andres Serrano did the whole “edgy profane religious icon” thing a long time ago. Your stuff is just derivative and pathetic.

  34. richard mcenroe
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm

    How can this generation do anything new? They weren’t told anything new to repeat. /sarc

  35. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:29 pm

    Hardin, are you vying for Bashir’s job at MSNBC?

  36. RS
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:32 pm

    Meant “reflexive” verb, not “transitive.”

    Shoot.

  37. PubliusNV
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:38 pm

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  38. CindyBP
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:39 pm

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  39. AmPowerBlog
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:40 pm

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  40. IdaFlo
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:41 pm

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  41. kshaidle
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:46 pm

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  42. Josh_Painter
    December 4th, 2013 @ 6:47 pm

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  45. Quartermaster
    December 4th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm

    RSM is usually quite generous.

  46. screwtape1a12
    December 4th, 2013 @ 7:20 pm

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  47. Professor_Why
    December 4th, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

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  48. Basilisk
    December 4th, 2013 @ 8:39 pm

    Today the test pattern chosen to replace Martin Bashir was terminated for utilizing imagery deemed disrespectful to Native Americans.

  49. Bob Belvedere
    December 4th, 2013 @ 8:43 pm

    Wow! You’re so transgressive, man.

    And your style is so deeply amateurish why it’s high art!

    Someday – and that day won’t be far off if there’s any justice in Gaia’s Universe – you’ll be famous among those who are just as cretinous as you, Clyde.

  50. BornOnTheBayou9
    December 4th, 2013 @ 8:46 pm

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