Evidently you CAN be too rude to Sarah Palin on a “Progressive” “News” Station:
They’re calling it a resignation to let him save face but Politico heard through the grapevine yesterday that he’d been suspended for what he said about Palin. Essentially he gambled that, on the left’s cable news network of choice, you simply can’t go too far in insulting the right generally and Sarah Palin in particular. Turns out he was wrong — fantasizing on-air about sh*tting in people’s mouths is the red line, it seems. But be fair: Based on MSNBC’s track record, the odds were with him, no?
In a barrel full of rotten apples, he really was the worst….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.
Of course with the recent talk of Piers Morgan’s days being numbered, it might just be an excuse for a shuffle on the low-ratings network. Still I never thought these swine had any limits when it came to bashing Conservatives!
I deeply regret what was said, will endeavor to work hard at making constructive contributions in the future …. -Martin Bashir
I just love it when someone mock-apologizes for verbal asshattery with “I deeply regret what was said.” Way to take responsibility for your actions. I mean, I deeply regret the Sack of Constantinople, the Spanish Inquisition, and Watergate for that matter, but I’m not taking ownership of any of those. Of course, I doubt Mr Bashir feels sorry for what he said, and only regrets that it bit him in his ample posterior, so the statement probably does have the virtue of accuracy in that regard.