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Martin Bashir Calls Upon Herman Cain To Resign From Church Over Alleged Ginger White Affair

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As speculation about scandal-besieged Republican candidate Herman Cain‘s political future continues to abound, MSNBC host Martin Bashir called upon the former Godfather Pizza CEO to resign from his church over his alleged 13-year affair with Ginger White. “If Mr. Cain is to drop out of the Republican race, isn’t it time he also considered resigning his position as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in Atlanta?” Bashir asked. “If Mr. Cain withdraws from politics, then he must surely resign his position in the church, because one thing is for certain– hypocrites can lie in the pew, but they should never lead from the pulpit.”

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“We contacted the church just an hour ago,” Bashir disclosed. “But they refused to deny or confirm Mr. Cain’s role. In fact, they wouldn’t say a single role about the Republican candidate but if Herman Cain proves to be lying and drops out of the race, doesn’t that also disqualify him from holding a position in the local church? Mr. Cain’s church is part of the National Baptist Convention of the US, founded in 1880, the second largest in the entire Baptist union, with almost 8 million members nationwide. In their statement of faith, they say this, “Nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth, but his own determined depravity and voluntary rejection of the gospel.”

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  • Anonymous

    MICHELLE, we are still waiting for you to CODEMN CAIN like you SAID YOU WOULD.

  • Anonymous

    I call on this character to act like an MSNBC professional newsman.

    Oh, he is.  Forget it.

  • Anonymous

    What is it with smug liberals and their need to call for people to resign, get fired, apologize, be taken off the airwaves, etc?

  • Anonymous

    what you problem ?  you need a ass kickin’

  • Henry Wood

    You mean like all the smug conservatives who were calling for Questlove to be fired from Latenight with Jimmy Fallon?  Who demanded apologies from Fallon?

    Obviously this is a stupid thing for Bashir to expect, though.

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    The best part of MSNBC is 10:00pm eastern on Friday. Lockup.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I’m glad teabaggers like Beck didn’t demand people apologize or get fired over the Jimmy Fallon flap.

  • Anonymous

    Go to sensitivity classes or a diversity course.  Or add your name to the Drop Fox campaign.

    None of the mainstream conservatives voices I’ve heard asked for Questlove to be fired…Including Bachmann herself!

    It’s fine to be outraged, but the markets sort these things out.

     

  • Anonymous

    Really?  Send me a link where Beck asked for someone to be fired over the incident.  I could be wrong…

  • Gloves T. Donahue

    To entertain the mouthbreathers that watch this dreck, this lowlife calls the man’s church.

    How dare he.

  • Anonymous

    Beck demanded an apology.  Hundreds of other teabaggers demanded a firing.

    Do you even read this site?

  • Anonymous

    lol…Bashir always takes it to far and looks like an idiot.

    Even more so than Lawrence O’Donnell.

  • Anonymous

    Big_Fag_Dave can not be fired as he doesn’t work.

  • Anonymous

    Real Americans call on Bashir to go back to Pakistan.

  • Henry Wood

    There are no mainstream conservative voices anymore.

  • Michael J Keane

    This is insane. You called his church? To do what? Tell on him? Cain’s relationship with whatever deity he believes in is his own business, and so is the church he wants to attend. And for that matter, the church gets to decide who it wants to associate with, not Martin Bashir. I’m not a religious person at all, but I grew up with Christian religious principles, and if Cain really believes in the teachings of Jesus, then a church is the FIRST place he should go if he actually cheated on his wife.

    This honestly grosses me out.

  • Anonymous

    I’m starting to think Herbie wont bow out tomorrow.

    He will take it to the first coupla primaries, lose badly, and then blame his departure on that.

    Still more fun to be had.  :)

  • Anonymous

    If that is fun for Big_Fag_Dave then he is even a bigger loser than I originally thought.  Get a job and get a life.

  • Anonymous

    awwwwww sad little tea billy.

  • Anonymous

    Martin needs to resign from the human race- he is a disaster.

  • Anonymous

    Oh brother!  Now MSNBC has religion?

    Please, this faux outrage from the left over these unproven allegations is getting ridiculous.  These are Slick’s peeps afterall.

  • Anonymous

    Sounds like the stalker is upset.

  • Anonymous

    Next they will be talking about the grace of God and not that of Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Rahm should be fired. Fast and Furious.

  • Anonymous

    Turk – Didn’t you know that demanding an apology is the same as firing!!!

  • Anonymous

    It gets more viewers than its normal programming.

  • Anonymous

    That is really funny, Henry- Tommy Christopher demanded Boehner resign as Speaker of the House because he asked Obama to change the date on which he would address  the joint Congress.

    Talk about a laugher!

  • Anonymous

    Poor BFD

    Tommy Christopher demanded Boehner resign as Speaker of the House because he asked Obama to change the date on which he would address the joint Congress.Talk about a laugher!

    And if what happened on the how didn’t require an apology, why did Fallon and Questlove apologize then?

  • Anonymous

    And libs demanding apologies because someone referred to Obama by his complete name? and for referring to him as a a community organizer? or as “that one?”

  • Anonymous

    Yes, that’s where you will find all MSNBC anchors!

  • Anonymous

     More vacation for  Obama:

    On Saturday, December 17th, 2011, the President will travel to Honolulu, Hawaii. He will return to Washington, DC on Monday, January 2nd, 2012. ……no public events are scheduled during the trip. ..
     

  • Anonymous

    wow, you are almost as big a pussy as greg…

  • Anonymous

    What the hell does this Arab care if Herman Cain participates in a Baptist church?  The “reverend” Jesse Jackson has an out-of-wedlock child. Has Mr. Bashir made the same demand of him? What a loser

  • Henry Wood

    Ixnay, Water Closet!

    The whole point of turk’s post was to lie and pretend that conservatives never demand apologies or resignations!

    Now you went and screwed that up.

  • Henry Wood

    Do you live in some alternate reality where these things happened?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    All the angry little conservatives showed up for this one!

    Too bad Bashir will be getting the last laugh when “Herb” drops out of the race tomorrow.

    I guess he’ll have more time to spend at his “church”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Its called Christmas Break moron-the house and senate won’t be in session either!

    LOL 

  • Anonymous

    Mark always has time to pick up his welfare check.

  • Michelle

    You’re clearly reading imparied because I have several times.

  • Michelle

    He also said Cain is going to hell.  I would LOVE to ask Martin where he thinks JFK and Teddy are right now. 

  • Michelle

    He’s going to Asia for Christmas?

  • Henry Wood

    Hawaii is not in Asia, sweetie.

  • FormerlyLib

    Absolutely wonderful reply.  How can Martin Bashir remain on the air? MSNBC should be called out for allowing him to remain. How can Bashir be so self-righteous?

    Bashir really just wants Cain to resign his position. But Bashir has no business as to who the church has as an associate pastor.  That is up to the church board.

    And yes, if Cain is guilty, the first place he should be is at his church.

  • Michelle

    According to Obama, it is.  Thanks for playing!!

  • Anonymous

    It is difficult to figure out if MSNBC’s intellect comes from Bashir or Sharpton.

    Good Lord!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    No wonder you’re so angry all the time; you are deeply damaged.

  • Anonymous

    We will be hearing from the hospital on Monday, that Cain is dropping out of the race.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe he’ll bump into Sharon Bialek when he’s in line.

  • Anonymous

    Right–it’s one of the 57 states that Barry visited during his 2008 campaign.

  • Anonymous

    Bashir and Sharpton have the same feeling towards jews.  They both wish that they will be exterminated.  That is one reason why Mark Williams is a big fan of both.

  • Pablo

    You can’t blame BFD. He’s handicapped.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    Going by this Logic after the Monica scandal Bill Clinton should have resigned form his church.  Now after doing something like what is alleged shouldn’t the person seek our religion if its true and not go in the opposite direction??? 

  • Rex derWunderGott

    This headline is wrong: it’s not that Ginger White is “alleged”, and it’s not that Ginger White is “alleging” a relationship of SOME sort, because Creepy Cain has already admitted that something is going on, it’s just that Creepy can’t say what (As Creepy would put it, Ah have not HAD the – oppor-TOON-itee – to discuss this – alleged contro-versy – with all the PO-tentially affected pahties. So, Ah’m onna fact-finding mission.). The only part that really is “in dispute” *cough* he hasn’t figured out whether to keep lying or come up with some substitute line to feed to Ruthie *cough* is the part involving Creepy’s Hermanosator bein’ inserted into Ginger’s lady parts. So, the headline should be:
    Martin Bashir Calls Upon Herman Cain To Resign From Church Over Ginger White “Alleged” Affair.

    And that’s ALSO weird: Why would Bashir be calling on a hypocrite to quit a superstition over a little thing like a White lie, which pols do like breathing?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Since when do I listen to a Pakistani guy born in the UK for my life’s lessons? I’ll do that when I come to him for the secret of a microphone and not the other way around.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed. Why do liberals insist on butting into other people’s lives, instructing them how to live?  If anyone has the right to say this, it’s Cain’s pastor, so Bashir needs to either don the frock or shut the mouth.

  • Anonymous

    This son of Pakistani origin would never call upon President Obama to resign for bombing Pakistani villages killing innocent Paksitani babies, women and children….

    Yet he would rather call upon Herman Cain to resign to satisfy his fundamentalist ideology. 

  • Anonymous

    WHO is Martin Bashir? WHY do I only see his name here on Mediaite? DOES ANYONE actually care what he says or does? 

  • us995

    he stinks i think msnbc will be calling for him to resign soon

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    My thoughts exactly… I mean honestly, where the hell does this prick get the balls to make this an issue? A story? Good Lord he is an Olbermann with an accent, and better glasses.

  • Pablo

    Cain has already admitted that something is going on, it’s just that Creepy can’t say what

    Something is going on? You’re still breathing! Something is going on!!

    The salient point is what’s NOT going on, and that’s been mentioned quite prominently and repeatedly.

  • Pablo

    Strangely enough, this little rodent makes Olbermann look classy.

  • Pablo

    Hey, why did Obama fire Van Jones? And why won’t he explain how or why he was hired?

  • Anonymous

    How can Chris Matthews remain on air? How can Lawrence O’Donnell, Al Sharpton, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz remain on air? How can the entire MSNBC remain on air?

    In spite of losing money hand over fist, General Electric WILL support MSNBC.

    And if and when GE comes to its senses – after all, they are a BUSINESS – 0bama will support MSNBC with taxpayers money.

    A crook would never give up a slavish and slobbering mouthpiece. 

  • Pablo

    Really? To whom did he make this demand? Did he email Questlove? Did he text Fallon?  Source, please.

  • Anonymous

    This utterly and totally despicable midget of mentality is on MSNBC, because MSNBC is striving for ethnic versatility, regardless how stupid that idea makes them.

    Versatility in views? Not so much.

  • Anonymous

    Marty is simply Eddie Munster with glasses, but he’s an ‘always-angry’ Eddie Munster with glasses. He’s an inbred leftist media hack, which basically means he’s not in a position to ‘call upon’ ANYONE to do what he suggests.

    Happily, Eddie Munster will be one livid Leftist media hack for the next year and beyond.

  • Anonymous

    I tend to agree with your Eddie Munster tag, and I do not know why Bashir even went there, but the rest of your post is hilarious. Are you watching what is going on, grb? The republicans are about to select Newt Gringrich as their presidential candidate.

  • FormerlyLib

    But here’s why the Obamas are thoughtless jerks.

    Most all recent presidents have spent Christmas at either Camp David or the White House out of respect for their staff and security details. If I remember correctly, the Clintons spent a Christmas early in their first term in South Carolina. They felt so bad for their staff and security details being away from their families at Christmas that they vowed to spend all future Christmases at either Camp David or the White House. Both Bushes and the Reagans spent all or most of their Christmases at the WH or Camp David also giving the reason as respect for their staff and security. Obama has not spent any Christmas since his election in the DC area but drags all staff and security all the way to Hawaii without any feelings for all those away from their families at Christmas.

    And I’m sure the Obamas are aware of this tradition but just don’t care one bit.

  • FormerlyLib

    You are so right.  How could I have given the distinction for being a lying, worthless piece of subhuman  trash to Bashir alone? Almost all MSNBC hosts are  trying to outdo themselves as the worst, most dishonorable, most lying TV host ever

  • Anonymous

    Let us not forget that while MSNBC airs political commentary, which is biased, hateful and one-sided, FOX airs NEWS by Bret Baer and Shepard Smith, at 6:00 and 7:00 ET, respectively and respectfully.

  • Anonymous

    Martin Bashir CAN NOT resign from the human race, because he has never been a human.

    Two reasons: He is a LIBERAL and he is a PAKISTANI.

    Three, actually, he is a LIMEY, as well.

  • Anonymous

    They are both lucky not to be as big a DICCK as you.

  • Anonymous

    Well, as long as we’re in the business of telling people how to conduct their religious lives, I think Martin Bashir should resign from his mosque.

    Now, watching THAT would make for good TV.

    Let’s show it five times a day and call it “Headless Heretics.”

  • Holistic

    Its becoming clearer that there is a race between Bashir and Ed Schultz as to who is the least influential. It coming to be a tie.

  • Anonymous

    Your reference to Herman Cain as “HERBIE” validates every reference to 0bama as “BOY”.

  • Anonymous

    Or maybe it just validates Sarah Palin is an idiot when she started calling him “Herb” on FOX.

  • Anonymous

    I “allege” that Martin Bashir is a queer and I call on all Muslims to behead him
    A great way for him to lose 50 pounds of ugly fat.

  • Anonymous

    The race is actually about who is more despicable.

    And both of these worthies had better watch their rear end because Lawrence O’Donnell, Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews are in their rear view mirror in the most threatening and offensive way.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, GE doesn’t care. Remember they made 14 billion last year and paid no taxes. I’m sure they’re writing off MSNBC as a loss. 

  • Anonymous

    that means so much coming from a twat-waffle like you…

  • Porphyry

    Hey, Marty Bashter, go lie in your own poo! If it ain’t your church, you ain’t got any authority to say “pew” about it–even if you are the paragon of (self-) righteousness you imagine!

  • Anonymous

    OK, now I would like to know just what Herman Cain did to these less than stellar women with numerous troubles in their own life including the need for survival funds, but able to attract prehensile pettifogers & snollygosters to create cacoethes among public service unions, trial lawyers, 1-2% rich Wall St investment bankers, Hollywood elites, 1-2% Ivory Tower intellectuals, and generic progressives along with the remaining assemblages which includes some of the least educated, least successful, and least informed citizens in the country. The evidence against our 42nd President was herculean compared to that against Herman  Cain. 

  • http://twitter.com/Moishgil Mitch Gilbert

    Rush Limbaugh Laughed All The Way Through Cain’s Withdrawal Speech http://wp.me/p1Jt6N-kn  

  • Anonymous

    I guess you’ve never watched fox go on for a month talking about where President Obama went to church and the pastor of that church. Rightturds can’t stand when their holier than thou family values are questioned.

  • Anonymous

    My question is how can Aussie Scandle ridden Murdoch and Saudi money backed FOX dare stay on the air?

  • Anonymous

    OOps, you missed the former host Glenn Beckerhead, Bill-O  the clown, slanthead Hannity, and Fox and Fiends the  rest of the time.

  • Anonymous

    Oh well, a big chunk of change from FOX went to foriegner Murdoch and the Saudis. I’m pretty sure they didn’t pay US taxes.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t count on it.

  • Holistic

    Sadly what you state is true.

  • LibelFreeZone

    What has “tea” got to do with the fact that Martin Bashir is a yellow journalist hack?

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