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Staying Classy: Martin Bashir Exploits Steve Jobs’ Death To Slam Sarah Palin

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The final segment of Martin Bashir‘s eponymous MSNBC show is titled “Clear The Air,” and in it the newish MSNBC anchor offers his own special commentary on a variety of topics, usually culled from the day’s news. In today’s segment, he compared the lives and contributions of two disparate, and contrasting, public figures, both of whom were in the news yesterday, though for very different reasons. Sarah Palin announced that she would not be running for President came along with the sad news of Steve Jobs death. Oddly, Bashir saw the death of the Apple founder as a means to score political points against Palin. Too soon? It will always be too soon for this sort of comparison.

Regardless of what you might think of Sarah Palin or Steve Jobs, the comparison of why, and how, they were in the news yesterday is an odd angle at best. To use the career and impact of Jobs — of which Bashir is understandably a huge fan — as a means to slam Palin feels both inappropriate, and counter to the intelligent world that Jobs aimed to create.

Bashir ended his segment by saying “Although the death of Steve Jobs coincided with Sarah Palin’s announcement, it has been a helpful accident of fate,” adding “because it allows us to realize and commemorate the greatness of one’s individual’s contribution, and the utter futility of the other.”

4PM host Dylan Rattigan found the comment to be quite moving, and said as much to Bashir during the toss to his show.

But what seemed intended to be an homage to a great American visionary felt, instead, like a petty and small political hit on someone who is only made more relevant because of poorly thought-out commentaries like this. Watch the video below, courtesy of MSNBC:

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  • Anonymous

    What a lowlife Bashir is . Not a shock .

    Lefties can take their boot off Sarah’s throat now .

  • http://twitter.com/kabmn00 kevin

    British POS

  • Anonymous

    No surprise here….he is trash.

  • Anonymous

    Are there any Liberals left in this Country who are not vile scumbags?

    I don’t know of any!!!

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    I hope MSNBC ads him to their 2012 election night coverage.

    I for one wouldn’t miss that meltdown !1!!

    [Comcast needs to clean house]

  • Anonymous

    Captain Green Card strikes again….what a surprise
    from an Ed Schultz clone.

  • Anonymous

    What a putz. He deserves the scorn he is getting.

  • Anonymous

    Sure. There are lots of liberals and conservatives that are not vile scumbags. Sadly, none of them are on TV.

  • Anonymous

    This is why millions are leaving Comcast and going to Direct TV, Verizon or any other cable outlet.  Why in the world would anybody want to reward these creatures with their hard earned dollars.  I am calling for a Comcast boycott.  EPSN fires Hank Jr for a comment that was said many times about Bush on this very network.  BoyCott Comast now.

  • Anonymous

    Truth hurts.

  • S R Karenova

    I am truly upset. Sarah Palin has lived nothing but a life of sakrifice and generosity towards others. It’s a shaim that she has decided not to run for President, but I know the Lord has other plans for her. I’m very happy that she has been consulting Him for His Guidance during this difficult time of deciding to run or not. Shaim on Mister Bashir for joining Katie Couric and the rest of the lamestream pile on of Sarah. God bless Sarah Palin. And God bless the United States of America.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M5V6VTQAVLARF7XXO47Z5OCZWM TangledThorns

    Wow, what slime to use someone death like this.

  • Anonymous

    ‘The greatness of one individual’s contribution and the utter futility of the other.’ Martin Bashir

    Well, that certainly was a bashing. Although, I imagine ardent Palin supporters are feeling pretty numbed to everything right now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    The coment about Steve Jobs was good. But why bring Plain into it. I don’t like her at all. But there is a time and place. If your praseing someone who died. You don’t take shots at someone who has nothing to do with it.

  • Concerned Citizen

    It is just unreal the hatred against Sarah Palin by liberals. Exactly what has she done to deserve vitriol from the left? She should be praised for coming from nothing to becoming the governor of a state to a VP candidate but because she has a R next to her name and is pro-life the main stream liberal media had to take her out. Sadly all the false stories and attacks have ruined her reputation among the majority of Americans that don’t get past wathching the nightly news on abc/cbs/nbc/cnn and msnbc. 

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC-what a place (to stay away from).

  • Cecelia

    “instead, like a petty and small political hit on someone who is
    only made more relevant because of poorly thought-out commentaries like
    this.”

    Oh, dear…

  • Blocker

    wah wah wah, you all sound like the spoiled brat, big shot right wing nut jobs that you are— WHAH!

  • Ralph

    And which one is a part of the media’s game — the dude making gadgets or the woman touting sound bites?

  • Anonymous

    Bashir and Rattigan reveal their true selves in these comments, and it’s petty and sad.

    I used to watch Rattigan on CNBC, he was all flash and lacked any real insight, but I’m still shocked that he’s become just a bottom-feeder lately.  

  • Anonymous

    Regretfully, there is NO KNOWN CURE for the mental disease known as PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome) of the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialist extremists.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    I am surprised Bashir did not decide to go right after Steve Jobs. I mean he is an evil capitalist that made his money off the backs of the underclass and went to elitist universities. ohhhh wait.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_THOU6JAE2DW4O77NWI4UP566Z4 Michael

    This guy is total trash…fits the network though.

  • http://www.scoamf.com/2011/08/hitler-realizes-obama-is-stuttering.html Unicon

    Dylan sure was sucking up to that spiel..

    He must be a little worried about his earlier spat with Fat Ed. 

  • Anonymous

    I disagree with you, Colby. I believe Martin was trying to portray how small Palin has become, when in the past — no matter what type of ‘ground-breaking’ news occurred – this pig in lipstick managed to steal headlines every damn time through a carefully crafted PR machine.

    She couldn’t do it this time. Steve Jobs is/was bigger than Palin – as are OTHER things. This is what Martin was saying. We (as in me and you [how you do'ern btw?] might have already known that. But now, at least, Palin and her airhead cheerleaders know it. Her little announcement was made as small as it was and should have been.

  • Jason

    Oh look, another marxist loser from Portland. How original.

  • Jason

    Not nearly as numb as you idiots are going to feel in about 13 months.

  • Anonymous

    It seems that Palin Derangement Syndrome is incurable. It’s like a heroin habit the junkie doesn’t really want to kick, because what else does he have in his empty, misreable life?

  • Jason

    Considering this guy’s mooslim roots, i’m not at all shocked that he doesn’t like Palin.  I’m sure he’d like nothing more than to throw her into a potato sack and stone her to death. Aint gonna’ happen,  camel jockey.

  • Anonymous

    Colby?
    You seem surprised by the pettiness….when in fact it’s everywhere….from every political persuasion.
    It’s kind of sad.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Considering this guy’s mooslim roots, i’m not at all shocked that he doesn’t like Palin.  I’m sure he’d like nothing more than to throw her into a potato sack and stone her to death. Aint gonna’ happen,  camel jockey.’ Jason

    What a nice kind and warm hearted Tea Party/Republican you are. In fact probably quite centrist by comparison.

    …Keep up the good work I really shows off you for what you are…little man.

  • Agfa_10

    an idiot is an idiot is an idiot, regardless of whether he works for CNN or for the Turkish Government, before they bury the  dead they are dancing around the grave, shame on such “personalities”. SHAME

  • Anonymous

    well bashir is a petty and small man, what do you expect colby?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IV7Q3RVQDO3MCMFC446A4ZLUMI Sidhecat

    This clown is on the wrong network, he would be right at home on Al Jazeera.  Of course, all of these hosts would be better on Al Jazeera or perhaps Russia Today.  Oh wait, they are on MSNBC, nevermind….

  • Norbit

    This is the evolutionary level of liberals.

    They’re basically indoctrinated androids who spew and emote the Party line by rote!

  • Anonymous

    Not until it dies! Kill it with fire!!

  • Norbit

    Hey Alec the Hypocrite Baldwin!

    After all the exposure from those Capital One commercials, now you’re down on Wall Street pandering to the MoveOn.org’s?

    Did you ever have integrity Alec?

  • LJB57

    Look at the sour puss on that guy, he looks like that Principle I always wanted to Slug.

  • Anonymous

    Hey now!!

    Not all of us are Marxist losers…

  • Texan

    Why don’t you think?

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Franken

    You do realize that Palin’s announcement was fully expected right?
     
    To equate the reaction of Palin telling us all what we already knew (that she wasn’t running) to the death of Steve Jobs, which wasn’t immediately expected, is a false equivalency and is totally and utterly shameless.
     
    But by all means, defend this stunt by Bashir- but its going to be hard to reconcile the fact that he tied in a political attack to what was essentially a man’s OBTIUARY.
     
    Seriously, why does everything have to be political? And if Palin is so insignificant then why even bother, unless the opportunity for Bashir to dance on Palin’s hypothetical grave (through the context of Steve Jobs’ memorial) was still just too tempting to resist.

  • Texan

    Resorting to death threats, now? Stay classy.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Bashir: What a moron!

  • LJB57

    He’s not British, he’s a Paki.

  • Exgoper

    I wish I could live in your little dream world, Norbit. It must be a very lovely place — so far from reality, untouched by facts and always safe from the truth.

  • Anonymous

    “You do realize that Palin’s announcement was fully expected right?”

    No. And if I didn’t know, others didn’t know. (We are talking about the **anouncement** and not her failure to run, right?)

    Nevertheless, I don’t know what you expected. We have two individuals that sucked up media air like you wouldn’t believe. One was a joke, the other wasn’t. Both died on the same day. One hypothetically, one literally. 

    What did you expect? A comparison on Christmas?

  • Michelle

    That’s why I ran away screaming from Seattle.

  • Anonymous

    Bashir is garbage and only brings us garbage.  Remember, this lowly Brit is the one who brought Michael Jackson’s belief that sleeping with children in the same bed was “beautiful.”

    Bend Over.

  • Michelle

    True, I have very conservative relatives in Tigard and Lake Oswego.  Beautiful place.

  • Michelle

    Truly classic, isn’t it!

  • Anonymous

    colby ur wrong on this one imo. i took it as he pointing out the extreme dif end of the spectrum each of them play in relevance in society today…. i thought of it myself yesterday when i hadn’t been online all day and then tuned in to see the 2 news issues of the moment…. steve’s death and sarah’s ridiculous announcement…..it only came to my mind that his death stole all her glory for the day considering what a publicity whore she is….. i had to laugh at the irony that steve jobs rained on her parade.

    imo colby, it was simply bashir showing the contrast of what true intelligence is…..compared to the cartoon character of palin……something no one would have done had they not both happened on the same day.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=690550741 Michael A. Leach

    Jason: That was awesome!  I laughed out loud at that great comment!

  • Anonymous

    I spent two years in Lake Oswego upon my return from California.

  • bhodie

    I agree, I think Martins point that her little announcement was made as small as it and should have been by the terrible news about Steve Jobs…What a comparison in how people live their lives, and make contributions to the public, one making wonderful contributions and the other making contributions to her banking account…..Martin was exactly right…..

  • Exgoper

    Bashir was making a perfectly valid point: as a society we’ve come to revere celebrity more than actual achievement. It was nice to see the media push back on this yesterday by giving Jobs the attention he deserved while burying the Palin story. You can quibble with the timing or argue that it somehow diminished the coverage of Jobs’ death, but I don’t think he said anything that wasn’t reasonable, defensible or valid.

  • Wake up America

    Oh the left are so pathetic, their game plan is to have the Obama voters take the eye off the ball. Which they know can easily be done. Obama admin is the thuggish ever in the white house and they choose to report on anything and everything Palin says or does. They must think all of us are stupid. Ok there are 52% of Americans that are dumb and that ladies and gentlemen is our major problem, those stupid Americans!

  • Wake up America

    Take your meds and call it a night!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Wow liberalism attempts to go into a nose dive and record new lower than low attacks and plays each and everyday!

  • Anonymous

    Liberalism Kills !!

  • Anonymous

    Liberalism Kills !!

  • Anonymous

    MSNBC – The Place For ShamelessPricks !!

  • Owl22

    Jobs and Palin represented the best and worst of America. It’s a valid point.

  • Anonymous

    You write like a 13 year old girl. :) If that’s what you were shooting for….. good job.

  • Anonymous

    Your right and believe me I am no fan of Palin,but Bashir comes off looking bad in this one.

  • Anonymous

    New Liberal Rule – When someone you admire passes away, send condolences.  Then choose someone you don’t admire and trash them.  The New Compassion !

  • Anonymous

    ..That’s nice.

    …But it won’t be anything near the disappointment and numbness Palin/McCain probably felt in 2008. 

    It won’t be anything like the numbness that all of the Republican Candidates bar one will feel between now and next year. 

    I look forward to seeing how their ideas stand up and include 312m Americans.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for representing the left wing! Always true colors come out in such hate for others with you morons!

  • Jason

    Oh look, your fellow marxist friend “liked” your inane, whiny screed. Boo Hoo, the poor mooslims!! :((( everyone picks on the poor misunderstood idiot mooslims:(((

    Piss off, crybaby.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Franken

    Why does there even have to be a comparison? It was weak, and by the sound of things it greatly backfired.

    But its nice to see you doubling down on your argument..thats awesome.
     
    Really you were honestly surprised that Palin WASN’T running?
     
    Very few people were shocked at this announcement.
     
    Want proof?
     
    https://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=686537&z=1317940555551
     
    This is a chart showing people betting on whether or not Palin will announce her candidacy. The numbers represent the exact percentage possibility of the outcome…and not since may has it been anywhere near 50%.
     
    This is people putting their money where their mouth is, so its about as devoid of spin as you can get.
     
    This past week it was trading at around 20, or a 20% chance of it happening. (look under “last week” for the specifics) In other words, pretty unlikely.
     
    So just because you were steeped in ignorance and truly thought that Palin was running, dont think that everyone else believed that. You were in the VAST minority with that opinion.

    So you might want to try another angle to defend Bashir here- one that doesnt make you admit to being a fool.

  • Anonymous

    As i said in the article about race, liberals do not give a damn about anyone if it will further their political agenda or cause. This is just more proof of that.

  • Jason

    Bahahahaha. Yes, and the idiot liberal hippies don’t even bat an eye. That fat idiot is strutting around with them, corporate bank money is his wallet, and they say nothing. Liberals have zero principles to speak of. They have empty headed talking points and biggoted hatred for anyone smart enough to see them for the pathetic lowlife scum that they are.

  • Anonymous

    ‘He’s not British, he’s a Paki-POS.’ LJB57

    Who says the Tea Party/Republicans aren’t for bigots and racists. Always the first port of call, except Herman Cain of course…for now!

    It’s impressive.

    …Congratulations and keep up the good work.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    Three quarters of the left media wouldn’t have survived without Sarah Palin .

  • Anonymous

    13 months it will be walking zombies no direction blaming Bush and still calling people racist!

  • Anonymous

    That would be true if not for the fact Jobs had a much fatter bank account than Sarah. Many times over.

  • Anonymous

    Really you were honestly surprised that Palin WASN’T running?

    Shit. Here we go again. Another non-reading intellectu-f*ck.

    WHAT PART OF (We are talking about the **announcement** and not her failure to run, right?) DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?

    Truthfully, I expected the skank to ride it out all the way to the next primary. But you go on and type a bunch of necessary words and finding funny links to defend a position I never had like the good dumb ass you are. You do it so well!!

  • Mr. Hyperbole

    where’s the proof that someone called bush hitler?

  • Lallen422

    I don’t see the problem. Her career is shot now, and she is just a reality star, famous for being famous

  • Mr. Hyperbole

    he was spot-on but he could have made them 2 segments…sarah palin is a lowlife..she is trash..she is a vile scumbag..she uses others money for herself..she’s selfish

  • Lallen422

    I guess Sarah Patin will stop soliciting money now that she has decided not to run

  • Anonymous

    I agree, She was twice a successful small business owner,a mayor, Governor and a running mate for the highest office in this land. 

    Yet somehow the left loons thinks she is dumb and all of them are so much smarter then her, while they sit in their basement or stomp around wall street blaming others for there problems and expecting something to be given to them without any effort. 

    The hatefulness and jealousy on the left is a horrible disease and thank God their are a lot more people who dont think like them…. because without capitalism or rich people we would be heading on becoming a third world county.

  • Anonymous

    Martin Bashir is one of the classiest people at MSNBC. 
    Thumbs up if you think Colby should hire him to write for Mediaite!
    He’ll fit right in!

  • Lallen422

    Sorry, she quit after two years because it was costing Sarah too much money to defend ethics violations

  • Anonymous

    ‘Marxist?’

    Another semi illiterate and badly educated bigot. 

    I do very well, in a capitalistic job that’s in the very capitalistic US moron.

    Shouldn’t you be posting on website that hates anyone that isn’t as ignorant as yourself like Stormfront. The home for the Neanderthal knuckle dragging morons. You appear to struggle with a coherent and meaningful sentence. 

    On the other hand, I’m so very glad your world is changing to one you no longer recognize.

  • LJB57

    You liberals are all the same Racist and bigoted, grow a set man and learn to be tolerant.

  • Anonymous

    ”He’s not British, he’s a Paki-POS.’ LJB57

    ‘…I’m the racist?’

    Well the irony of your own vile words passes you by completely. You really are an ignorant and moronic racist of the most disgusting kind. 

    Your words fail to belie your stupid lies.

    You are a slimy and slithering shape shifting coward. 

  • Yes I’m Right

    “as a society we’ve come to revere celebrity more than actual achievement”

    Then maybe Martin can tell us the amount of time since his show started covering Palin vs. covering Jobs, then let him explain why HE CHOSE to do that.

  • Yes I’m Right

    “as a society we’ve come to revere celebrity more than actual achievement”

    Then maybe Martin can tell us the amount of time since his show started covering Palin vs. covering Jobs, then let him explain why HE CHOSE to do that.

  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    I would expect this @ night but this guy is pretty nasty for a 3pm show ….. i bet his ratings suck

  • Anonymous

    His ratings aren’t low because he sucks, they’re low because most of us MSNBC viewers are just getting out of bed when his show starts.

  • ganymede

    Whenever the subject of Sarah Palin comes up, all I can think is that this woman could have become the President of our country. That thought pretty much sums up why there’s so much hosility towards those of you who went gaga over this totally unqualified, unprepared, uneducated person, no matter how good a mother she might be. Now that the country has gotten to know her, she’ll either fade away after another 15 minutes or so, or, who knows, she might get some enlightenment and try to do something positive for the world.

  • Anonymous

    With fire!!

  • Roger_Fails

    Hey, dude. I think that mask is on too tight. You’re not getting oxygen
    to your brain and your posts sound insane.

    Or maybe that’s just because you are insane.

  • Roger_Fails

    FOX NEWS — The Place for Easily Manipulated Viewers.

  • Sean68

    Why do assholes like these (I’m including Ratigan here) force me to stick up for Palin? Their hatred and contempt for her is beyond comprehension. In many respects, she’s a creature of that hate and contempt.

  • Anonymous

    If a turd and Martin Bashir were in danger of falling off a building, I would rather save the turd and stink for months than waste one second saving his slimy leftist ass.

    And when he fell and hit the ground, I would open my fly and pee right on his dead body.

    That’s how much I despise this phony inflated British asshole.

  • LJB57

    AHH Shudup Goofball, and stop being a Facsist/Racist you bigoted half-bred.

  • Anonymous

    These people know their audience. You have to act like a jerk to appeal to jerks.

  • Anonymous

    Says the person with an unhealthy obsession with Fox News !!
    I’ll wager that you watch Fox more than Jester does !! Roger_Fails is a failure !!

  • Anonymous

    ‘AHH Shut Dup Goofball, and stop being a Facsist/Racist you bigoted half-bred.’

    How exactly do you get to be this ignorant and so dim witted? Did it come by design or did it come naturally please enlighten?

    How exactly surmise that I’m a ‘half-bred?’ You semi literate bigot

  • Anonymous

    What’s an MSNBC? I remember a network a decade ago with that moniker but thought they died awhile back.

  • LJB57

    Typical lib, dish it out but ya squeallike babies when it’s served back at you.
    No further communication is required, Bright Boy.

  • Anonymous

    Since “liberals” are collectivists and think like a unit, much like the borg, I will assume you are speaking on behalf of all ”liberals” everywhere.

    Sad fact about the “liberal” collective- They would like to see Sarah Palin murdered in the most violent was possible.

  • Glutton

    So sick of people trying to politicize Jobs’s death.  He wasn’t a political person.  He was above all that.  Maybe we should take from his lead and stop trying to make everything political.  Bashir killed Michael Jackson and now he’s continuing to prove that he’s complete SCUM.

  • Texan

    Can you take those moosenuts out of your mouth and repeat that?

  • NDanielson

    Damn, what a capitalist that Jobs guy!

  • NDanielson

    Just think, Roseanne would have wanted his head for being such a capitalist glutton, glutton. Worth over $7Billion, 0bama would have scolded him for making too much. Thank god he died before Barry laid that guilt trip on him.

  • Anonymous

    Nationality is not race, return to your recharging locker Two_of_Nine

  • Anonymous

    Holy water would probably work.

  • Pedro Quintanilla

    Hahaha…
    one makes contributions to the public – I suppose you mean Steve Jobs the businessman…
    one makes contributions to her bank accoutn – Palin the school board member, the 2 term mayor, and the almost full term Governor?
    Not that I necessarily disagree that politicians don’t contribute… but you do know the President is a lifelong bueracrat, right?  Or has he made contributions to the public as a bueracrat but Palin hasn’t?

  • Anonymous

    Sure buddy,

    Don’t be projecting your Obama fantasies on others.

  • Anonymous

    You think that somehow excuses the blatant and vile racist epithet?

    You’re a credit to stupidity.

    …Congratulations.

  • Guest

    Mr. Bashir is a true American. His ability to turn Steve Jobs’ death into a springboard for comedy is classic.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Thanks for playing the douche-of-the-week game, YOU WIN!

  • NDanielson

    So because Steve Jobs died with $7 billion in the bank while puppets on Sesame Street, and the weal woyal empoah can’t feed America’s hungry children, he’s the worst??? You anti-capitalist prick!

  • Anonymous

    According to the esteemed Elizabeth Warren, Jobs was a tyrant who owes everything to the humming, buzzing collective.  So which is it?  He is no more a humanitarian than Gates or Koch Bros by the hive master Warren.

  • Glutton

    Much like Martin Bashir, you’re also scum for politicizing Jobs’s death. 

  • Anonymous

    ..Who is squealing you ignorant knuckle dragging bigot?

    I simply don’t like idiotic bigots who pretend to be otherwise. Who struggle string a coherent sentence together. Keep rolling around in it, because it suits you.

    Your ignorance outshines your stupidity, but its close…

    …If you were any dumber who knows what you could achieve?

  • NDanielson

    Cry me a river, sissy. Bashir is on your team.

  • Glutton

    Gotta love how people bashing Bashir for politicizing Jobs’s death are also politicizing Jobs’s death.  You’re all a bunch of hypocritical scum.

  • Pedro Quintanilla

    I think what he meant by this
    “You do realize that Palin’s announcement was fully expected right?”
    Was that Palin was scheduled to announce her decision on Wednesday.
    Which makes your argument sound like either karma caused Steve Jobs to die on the day Palin was set to make her announcement… which seems fairly heartless… or that Jobs chose to die to make Palin’s announcement seem small.
    Either way… kind of douchebag statement to make.
    Why can’t you just disagree with Palins politics without spewing your hate filled rhetoric? You realize that fully half the country has similar political views, right?  The most recent Gallup poll says that about 41% of the country considers itself “conservative”, compared to 21% “liberal”. http://www.gallup.com/poll/148745/Political-Ideology-Stable-Conservatives-Leading.aspx

  • NDanielson

    Wow from the team that politicizes profits and wealth in America? Are you for real? Do you ever even comprehend your own drivel?

  • NDanielson

    Hell, Bashir isn’t even supposed to be political. He’s supposed to report the news to you useless dummies. Unbiased.

  • Anonymous

    you gonna try big mouth

  • Anonymous

    STFU @bcb0fc60bd8c63d6b66c94d64c3d0a53:disqus 1. I don’t give a damn what you think he meant. He wrote what the hell he wrote despite your measly attempt to spin it.

    2. ****I**** did not hear about any schedule. If *****I***** didn’t hear about it, chances are, ******Others****** didn’t hear about it either. Comprende?

  • Glutton

    Don’t speak to me.  I don’t converse with retards.  I sympathize with your psychological struggles, but I want no part of it.  Now go take your meds, Corky.

  • LJB57

    Bugger off rodent.

  • Fudge441

    Great piece by Bashir; well done and spot on.

  • NDanielson

    If you’re liberal all you converse with is retards ain’t it? Isn’t retard supposed to be off limits, dumbass?

  • Anonymous

    cool story bro

  • LindaLeigh

    Steve Jobs and Sarah Palin have nothing to do with each other.  I like his accent but other than that Martin Bashir seems to have nothing political wise going for him.  HLN would be a better fit.

  • LJB57

    You’re Squealing like a big fat socialist rat, a bigoted rat that is ,you Fascist liberals are all the same ,pathetic producers of manure.
    You’re a brainwashed robot so shut the hell up ya leg humping critter.

  • LJB57

    try what Fat Head?

  • Sunshine78

    I think Bashir’s remarks are in fact a deep complement to Sarah Palin. To get equal billing, Steve Jobs, clearly a genius, had to die.

    All Palin did was decline a Presidential bid.

    The power and potential of the Mighty Sarah continues to terrify the left.

  • NDanielson

    Wow, where pixie dust and unicorn farts run our Chevy Volts that are built by union cherubs who build rent free apartments for the elderly on their weekends? Tell us more about this very lovely place.

  • Anonymous

    ‘He’s not British, he’s a Paki-POS.’ LJB57

    He’s British you ignoramus. He was born in London.

    Is this you at your extreme pitiful best?

    You are without doubt one of the most slow witted Neanderthal bigots that I’ve ever come across. You are a very sad pathetic example of what happens with poor to no education. What a perfect model of an idiot.

    …Poor little pathetic bigot! I’m amazed you can get through life being as dumb as you are.

  • Anonymous

    By the millions.

  • Anonymous

    “liberals” are blind to irony.

  • Anonymous

    “liberals” are blind to irony.

  • Roger_Fails

    Hey, sunshine. If you were looking to sound like a deranged, reality-averse Palinista, you succeeded. 

  • Ubetcha

    It is funny that all the Palin supporters here don’t know how to spell.

  • cdnhawk

    His show is an opinion show you useless dummy. Just like Hannity or Bill-O. Do they report the news? Think before you type.

  • Sunshine78

    Sir be real. Noone sounds as deranged as Bashir.

  • Mr. Gneiss Guy

    Careful now, we are headed to a third world country if you haven’t noticed and rich people or capitalism is a both effective and murderous all rolled into one. You can’t sell your soul as a “industrial manufacturing mecca” without crushing the very group of citizens that helped to create all that wealth. We are all consumers and that benefits the few not the many. So, other countries get to lift themselves up at our expense for maximizing the bottom line. Remember when it’s all said and done nature ALWAYS WINS, no matter if capitalism, marxist, communism, liberal, conservative, Tea Party is the flavor. The sooner everyone learns that lesson then the stupid political labels begin to mean as much as a pile of dog shit in my neighbors yard. The food, medicine, water, and air is slowly killing us all. Last laugh goes to the planet for short sighted narcissistic humans ego trippin coke and drunk boat ride on this planet. Wake up, please.

  • Lallen422

    She already wasted all her opportunities.

  • Lallen422

    How did Basher kill M J? That interview was in 2003. He died six years later.

  • Anonymous

    I’m confused… I always heard that British accents make you sound smarter. Apparently it can make you sound frustrated and ignorant, as well. What a vindictive fool Mr. Bashir must be.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YYV7W3AIWVWRM5TO55QB5MV3RA tanatos

    There must be a special place in hell for the vilest of vermin like this meth-DNC deranged drone.
    The funny part  here is that all these useful idiots who are cheering their fascist messiah’s destruction of America are totally clueless about the consequences they will face should their little neo-Hitler succeed.
    As  the history shows, they invariably are the very first ones laid to waste. Good.

  • Roger_Fails

    “Noone”? That’s a term I refudiate.

  • cdnhawk

    Ha ha…good one…now you go back to watching Hannity like a good boy.

  • IntellectualHonesty

    He not say “all Paki’s are POS.”  Only this one.  Much like not all whites are white trash.  You are just an overreacting tard, Guy…

  • IntellectualHonesty
  • GoneRogue

    you went Rouge?  What color did you put on?  I imagine a light coral to highlight your Autumn tones.

  • Anonymous

    Where’s everybody at?
    The OWS protests?
    I thought I’d have at least 200 thumbs up for Marty by now!

  • Mr. Hyperbole

    those people arent wellknown…thats like using larouche as evidence, lol..theyre not mainstream

  • Glutton

    He sent him down that pathway of doom.

  • Glutton

    I said I sympathize with your condition, but I’m not trained to deal with people of your condition, so please go speak with your caretaker.  You have a delightful day.

  • Glutton

    Steve Jobs is the new Jesus.  If Jesus could be politicized then so could Steve Jobs.  

  • Glutton

    Steve Jobs had a Mooslem dad just like Obama AND Osama.  Steve Jobs’s mom was a single mom with a graduate degree.  Just like Obama AND Osama.  Oh no, Steve Jobs was a terrorist!  Watch all our Apple products blow up!

    “I’m tired of the crazies.”-Chris Christie

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    petty and small – two words that define Bashir. 

  • http://twitter.com/DG_ON DG_ON

    You do know that Star trek wasn’t real right? I’d like to see Sarah Palin asks some questions about where all the money that has been donated to her via her followers has gone? This won’t happen on fox news of course and as she would have trouble telling me the time if asked, i doubt it will ever happen.

  • Anonymous

    ‘He not say “all Paki’s are POS.”

    Another sparkling moron showing his limited education abilities.

  • Lucci

    Listen carefully to his words. I found that you could easily remove Palin’s name and insert Obamas and get the same impact. However, you will never hear a biased reporter such as this putz do that will you.

  • potvin

    I’m sure the Brits were happy to see this stupid git shipped to the colonies. What an a-hole.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Bashir is absolutely spot on. I love listening to the professionals speak and make their points.  Very respectful, no smirking (like Hannity, O’Reilly, Doocy, etc.)  It’s wonderful…. Like adults.

  • Anonymous

    None of the above.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, just like Fox does, Fair and Balanced and all.

  • Phil Jett

    You aren’t mainstream either, idiot, so why should we care about what you say either.

  • Phil Jett

    You aren’t mainstream either, idiot, so why should we care about what you say either.

  • Phil Jett

    You aren’t mainstream either, idiot, so why should we care about what you say either.

  • Anonymous

    Bashir should have stuck to sucking Michael Jackson’s prick.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    I just heard this guys rant on Cain. I don’t think Com Cast advertisers will enjoy much more of this ugly racism before it goes full blown.

  • http://twitter.com/BarneyFranken Barney Franken

    If you never thought Palin was going to actually run, then what is your argument with my point then?
     
    Bashir made a false equivalency between two events that coincided…part of his narrative is that no one cared that Palin made her announcement…but Im adding the context that Palin’s announcement was expected, where Jobs’ death was unexpected.
     
    So you can get your panties in a bunch all you want over semantics…but you still are left defending a position that is being widely denounced. It seems as though there are no depths a scumbag like you would go to take a cheap shot at Palin, even if it means using someone’s death for that opportunity.

  • Anonymous

    Learn how to admit a failure to understand. It will make you less of the fool you’ve so eloquently demonstrated you are.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    That could not have been difficult as the truth is all it takes to slam people like Sarah Palin.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    hank jr wasn’t fired, as he was never in espn’s employ…  but your point is taken, they are a self-congratulating politically correct manufacturer of news…

    as for comcast, i left them well before their purchase of nbc, due to their utter incompetence as a cable provider…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    include 312m americans in what?…  forcing them us buy healthcare?…  including 312m americans in anything is a bad idea…  my ideal candidate will not include me in anything, will promise me nothing and would do well to stay the hell out of my life…  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LVYEBTPZQST6TUZ76YWSLM4M4A Eagle

    Is this the same moron who’s only other claim to fame was a michael jackson (sick-o) mockumentary? Such a classy group they keep around at msLED. I wonder if their four viewers are angry?

  • Anonymous

    Bashir is a lowlife and the worst sort of opportunist. He has the nerve to state his opinion on Sarah Palin’s contributions to this world? Arrogant creep. Just where will Bashir rank in his yellow tabloid journalistic contributions when he is gone? Pathetic. MSNBC, please get rid of Bashir, the boat anchor, from your ship.

  • Anonymous

    Bashir is a lowlife and the worst sort of opportunist. He has never shown any integrity in his reporting so why start now? He has the nerve to give his opinion about Sarah Palin’s contributions to this world? He better start looking in the mirror. His history of slanted (usually one-sided) reporting to serve his own ends by serving up what he thinks the public wants to hear versus actual facts, will not leave a proud legacy when he is gone. When will MSNBC get wise and get rid of Bashir, the boat anchor, like Disney already did?

  • Ikkon211

    It is none of your concern what or where Palin does with her money. She is a private citizen running for no office. You really need to just let it go. She out smarted your type. That is the funny part.

  • Ikkon211

    And you were out smarted by her. She has more money then you. She has more people who respect her then you. She has more say in the national arena then you. She looks better then you. She has a better family then you. Nobody knows or cares who you are. You are nothing. But a joke that is, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

  • Mr. Hyperbolic Chalkboard

    Is that you, Sarah, sweetie?

  • Classyladyanne

    Who gives a damn what this pakirat thinks about anything political in this great country we call “America”. They need to send him, and Rachel Madcow, Lawrence the drooler, and Chris Masterbation into space and hope they never, ever find their way back. They are without a doubt the worst the liberal media has to offer.

  • Bmnystar

    Thank you Martin Bashir, for telling it like it is. Too bad if the Palinites can’t accept the truth. Anyway, it provides another opportunity for her to play martyr

  • Grays

    Martin Bashir is a parasite and a mediochre journalist at best, cant believe he gets airtime let alone a wage.

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