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Palin kills Matt Lauer interview over Martin Bashir slur

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Posted by Fred 2013-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 She should have waited until Lauer was switching planes in Vancouver to cancel.

Posted by Raj 2013-11-21 01:06|| 2013-11-21 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm thinking Bashir baby should keep his sexual peccadillo's to himself.

Posted by PastMasteroftheObvious 2013-11-21 06:52|| 2013-11-21 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Why not - this is after they got away with the 'teabagger' label. This is just another step in the same direction.

One wonder's what is next as they push the envelope further and further to demonize conservatives.

Hitler demonized the Jews. Who do you think the left is going to demonize?

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-11-21 14:22|| 2013-11-21 14:22|| Front Page Top

#4 MSNBC has not suspended Bashir

Bashir didn't say it in a vacuum. The show has a producer. There is a production staff. There is a control room. There are broadcast procedures in place to deal with issues like this.

Apparently no one saw a problem with Bashir's diatribe.

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-21 17:13|| 2013-11-21 17:13|| Front Page Top

#5 "Bashir apologized to Palin and to viewers"

Too late, asshole. You said it. On TV.

You're only sorry you got called out over it.

Go away, you pathetic little loser.

Posted by Barbara 2013-11-21 18:47|| 2013-11-21 18:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Couldn't this be regarded as a rational gamble on their part? I haven't kept up with who's who, but MSNBC must know pretty much what they are. Bashir must know pretty much what he is. What do they have to lose? They run their little "Look, I made poopie!" bit, and what happens? Folks like y'all loathe 'em asymptotically more than you did before? They worry more about butterflies flapping up the Amazon. Moderate lefties hoot "Oh no he dint!" and get their usual self-congratulatory jollies: looking at Mapplethorpe and feeling like they wrote Pynchon. But the principled left might love it. Suddenly they're in like Fisk with keffiyeh-wearing college les6ians. Rappers call 'em n----. Sly fist-bump with a Clinton at the next WHCD. High tea and prison stories with Greyson and Loubani. The sky's the limit. But the real point is to bait Palin. If she fires back something a tenth as edgy or creepy or angry... all of the above and big bucks too. Cr-p. Think I'll go get me a leather coat and a mimeograph machine. The good old days.

Posted by Blossom Tojo7770 2013-11-21 22:42|| 2013-11-21 22:42|| Front Page Top

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