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2013-11-21 Home Front: Politix

Palin kills Matt Lauer interview over Martin Bashir slur

[FOXNEWS] It's no secret that

Sarah Mama Grizzly Palin
... the babe libs love to hate ...
is mighty steamed at MSNBC and Martin Bashir over his despicable remarks about the abusive treatment he imagines for her.

And now she's doing something about it.

The former Alaska governor and Fox News contributor was scheduled to sit down with Matt Lauer for a Christmas season interview. That's now toast.

Palin has now canceled Lauer's scheduled trip to Wasilla, a source close to her tells me. It's not because Palin is upset with Lauer or the "Today" show, but as a protest against NBC for not taking action against Bashir. In fact, Palin once sat in as a "Today"co-host.

Tim Crawford, treasurer of Palin's political action committee, had told NBC News President Deborah Turness and MSNBC President Phil Griffin that "Americans deserve to know that your network doesn't condone violent and hateful rhetoric."

Bashir apologized to Palin and to viewers Monday for his comments, which he called "totally unacceptable." In response to a speech in which she likened the national debt to slavery, the onetime "Nightline" co-anchor said Palin should be subjected to an ancient slavery punishment in which someone would defecate and urinate in her mouth.

MSNBC has not suspended Bashir, despite imposing a two-week suspension on another talk show host, actor Alec Baldwin, for hurling an anti-gay slur at a photographer outside his New York apartment. The network has had nothing to say publicly about Bashir's sliming of Palin.

Posted by Fred 2013-11-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 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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