Yet Martin Bashir keeps his job.

I'll never watch them again!

(11-26-2013 02:08 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Yet Martin Bashir keeps his job.

The libs are defending Bashir, saying he was just saying what needed to be said. Baldwin ruffled the feathers (bowa) of a protected class. In lib land you are not allowed to go there.

One interesting aside, it's MSNBC's obsession with Sarah Palin that keeps these stories going. They are still waging the 2008 campaign.

(11-26-2013 02:28 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(11-26-2013 02:08 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Yet Martin Bashir keeps his job.

The libs are defending Bashir, saying he was just saying what needed to be said. Baldwin ruffled the feathers (bowa) of a protected class. In lib land you are not allowed to go there.

One interesting aside, it's MSNBC's obsession with Sarah Palin that keeps these stories going. They are still waging the 2008 campaign.

Yup!

The "but I'm right" mentality at work.

(11-26-2013 02:28 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(11-26-2013 02:08 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Yet Martin Bashir keeps his job.

The libs are defending Bashir, saying he was just saying what needed to be said. Baldwin ruffled the feathers (bowa) of a protected class. In lib land you are not allowed to go there.

One interesting aside, it's MSNBC's obsession with Sarah Palin that keeps these stories going. They are still waging the 2008 campaign.

Anything to divert from the current administration. If Obama keeps tanking pretty sure we'll see more Palin and Bush stuff popping up on MSNBC, especially if any elections are in the near future.

(11-26-2013 02:08 PM)EagleRockCafe Wrote:  Yet Martin Bashir keeps his job.

Well yeah, he only bashed a hard working, family value based white Conservative female (but Republicans are the ones waging war on women), he didn't say anything about a fag sucking dick.

Glad they fired him. He has been making awful comments for years.

Alec sounds like he's PISSED about how things turned out, but he did admit he had to take some responsibility for what happened (But not before going after the gay-lobbyists)

Quote:“Martin Bashir’s on the air, and he made his comment on the air! I dispute half the comment I made . . . But you’ve got the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy—Rich Ferraro and Andrew Sullivan—they’re out there, they’ve got you. Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs. They killed my show. And I have to take some responsibility for that myself.”

Ironically, I'm actually siding with Alec on this one. Did he screw up with his outburst in public? Yep.. But boy howdy, now let's see what happens now that Alec's seen the double standard in terms who you can attack.

(11-26-2013 10:50 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  Alec sounds like he's PISSED about how things turned out, but he did admit he had to take some responsibility for what happened (But not before going after the gay-lobbyists)

Quote:“Martin Bashir’s on the air, and he made his comment on the air! I dispute half the comment I made . . . But you’ve got the fundamentalist wing of gay advocacy—Rich Ferraro and Andrew Sullivan—they’re out there, they’ve got you. Rich Ferraro, this is probably one of his greatest triumphs. They killed my show. And I have to take some responsibility for that myself.”

Ironically, I'm actually siding with Alec on this one. Did he screw up with his outburst in public? Yep.. But boy howdy, now let's see what happens now that Alec's seen the double standard in terms who you can attack.

Bashir attacked a conservative. That gets you a promotion at that network.

You can't compare the 2 because Palin is a public figure. We give a lot more leniency in this country in regards to what we are allowed to say about public figures than groups of people, right or wrong, have been for a long time.
Having said that, Bashir should be fired. Not because of who he was talking about, but to be talking about shatting and peeing in someone's mouth is not only disgusting, but it shows a complete disregard for trying to be a reasonable journalist.
Baldwin, I really don't think he deserved to be fired, but it is MSNBC, they have to put on that front.

Baldwin is the perfect target for paparazzi... a guy with a temper and loose lips. And that's what dooms him.

Gay slurs aside, I can't blame him for getting deeply annoyed at these TMZ guys standing around his apartment all day, waiting to shove a camera in front of his wife and baby's faces. There was one video clip out there that shows Baldwin gently - I do mean gently - holding a paparazzo's arm as he scoots him away, and the guy wails in all seriousness, "you're breaking my arm!!" It was hilarious, like a scene from a comedy. He suddenly got big dollar signs in his eyes.

But c'mon, Alec. You didn't say "maggot" or "fathead" in that other clip. Own up to it.

He got the steak knives.

I don't know what Baldwin did at MSNBC, but Fox should hire him and either stick him on one of their shows or possibly make guest appearances and OReilly, Hannity, or Kelly.