I never really liked Martin Bashir. I had a problem with him ever since his ambush of Michael Jackson, telling him to his face that he was a "Great Father" while collected isolated images which made him seem dangerously out-of-wack. Clearly Michael had many issues, physical and otherwise which led to his untimely death, but as we can largely see from his kids today, particularly compared to how they've been with the rest of his family, being a relatively good dad - on the whole- wasn't one of them.
Anyhoo, there is a truth that Martin Bashir if anything was a tenacious advocate for truth during his stint with MSNBC, and during his time there I grew - despite his previous deceitful history - to enjoy his program. His commentary in reaction to Sarah Palin's equating our national debt to "Slavery" was a a bit over the top, but it wasn't factually wrong.
Although he had to go to Scatalogical lengths to make his point, the larger point is that he even had to consider such a perspective in order to SHOCK people like Palin into realizing how completely out-of-touch her comments were with reality.
Republicans have a Slavery Fetish. For them Everything is Like Slavery. ObamaCare is like Slavery (Ben Carson and George Will). Taxes are like Slavery (Has it's own Wikipedia Page). Gun Safety is like Slavery (George Mason University and Glenn Beck). Abortion is Like Slavery (Paul Ryan) Welfare is Like Slavery (Sen. Rand Paul)
Now Bashir's very simple obvious point, that Nothing is Like Slavery - Except Slavery is lost to the winds. I think, serously, the he should have toughed it out - because look at the hash we've got to deal with?
Sarah is actually Gloating about it all.
It's not just the fact that while Obama has been President the deficit that Palin was commenting on has been cut in half, and the fact that if Not for REPUBLICAN President George W. Bush and a REPUBLICAN Congress and their insistence on giving people who don't need the money at the expense of everyone else - we would still have the a Budget Surplus of 1998-2000 in place, a surplus that was created after DEMOCRATIC President Bill Clinton and a DEMOCRATIC Congress passed the 1993 budget which started bringing down the deficit for the first time in Decades.
No Republican President has either brought down the deficit or Balanced a Budget Since Eisenhower.
If anything it's THIS President who continues to pursue continued deficit reduction measures - even against the Democratic Wing of his own party - such as Chained-CPI that would Cut Social Security. It's this President whose implementation of Obamacare continues to bend downward the budget projections from the CBO.
But let's not talk about That stuff. It's too Facty.
Instead of talking about the fact that Conservatives simply can't help themselves but to characterize each and every policy put forward by progressives as some kind of "Slavery" while painting themselves with the broad brush of "Freedom", even when they advocate against a living wage, and worker safety protections, and pensions, and the safety net for the working poor and each and every rung of the ladder that would help people climb their way out of ACTUAL Wage Slave conditions - we're talking about Scat.
And now.. AND NOW.... Sara the Talking Hair-Style that Can't Seem to Not Spew Word-Salad - is claiming that Bashir's comments will stop people from "Starting a Business"?
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday responded to Martin Bashir’s resignation from MSNBC by saying that she was used to being the victim of liberals, but she hoped that the former host’s attack did not stop other people from starting businesses.
What. The. Entire. Frack!??
This is the woman who said that Barack Obama was some kind of Neo-Terrorist. Who claims he "doesn't understand our values" when in fact his is a Perfect Example of the capacity for someone to literally Pull Themselves Up by their Bootstraps and accomplish an American Dream against nearly ALL ODDS. She told Dr. Laura not to "Retreat, but Reload" after she said the N-Word to a Black Woman on the radio a half dozen times in a row. She and her people put SNIPER TARGETS (like Hell those were "Surveyor Sites", why Survey them exactly?) on the districts of House Members and then had the temerity to "Whine about BLOOD LIBEL" when one of those House members was critically shot and injured (Not to mention the Dozens who had their offices vandalized).
I mean really? Simple Sarah thinks She's some kind of "Victim"? Of what? Her own mouth?
“My role is to accept his apology and be humble enough and to, you know, accept it and move on,” Palin told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Thursday. “But I just hope that unprovoked attacks like that don’t result in people being hesitant to jump in the arena anyway, to get out there and serve the public or start a business or really commit themselves to changing within their family, their community, their world, doing whatever they can despite the fact that, in this world, you are going to be hurt and attacks will come your way.”
“I just hope that an attack like that doesn’t make people hesitate.”
Unprovoked? Un-Fracking-Provoked?
Yeah, it's like being called a Terrorist, a Muslim, a Stalinist, a Kenyan and an America Hating Thug who is hell bent on forcibly Euthanizing the Elderly to save a few Bucks - might somehow be a deterrent for someone who might want to Help Sick People Without Healthcare have a chance to Survive.
45,000 people a year.
Please.
This woman has NO Idea how ridiculous she sounds. None at all.
Vyan