Yesterday I read, probably Drudge, that Bashir on MSNBC said something perfectly unacceptable even in impolite company. But who cares? I don't. But I do kind of like giving ugly people a hard time. So I read the piece.
And it is dith pickable. If you haven't read it, don't bother. He wishes the worst that he knows about slavery upon Palin because Palin equated the Democratic party with plantation managers. He went way too far. Showed his own scatologic insides.
*examines fingernails*
No ability to leave a comment directly. I learned dismissing them and reporting the situation to their boss works, and when their boss is the problem, as here, then whoever they report to. Everybody reports to somebody. Tell the appropriate overseers. Who is that? FCC, I bet.
Turns out they are about different broader things. It took a few tries, back to Google to ask how to file complaints such as I have. That narrowed it down to something below FCC or within it and I left my message there.
Next day, BLAM Bashir apologizes. And I know the reason he apologized is because of pressure put on caused by me. nanner-nanner (because mine was so reasonable, the other 100,000 are crackpots) And it's a heartfelt-sounding apology too, not the cheap-o non-apology apology.
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You're a legend in your own mind.
But, seriously, I think the slash-and-burn style is in as much trouble as everything else Lefty these days.
Complaints that effective haven't occurred since The Great Tattle Tail Wars of the Baby Boom, surpassing even "He's making faces at me versus She has cooties!"
Don't those guys have editors? I don't even see what she said that would have led to that response. Slavery was horrible, and who knows how warranted it was to invoke it in the first place, but certainly whoever owns us could do something just as bad to us.
"Slow news day" at MSNBC?
Martin Bashir's career high-point was apparently catching Michael Jackson on the edge of his own downward slope to the end of everything, and apparently mimicking that trajectory is an idea that's captured his own fascination since.
Good work Chip! Because usually being an MSNBC host is never having to say you are sorry...
It's not entirely Bashir's fault.
If you'd watched Two Girls, One Cup as many times as he has, you'd use the exact same metaphor.
Chip S., great comment! I am blowing beverage out of my nose with that one.
Whoa. Nice work, Chip. Now can you get Piers Morgan deported? Or married to Madonna? Or something?
One at a time, Michael. But Chip S.'s got the right idea.
How did that damn video ever become such a phenom anyway? The first (and luckily, IIRC, only) person who even mentioned it to me I thought must have been out of their mind.
If anything good came out of that, I think it might have put an end to the idea that the internet should be one big bathroom wall.
Well done, Chip!
What Mr. Bashir said was appalling; it would have mattered more, if he were more significant a media player.
That said, his apology was refreshingly sincere. One doesn't see that very often in the media/political/entertainment nexis.
The second greatest accomplishment of my life is that I have resisted watching Two Girls - One Cup.
You would think there would be a few sequels by now. The premise scales up quite nicely.
I hear the video sheds pound faster than a set of P90X videos, and you can eat as much as want. That's a gold mine.
I think far more people will have heard his apology than his insult.....I think Hugh Grant, after that streetwalker thing, gave the best apology in memory. Letterman's apology to Palin was the worst......I think part of Palin's claim to fame is the unfair way that she is insulted. Thus insults are to her what porn stars are to Charley Sheen. They only add to the legend.
I don't personally know anyone who would say what he did, let alone on TV. How does a gooder-educated person who lives in the public eye with editors and writers ever come to that decision? It's like people on MSNBC are completely nuts or something. I mean Keith Olbermann, Ed Shultz, Chris Mathews, etc., etc.? It's as if someone set up cameras in an insane asylum, and threw in a gallon of tequila.
Apparently you missed the sequel, bagoh: TP for Two
D'oh!
British people give good apologies.
Anything formal, or sincere, they're better at.
It's the public-school beatings, I think.
Ratings, Bag! (You can't be that naive. Ratings aren't possible unless you're prepared to skirt some controversy every now and then. It's why demagoguery is thought [by some] to be unfair).
In related news, Howard Stern's close to cashing in on a total value of net assets of 900 million.
I guess, Chip. But the sincerity must have something to do with their history and political culture. As for schooling, be careful with that because what they call "public" and "private" have totally different meanings than what they have here. I still haven't worked out what means what myself.
AFAIK, what the Brits call "public schools" are what we call "prep schools".
Roald Dahl wrote a searing memoir (Boy) of his days in such a school.
If it's for ratings, they really are delusional, cause they are at the bottom, but you probably mean ratings among the lefties. To them it's probably like watching Ozzie and Harriet.
Yes, I'm old.
This story has made me a whole lot angrier than anything Martin Bashir ever has or ever could say.
I never thought that this administration would go so low as to corrupt the data collection services of the federal government, which I had thought were thoroughly professional.
As cynical as I try to be, I just can't seem to keep up.
Their ratings are increasing. But either way the strategy's sound, as the success of FOX's antics attest.
Yes, you're old.
Chip S, it was very clear during the run up to the Walker recall election here in Wisconsin that the BLS just shortened its name to BS when it came to employment statistics. The gains were severely downplayed in every initial announcement and only later were they quietly updated, sometimes by more than 100%.
Now that you mention it, Calypso, I remember the discussion of that at some other blog.
Somebody should study the pattern of revisions to the unemployment and gdp stats under Obama compared to previous administrations. I now fully expect that there was an unprecedented string of downward revisions during the 2012 campaign, whereas I'd have been shocked by that only a few months ago.
The Brits can spend a lot more time on being sincere because they don't spend any time cooking good food or brushing their teeth.
Someone made him apologize. I doubt if he meant it.
I hope this isn't all just over calling Palin a dumb cunt.
Offensive words have just as sensitively tuned meanings as regular words do.
They can be misused or used spot-on, or somewhere in the middle.
Slavery wasn't horrible.
It made use of conquered people instead of killing them.
It stopped having any economic justification during the industrial revolution.
So justifications started looking around and went to racial theories when they ran out, and it simply ended. Racialism wasn't the reason for slavery but a last try at a justification of what made no sense any long.
Capitalism ended slavery.
I didn't know that the Loafing Oaf was Indian. You learn something new every day.
"Slavery wasn't horrible.
It made use of conquered people instead of killing them." Often, but not in the case of much of the African slave trade.
Read the episode which Bashir was referencing and tell me how it wasn't horrible, and how having your children born into that life would better than death. The fact that even such a choice is possible is itself horrible.
The option with Africans was not either enslave them or kill them. The slave trade caused million to be enslaved that otherwise would have been ignored in Africa. There was a market demand started by a few evil men on both continents who desired to get more for themselves by enslaving others than they could without. The word is thrown around a lot carelessly, but this is the definition of "greed" and it's worse manifestation. Then that market fed on itself allowing many more men the excuse of needing to compete. The slave trade was never necessary. It was just easier for those doing the enslaving, than the alternative. That is just not justifiable, under capitalism or anything else.
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