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December 04, 2013

Martin Bashir Out at MSNBC
— Ace

MSNBC has a stable of troglodytes, but Bashir's vulgarity was too much even for them.

A couple of idiots from Politico were discussing MSNBC's lineup on their video podcast a couple of weeks ago, and one likened it to "Animal House."

Central to the leftist's sense of vanity is his mistaken belief that he is an elevated person, in taste, intellect, and culture. In fact, he is none of these things. In almost all cases, he actually aspires to mediocrity -- or at least he would aspire to mediocrity, if he weren't already so convinced he had nothing else to prove to the world.

Martin Bashir directly challenges that self-flattery. Not only is he thick-headed and crude as a general matter, but he routinely resorts to provocations so vulgar that only the crudest malefactors in the Fightin' Fightin' Nutroots could fail to notice their vulgarity.

As such, he's bad for business. Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler.

Of course, the rest of MSNBC's lineup is similarly crude and thuggish. Ed Schultz is a red-faced rage-drunk, Al Sharpton is a rabble rouser with a body-count, Lawrence O'Donnell gets menacingly angry talking to women and occasionally challenges people to streetfights (people he knows won't accept the challenge, by the way), and Chris Matthews alternates between frothing accusations of racism and sending video selfies of his on-air visible erections to Barack Obama.

Meanwhile, of the alleged "smart ones" -- the ones who play to the leftist's erroneous self-conception of belonging to the intellectual and cultural elite -- Rachel Maddow is a conspiracy-theory loving imbecile whose concept of analysis is a sneering head-tilt, and who routinely pushes Alex Jones level nonsense out to a gullible public. Chris Hayes, despite his pretenses of reasonableness, is true-believing hyperpartisan goon.

But Martin Bashir's ratings were the lowest of The Low lineup, and so he's gone.

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Posted by: Mallfly at December 04, 2013 12:23 PM (bJm7W)

2 He can always get a gig as a White House spokesweasel.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 04, 2013 12:23 PM (lVPtV)

3 So Fucking What... -Metallica

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 04, 2013 12:23 PM (99dlI)

4 I'll never forget that Bashir first made his name in the US with that Michael Jackson interview. Don't get me wrong, Jackson's a freak but Bashire lead him down the road in some odd places, climbed up in the tree with him and really let Jackson show his true inner weirdness... but Martin wound up playing him like he was his best friend.

Posted by: rory at December 04, 2013 12:23 PM (IL9gH)

5 And now I'm off to work with a bunch of ankle-biters at an Advent party.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 04, 2013 12:24 PM (lVPtV)

6 Maybe he pooped in his own mouth...

Posted by: Doug at December 04, 2013 12:24 PM (JMnsu)

7 I would bet closed caption viewers filter these pukes out pretty quickly. The voice, something that compels many to listen, including the supposed-to-be-smart-meme Brit accent, if scrubbed, would make a huge difference to viewership.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:24 PM (IXrOn)

8 Glass-bottom boat enthusiasts hardest hit.

Posted by: Coleman at December 04, 2013 12:24 PM (AhJYy)

9 maybe they can get Jackie Martling to take his place. I wouldn't watch but at least I could be happy for someone there.

Posted by: Mallfly at December 04, 2013 12:25 PM (bJm7W)

10 I literally had never seen Martin Bashir on the air. I have attempted a few time to watch Chris Hayes, but his hipster-douchebag appearance and voice are so off-putting that I can't stay more than a few seconds.

Posted by: rockmom at December 04, 2013 12:25 PM (Q4elb)

11 Good example of a phrase my dad used quite often: "Don't shit in your messkit".

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:26 PM (VndSC)

12 I'll see if my buddy at the Scranton 7-11 has an opportunity for him.

Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at December 04, 2013 12:26 PM (Pr6hk)

13 Nothing so became his show as his leaving of it

Posted by: Macbeth at December 04, 2013 12:26 PM (aTXUx)

14 YES!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 12:26 PM (oFCZn)

15 Ha - fuckin' - ha ha ha!

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:26 PM (YWXTN)

16 Another turd will float to the surface.

Posted by: NCKate at December 04, 2013 12:26 PM (X/4E9)

17 Martin is out? Martin is OUT!?!

Posted by: Adriane... at December 04, 2013 12:27 PM (jdRXP)

18 Proof that a shit sandwich needs to have bread for people to eat it.

Posted by: Guy Fieri at December 04, 2013 12:27 PM (Pr6hk)

Those who have low ratings have to indulge in shock to get attention. I therefore want to advise Piers Morgan to put on a Miss Muffet costume and announce to the world that he is a raspberry scone.

No, I don't know if it will help his ratings - I just want him to do that because I am cruel. And that would be as close to truth as he is likely to get.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 04, 2013 12:28 PM (hLRSq)

20 I wonder how much Baldwin and his crying and whining had to do with it?

Posted by: acethepug at December 04, 2013 12:28 PM (zsgbV)

I only read Hustler for the Cartoons.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 12:28 PM (czzZy)

22 I saw Stable of Troglodytes open for Fightin' Fightin' Nutroots at the New West Fest in '89

Posted by: L, elle at December 04, 2013 12:28 PM (0xqKe)

23 Macbeth at December 04, 2013 04:26 PM (aTXUx) Out, out, damned Martin ...

Posted by: Adriane... at December 04, 2013 12:28 PM (jdRXP)

24 From the last thread because it's so good: 112 Breaking: Former MSNBC personality Martin Bashir has accepted an offer from ScatBlaster.com to host a new streaming variety show titled, Gettin' Corny With Marty. Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 04, 2013 02:53 PM (+lsX1)

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 12:28 PM (oFCZn)

25 Wait, you said fecalphelia twice.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 04, 2013 12:29 PM (Pr6hk)

26 What about other people working on the show? They ones who said, "Yeah, Martin, you should totally say that!"

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:29 PM (YWXTN)

27 "Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler." Laughed out loud, for several minutes.

Posted by: unf-ing-believable at December 04, 2013 12:29 PM (hbT3H)

As such, he's bad for business. Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler.

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You throw these bones out in the middle of the horde and then you just walk away whistling.

Posted by: Soona at December 04, 2013 12:29 PM (9sMM9)

29 MATT DAMON is available to host the MATT DAMON Show.

Posted by: MATT DAMON at December 04, 2013 12:30 PM (SY2Kh)

30 "But Martin Bashir's ratings were the lowest of The Low lineup, and so he's gone."

Yeah let's not pretend Bashir or MSNBC have any regrets about dehumanizing Palin, this was just a chance for them to drop some dead wood.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 04, 2013 12:30 PM (7Nq2G)

31 "Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler." Indeed; they would be $8 cups.

Posted by: Eingang Ausfahrt at December 04, 2013 12:30 PM (uN4Ye)

32 What about other people working on the show? They ones who said, "Yeah, Martin, you should totally say that!" Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 04:29 PM (YWXTN) Hopefully, they'll be tossed out into the cold obamacare exchanges.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:30 PM (IXrOn)

33 As such, he's bad for business. Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler.

[slow clap]

Posted by: phreshone at December 04, 2013 12:31 PM (Pr6hk)

34 Aww, poor Martin. Soon to be found in a yoga-festival cesspit near you.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at December 04, 2013 12:31 PM (+qFrW)

35 A round of schadenboners for everyone.

Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at December 04, 2013 12:31 PM (BLAfs)

36 It's the cult of the British accent. Seriously.

Posted by: @ParisParamus at December 04, 2013 12:31 PM (Gcm3A)

37 Cheer up Martin, Al Jazeera may be hiring soon.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:31 PM (VndSC)

38 I didn't know pissing and shitting in someone's mouth is inappropriate. I drink piss and eat shit all the time. Mine and anyone else's who wants to.

Posted by: Martin Bashir at December 04, 2013 12:32 PM (yhJhK)

39 You know that corn in your poop, it's not corn. It's corn husks packed with crap. I checked.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 04, 2013 12:32 PM (WGm5T)

40 Bwahahajajajs

Posted by: thunderb at December 04, 2013 12:32 PM (EJOqh)

41 38 It's the cult of the British accent. Seriously.

Posted by: @ParisParamus at December 04, 2013 04:31 PM (Gcm3A)

+1215

Posted by: Piers Morgan at December 04, 2013 12:32 PM (Pr6hk)

42 Apology accepted, Captain Batshit.

Posted by: Sarah 'Darth' Palin at December 04, 2013 12:32 PM (wNF3N)

43 Unexpectedly missing was an apology to Sarah Palin, but since he is an ultra-douche that was never going to happen.

Posted by: Penfold at December 04, 2013 12:33 PM (Fbt5B)

44 In other news it looks like Nancy Grace and Piers Morgan are about to hit the street. Hopefully face first.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 12:33 PM (oFCZn)

45 If Bashir's ratings had been higher my schadenboner would be harder.

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:33 PM (YWXTN)

46 And it's all that dumb snowbilly's fault, dontcha know.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX (@Teresa_Koch) at December 04, 2013 12:33 PM (PZ6/M)

47 YM street CORNER. I mean, in Piers' case.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (+qFrW)

48 I'm sure Marty Bashir will float to the top soon somewhere else.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (oFCZn)

49 The best part of this whole sordid ordeal is that Bashir will never live this down. Who can think of his name or face without picturing a load of crap now? Way to tarnish your own reputation in a such a graphic manner, dipshit.

Posted by: Mayday at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (eHc+1)

50 Oprah could always start an O3 channel for all the O'strays.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (IXrOn)

51 I wonder how much Baldwin and his ~~crying and whining~~ letter from his attorneys threatening a massive wrongful termination suit had to do with it? Posted by: acethepug at December 04, 2013 04:28 PM (zsgbV) FIFY.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (VtjlW)

52 Nothing so became his show as his leaving of it

Posted by: Macbeth at December 04, 2013 04:26 PM (aTXUx)

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Golf clap

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (jucos)

53 There are people on Twitter, that I follow, that are actually critical of the firing.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (P1WNR)

Yep, I came to this realization just recently myself. I use to think of these leftists and proggies like we used to fear the Soviets back in the '50s and later. I thought they were uber-competent, conniving, master stragetists hell bent on installing Socialism and transforming the US into their master progressive utopia.

But now, I've come to realize what utter incompetent boobs they are. They don't know anything really. All they have is words and theorizing. Put them out in the wild to live like, say most of our ancestors did back in the 19th century, or hell, the the 20th until after WWII, and they'd starve or get killed in no time.

They look down their noses at us and the rest of the country as a bunch of backwards provincial hicks and imagine themselves grand cosmopolitan sophisticates. But they aren't. They are the provincial hicks. Their provinces are the liberal enclaves in NY and the left coast and DC.

They are the idiots, the stupid ones. Any redneck down here in my neck of the woods knows more real-world valuable stuff than they do.

Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (M5Os+)

55 8 Glass-bottom boat enthusiasts hardest hit. --- Dammit...

Posted by: Zombie Howard Cosell at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (/Crba)

56 Chrissy Matthews was last seen with boxes - moving into Bashir's old office. He had his red stapler, too.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:34 PM (VndSC)

57 *sobbing*

Posted by: Rachel Maddow, humping a fleshlight with a strap-on at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (YWXTN)

58 Martin Bashir is not batshit crazy.

He's batshit-eating crazy...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (wtvvX)

A well-educated leftist commentator will complain about a violation of Bashir's First Amendment rights in 5, 4, 3 . . .

Posted by: Furious George at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (yFb77)

60 Hey, Martin - eat shit and die, muthafucker

Posted by: 8 3/4 Mile at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (yhJhK)

61 Sarah will probably shoot a moose to celebrate.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (IXrOn)

62 10 Well, that is one. Only about another 100 or so to go. Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2013 04:25 PM (OWjjx) This is my thinking as well.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (bb5+k)

50 I'm sure Marty Bashir will float to the top soon somewhere else.<<

Doubt it - the MSNBC brass flushed twice.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:35 PM (VndSC)

Unexpectedly missing was an apology to Sarah Palin, but since he is an ultra-douche that was never going to happen.

In defense of Bashir, in his native homeland of Peruvia this was quite a compliment.

Posted by: Toure Neblett at December 04, 2013 12:36 PM (czzZy)

65 As such, he's bad for business. Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler. Go on . . . .

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at December 04, 2013 12:36 PM (VtjlW)

66 you know, Zacherley is still available...

Posted by: Mallfly at December 04, 2013 12:36 PM (bJm7W)

67 Unexpectedly missing was an apology to Sarah Palin, but since he is an ultra-douche that was never going to happen.

Posted by: Penfold at December 04, 2013 04:33 PM (Fbt5B)

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At this moment, Todd Palin is stirring his huskies into a feeding frenzy promising them a night of fun and feasting.

Posted by: Soona at December 04, 2013 12:36 PM (9sMM9)

68 Y'all just hating on... Pakistani Atheists?

Posted by: Franch Dressing at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (ZPrif)

69 Bashir and Olberman can do a buddy show someplace, call it Poopy and Dummy.

Posted by: whyme at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (l9mF2)

70 In other news it looks like Nancy Grace and Piers Morgan are about to hit the street.

Hopefully face first.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 04:33 PM (oFCZn)

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Hahahahaha. That's funny.

Posted by: Randi Rhodes at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (jucos)

71 I am here just to report in that the small peppermint chocolate shake, at $2.91, was delicious.

And all gone.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (VjL9S)

72 I seem to remember some feces incident in Al Sharpton's past as well.

Posted by: toby928© insists on talking about robots at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (QupBk)

73 Yup....he's gone because he didn't attract enough barking moonbats to partake in his asshattery live...

that's it...

Posted by: sven10077 at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (9jfyN)

74 22 I wonder how much Baldwin and his crying and whining had to do with it? Posted by: acethepug at December 04, 2013 04:28 PM (zsgbV) I suspect that if not for Baldwin, Bashir would still be there. Once they got rid of Baldwin, unfavorable comparisons were just too obvious.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 12:37 PM (bb5+k)

Ok. I'll probably check out the 'Beaver Hunt', too.

Just to see if I recognize anyone, though.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 12:38 PM (czzZy)

76 Good.

Posted by: Y-not at December 04, 2013 12:38 PM (zDsvJ)

23 -

I learned all my amateur gynecology from 80s Hustler mags.

Little did I know when I finally saw my first real specimen, they weren't that color... and usually not that floppy.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2013 12:38 PM (TOk1P)

78 sorry to O/T, but weaselzippers, ahaha Black dog attacks little white girl in the white house. http://weaselzippers.us/2013/12/04/caption-this-wh-dog-attacks-little-white-girl/

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:38 PM (IXrOn)

79 33 "Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler."

Indeed; they would be $8 cups.

So much so that two girls would have to use one cup.

Posted by: Null at December 04, 2013 12:38 PM (P7hip)

80 I seem to remember some feces incident in Al Sharpton's past as well. Posted by: toby928Â© insists on talking about robots

No shit.

Posted by: Tawana Brawly's fat, broke ass at December 04, 2013 12:39 PM (YWXTN)

81 Please, please, please Gaia, let this be my chance at landing my own show!

Posted by: Krystal Ball at December 04, 2013 12:39 PM (JRmiD)

82 In other news it looks like Nancy Grace and Piers Morgan are about to hit the street.
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Wait, what? Nancy Grace? Her voice to me is like nails on a chalkboard. For some reason, Mrs CUS liked her.

But you mean Failed Prosecutor Nancy Grace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace#Prosecutorial_misconduct

Posted by: CUS at December 04, 2013 12:40 PM (84pE9)

83 If you like your vintage copies of Hustler, you can keep your vintage copies of Hustler.

Posted by: RomneyBot since 2007 at December 04, 2013 12:40 PM (4uMU0)

84 Little did I know when I finally saw my first real specimen, they weren't that color... and usually not that floppy. Posted by: BurtTC

Is that a fat flesh colored moth on your... OH GROSS!

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:40 PM (YWXTN)

85 Sarah will probably shoot a moose to celebrate.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 04:35 PM (IXrOn)
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So that's what you kids are calling it now?

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 04, 2013 12:40 PM (jucos)

86 I's a shame Current no longer exists to pick up MSNBC's cast-offs.
Then again, Al Jazeera America probably wouldn't mind a little Bashin' Bashir on its line-up. He's already got that whole hating on strong, Christian, American women thing going for him.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2013 12:40 PM (JRmiD)

87 21--....I therefore want to advise Piers Morgan to put on a Miss Muffet costume and announce to the world that he is a raspberry scone. .... Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 04, 2013 04:28 PM (hLRSq) ------------------------------------- THAT I would tune in to see. And it would greatly elevate my opinion of the man were he to do it with a straight face.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 04, 2013 12:41 PM (dfYL9)

88 "Central to the leftist's sense of vanity is his mistaken belief that he is an elevated person, in taste, intellect, and culture"

And this is why we mock them.

They hold themselves in such a hypersuperior position that.. well, how dare you question me!? etc.

But if you poke them with a stick and run away it's quite funny.

Posted by: tangonine at December 04, 2013 12:41 PM (x3YFz)

89 It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

Posted by: FGCU_James at December 04, 2013 12:42 PM (GPjVW)

90 What, you mean you aren't enchanted by my snarkiness and irony? signed, Rachel M.

Posted by: ejo at December 04, 2013 12:42 PM (GXvSO)

91 White privilege rules at MSNBC. Notice that none of the crackers got thrown under the bus. Raaaaaaacism!

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at December 04, 2013 12:42 PM (pginn)

92 But now, I've come to realize what utter incompetent boobs they are. They don't know anything really. All they have is words and theorizing. ... Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at December 04, 2013 04:34 PM (M5Os+) And Microphones, Which make them the greatest threat this country has ever faced. The REAL ENEMY is Democrats with microphones and transmitters.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 12:42 PM (bb5+k)

93 What's Hustler?

I bet they could sell that coffee with some "Advocates" behind the counter.

Posted by: King Barky the Liar at December 04, 2013 12:43 PM (WGm5T)

94 I want POOP in my MOUTH

Posted by: Martin Bashiteater at December 04, 2013 12:44 PM (qPxLX)

95 If only they would fill their Brit-void with Charles Cooke.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 04, 2013 12:44 PM (DmNpO)

96 Just a note - but that smoking gun splody crotch ginger from the last thread was featured in a vintage Hustler mag.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:44 PM (VndSC)

97 Update to company offering free website build. IBM? UPDATE: It looks like they were talking about IBM. Via Politifact: In a 2010 interview, IBMÂ’s CEO said: Â“We could have improved quality and reduced the costs of the health-care system by $900 billion. Â… I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down.Â” thegatewaypundit

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:44 PM (IXrOn)

You know, when I was a young teenaged horn dog back in the late 70s and early 80s, you had the big three, Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler. Playboy had a reputation of showing too little, not dirty enough, and Hustler was just too sick. It was low brow stuff, pretty vile. But Penthouse was just right.

I'll always remember the excitement when I managed to get my little hands on a copy of Penthouse for my own around the age of 13 or so. That was contraband of the highest order and I dared not keep it in the house, anywhere. I hid it way out in an old shed way off in the woods. Had my parents caught me with that, I would've been dead.

And that's the way it should be. Back then, had I had access to the internet and the porn galore there, some of it which makes Hustler look high brow, I would've probably killed myself from fapping OD. Had I lived, I would've probably been too jaded for sex by the time I was 18.

I worry about these young boys and all that internet porn.

Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at December 04, 2013 12:45 PM (M5Os+)

99 2 words: Al Sharpton

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 04, 2013 12:45 PM (nzKvP)

100 So, now that he no longer has an employer to sponsor him, does his work visa get terminated?

(Rhetorical; he'll get to stay as long as Uncle Obongo 'cause he's a Friend of the Regime.)

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at December 04, 2013 12:45 PM (/kI1Q)

101 For a group that constantly bashes us for hating on women they seem to have a pretty significant woman problem of their own. How many MSNBC hosts does this make who have been forced out or had to take a vacation for going off on a Republican woman?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 04, 2013 12:45 PM (g1DWB)

102 If only they would fill their Brit-void with Charles Cooke. The funny thing is Cooke is out there saying Bashir's firing is something we shouldn't celebrate.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 04, 2013 12:45 PM (sByIH)

103 Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if... But could we, with some strategically placed protests, con Starbucks into offering Hustler?

Posted by: t-bird at December 04, 2013 12:45 PM (FcR7P)

104 Just a note - but that smoking gun splody crotch ginger from the last thread was featured in a vintage Hustler mag. Posted by: Roy

Cover of Hot Box.

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (YWXTN)

105 IBM? No wonder they said no thanks.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (99dlI)

106 So that's what you kids are calling it now? Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 04, 2013 04:40 PM (jucos) AKA, dinner.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (IXrOn)

107 off topic -- yahoo news links to CNN:

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, one of Obamacare's architects and staunchest supporters, is also the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the law's new exchanges.

Reid is the exception among the other top congressional leaders. GOP House Speaker John Boehner, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have all directed their staffs to join the exchange, their aides said.

Posted by: Mallfly at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (bJm7W)

108 Just a note - but that smoking gun splody crotch ginger from the last thread was featured in a vintage Hustler mag.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 04:44 PM (VndSC)

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I'm still not going to click that bitch.

Posted by: Soona at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (9sMM9)

109

87 -

Seriously, that or they blew up a huge giant bubble gum bubble, then popped it on their crotch.

Very disturbing and unappealing to a young lad.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (TOk1P)

110 Does this mean he can be deported now?

Posted by: somebody else, not me at December 04, 2013 12:46 PM (29vnO)

111

Hustler had class.

...when compared to Cheri and Swank.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 12:47 PM (czzZy)

112 But could we, with some strategically placed protests, con Starbucks into offering Hustler?

Posted by: t-bird at December 04, 2013 04:45 PM (FcR7P)

Sounds like a job for 4chan

Posted by: Martin Bashiteater at December 04, 2013 12:47 PM (qPxLX)

113 This is an OUTRAGE!! Mr. Bashir should not be discriminated against because of his sexual choices! Martin was just showing his love and respect towards Sarah Palin. Its part of his culture HATERS!!! Don't judge, judgey mcjudgers!!!!

Posted by: tolerance for scat enthusiasts at December 04, 2013 12:47 PM (o/bla)

114

This... was beautiful. And damned true.

Posted by: Kinley Ardal at December 04, 2013 12:47 PM (qImwM)

115
C#ntessa Brewer was so incredibly stupid they dumped her off to go cover some travel crap that no one watches till her contract expired.

Jello Pudding Factory tour primetime special. You know you want it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 04, 2013 12:47 PM (TIIx5)

116 heh ... Swank.

Posted by: toby928© insists on talking about robots at December 04, 2013 12:47 PM (QupBk)

117 MSNBC's ratings are headed towards Al Jazzera's rating territory

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 04, 2013 12:48 PM (nzKvP)

118 So which network website or democrat politician will hire this back next?

Posted by: Buzzion at December 04, 2013 12:48 PM (wDulX)

119 The funny thing is Cooke is out there saying Bashir's firing is something we shouldn't celebrate. *** Cooke is occasionally wrong, and this is one of those times. He isn't being punished because of something he said on his own time, as was Alec Baldwin, he's out because of his behavior on-the-job. His behavior was detrimental to his employer.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 04, 2013 12:48 PM (DmNpO)

120 Not trying to suck up to Ace, but that was probably the greatest take-down of the on-air personalities at MSNBC I ever heard. Everyone in the country that considers themselves non-liv, left or right, needs to hear that takedown. Epic.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at December 04, 2013 12:48 PM (cK0tU)

121 Dear Penthouse Forum ...

Posted by: Martin Bashir at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (QupBk)

122 Hustler had class.

...when compared to Cheri and Swank. Posted by: garrett

Cheri and Swank had class.

... when compared to Box Lunch and Ass.

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (YWXTN)

123 Jello Pudding Factory tour primetime special. You know you want it. What are we, 1980s Germany? Nobody puts industrial tours on primetime anymore.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (sByIH)

124 Yeah, if Ace's joke had been Swank, he would have had me rolling.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (czzZy)

125 This... was beautiful. And damned true. Posted by: Kinley Ardal at December 04, 2013 04:47 PM (qImwM) Ace separated them into "glasses" v "no glasses" camps.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (IXrOn)

126 Ace, here is the correct headline for this story: RACIST NETWORK FIRES BROWN-SKINNED MINORITY HOST FOR DARING TO HAVE KINKY SEXUAL FANTASIES ABOUT A WHITE WOMAN.

Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (+cx5n)

127 Alan Grayson Show, anyone?

Posted by: Martin Bashiteater at December 04, 2013 12:49 PM (qPxLX)

128 Damn I got left at the end of the dead thread just like willow. Dragging my post over here. How I long for the days when Todd Palin could have smashed in Martin Bashirs face to the applause of everyone. Civility is highly overrated, and only rewards the lawyers.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 04, 2013 12:50 PM (KuZ6A)

129 The funny thing is Cooke is out there saying Bashir's firing is something we shouldn't celebrate.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 04, 2013 04:45 PM (sByIH)

No - celebrating would tasteless. Not sporting and all that.

*goes to set up pinata with Bashir's face taped on it, searches for fireworks...*

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at December 04, 2013 12:50 PM (hLRSq)

130 I have my worries. You see, so long as Martin Bashir was still employed there, everyone else could say "if Marty's still got a job, that means I'm safe, 'cuz he's worse than me."

Smart money says Schultz is the new low man on the totem pole, and I'm sure he's very, very afraid. Time to polish up that resume, Eddie...

Posted by: Keith Arnold at December 04, 2013 12:50 PM (DMtT+)

131 The funny thing is Cooke is out there saying Bashir's firing is something we shouldn't celebrate. Posted by: bonhomme at December 04, 2013 04:45 PM (sByIH) Why? Because it isn't going far enough? Too small a victory? Nowadays i'll take what I can get.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 12:50 PM (bb5+k)

132 In before Big-Uns!

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2013 12:51 PM (QupBk)

133
Next, on Current TV, Two Girls, One Cup, and Martin Bashir.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at December 04, 2013 12:51 PM (0IhFx)

134 Why do I get the impression O'Donnell has two or three road rage incidents in his past? Maybe an argument or three with his kids school teachers that turned ugly. Perhaps even a couple of black-out weekends where he comes home late Sunday afternoon or evening unable to explain the cuts, bruises and broken arm.

Posted by: MTF at December 04, 2013 12:51 PM (aG9Vk)

135 does anyone even watch msnbc? everyone I know has shitcanned directv/cable for netflix and hulu, and even those that remain don't watch that shit.

Telemundo! probably has higher ratings.

Posted by: tangonine at December 04, 2013 12:51 PM (x3YFz)

136 The rest have their fingers crossed for a slight spike of their ratings. 1 viewer for Tingles, 1 viewer for Madcow, 1 for ...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (IXrOn)

137 We've just about completed the inventory of a truck stop magazine rack.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (VndSC)

138 Hustler had class.

...when compared to Cheri and Swank.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 04:47 PM (czzZy)

----------------------------------------------------

Don't forget the magazine with taste and decorum; "Jugs".

Posted by: Soona at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (9sMM9)

139 That one did it.

Posted by: Roy at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (VndSC)

140 139 does anyone even watch msnbc? They have a few hostage viewers in MD offices like the folks over at CNN Airport.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (99dlI)

141 >>>Yeah, if Ace's joke had been Swank, he would have had me rolling. how about Gent?

Posted by: ace at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (/FnUH)

142 >>....How many MSNBC hosts does this make who have been forced out or had to take a vacation for going off on a Republican woman?

Not nearly enough.

I'm pretty sure all of the regular hosts, including the women (except maybe Alexis Witt) have slurred Palin at some point in the last 6 years. And by slur, I mean saying something that if "Palin" were replaced with "Michelle Obama" would have gotten them marched out the door on the same day.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (JRmiD)

143 Next stop: Al Jizz America

Posted by: mojo at December 04, 2013 12:52 PM (AIC5Z)

144 I'll bet Daddy O still loves me.

Posted by: Martin Brassiere at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (Dwehj)

145 >>>The funny thing is Cooke is out there saying Bashir's firing is something we shouldn't celebrate. i see what he means. I'm conflicted on the point.

Posted by: ace at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (/FnUH)

146 Hey all! Our new Martin Bashir open-mouthed face decal, suitable for use in your bathroom toilet, is now available. All profits will go to the Republican Party of Alaska.

Posted by: Fathead at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (aG9Vk)

147
I'll always remember the excitement when I managed to get my little hands on a copy of Penthouse for my own around the age of 13 or so. That was contraband of the highest order and I dared not keep it in the house, anywhere. I hid it way out in an old shed way off in the woods.

Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at December 04, 2013 04:45 PM (M5Os+)

Mmmmmmm. Forest Porn. That takes me back......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (TIIx5)

148 True Crime as the low-rent porn of my day.

Posted by: toby928© at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (QupBk)

149 MSNBC is Comcast's in-kind contribution to the Democrat party. If the Republicans had brains and balls (I know, I know) they would push to unbundle cable tv offerings and force Comcast to offer a la carte pricing. This would also punish Disney and ESPN because lot's of viewers would drop ESPN in a heartbeat.

Posted by: boniface ballers at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (l3RZ9)

150 You guys know a liiiiiittle bit too much about Pr0n.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (jucos)

151 The real message of Bashir's tirade: Conservatives are not allowed to use metaphors.

Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (+cx5n)

152 NDH, Have you put an alert on your credit report with the reporting agencies. With your info at healthcare.gov it might be wise in case your info gets hacked.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 04, 2013 12:53 PM (KuZ6A)

153

truck stop magazine rack.

Best one I ever saw was 'Shaved Snizz'.

The old lady behind the counter didn't find it as amusing as I did.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 12:54 PM (czzZy)

154 141 We've just about completed the inventory of a truck stop magazine rack. "Hairy Guys' Asses Quarterly." You mainly see that one in Marrin County truck stops.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 04, 2013 12:54 PM (zeV2E)

155 MSNBC should've known better when Marty insisted he use the bathroom as his office.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 12:54 PM (oFCZn)

156 Fuck the lot of you. I bought a septic service in Wasilla.

Posted by: marty bashir at December 04, 2013 12:54 PM (HKTIg)

157 138 Why do I get the impression O'Donnell has two or three road rage incidents in his past? Maybe an argument or three with his kids school teachers that turned ugly. Perhaps even a couple of black-out weekends where he comes home late Sunday afternoon or evening unable to explain the cuts, bruises and broken arm. Posted by: MTF at December 04, 2013 04:51 PM (aG9Vk) A guy I know got a little too drunk and ran into a parked car with his Audi, then awhile later smashed his thumb so bad the whole thing is black and blue and the nail is coming off. He doesn't remember how any of that happened. I suggested he not drink so much.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 04, 2013 12:54 PM (lokJh)

158 In before Big-Uns! Posted by: toby928Â©

Did all the boobs in that magazine look all nasty and veiny - like road map globes?

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:55 PM (YWXTN)

159 I speak metaphorically to my cats all the time.

Posted by: Martin Brassiere at December 04, 2013 12:55 PM (Dwehj)

160 Cheri and Swank weren't really commercial porn like Playboy or Hustler. They spontaneously generated in the woods around my neighborhood and lived free-range for years.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (ZshNr)

161 159 MSNBC should've known better when Marty insisted he use the bathroom as his office. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 04, 2013 04:54 PM (oFCZn) No, no...he was using his office as the bathroom...it's a muslim thing, I think.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (lokJh)

162 You guys know a liiiiiittle bit too much about Pr0n. Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 04, 2013 04:53 PM (jucos) What's weird is - the talk is of magazines, versus dvd's...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (IXrOn)

163 Playgirl?

Posted by: Reggie My Love at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (FgCn/)

164 What I never understood is why Bashir publicly confessed to having a perverted sexual obsession with Sarah Palin in the first place. It's embarrassing enough to admit on air that you masturbate to images of men shitting in women's mouths -- but to masturbate specifically to the image of someone shitting in Sarah Palin's mouth -- now that's a kink beyond even the acceptable bounds of the no-bourdaries left.

Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (+cx5n)

165

Oooh, 'Gent'.

Nice one.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (czzZy)

166 Comments on the Mediate site say that Palin is to blame for this ass clown being fired. So, ops normal in libtard land.

Posted by: VADM(Red) Cuthbert Collingwood (Mentioned in Despatches) at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (O7OxF)

167 i see what he means. I'm conflicted on the point.

Posted by: ace at December 04, 2013 04:53 PM (/FnUH)

Don't we always complain that the left can say anything they want without retribution? The right didn't get him fired, the left (msnbc) did.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at December 04, 2013 12:56 PM (cK0tU)

168 True Crime as the low-rent porn of my day.

Posted by: toby928Â© at December 04, 2013 04:53 PM (QupBk)

-------------------------------------------------

Or any of the other magazines with nazi SS officers threatening a gorgeous women whose blouse is about to fall off.

Posted by: Soona at December 04, 2013 12:57 PM (9sMM9)

169 Was that wrong? Should I not have said that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here at MSNBC that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people here say that all the time.

Posted by: Martin Costanza at December 04, 2013 12:57 PM (eHIJJ)

170 Topper

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 04, 2013 12:57 PM (ZshNr)

171 I would hope Martin Bashir's only prospect for employment would be as an online editor for the Urban Dictionary.

Posted by: Fritz at December 04, 2013 12:57 PM (UzPAd)

172 Nood creepy cultists up!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 04, 2013 12:57 PM (p9JxP)

173

Baby, I'm gonna make you famous.

You'll be hidden under every other stump in America by this time, next year.

Posted by: Swank Photographer at December 04, 2013 12:58 PM (czzZy)

174 164 Cheri and Swank weren't really commercial porn like Playboy or Hustler. They spontaneously generated in the woods around my neighborhood and lived free-range for years.

Posted by: Lincolntf

Ohhhh, so thats how they got there. Fascinating.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 04, 2013 12:58 PM (o/bla)

175

Udder DeLite and Mudflaps

Posted by: Pron Mags that never were but should have been at December 04, 2013 12:58 PM (TOk1P)

176 I have no idea what Cooke, Rothman and others are saying by being against the Bashir firing. Bashir is an employee in the private sector, he got what he deserved.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (P1WNR)

177 truck stop magazine rack

Box Lunch
Suntanned Tits
Ass
Lactating Lovelies

Seriously, truck stops creep me out. They're like pervert outposts or something.

Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (YWXTN)

178 #142, I remember being given copies of Oui Magazine by friends to store in my closet. I never really read them much--but I am not gay!

Posted by: @ParisParamus at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (Gcm3A)

179 Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2013 04:57 PM (OWjjx) Actually, they should leave the market alone and let Comcast have some competition.

Posted by: model_1066 at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (lokJh)

180 I think it's fine to celebrate - it' that Alinksy rule about making your enemy live up to his own rules.
How many times have we been lectured about "civility" by the Dems and the MSM after incidents like the AZ shooting only to watch them sink to unbelievable depths down the road?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (JRmiD)

181 You stupid Reich-wingnuts criticizing the taste, intellect, and culture of others? Go back to your trailer parks and your science-fiction conventions, you losers. America does not need you as we progress toward a better future.

Especially that horrible Mr. O'Spades person in the Ewok costume!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (604CD)

182 Actually, there was a Republican Senator who introduced just such a bill, requiring cable company's to offer channel al carte.

I am not going to tell you which one.....you simply will not believe it.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2013 04:57 PM (OWjjx)

I'm pretty sure it was McCain

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 04, 2013 12:59 PM (WdbF7)

183 I would love to see MSNBCs actual financials. Gotta to be nearing Air America levels of red at this point.

Posted by: Jean at December 04, 2013 01:00 PM (cLM8I)

184 176 I would hope Martin Bashir's only prospect for employment would be as an online editor for the Urban Dictionary. So we're thinking he knows the definition of blumpkin?

Posted by: Blue State Hostage at December 04, 2013 01:00 PM (FgCn/)

185 Seriously, truck stops creep me out. They're like pervert outposts or something. Posted by: Dang at December 04, 2013 04:59 PM (YWXTN) They still sell cassette tapes at those places, don't they?

Posted by: model_1066 at December 04, 2013 01:00 PM (lokJh)

186 i see what he means. I'm conflicted on the point. Posted by: ace at December 04, 2013 04:53 PM (/FnUH) Well then please share his reasoning with the rest of us. I just did a web search on Charles Cooke and Martin Bashir. It's top find was how Martin Bashir asserted that Republicans were using "IRS" as a new word for "N***ER." Martin Bashir not only needs to be fired, he needs someone to beat the fucking dog shit out of him. A Reason why he shouldn't have been fired? This I gotta hear.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 01:01 PM (bb5+k)

187 136 >> In before Big-Uns!

It's Big 'Uns, dammit toby.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 04, 2013 01:01 PM (wNF3N)

188 His real name is Martin Jones. He just picked up a nickname as a hoodlum teenager when he would participate in the violent abduction and gang rape of girls, and his fellow hooligans would egg him on with cries of "Martin, bash 'er!" He decided to keep the name for his on-screen personality.

Posted by: zombie at December 04, 2013 01:01 PM (+cx5n)

189 Nood up

Posted by: Fourth Horseman at December 04, 2013 01:01 PM (KuZ6A)

190 I never wash my hands after taking a dump.

Posted by: Martin Brassiere at December 04, 2013 01:01 PM (Dwehj)

191

172:

One of the funniest lines from PJ O'Rourke, the exact wording of which I forget was when he went off on a riff about lefties calling conservatives Nazis. He said, heh, I'll take that, as no woman ever had a fantasy about being ravished by a man dressed like a liberal.

Posted by: publius(NotBreitbartPublius) at December 04, 2013 01:01 PM (M5Os+)

192 " Starbucks could not con people into buying $6 cups of coffee if, directly beside the register, stood a magazine rack openly displaying vintage copies of Hustler."
...
...
...

What year?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 04, 2013 01:02 PM (XO6WW)

193 150 Hey all! Our new Martin Bashir open-mouthed face decal, suitable for use in your bathroom toilet, is now available. All profits will go to the Republican Party of Alaska. Posted by: Fathead at December 04, 2013 04:53 PM (aG9Vk) That is actually a good idea. The left wouldn't hesitate to dehumanize someone in this manner.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 01:03 PM (bb5+k)

194

They still sell cassette tapes at those places, don't they?

And Betamax Porn.

The connoisseur will tell you that nothing rivals Betamax POrn for realistic sound.

Posted by: garrett at December 04, 2013 01:03 PM (czzZy)

195 If the Republicans had brains and balls (I know, I know) they would push to unbundle cable tv offerings and force Comcast to offer a la carte pricing. This would also punish Disney and ESPN because lot's of viewers would drop ESPN in a heartbeat. Posted by: boniface ballers at December 04, 2013 04:53 PM (l3RZ9) Yup. This is how you legislate strategically.

Posted by: D-Lamp at December 04, 2013 01:04 PM (bb5+k)

196 Telemundo! probably has higher ratings.

Posted by: tangonine at December 04, 2013 04:51 PM (x3YFz)

And jigglier newscasters.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 04, 2013 01:04 PM (lr3d7)

197 174
I am not going to tell you which one.....you simply will not believe it.

It was John McCain. Old fart with all that sweet DC graft $$$ and he still bitches about his cable bill.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 04, 2013 01:05 PM (XO6WW)

198 Rachel Maddow, humping a fleshlight with a strap-on This is why I love this site. And STILL no apology from MessBC. Waiting.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 04, 2013 01:06 PM (IaUuZ)

199 The funny thing is Cooke is out there saying Bashir's firing is something we shouldn't celebrate. i see what he means. I'm conflicted on the point. *** As I just tweeted to Cooke, I adore him, but I believe he is wrong about this. Bashir's behavior, on-the-job, was unacceptable. He was not fired/asked to retire because of his personal feelings, but because he aired those personal feelings on-air, at the expense of his employer. This is not the same as with Alec Baldwin, who offends on his own time. As for Cooke's argument that Bashir apologized: An apology does not equate to repentance. This is hardly the first time Bashir has crossed the line.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 04, 2013 01:06 PM (DmNpO)

200 I'm not sure it's a great thing. It's almost a guarantee that what they replace him with will have higher ratings. I would prefer this station auto-erotic asphyxiates itself out of existence. Bashir was the equivalent of a sturdy doorknob and nylon rope.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 04, 2013 01:07 PM (zeV2E)

201 >>Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 04, 2013 05:05 PM Yeah, I'm not conflicted, either. For one thing, he didn't get fired because of either some bone-headed "Stop Rush" type astroturf thing, nor did he get the axe after someone like the POTUS used his bully pulpit to press for it. It's pretty clear MSNBC was clearing dead wood. And, in terms of what he said, seems to me it should have been an FCC violation. I mean, it was obscene and pretty close to inciting violence against Palin. So this isn't some grey-area PC-ness run amok thing. This is a guy who did a crappy job AND pushed the envelope of what is acceptable for TV too far.

Posted by: Y-not at December 04, 2013 01:09 PM (zDsvJ)

202 200 If the Republicans had brains and balls (I know, I know) they would push to unbundle cable tv offerings and force Comcast to offer a la carte pricing. This would also punish Disney and ESPN because lot's of viewers would drop ESPN in a heartbeat. I find it interesting that at cable's inception, that was the way it was supposed to be available, a al carte...As soon as it was approved, cable companies immediately started bundling. It's going to be (more) dinosaur as streaming takes hold methinks.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 04, 2013 01:10 PM (IaUuZ)

203 I think it was a great thing and it put a smile on my face.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 04, 2013 01:10 PM (P1WNR)

204 And even so, MSDNC could not bring themselves to say he was fired, but rather 'resigned' of his own accord.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 04, 2013 01:11 PM (KvKOu)

205 I never wash my hands after taking a dump.
Posted by: Martin Brassiere

*sitting on the bus with the boxes of possessions from his office, sniffing his finger tips*

Posted by: Martin Bashir, now with bitter tears at December 04, 2013 01:12 PM (YWXTN)

206 "Ed Schultz is a red-faced rage-drunk"

Which I've found a little weird, because when I was forced to listen to Air America, he seemed like the least crazy among them. He was pro-shutting down the boarders (although he probably said it as a wedge issue) and he tried to get his angry callers to listen to slight reason.

I still hated him, but I hated him less than the other idiots on that station.

Posted by: Shoot Me at December 04, 2013 01:12 PM (qiXMt)

207 ______________________________

Hey Ace, something occurred to me that I would like you to consider.
It's only loosely related to this topic, but I believe it is directly related to the left's sick and hopelessly habitual mentalities.

I've come to this conclusion: Any kind of hazing is tribal and sick and inexcusable. I'm not talking about one-off harmless pranks where someone is kidded into believing some silly proposition. Nor am I talking about ribbing someone someone on his foibles. - Giving someone a "hard time" over some personal deficit/insecurity or other.

I am talking about two parties both voluntarily entering a power dynamic where one gets to abuse the other and the other accepts the abuse. The abuse doesn't have to send the one being hazed to the doctor for it to count as sick and inexcusable. Rather, the minimum criteria is that the treatment is ritualistically humiliating - regardless of whether it causes physical pain.

An example that I think most useful is found in several scenes in the crappy Linklater film, _Dazed and Confused_. (Though I have to admit I think Linklater's _Slacker_ is excellent independent and avant-garde cinema.)

In _Dazed and Confused_ there is a scene where high school girl juniors submit themselves to hazing by graduating seniors - so that next year they will be considered the cool kids in command of the high school social scene. The hazing primarily consists of being sprayed with condiments (ketchup, mustard, etc.), doused with flour and then being required to embarrass one's self with servile and other ridiculous behaviors. All done in public in front of a laughing audience of peers. No one gets physically damaged.

This is not just stupid.
It's sick and bizarre tribalism.
There is something profoundly sick about insisting that by voluntarily submitting to abject humiliation that this somehow confers superior status to those who "tough through it". Superior in what sense??
And it's not just bad for the humiliated; it's likely worse for the humiliators. It validates the notion that bullying can _ever_ be justified.

And I believe this is true whether the hazing is taking place in a college fraternity or in military school or on a professional sports team or in prison.

Hazing is ultimately about a perverse and abusive exercise of undeserved power.

And the insight of that last sentence leads me to this - likely controversial - claim: Hazing is of a sick mentality that belongs to the left. It's based on an obsession with mindless tribalism. There is nothing macho about it.
Whenever the topic should happen to arise, anyone who would consider himself conservative should universally condemn hazing.
It comes from a sick, leftist mentality.

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 01:13 PM (J+Q+d)

208

Maybe they will replace his timeslot with:

"Deadliest Crotch" co-starring Sandra Fluke and Miley Cyrus

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 04, 2013 01:19 PM (l0lja)

209 82: "Indeed; they would be $8 cups. So much so that two girls would have to use one cup." That joke deserves a rim shot.

Posted by: Eingang Ausfahrt at December 04, 2013 01:29 PM (uN4Ye)

210 Rachel Maddow is a conspiracy-theory loving imbecile whose concept of analysis is a sneering head-tilt, and who routinely pushes Alex Jones level nonsense out to a gullible public. Alex Jones objects to the comparison.

Posted by: mindful webworker - mylar-lined ten-gallon at December 04, 2013 01:30 PM (U13jb)

211 Audrey Fleurot; c'est mon ginger favorit: http://galeri.uludagsozluk.com/r/audrey-fleurot-444919/

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 04, 2013 01:36 PM (olDqf)

212 218 Rachel Maddow is a conspiracy-theory loving imbecile whose concept of analysis is a sneering head-tilt, and who routinely pushes Alex Jones level nonsense out to a gullible public. Alex Jones objects to the comparison. Posted by: mindful webworker - mylar-lined ten-gallon at December 04, 2013 05:30 PM (U13jb) Much as I detest Alex Jones, his crackpot rants at least have a basis in fact. Rachel Maddow's rants are lies end to end,

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 04, 2013 01:38 PM (olDqf)

213 Well, it wasn't shit shit. In her mouf.

Posted by: Whoopie at December 04, 2013 01:39 PM (JQuNB)

214 Dave,

That rant has nothing to do with this topic. I don't believe tribalism is left or right. I also think that wanting everyone to condemn hazing and bullying whenever they come up is PC nonsense. Kids should be taught to kick bullies in the nuts, and make their own decisions on the benefits gained from enduring hazing. The world is tribal, we choose what tribe we wish to belong to.

Posted by: name at December 04, 2013 01:53 PM (I6eZd)

215 Considering the quality of literature available in truck stop magazine racks I shudder to think about the state of the average highway truck sleeper. Oh and considering the depravity that represents political discourse these days maybe duelling should be reintroduced. I actually think leftists know-or at least expect-they can get away with spewing whatever garbage they want. If the media would ever become balanced the left would be defenceless.

Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at December 04, 2013 02:00 PM (SVxlG)

216

I believe the firing of Baldwin and Bashir were business decisions due to abysmal ratings wrapped up in the guise of firings due to gay and women bashing.

Posted by: Cheri at December 04, 2013 02:10 PM (G+Wff)

217 ______________________________

Name @ comment 222,

I agree with you that children should bet taught that bullies should generally be stood up to and even dealt with by using violence in self defense.

But you are flat wrong about tribalism. And I certainly do not belong to one.
Tribalism is a primitive concept that was most useful back in the stone age. Nowadays the practice of tribalism is likely the most effective in the mafia and in street gangs. Tribalism is about power and hierarchy.

The reason the reason conservatives should dissociate from such sick, tribalistic practices like hazing is because such abuses of power are the polar opposite of being free thinking and ruggedly individualistic.

Question for you, name: Would you encourage a child (even your own if you had/have them) to participate in hazing? Or would you discourage it?

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 02:22 PM (J+Q+d)

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Moreover name at comment 222,

The condemnation of sick practices like hazing and bullying is in no way a "PC"-policing of free speech.

I WANT the fools on the left to speak out in favor of such sickness. So that I can speak out against them for their foolishness.
I am not saying that any topic is off-limits - which is what I would have to be doing in order to engaged in being PC.

I _WANT_ these things discussed.

It's my observation that the hazing mentality is a leftist one.

Name, perhaps you will enlighten us to the good benefits associated with humiliating others through hazing.
While you're at it, tell us which tribe you belong to - since you claim to belong to one.

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 02:30 PM (J+Q+d)

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By the way, name at comment 222:

Are you unaware that Bashir is a media bully? - That bullying is a large part of his MO?

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 02:34 PM (J+Q+d)

220 By the way, _Dave_, are you aware that nobody gives a shit?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 04, 2013 03:35 PM (8Fl6F)

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As though the Peon at comment 228 spoke for anyone except his own tiny mind.

Meh.

Let someone know if you can summon a substantive point worth analyzing.

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 03:37 PM (J+Q+d)

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By the way, I was going to say:

As though the Peon at comment 228 spoke for anyone but his own tiny _constipated_ mind.

- But I was concerned that the term "constipated" might confuse him in terms of his not being able to do shit with his mind.

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 03:43 PM (J+Q+d)

223 On his next show, his co-stars will be Two Girls and a Cup.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 04, 2013 03:51 PM (Y92Nd)

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Nice one, Tattoo!

Posted by: _Dave_ at December 04, 2013 03:59 PM (J+Q+d)

225 Took them long enough.

Posted by: rabidfox at December 04, 2013 04:17 PM (Gejy0)

226 Rugged individualism? And scared of hazing? People choose to be hazed. I didn't. My children haven't. We aren't scared of it, we don't choose to do it. If someone else of less self worth wants to pay that price, I will let them.

You want a conversation about tribalism? I'm a member of a clan, my dad taught me that, his dad before and so on. My kids know the same. We aren't afraid to go into the great unknown and face the world, because we know we have a whole tribe to avenge us if things go bad. I don't need your recognition of my clan to make it real.

As far as the Alberta Oil Peon, I'd bet his life is closer to mine than yours, and I'll bet we're both more rugged individuals than you are. I could be wrong, but I don't care.

Posted by: name at December 04, 2013 04:32 PM (KqnY1)

227 And by the way, you sure talk to yourself a lot, and what's with all the _ underscoring_? That's just weird.

Posted by: name at December 04, 2013 04:37 PM (KqnY1)

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