2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPetition to Get Martin Bashir back on MSNBC
We had success bringing back Ed Schultz to his original air time. Let's do the same with Martin Bashir.
Sign the petition to bring him back:
http://www.change.org/petitions/msnbc-rehire-martin-bashir-and-apologize-for-urging-his-resignation?share_id=kMQXEveRsw&utm_campaign=twitter_link_action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition
If petitions brought back the racist pedophile Phil Robertson to A&E, we can for sure get martin Bashir back.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)Flatpicker
(894 posts)But, I'd rather see a whole new channel created for this stuff. MSNBC is just another corporate entity.
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)calimary
(81,179 posts)My comment: "if that Duck Dynasty doofus can be reinstated, why can't Martin Bashir?"
And heck, OUR guy apologized, and with class. Mr.-Osama-bin-Laden-lookalike-meets-ZZ-Top sure didn't bother.
The Wizard
(12,541 posts)kiranon
(1,727 posts)bobclark86
(1,415 posts)Didn't like him as a hyperbole-spewing talking head on a corporate-owned television network. Don't like him when he says "if anyone deserves" having someone shit in their mouth, it's Sarah Palin (NOBODY deserves that. That's why when slave traders did it, we refer to it now as an atrocity) just because she's an idiot and/or disagrees with him.
He'll get a job at HBO, ESPN, XM/Sirius or start his own website, just like all the others. He'll be fine. Those who love his bullshit will still be able to find it.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)and he was very nice in the manner suggested. To equate all this push back of all this RW bullshit with slavery or icons of movements to free oppressed people is the atrocity. Bashir was a light in the dark tunnel of corporate media ownership as is maddow. Yep loved his bullshit.
Faygo Kid
(21,478 posts)I think I have heard that somewhere. Oh wait - I'm from Detroit. Born and bred.
TeamPooka
(24,216 posts)lamp_shade
(14,824 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)glinda
(14,807 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Sara Palin is the one who needs to go away.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)openfield
(30 posts)To get the awful ads off too. Things like the empire carpet ad, with 50's style singing the word 'empire', so creepy. Also all the dreadful funeral ads, for as young as 40! Also the "you better watch out" ad for infinity cars, pretending Christmas is still around the corner, in this time of spying. Many others that seems designed for a declining middle class and the manipulative 1%...one word, offensive!
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)denbot
(9,899 posts)civillawyer
(55 posts)(Assuming he needed to offer one). He deserves another chance.
crazylikafox
(2,753 posts)NCLefty
(3,678 posts)He made fun of Reince Priebus' name on his show the same week he made these comments. What good is such elementary school behavior? Lean... which way again? Oh, FORWARD. You mean, be better than the other side, right? Hopefully
marshall
(6,665 posts)I assume he has other plans.
mimi85
(1,805 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)rec