New Low? MSNBC‘s Bashir Uses Steve Jobs’ Death to Blast Sarah Palin
- Posted on October 6, 2011 at 5:44pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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While it is no secret MSNBC‘s Martin Bashir isn’t a fan of Sarah Palin and that he’ll take just about any opportunity to lambast the former Alaska governor, many critics are arguing that the host sunk to a new low Thursday when he used the tragic, and, untimely death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a springboard for his latest Palin-attack.
In his “Clear the Air” segment, Bashir attempted to juxtapose Palin‘s decision not to run for president in 2012 with Jobs’ passing. For Bashir, Jobs represented “the very best of American exceptionalism” while Palin embodies “the very worst form of American opportunism.”
Mediaite adds:
In today’s segment, he compared the lives and contributions of two disparate, and contrasting, public figures, both of whom were in the news yesterday, though for very different reasons. Sarah Palin announced that she would not be running for President came along with the sad news of Steve Jobs death. Oddly, Bashir saw the death of the Apple founder as a means to score political points against Palin. Too soon? It will always be too soon for this sort of comparison.
Regardless of what you might think of Sarah Palin or Steve Jobs, the comparison of why, and how, they were in the news yesterday is an odd angle at best. To use the career and impact of Jobs — of which Bashir is understandably a huge fan — as a means to slam Palin feels both inappropriate, and counter to the intelligent world that Jobs aimed to create.
“Today, we’ve marked two important stories. The tragic and sad passing of a true creative genius at the age of just 56, and hopefully the end of a charade that’s been going on for three years,” Bashir said — the “charade” for Bashir, of course, was Palin’s.
“One individual represents the very best of American exceptionalism: brilliant, determined, creative. The other represents the very worst form of American opportunism: vacuous, crass, and according to almost every biographer, vindictive, too.”
Bashir didn’t stop there, however. He added:
He [Jobs] played himself to the very end, casually dressed and solely focused on producing product after product that would literally transform culture, information, and our social interactions. Over the last three years, she created nothing, produced nothing, and served no one but herself.
And while the vast majority of consumers have expressed high levels of satisfaction with the products he produced, imagine how her most ardent followers must feel today. They were misled into buying ghost-written and vainglorious books that attempted to create the illusion of leadership and character. They bought tickets to see a documentary that ignored facts and was a celluloid whitewash of her life. Even on the day she confirmed what all of us knew, that she wouldn’t be running for president, she still dropped a video asking for more donations. Amazing.
Bashir concluded the segment by saying that although Jobs’ death coincided with Palin’s announcement, “it has been a helpful accident of fate,” namely because, according to Bashir, “it allows us to realize and commemorate the greatness of one’s individual’s contribution, and the utter futility of the other.”
Mediaite provides the MSNBC clip of Bashir’s latest foot-in-mouth moment:
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David
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:45pmYou guys are posting on Mr. Martin’s troll thread.
Report Post »BelowAverageJoe
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:18pmAt ABC’s Nightline, Bashir must have been on a serious leash. That or he is now going out of his way to be am over the top provocateur at MSNBC. It’s almost as if you are watching an actor playing roles in two different movies. I suspect he has been tasked with filling the shoes of Keith Olbermann and try to get back the full out whack job crowd that bought whatever he was selling. Will the real Martin Bashir please stand up?
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:28pmWho watches MSNBC anyway?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:51pmBut Marty left out a third element in the day’s tableau. That of the whiny, peurile, bitchy TV host (on a network barely watched) who’s contribution to society is even less than what he attributes to Palin. Just a snotty, bitter little boy, spitting and hissing at a figure that has left her impression on American history while little Marty spits and hisses away “full of sound and fury..in the end signifying nothing”.
Report Post »See the difference Marty? Palin is American history now, she’s one for the books, while you’re just a TV compare with a limited shelf life and an even more limited audience. Sucks to be a bitter little liberal TV host doesn’t it Marty?
mad_hatter
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:53pmMSMBC is full of the worst hypocrits and rhetoric slingers. Jesse Jackson, now on MSNBC is also using Steve Jobs Death to promote the protests: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/jackson_jobs_protests.html
That is despicable just like using his death to hit Palin.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:28pmWho cares what he says. He’ll say anything for publicity.
Report Post »johnannegalt
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:38pmSarah Palin will still have a profound effect on many, as evidenced here– > http://markamerica.com/2011/10/06/sarah-palins-future-role-and-how-it-will-effect-me/
Report Post »kraphtsman
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:24pmThis stupid, non-American foreigner has contributed NOTHING to society… Don’t bother paying attention to ANYTHING coming from his ignorant mouth.
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:39pmJobs left us with the tool to delete people like this, and communicate on a whole new level.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:46pmThe comparison is apples and oranges, and the timing is bad. As far as I can tell everything he said was true. But comparing a man who didn’t so much as foresee the future as create it, with a half-term Governor and former mayor of a tiny town with little claim to fame except being selected to run with McCain in the last presidential election, is simply apples and oranges. There is no comparison.
True2thereplublic
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:03pmMr. Bashir is a iTard
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:12pm@JZS
Report Post »Please tell me JZS, is your name mocking Jesus?
One more question, why do gay men hate Sarah Palin? she’s too strong for them? competition?
Nightstalker
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:15pmWhy is this piece of excrement even in this country?
Report Post »We should send him back to the cat litter box he was born in!
I would love 5 minutes alone with him to “explain” my feelings about him!
dnnyshdy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:18pmYou could replace Palin‘s name with Bashir’s in his speech about Palin
Report Post »dnnyshdy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:23pmYou know what’s good about the blaze is anyone can say just about anything on here without getting the post taken off.Try that at Huffpost.If you say something that makes too much sense that makes a liberal look bad…it’s booted.
Report Post »Paydert33
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:26pmThis choooooooooch, bashir, is one sick dude. A complete moron. To do what these jerks do to Sarah Palin is completely disgusting. What in the world did this woman do but speak as she wished to speak, say what she wanted to say, and do what she wanted to do. Free society?? Only for the marxists, socialist losers. I am so very very tired of this double standard.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:28pmWHY does Blaze keep printing stories about this idiot Martin Bashir. As much as I don’t care for Michael Jackson, bashir did a dirty trick on him, pretending he was a friend and smeared him in a special program. Bashir is a stupid, mean, hateful, small minded little JERK.
Report Post »Don’t like having to read about someone so idiotic. Sick man who’d sell his mother for a story.
iSupportiSrael
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 10:56pmLove Jobs. Love Palin. Who is this guy pretending to be a journalist? He is without class. Thank God he isn’t well known. He embarrases himself and the memory of Steve Jobs while attacking another decent and good person. I’m not anti-gay but will make an exception for this obvious fruity “man”
Report Post »WeeDontNeedNoSteeeenkinBadges
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 11:09pmMSNBC‘s “diaper-head” Martin Bashir really NEEDS to take his laxative.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:15amThe charade that’s been going on for three years, is the
Report Post »Obama Administration.
touch
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:21amHey Martin, why don’t you go back to the cesspool hole in the wall on earth that gave you NO opportunities for success you ungrateful POS!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:21amGuess I’ll have to include Marteen along with Tingles,OhDonel and
Report Post »PigEdSchluts in my list of BOMSNBC Bozos…….
ILUVJESUS
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 3:25amWas this reporter anywhere near Jackson before e died?
Report Post »BlackAce41
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:00amTheirs a channel called MSNBC?
Report Post »Is that on TV?
strawberryfieldsforever
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 10:54amHey CALIFORNIASODBUSTER – That was hilarious.
You too MIBUGNU2 – Good stuff!
Report Post »cycloid
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 10:55amHey Marty, I’d love to see the list of your innovative products and how you have benefited mankind.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on October 8, 2011 at 3:15amCaliforniasodbuster asks, “Please tell me JZS, is your name mocking Jesus?”
Uh, no sodbuster, those are my initials. But your a Glenn Beck fan I bet. I bet you’re real good at “connecting the dots.” Since you are probably a Cain fan, did you notice that his 9-9-9 plan, if viewed up side down is 666? Something to think about.
Report Post »smorningstar
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:43pmWhat a jerk.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:17pmYes ..and it seems he thinks he has to prove it daily!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:10pmWhat did he ever produce?
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 12:46amThese Bozos must get a Bonus each time they Bash Palin…
Report Post »These are very angry ******** .. Hope they put the video on
YOUTUBE when EdSchlutz pop’s that vain on his forehead..
futureatstake
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:40pmBlaze, thank you for the transcript. I can’t tolerate listening to his voice again.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:52pm… the things I’ve heard about this creep and what he does to hobbled camels! GROSS!!!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:34pmIsn’t it amazing the symptoms that Palin Derangment Syndrome patients exhibit? Intense paranoia, diarrhea of the mouth, and wild delusions. Sadly, there is no known cure.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:38pmI never pay any attention to this joker!
Report Post »murmai
Posted on October 7, 2011 at 7:52amyeah herb cain will deal with him
Report Post »spinelessdave
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:35pmyou don,t have to pay him Martin just bend over for him
Report Post »and act as though you like it !
BelievinginAmerica
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:03pmYou gave me something to laugh about! These creeps are just geting worse by the minute. I do hope Sarah is taking Glenn’s advice on gettng good security. These people are real wack jobs!
Report Post »Scarab Sport
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:30pmCheck his green card?
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:12pmInsipid Al Jazeera puppet.
Report Post »TxMadMac
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:29pmI honor my mother. She said ” if you have nothing nice to say about someone, then don’t say anything.” Believe me sir I have nothing nice to say about you !
Report Post »The citizen who cares
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:29pmMan, this makes me really sad… using Steve Jobs’ death to insult another human being? Is that what Steve would have wanted? Steve wanted to make people’s lives easier and more enjoyable. He wanted to create products that brighten up our everyday lives. But this man who is complimented for his excellent “sentimental words” doesn’t understand that…. May Steve R.I.P. and Best wishes to Sarah Palin.
Report Post »lassew
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:11pmagreed…what a pig!
Report Post »Carl1 Supports Israel
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 8:21pmYep!!! A new low for msnbc. But that what America has come to expect from them… Pitiful!!!!!
Report Post »vivrobbins
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:40pmAccording to Wall st. and I would assume Bashir agrees with, the Big Bad Corps. are the buy guys. Wouldn’t Jobs be on that side of the street? Big greedy, over seas businesses that take away everything from the protestors. So tell me again why Bashir should mourn the death of such a bad guy???? sarc/off
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:28pmMartin…you are such a joke.
Someone as pro-liberal, pro-wealth distribution as yourself, who now calls Jobs “the very best of American exceptionalism: brilliant, determined, creative…”.
That American exceptionalism and determined, creative work, enabled Jobs to have a $90 million Gulfstream Jet. And despite the $1/year salary, was worth over $1 billion…just in Apple stock.
So you are praising hard work, which enabled him to be rich, but then calling for the redistribution of that wealth to those who lack the “American exceptionalism” and the “briliance” and “creativity” that enable such wealth?
Time to brace the hips and give your shoulders a tug.
Report Post »My2
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:28pmHate, it is the progressive’s most natural emotion.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:21pmSuch a petty little man.
Report Post »TMink
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:24pmIndeed. And what do we know of Steve Jobs’ life? We know he was a great innovater and business man, but that is all I know of him. Is he a good dad? Does he give to charity? Is he humble? There is so much more to a human’s worth that their product. I have nothing bad to say about Mr. Jobs, but I do not venerate him either.
Trey
Report Post »Hobbs57
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:54pmI am with you, I care less about Steve Jobs. Sure, it is sad he dies young, but so did my Dad this past year. My Dad was a great man, who worked in Steel Mills to raise 5 kids. Then, when labor ran the Steel industry over seas, or was it that incredible tax hike the Dem’s pushed on corporations ??, I don’t know, but my old man was able to adapt and find a low paying job in sales. There he worked his way up until he was top sales man of his district. I don’t know what Steve Jobs did, but I find it ridiculous the media has tried to spell this out as some terribly sad event. It is a misfortune, but not to the tune these people play it. The things they boast about are also the very things that I could easily make a well supported argument are the things causing this world to come unhinged. I never had any of the Apple products because I couldn’t afford them. I never owned even one single apple product in my life. So what does that say ?? What a sick piece of garbage you are Martin. You worship this man only because he was the godfather of ways and means not to deal with yourself. All of you intellects have to constantly keep yourself distracted so that you don’t even have a single second to reflect on what a real piece of worthless garbage you have become. You are so twisted there Martin, I really hope you become stuck with yourself, with out your many means and ways of distraction, and be forced to pay the piper.You hate Palin because she reminds you of this fact.
Report Post »PROV1X
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:21pmwill someone from al qaeda with a suicide vest go 2 the msnbc studio and give this P O S a hug please?! pretty please!?
Report Post »Nlitend1
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:29pmDo you really think they would go to MSNBC?
Report Post »But, it reminds me of the south park episode where they call al qaeda to attack jersey shore. Anyone see it last night, they had obama portrayed as a duck with excrement coming from his mouth. funny.
PappysPullman
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:20pmSteve Jobs certainly did well, but then so has Sarah Palin. Although she lost her bid to become VP, so too did Geraldine Ferrero. When she died, she was remembered fondly. Sarah Palin, like Herman Cain do not fit the liberal mold of what a woman and black man should be or stand for. As if liberals had any idea of what that should be.
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:23pmWell said Pappy. You respectfully just put the smack down on Liberals : )
Rightly so.
Report Post »Banter
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:20pmMy how far the “media” has fallen since 9/11. Not even ashamed of bringing shame on themselves.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:20pmWhat the h-ll does jobs death and Palin have to do with each other?
Report Post »What a sick pathetic little man you are martin
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:18pmDoes this Commie Islamie have any brains at all?
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:26pmNo Bojangles he’s emty. Literally. He‘s a shell of flesh and that’s about it. Eccept for the evil that bounces around inside and spews out of his mouth.
Report Post »Vapor Trail
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:17pmVery tasteless piece of… ahem journalism….on the bright side I believe he only like 5 viewers that watch his show….I believe Ed S(h)itz is one of them.
Report Post »dthompson579
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:16pmI flush my crap down the toilet, just wish I could tell the cable company to cut MSNBC off of my bill and save the few cents.
Report Post »edubble21
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:16pmHow many people actually see this guy’s show? MSNBC is like the tree that falls in the woods when no one is around to it. It may make a sound, but it doesn’t matter. Hence….Mr. Bashir, you don’t matter.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:56pmGood point……If it weren‘t for The Blaze we wouldn’t hear anything from him.
Hey Blaze crew….mabey you should stop posting his crap and he would be like a fart in the wind.
Report Post »rchapman1941
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:14pmAnd whose agenda are you serving Martin?
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:12pmYou can always tell who the vermin fear the most…..that is who they constantly attempt to destroy…
Report Post »ThankYouFounders
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:12pmIf I walked into a room of 100 people and yelled “Sarah Palin” is outside, they’d all turn and look.
If I walked into a room of 100 people and yelled, “Martin Bashir” is outside, they would pay me no mind.
This is just an example of a petty no-name trying to tear down a popular and influential political leader.
Nobody knows who you are Martin, move along now.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:10pmWell, at least his name fits. What a rag.
Report Post »murmai
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:10pmyeah cuz the shrilla from wasilla doesnt attack people lmao
Report Post »FNG
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:35pmGet back under your bridge, troll.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 9:57pmMURMAI,
Report Post »Is not your posting name a synonym for IDIOT?
I am curious. Did you post from Wall Street? Is New York Pizza as good as they say it is or are you requesting vegan meals from your SOROS Sponsors?
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 6:08pmYou are slime, Martin; just slime. You are at the right network, buddy. God have mercy on all of you.
Report Post »Boss J
Posted on October 6, 2011 at 7:49pmI would add what has he produced or contributed? What a friggin asshat!
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