Martin Bashir said he hoped someone would shit and piss in Sarah Palin's mouth.
Seriously.
The absurd logic was that because Palin compared the national debt to slavery, she deserved to be given a horrific slave torture.
Many people, including the folks at
Twitchy, debunked the notion that comparing indebtedness to slavery was unusual. Slave references, much like the overused Nazi comparisons, are all too common,
including by Bashir.
Should we wish that everyone who uses a strained Nazi analogy should have their skin peeled off them and turned into lamp shades?
Even in the low world of MSNBC, this was low. MSNBC didn't seem to mind much, though.
What a cesspool MSNBC has become. Really MSNBC executives, what is wrong with you? Have you lost your minds? Are you so corrupted by your ideology?
Lean forward? How about rehab for your business strategy instead.
But the firestorm of controversy has forced Bashir into an apology.