MSNBC's Bashir Bashes Romney as a 'Vacuous Candidate Who Doesn't Have Any Principles'
Setting aside any pretense of objectivity, MSNBC host Martin Bashir and guests ferociously attacked GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a segment of Thursday's program. In a discussion with Professors James Peterson and Michael Eric Dyson, Bashir bemoaned the pernicious impact of money in politics, particularly money raised by Romney. (video here)
Bashir: Professor Dyson, isn't that the problem that you have here a vacuous candidate who doesn't have any principles, who is surrounded by cash from individuals who have an agenda?
Naturally, Dyson was more than pleased to pile on, warning of a plutocracy representing "the vapidity and vacuity of an empty suit whose ideological perspective is shaped by the cash that flows into him." To lend intellectual strength to his contention, Dyson quoted from the hip hop song "Cash Rules Everything Around Me."
Gee, imagine that. Political candidates take money from people with money. Not only that, but those contributors have - gasp! - an agenda. And if I were an Obamabot, as these guys obviously are, I'd take it easy with those "empty suit" references.
No mention was made of Barack Obama setting records scarfing up cash and who would do even better if that darn day job didn't occasionally interfere with his bagman duties. Emotions are already running high at MSNBC. If someone there doesn't have an an apoplectic fit by Election Day, I'll be surprised.
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the vapidity and vacuity of an empty suit ?
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:08pm.
Oh yes, Spiro Agnew had these types of people pegged when he called them "nattering nabobs of negativism" and "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
Spiro
Submitted by Mike Bates on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:49pm.
or more accurately Pat Buchanan, had a way with words.
obama going for a billion dollar campaign is ok
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:14pm.
They keep crying about money in politics when what they really mean is money in Republican's hands.
Isn't Bashir Obama's little friend?
Submitted by celator on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:16pm.
"Bashir: Professor Dyson, isn't that the problem that you have here a vacuous candidate who doesn't have any principles, who is surrounded by cash from individuals who have an agenda?"
I thought Bashir was Obama's little friend. Why is he talking about Obama this way?
You beat me to the comment
Submitted by OhioHistorian on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:38pm.
Great comment, just what I was thinking. Except that Bashir is not a "little friend" of Obama, he is so far into The One that I don't think you could get a piece of paper between them.
Thomas Alva Edison
Hasn't Bashir's work visa
Submitted by kg on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 8:03pm.
Hasn't Bashir's work visa expired? Why does MSNBC hire foreigners to bash Americans?
"DumbAssity of Dope"
Even if it were expired
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 8:07pm.
You think Incompatano would deport his sorry @ss?
I sell Bridges,,,, cheap
Yea, Bashir opens himself for
Submitted by celator on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 8:46pm.
Yea, Bashir opens himself for ridicule every time he opens his mouth. Easy pickings on this guy.
You want to talk about lack of principles?
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:21pm.
Obama changed his stance on same-sex "marriage" to get elected, and then again to satisfy his gay constituency.
He pandered to college students by promising lower student loan rates, and even floated the idea of loan amnesty.
He's trying to suck up to women by making the Catholic Church pay for services against her teachings.
And now he's pandering to Hispanics with his latest stunt.
He has no principles beyond his own re-election.
Obama didn't change on gay marriage, mb
Submitted by Mike Bates on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:52pm.
He just "evolved."
No principles? Whatever
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:22pm.
No principles? Whatever principles Romney has, it's more than what Bashir and the rest of the loons at MSNBC have. At least Romney respects life, not the culture of death the left pushes.
C'mon, Mr. Dyson, you can't be that stupid.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:28pm.
"the vapidity and vacuity of an empty suit whose ideological perspective is shaped by the cash that flows into him."
Oh, and I suppose Obama only takes money from people who have no agenda or ideology?
Two words:
Submitted by agingcynic on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 9:58am.
General. Electric.
Two more words:
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 10:38am.
George Soros
Money
Submitted by stan25 on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:28pm.
If all of that money was headed to their butt buddy Barack Obama, there would not be a word uttered about it. Being that a large sum of cash is going to Romney, they are all up ended. There is also the fact that Romney has been getting more cash infusions lately and the totals have beaten the Chosen one total intake for the last three months.
Bashir is so vacuous
Submitted by HockeyKid on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:34pm.
he obviously doesn't even know what the word means.
And to think my mother changed TV providers just so she could keep watching MSLSD. Where did I go wrong?
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Is Bashir in America legally?
Submitted by Arlen Cooper on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:35pm.
This "high brow" has overstayed his welcome and the hospitality that our country has afforded this, "anti-American." He is the "know-it-all" of the "know-nothings."
Bashir is a high brow?
Submitted by Mike Bates on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 10:16pm.
or a unibrow?
So, it's official
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:43pm.
These people have given up even the pretext of objectiveness, let alone civility. And, yet, what do we keep hearing? Fox news is biased!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Time to send the Paki packing.
Submitted by CT on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 6:54pm.
CNN needs to loose this little POS
Money is only bad when republians have more
Submitted by ohio granny on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 7:23pm.
Bashir and the democrats didn't see anything wrong when Obama refused to take public financining of his campaign in 2008. It was fine with them when Obama had so much more money then McCain. The Obama campaign even turned off the address verification system so they could accept money from overseas and more than the limits that were legal. How about all the years the democrats had the advantage of union money and union boots on the ground? That was okay too.
They only complain now that Romney may have an advantage. They are acting like crybabies.
"Professor Dyson." LOL.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:36pm.
.
And the other professor
Submitted by Mike Bates on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:56pm.
Is the founder of something called Hip Hop Scholars, LLC.
MSNBC v. Fox
Submitted by robjh22 on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:47pm.
I'm not sure that Bashir is any more pro-Obama than Rush and Hannity are pro-Romney. Yes, it's bias, but so what? If any of the three had put the remarks in an op-ed in a newspaper, nobody would blink.
Honestly, why are we so outraged?
I am outraged
Submitted by nolefan2 on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 10:42am.
because of the hypocrisy on the left when it comes to wealthy people. Wealth is great when it's given to the Dems, but demonized when it goes to Republicans. So Mitt Romney is rich. Were the Kennedys (whom libs worship) poor? Noooooo. So Mrs. Romney rides expensive horses. Gee, who else might have done that? Hmmmm. Oh, yes, Jackie Kennedy.
Project
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:52pm.
Much?
Project
Submitted by gfrrman on Sat, 06/16/2012 - 9:53pm.
Much?
Now that John Edwards has escaped prison....
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 12:00am.
....maybe he could give Mitt a few pointers on having "Principles"....
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 1:09pm.
Bashir is accusing someone else of being vacuous??
ProjectionAnyone?
Submitted by Lamdog on Sun, 06/17/2012 - 5:42pm.
Next time he visit his psychologist he can ask him about projection in addition to upping his meds.