Martin Bashir Falsely Accuses Palin of Calling Obama a 'Sugar Daddy'
Martin Bashir Monday falsely accused former Alaska governor Sarah Palin of calling President Obama a sugar daddy.
Not only did the MSNBC host badly misinterpret Palin's words, he clearly doesn't understand what a sugar daddy is (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MARTIN BASHIR, HOST: Another GOP favorite in the headlines this week, Sarah Palin, she’s been interviewed in Newsweek magazine, or there’s a big feature about her. She thinks that she can win the election. She’s also got a new pasting, posting on her Facebook where she refers to the President as a sugar daddy.
GOLDIE TAYLOR, THE GRIO: She does, indeed. You know, I’ve got to wonder about Sarah Palin. I, I wonder about…
BASHIR: Do you understand a sugar daddy to be a pimp?
TAYLOR: That’s exactly what a sugar daddy is.
Actually, I've always considered a sugar daddy to be more of a John than a pimp.
A pimp is a prostitute's business manager so to speak oftentimes helping her find clients and taking a slice of the pie.
By contrast, a sugar daddy is typically a well-off man that sets up a woman in an apartment and buys her things in return for sexual service and companionship. This is certainly how the Urban Dictionary sees it as well as Wikipedia.
But that was just the beginning of Bashir's stupidity, for in "The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders," Palin wasn't referring to Obama at all:
Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that clock have nearly exploded during his administration. Yesterday’s terrible job numbers should not be a surprise because it all goes back to our debt. Our dangerously unsustainable debt is wiping out our jobs, crippling our economic growth, and jeopardizing our position in the global economy as the leader of the free world. [...]
The same “experts” who got us into this mess are now telling us that the only way out of our debt crisis is to “increase revenue,” but not by creating more jobs and therefore a larger tax base; no, they want to “increase revenue” by raising taxes on job creators who are taxed enough already! As Margaret Thatcher said, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” That’s where we are now. Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it.
That deserves repeating: "Hard working taxpayers have been big government’s Sugar Daddy for far too long, and now we’re out of sugar. We don’t want big government, we can’t afford it, and we are unwilling to pay for it."
As such, Palin was calling "hard working taxpayers" that have been footing the bill for others the sugar daddy - NOT Obama.
It appears the British native not only has difficulty with American slang, he's also got quite a problem with reading comprehension.
You can see why he fits in so well at MSNBC.
(H/T Tommy Christopher)
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Here Boy, Here Boy,
Submitted by scottyusmc on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:19pm.
A good little leftist, doing the tricks his master taught him!!!! Give him a treat and get him to roll over...
Another LIBTARD Obama SYCOPHANT.......
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:19pm.
Kneeling in front of their messiah so as to get a drink directly from the font of Obama's recycled Kool-Aide..... Not only was he wrong but the woman was Wrong too she has no EXCUSE....................she was KNOWINGLY LYING!
Martin is auditioning for
Submitted by MinneMike on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:24pm.
Pravda. Best comedian since Baghdad Bob.
He's already working for Pravda -- it's called MSNBC
Submitted by Galvanic on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 9:48am.
Bashir has no credibility at all. He just invents nonsense to hear his own voice.
Rick Sanchez stupid...
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 10:33am.
An addled 6 year old, raised by Rosie O’Donnell with nothing to read but old New York Times OpEds and Howard Dean speeches couldn't invent such a ridiculous interpretation. This is Rick Sanchez with a lobotomy stupid.
PDS strikes again.
Submitted by GRPruitt on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:25pm.
These clowns seem to check common sense at the door when Sarah Palin comes up. If they didn't say it with such a straight face you would almost have to think they were kidding. Surely someone on the production staff will explain it to them. Maybe they have never actually heard the phrase "Sugar daddy." Either that or they really are clueless.
PDS is right...
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 12:29am.
"These clowns seem to check common sense at the door when Sarah Palin comes up." Exactly! They are complete idiots. They are like starved piranha feeding on a media bludgeoned body dumped in infested waters. They cannot help themselves and actually FEED OFF of it!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Bashir is out of his depths and blinded by his bias
Submitted by needle on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:27pm.
This is a good example of liberals' basic inability to understand Conservatives.
This inability vitiates their competence in general to comment on political matters, and particularly on conservative matters, which transcend their level of sophistication.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Bashir is dumber than a bag
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 10:07pm.
Bashir is dumber than a bag of hammers.
He asked Ann Coulter if the Tea Party was the "mob" she was talking about in her latest book.
~Once again
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:28pm.
The media makes fools of themselves over Sarah Palin. She's living rent-free in their heads..from her Facebook page.
English is not my first language
Submitted by octavioj on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:42pm.
And even I knew what sugar daddy is. Apparently these knowledgeable liberals do not even watch the liberal movies Hollywood puts out...
I was thinking of learning
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:47pm.
English, anyone recommend Rosetta?
Sí
Submitted by Rukus on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 3:59pm.
.
What a bunch bunch of dumb
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:35pm.
What a bunch bunch of dumb asses. A mack daddy is a pimp. A sugar daddy is an older man that a younger girl latches onto and leaches off of. She would be a gold digger. That is the way I know it.
Sorros is the Sugar Daddy of the Socialist Media
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 12:38am.
How many people is he feeding & paying rent for? In return "journalists" infest society with their STDs. Socialist Transmitted Diseases; namely lies about how economics works, what happened in history, what is good for society, and this results in high unemployment, bad economy, removal of freedoms, replacement with management via regulations, and general tyranny if you speak out against their PC ways.
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
Bashir the fool.
Submitted by E.S.Blofeld on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:41pm.
What to expect from a "real" investigative journalist?
Ernst
"Isn't it pretty to think that way?"-EH
Martin Bashir
Submitted by Curly on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:42pm.
Bashir is an ignoramus - he doesn't know whether to wind his butt or scratch his watch!
Lapdogs...
Submitted by Scott Trent on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:45pm.
Todays media are nothing but LAPDOGS for the Socialists. ABC News started off it`s evening news tonight with a HITPIECE on Michelle Bachman... These people used to be watchdogs for the people. Today they are just sad little LAPDOGS doing the bidding for their Socialist masters... It`s disgusting. I start yelling every night when the evening news comes on.
A deliberate false statement.
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:52pm.
He told a lie and then used that lie to smear Sarah Palin.
There is no way someone who can read could honestly claim she said that about Obama.
What was even more stupid was how his guest was agreeing with him.
Honest to god. How does MSNBC think they can build a show around some angry pompous lying foreigner and think they will get ratings. It's offensive.
I don't think Bashir has a
Submitted by tcm14 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 7:56pm.
I don't think Bashir has a problem with reading comprehension; I think he intentionally misrepresented what was said in hopes that no one would notice and the MSM would pick up the story as he reported it. Aka "A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on."
No, I think he's really that
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 10:08pm.
No, I think he's really that dumb.
Touche... : )
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 1:47am.
Touche... : )
I've never thought of a pimp
Submitted by deerjerkydave on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:04pm.
I've never thought of a pimp as a sugar daddy. Why is Bashir so sensitive to this topic?
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"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite. -James MadisonNot only is a Sugar Daddy not a pimp,
Submitted by Dave81 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:10pm.
but in many cases it is not even sexual in nature. Most of the time I hear Sugar Daddy it's simply referring to someone who is loaded and is paying for someone else's comforts.
Although in the case of the tax paying Americans, the favor was sexual. We've been getting screwed for years.
Sugar Daddy
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:13pm.
Wish some sugar daddy would buy this creep a one way ticket back to where ever he came from. Comcast is getting lower each day with their tv "talent"
Well just today the MSM pimped out the WH Press Corpse to Obama
Submitted by lsudolemite on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:14pm.
And who says MSNBC doesn't have accurate coverage?
Marty has a
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 8:16pm.
comprehension problem.
The real pimps are the media
Submitted by Slyrr on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 9:00pm.
If anyone could be compared to pimps and whores, it's the Democrat media.
The media pimped Obama. There's no other way to describe it. They pimped him. They promised America that Obama would give each and every citizen gratification without consequence - exactly what a pimp promises a customer if they buy one of their whores.
The media whored themselves for Obama. They sold their honesty, their integrity, their souls, anything they once had that might have had a shred of decency or humanity, they sold it. They hide Obama's lies. They lie about his enemies. "It's my job to make Obama look good". That was what Chris 'Thrills in my pants' Matthews said, and in a nutshell, it wraps up exactly what the whole media establishment did. They became Obama's media whores, taking money in exchange for favorable coverage.
Excellent
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 9:32pm.
Excellent post!!!
I think bashir .....
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 9:09pm.
...should ride out of town on his camel. CNN International is not in America.
Bashir is on the ball today........
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 9:56pm.
First he claims Bachmann wants slavery, and now says Palin called Obama a sugar daddy?
Please, can Bashir, or any human's mind be this dysfunctional?
@GregE
Submitted by DoktorFranken on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 11:48am.
"Please, can Bashir, or any human's mind be this dysfunctional?"
Well, he DOES work for MSNBC.
Bashir....Muslim word for Bitter angry Pissant
Submitted by Metsie62 on Mon, 07/11/2011 - 11:50pm.
Hey CNN......your Chicken Noodle Network deserved tro be in the dumper....why don't you just show movies from your TCM archive and report on them as real life happenings since your news carries as much gravitas
Sarah Palin did not refer to Obama as a "Sugar Daddy".
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 1:29am.
The "Sugar Daddy" she probably refers to is "Big Government" and the "Sugar" big government doles out is dollars that it collects from the taxpayer class. Obama has managed to divide our country right down the middle. On one side we have the taxpayer class and on the other side we have the tax recipient class. Nice job Obama! Your "distributionist" philosophy has finally taken hold. Please don't worry about ruining the Country in the process. (In reading further, I see the "Sugar Daddy" Palin refers to is the taxpayer and not big government. The problem with that analogy is that the taxpayer has its sugar ripped away by big government in the form of taxes and that does not make a very happy "Sugar Daddy". Instead of "Sugar Daddy" a better term for the taxpayer would be the "Goose that lays the golden egg" and if Obama has his way, the Goose's days are numbered.)
Bashir is another fake Christian
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 3:33am.
He was brought up Muslim. It is under penalty of death for a Muslim to renounce Islam . . . UNLESS . . . it's done to trick the infidel.
More succinctly? He's a piece of crap.
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
Like the ONE!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 3:21pm.
Same thing. I thought you were talking of our dear leader & not Bashir. So Bashir claims to be "christian?"
---------media really overlook the importance of this point. People do need more Koran education so they will know this!
"He was brought up Muslim. It is under penalty of death for a Muslim to renounce Islam . . . UNLESS . . . it's done to trick the infidel."
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
I understand Bashir's
Submitted by Free Stinker on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 10:27am.
I understand Bashir's confusion. To him, Obama *is* The Government.
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