Martin Bashir Attacks Sarah Palin During Steve Jobs Eulogy: 'The Very Worst Form of American Opportunism'
It's becoming quite clear that there's no rock some members of the media won't crawl from under to trash Sarah Palin.
Case in point - MSNBC's Martin Bashir used his final segment Thursday to eulogize Apple's Steve Jobs as "the very best of American exceptionalism" while in the same breath attacked the former Alaska governor as "the very worst form of American opportunism" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MARTIN BASHIR: 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. 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.
He 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.
But although the death of Steve Jobs coincided with Sarah Palin’s announcement, it has been a helpful accident of fate because it allows us to realize and commemorate the greatness of one individual’s contribution and the utter futility of the other. May he rest in peace.
What kind of a person mixes his admiration for a dead man with his contempt for another human being that had absolutely no connection to one another?
Exactly what has Palin done to folks like Bashir to make them completely lose all sense of decency and morality when her name comes up?
He claimed that over the last three years Palin's created nothing. But her first book "Going Rogue" was number one on the New York Times best seller list for six weeks eventually selling over two million copies. Her second, "America By Heart," hit number two on that list eventually selling about one million copies.
Is that nothing, Mr. Bashir?
As for television, this pompous commentator could only dream of getting the five million viewers Palin did for the debut of her show on TLC.
And maybe that's at the heart of all the media's hatred of this women: it's not her politics, but how so many more Americans are interested in her views than theirs. Because her opinions are so diametric, these insecure souls somehow feel better about themselves by tearing her apart on national television.
This certainly was not the first time Bashir took petty swipes at Palin. As NewsBusters previously reported, he went after her in May:
Vindictive attacks, conspiracy, paranoia, and a single-minded ambition. It's all part of daily life as a Sarah Palin staffer, according to a scathing new tell-all. Some 60,000 e-mails are the basis for a book in which a former aide portrays Palin as incompetent and ethically compromised during her tenure as Alaska governor.
Now, over four months later, with Palin's presidential candidacy announcement coming coincident with the death of one of the greatest inventors in decades, Bashir chose to honor Jobs in virtually the same breath as he attacked her.
I'd register my shock and dismay, but nothing that happens on this joke of a network or is uttered by its stable of faux pundits is at all surprising anymore.
As for Bashir, he told Jobs to rest in peace. This would have been far more heartfelt and respectful if his eulogy didn't include contempt for someone the Apple creator probably never met and likely had absolutely nothing to do with.
Makes you wonder how he looks himself in the mirror when he brushes his teeth.
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Evil corporate stooge
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 5:32pm.
Steve Jobs stole his wealth from people of color. Obama told me so. He really did. And Obama wants it back.
P.S. RIP Steve.
Stay classy Mr Bashir!
Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:01pm.
RIP Mr. Jobs.
Basher has no class.
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:37pm.
All A$$.
Re: Jobs: I came across this early this AM, and I agree that while it's not about Jobs, it epitomizes what he stood for and what he did.
RIP Steve Jobs
→ Apple II
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:32pm.
I remember 1984, when an Apple II running VisiCalc was installed at work to help us run the weekly report. Wasn't long before IBM Clones had pushed Apple aside, and Lotus 123 was all the rage.
But those were some good times as a whole slew of us cut our teeth on a 64k machine.
hatred of Sarah
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:07pm.
is only a thinly disguised hatred of much of America.
Mid,
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:46am.
I have never been a Palin fan. Never will be.
As for Martin, well....
You know ... he's a special needs child of the notion that the state can cure all that ails society provided that he gets his way.
P.S. What Steve Job's passing has to do with Palin ... sad
Steve Jobs as "the very best of American exceptionalism"
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:15pm.
What hypocrites!!
Steve Jobs is one of those successful people accused by the Left as being fat cats who 'don't pay their fair share'.
Now this Bashir guy is using the death of Jobs for his own political ramblings.
If anyone is guilty of political opportunism it's this paid political hack on a Left-wing propaganda network.
Fred In LA
Submitted by Fred In LA on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:27pm.
Wow, I guess old BASHER forgot that Jobs was the ultimate capitalist. Hell he probably supported Sarah Palin. He's the boob in this equation.
Sad
Submitted by txco on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:30pm.
Vile and disgusting...low point at MSNBC. And the next host praised him for saying it. WoW!
bashier
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 6:58pm.
You poor excuse for a human. Get the hel out of this country and go to whereever you came from, you uneducated A$$
one trick pony troll has one trick
Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:14pm.
all you have in your quiver is apparently arab slurs.
Admins need to take out the
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:38pm.
Admins need to take out the trash again, I see.
is there a flag/report method ?
Submitted by dmacleo on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:47pm.
anyway to report stuff like this?
Not really
Submitted by kata on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:47am.
I have a feeling a report/flag button would be heartily abused here anyway :) Best thing you can do it just call em out and hope TPTB notices.
edit : apparently someone has taken notice and the offensive remark is gone. Thank you to whomever removed it. Now Van Halen is going to think everyone is picking on him :O
I assume the post has been removed.
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:06am.
But Yes there is a way to report it.
We Are The 53%
I like the phrasing of your
Submitted by ant on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:46pm.
I like the phrasing of your comment , kata, almost like a song lyric.
What are Bashir's ratings?
Submitted by Van Halen on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:27pm.
What are Bashir's ratings? How many people saw this? Under 20?
I am sure Palin has far more respect
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:41pm.
For Mr. Steve Jobs, then Bashire does. What a creep
You're one to talk, Martin. You are an exploitationist.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:54pm.
You come to the US and do nothing but whine and complain that it is not the country you wanted. Fine. Go back to the UK and see how your muck peddles in that market.
→ Jobs killed by cancer
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:28pm.
And that cancer will be excised at the polls in 2012.
complain
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:29pm.
to comcast to get rid of this buffoon. Maybe with numerous complaints, they will give him a one way ticket to someplace.
I wonder if Sarah's RINO gun works on imported Muslim commies?
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 8:43pm.
I say we feed him to the camel fleas.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Bashir talking about the worst form of American Opportunism?
Submitted by djwolf12 on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:05pm.
What does this idiot know about American Opportunism? I want to see his College Diploma.
Jobs truly was a driving
Submitted by Snappy on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:53pm.
Jobs truly was a driving force of creativity and innovation. Bashir is a buffoon trumpeting ignorance and intolerance, and as far as Palin and what she has contributed? Hope, REAL hope, not the liberal hope and change shell game, but hope in the American spirit, and the ideals that made this country great, hope for and in the small guy in this country, hope that we are gonna climb out of this mess, and hope that one person CAN make a difference.
Now that's what I call...
Submitted by freedomguardian on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:29pm.
...a HATE speech. I'll defend his right to say it, but I doubt he would defend my right to call him a disgusting creep. What a liberal nut job.
Sarah Palin you're awesome!!!!
Why is Bashir referring to Obama as she?
Submitted by ant on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:43pm.
Seriously, like said above, Steve Jobs represents everything the left demonizes 24/7. They got a lot of nerve. If Jobs hadn't dropped out of college, he probably would have ended up like one of those adolescent-dream minded communists occupying Wall Street and wishin' and hopin' for a socialist system in which everyone has lots of money and jobs, and college educations,chocolate and weed.
I just watched Lawrence Reds O'Donnell's pathetic attempt at 'gotcha' moments with Herman Cain. If the interview itself wasn't inherently 'twisted' ( civil rights questions about the time Cain was in high school, rather than on the economy and jobs; see RACISM), you woulda thought Cain was an enemy despot, rather than an American running for office. I'm getting disgusted with the BS, really....really........disgusted.
Bashir bears watching, he is
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:55pm.
Bashir bears watching, he is one of those muslims who thinks he has right to rape and kill white women, he has mental problems.
Jobs was a Class Enemy until today.
Submitted by ACLUmember on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:19am.
Steve Jobs was the object of extreme hatred by the left on any other day.
That evil troll Bashir is one deceitful psychopath.
I have to side with you all on this one
Submitted by vaboxrboy on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:50am.
I was shocked when I heard this this afternoon. It was just vile and inexplicable. I hate any shenanigans associated with eulogies and legacies and this was one of the worst and for no reason whatsoever.
This is beyond horrendous.
Submitted by Denny Crane on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 1:11am.
This is even low for messnbc.
He should be fired and deported.
We Are The 53%
Well, Martin's a particularly slimy creepy crawlie
Submitted by jakee308 on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 5:04am.
so him slithering out from under a rock is no surprise.
I hope to see him go into a sputtering, stuttering dervish dance when the Reps take the House, Senate and Pres. in 2012.
If you think Bashir is bad.....
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:09am.
He only tried to shoehorn Sarah Palin into the Jobs story.
Jesse Jackson is far worse. He blatantly uses Jobs to push the ridiculous agenda of the Wall Street occupiers.
Jackson said Jobs would have supported the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and listed several things that, in his mind, the movement is attempting to accomplish.
“Well, no doubt about it,” Jackson said. “He had the sense — this idea of making computers available for the common people. He was kind of the people’s people. As for the Wall Street protests, you are looking at the reaction of the abuses of Wall Street power extremes.”
He does have a point...
Submitted by loxmyth on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:19am.
Jobs did make computers available to the common people. Course, he's kind of ignoring the "for profit" part of the business Jobs ran. But let's not let the facts cloud the issue.
"Vacuous, crass, and vindictive." LOL. That's Bashsneer to a T.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 7:47am.
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who the f___ is this basher
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:10am.
does he have a show....who gives a f___ what this foreign idiot says......
Hmmm.....let's change the pronoun...
Submitted by loxmyth on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 9:30am.
"Over the last three years, she created nothing, produced nothing, and served no one but herself."
Now we fix his gramer...
"Over the last ... years, I created nothing, produced nothing, and served no one but myself."
Yep, now this statement makes sense. I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed his comments applied more to himself that to Sarah.
I bet any Foxnews show Palin
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 10:47am.
I bet any Foxnews show Palin appears on gets 4x the ratings Bashir's show gets.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Speaking of "American opportunism"...
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 12:27pm.
Speaking of "American opportunism"... How did you get your current job. Mr. Bashir? Since you're receiving a substantial salary, you, obviously, are serving no one but yourself.
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.
How arrogant, and ignorant!
Submitted by WilliamW on Sat, 10/08/2011 - 12:36am.
What makes Bashir's, and those of his ilk, more offensive, and what makes the entire scene more offensive, is that there are millions of ignorant people who swallow this stuff they spew without a second throught.
The incivility of the left, who falsely preach civility to those who actually do exhibit civility, is huge!