Martin Bashir Scolds Ogling Secret Service Agent for 'Making Sarah Palin Relevant'
As NewsBusters reported earlier, David Chaney, a now fired secret service agent involved in HookerGate, boasted on his Facebook page in 2008 as having ogled former Alaska governor Sarah Palin while guarding her.
On MSNBC's Martin Bashir Show Friday, the host scolded Chaney for "making Sarah Palin relevant" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
After addressing some new developments in the secret service scandal, Bashir said, “David Chaney, 48-year-old second generation agent, has been identified as being forced into retirement, one of three agents already separated from the agency in the wake of the scandal.”
“And from that,” Bashir continued, “well we arrive at his Facebook page, and a photo of Mr. Chaney standing in the line of fire for then Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. What’s more, he comments that, ‘I was really checking her out – if you know what I mean.’”
After commenting about this, and playing some clips of Palin on with Fox New’s Greta van Susteren Thursday evening, Bashir derided the former Alaska governor for “going right after the canine cuisine and the president.”
“But there you have it,” he continued, “suddenly dragged into a sex scandal, one in which Ms. Palin is among the victims, and one in which she can make the president the villain. No wonder she’s smiling.”
Bashir concluded, “So Mr. Chaney, a thank you to you for opening our president up to blackmail at the hands of a Colombian prostitute, and for putting a stain on the reputation of the secret service, and, for at least a day, making Sarah Palin relevant.”
Makes you wonder if there are standing orders from MSNBC executives that any story dealing with Palin has to insult her no matter how far the stretch.
I guess that's how they think their commentators will be "relevant."
They're sadly mistaken.
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HAH! What a crock!
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 9:13pm.
MSNBC was among the MSM leaders in the uber-coverage of Sarah Palin. Whenever Palin made appearances, there was hardly an episode of Hardball, the Ed Show, or Maddow's show that didn't cover it.
While the Secret Service may have been "checking her out" sexually, MSNBC was capitalizing on it. Their live-in-mom's-basement dweebs can't get enough of her.
And Bashir is DOING IT AGAIN -- bringing up Palin to his audience under the guise of the Secret Service oogling her.
How Bashir utters this BS with his usual mug shot face is beyond me.
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Submitted by compguytracy on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 12:17am.
I so hate this assclown, it is not funny, i wish he would just foad. F.O.A.D. I will not spell it out.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?" Orwell, 1984
Ceteris paribus
Bashir
Submitted by revedd on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 10:25am.
Making Palin relevant? Making Palin relevant? The only people that know who this third rate, tv clown relevant are those who read his words on conservative websites. MNBC, where wanna be "journalists" go to die.
"Our President"? The UK doesn't have a President, worm.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 5:13pm.
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caught that, too
Submitted by mom_rox on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 7:49pm.
but I guess Bashir thinks of Pres. Obama as "President of the World", oooh, how dreamy... hah!
Does he always refer to Sarah Palin as "Miss Palin"?
Bashir
Submitted by ForeverOnTheRight on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 5:21pm.
Bashir's video blogs are sure anoying! This guy is an blithering idiot, his blogs are worthless! They need to fire this guy, he is an embarasment!
bashir who?
Submitted by notinstl on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 5:24pm.
so funny that he uses sarah palin in an attempt to make himself relevant
My gosh! Sarah Palin is brilliant! From Bashir's comments, it
Submitted by Rush Fan on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 5:47pm.
seems that Sarah Palin has come up with a novel political strategy: "one in which Ms. Palin is among the victims, and one in which she can make the president the villain."
I hope Gov. Palin's unique strategy of misdirecting blame to others is not seized on and used by President Barack the buck stops here Obama.
Rush Fan ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 7:17pm.
" --Barack the buck stops here Obama."
LMAO !!
MD
Hhmm,
Submitted by Boudin on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 7:53pm.
Barack the bucks stops here Obama, then I'll buy votes with it!
RELEVANT???
Submitted by Walker01049 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 6:08pm.
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When:
Submitted by Chandran on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 12:49am.
He got jealous that all he could get were camels
Imagine his world.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 6:16pm.
What a petty, spiteful, dark, malevolent little place it must be.
Since
Submitted by bobsmom on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 6:25pm.
relevance is something this nitwit continues attempting to achieve, I'm sure he'd welcome ogling (and even a grope) from a Secret Service agent.
Sarah Palin...
Submitted by Jim54 on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 7:15pm.
Living rent-free in Bashir's head...Gotta love it.
Poor Martin. She wouldn't
Submitted by PeskyDane on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 7:25pm.
Poor Martin. She wouldn't give you the time of day back in high school, and she won't today. Sad. Maybe if you were less weird...
Sarah Palin is "HOT"
Submitted by jerseyflash on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 7:49pm.
Jim54 said it the best "LIVING RENT FREE IN (EVERYBODIES) HEAD. Sarah (LANDSLIDE) Palin jumps into this race and the WHOLE WORLD will change.... for the better. TRUST ME....I'M GOOD AT THIS STUFF
PALIN/WEST 2012 and 2016.....they better start checking ALL of these agents computers....NASTY BOY'S
Think
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 04/20/2012 - 9:50pm.
Bashier is a little jealous of "miss Palin". Guess it must be depressing to have a show and no audience while where ever she goes, it is standing room only. Marty, you are pathetic and very weird and wonder msdnc even pays you
Is there a bigger, more
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 12:21am.
Is there a bigger, more idiotic, angry, pessimistic, UGLY a@@hole on TV these days than the Basher??? And he's got some SERIOUS competition too!!! Plus, he's a god da*n foreigner who is clueless about what goes on inside our great country - he's a rookie, a newcomer, and an interloper...............I'd like to give this butt-ugly moooooooooooooooslem ( yeah, yeah, I keep hearing that he's a 'Christian'............who gives a shiite??) a couple of good hard slaps across his stupid-looking face, and put him on a one-way plane back to England, where he can whine and complain about what a terrible place the USA is!!! Maybe he'll finally decide to move back to Turkey............where he can hook up with Skank Ugly, and they can prove to the world that there are no homosexuals in Islam.
The Mormons, the Romneys, and the Left
Submitted by berlet98 on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 1:48am.
The Mormons, the Romneys, and the Left
A Roman Catholic, I freely admit I don’t know much about the Mormon religion aside from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Christmas and that Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney professes the Mormon faith.
My wife and I toured Salt Lake City, Utah a few years ago and had the opportunity to visit the majestic, 119 year old Salt Lake Temple, a exalted tribute to a church dedicated to helping the poor at the same time it requires its membership to remain celibate until marriage, avoid alcohol, caffeine and drugs, and engage in worldwide humanitarian missions.
Although the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has long been a holiday favorite in America, the 15 million members of Mitt Romney’s Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have long been held in a suspicion borne of an ignorance of the church’s precepts and teachings.
I would refer the reader to the church’s website, http://mormon.org/, for more information on who Mormons are, what they believe, and what they have accomplished in their unorthodox but very Christian ministry, almost all of which is antithetical to what Leftists believe, think and practice.
It is precisely Mormonism’s strict beliefs that grate most on the Left, although they cloak their religious disdain by objecting to secular matters. Thus, Mitt Romney has been subjected to greater criticism than any presidential candidate since JFK.
Romney has been castigated, ridiculed, sometimes clandestinely, sometimes publicly, by President Barack Obama’s ultra-liberal mainstream media despite claims that they are ultra-tolerant of virtually everything and everyone–except for Republicans and conservatives–principally because he represents all that liberals are not.
Reflecting the extent of Leftist sick venom, liberals haven’t been content with attacking the candidate; they have violated their hero’s injunction against involving families in political campaigns by abusing Romney’s former teenage sweetheart and wife of 33 years, Ann Lois Davies Romney.
Mrs. Romney was recently attacked with the same Democrat talking point applied to her husband–being out of touch with the real world due to the family’s success a bnd prosperity–and for having the temerity to be a stay-at-home mom for their five sons instead of pursuing a carreer.
That perceived crime was almost as grave to liberals as her opposition to abortion and support for other conservative positions.
The president ran for cover following that misogynistic charge which ran counter to the administration’s contention that Republicans are the people waging a war on women. Hilary Rosen soon retracted her idiotic statement, almost as quickly as Obama flack Jay Carney denied Rosen was an Obama lackey even though she has been to the White House dozens of times in the past three years.
Compared to other vile insults hurled at Ann Romney by liberals, calling her out of touch was a compliment.
Mrs. Romney has been labeled by Obama supporters as a ”c*nt,” “bitch,” and “whore,” among other disgusting characterizations, and all because the Left considers a decent mother who chose not to work outside her home as beneath their concept of dignity. And, of course, because she is Mr. Romney’s wife.
Romney’s unforgivable sin? . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=21969.)
Does anybody besides people who work for NewsBusters...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 4:15am.
actually watch this guy's show?
Unless they are as stupid as he is, I doubt if even his friends and family are counted among his viewers.
What a hypocrite.
Submitted by Carborendum on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 11:35am.
If Bashir hadn't brought up this four-year-old facebook post, how would her name even be a part of the Hookergate story?
Bashir is making her relevant to the story, when no one else thought she was. WHAT A HYPOCRITE!!!
Just one day, eh Martin?
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 2:12pm.
"So Mr. Chaney, a thank you to you for opening our president up to blackmail at the hands of a Colombian prostitute, and for putting a stain on the reputation of the secret service, and, for at least a day, making Sarah Palin relevant."
So, I guess Sarah wasn't ever "relevant" when she was Governor of Alaska, or as the VP candidate, or as a very popular author and political speaker. No, it took someone in the Secret Service ogling her to make her "relevant," a relevancy that, in and of itself, you find, shall we say, objectionable, based upon the sarcasm of your statement. Nice sexiest attitude you're displaying there, A$$hole!
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.
Sarah Palin Does Get Ogled by Liberals
Submitted by Netstatter on Sat, 04/21/2012 - 8:56pm.
Martin Bashir, you are quite a guy, being able to say what you did about Sarah Palin, straight-faced and all. But Martin, liberals do ogle Sarah Palin. Many don't follow her train of thought very well or comprehend a lot of what she says (you gotta be able to listen to differing and diverse viewpoints, don't you see, and most liberals are out of shape in that department), but liberals do make (sometimes lewd) comments about Sarah Palin's, eh, "accoutrements". One of my liberal friends on a social networking site even commented that Sarah Palin's, er, topside, was all she had going for her.
Liberals can be very, very entertaining at times.
Bashir
Submitted by GigglingGoogler on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 1:28am.
Well Martin, the only people who are making YOU relevant is on NewsBusters!
and...
Submitted by ike407 on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 9:37am.
you are?.....