Martin Bashir Tells Two Democrats ‘If There Isn’t a War on Women Most of Us Must Be Ignorant’
MSNBC’s Martin Bashir on Friday might have said the wisest thing he’s ever uttered on television.
Speaking with two Democratic members of Congress about goings on in the House Friday, Bashir said referring to Republicans, “If there isn’t a war on women most of us must be ignorant” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
The show began with Bashir predictably hyperventilating over a compromise House bill passed Friday that would extend low interest rates on student loans paid for with cuts to a preventive healthcare fund.
The perilously liberal MSNBC host of course accused the GOP of intentionally harming women with this bill, and aired clips of female Democrats including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saying, “It’s like they’ve rubbed two stones together and they’re playing with fire...Unfortunately they came back with what seemed natural to them – let’s take the money out of women’s health rather than subsidies to big oil.”
Bashir then introduced Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-Md.) and Congressman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) - I guess there weren’t any Republicans around to discuss this with! – to further harangue the GOP.
The host’s first question was, “Speaker John Boehner says that Democrats are fabricating a so-called war on women, but how else to understand an approach to this student loans issue whereby Republicans want to fund it from healthcare resources?”
Can you say “Softball?”
After the Democrats had free rein to say whatever the heck they wanted about this issue without any challenge from someone with an opposing view, Bashir deliciously asked, “Why then, sir, does John Boehner, Senator John McCain, and everyone else including Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee, why do they all deny that there is a war on women when they would rather deny women access to important healthcare provisions but keep subsidies for their friends in the oil industry? I mean, if they’re not, if there isn’t a war on women, most of us must be ignorant then because it seems that way.”
What is “Most of you must be ignorant,” Alex?
That's correct, and thank you for playing our game. Don’t forget the lovely parting gifts.
You really can’t make this stuff up.
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Way to go Bashir!!!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:04pm.
Bashir said referring to Republicans, “If there isn’t a war on women most of us must be ignorant”
You finally got one right..........you are ignorant.
Even a stopped clock ...
Submitted by Fredy on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 9:11pm.
... can give the right time twice a day!
Marty the Basher has an
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:04pm.
Marty the Basher has an amazing moment of insight.
It's like the door cracked
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:38pm.
It's like the door cracked open for just a brief second and he got a tiny glimpse of reality.
LOL
Submitted by oldfart on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:08pm.
It took me five minutes of good old fashioned belly laughing before I could type this.
:)
Yes...
Submitted by GG_NB on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:15pm.
You are ignorant. Take it from a woman -- I know.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Bashir the Buffoon
Submitted by NVRAT on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:47pm.
You said it this time, the Right Wing did not have to. The only thing I can add is your are a "Idiot Fool" to believe what the Obama Peckerwoods are giving you but, then again you are a can short of a six pack so nothing better can be said.
The War of Truth
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:51pm.
Merely line up all the lies and half-facts that MSNBC has spewed and call it the War on Truth.
Hey Martin, if the shoe
Submitted by steve2526 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:57pm.
Hey Martin, if the shoe fits.....
A member of the right-wing media
Ass over elbows...
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:59pm.
...Marty stumbles into the truth.
‘If There Isn’t a War on Women Most of Us Must Be Ignorant’
Indeed.
Ass over elbows...
Submitted by Annie Ashe Fields on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:59pm.
...Marty stumbles into the truth.
‘If There Isn’t a War on Women Most of Us Must Be Ignorant’
Indeed.
Using that logic, Bashir thinks that there is a war on women
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 5:35pm.
because MSNBC says so? Who in the liberal MSM is going to disagree? They never look at anyone else's point of view, so...
Hey Bashier
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 5:50pm.
the war on women, which you radicals made up, is so gone. We waved our white flags weeks ago right after George Steffanobody brought it up at the debate. Get some new material to feed your teleprompter. How can you stand yourself??
Oh, my sides hurt!
Submitted by HockeyKid on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 5:57pm.
And to think he followed up his spot of enlightenment by showing Nanny Pelosi talking about "rubbing two STONES together" to make fire!! Yep, they sure grow 'em ignorant on the left, absolutely!
Thanks, Marty, for finally speaking truth.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
if the shoe fits...
Submitted by wizardjr on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 6:14pm.
sometimes they reveal the truth whether they intend to or not... broken clock, twice a day, etc.
Correct Martin!
Submitted by notinstl on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 6:21pm.
you are ignorant.....most sense you've ever made
Again, the Nonexistent Oil Company Subsidies
Submitted by minky on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 6:36pm.
The oil industry does NOT receive subsidies. They are entitled to certain deductions as provided for in the tax code, just as all businesses are. The Democrats and their media surrogates continue to push the "subsidies" lie.
Talk about
Submitted by bobsmom on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 6:57pm.
"low hanging fruit".............
This is the sort of thing...
Submitted by needle on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 9:29pm.
that can happen almost anytime when one lives inside a huge Kool-aid bubble.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Now I know why MSNBC provides limos...
Submitted by The_Barrel_Guy on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:20pm.
If they let Marty drive himself home at night, they'd never see him again...
No Truer Words.
Submitted by Samaritan01 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:41pm.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
There isn't, and you are.
Submitted by mattm on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 1:28am.
There isn't, and you are. (Except the leftist war on non-leftist women)
Straight up LIE
Submitted by Denny Crane on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 5:41am.
when they would rather deny women access to important healthcare provisions
Nobody and I mean NOBODY is trying to deny women anything of the sort. There is a HUGE difference between denying and not paying for with other peoples money.
We Are The 53%
Not to liberals.
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 7:00am.
Anything not paid for by someone else is "denied."
If an insurance company doesn't pay for a particular procedure or test, they are "denying" it to the patient.
If they won't pay for contraception, they're "denying" it.
If government doesn't fund ESCR, they are "forbidding" it.
They actually do think they have a "right" to things for free.
Also conveniently left out of Bashir's (and the Democrats') argument about this so-called "women's health fund" is that the Republicans decided to use that because they say it is an Obama slush fund.
Republicans fired back at the veto threat, accusing the president of playing politics. “The president is so desperate to fake a fight that he’s willing to veto a bill to help students over a
slush fund that he advocated cutting in his own budget. It’s a simple as this: Republicans are acting to help college students and the president is now getting in the way,” a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement.
The White House concedes the president is proposing gradual and targeted reductions to the fund, but, according to a White House spokesman “reducing it and gutting it completely are two very different things.”
But don't count on anyone at MSNBC bringing both sides of the argument to the table. That's not in their mission statement.
Ok, Martin,
Submitted by misterbee241 on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 9:57am.
I'll concede and admit the truth: You're ignorant.
war on women
Submitted by GerryC on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 10:27am.
Priceless Martin!!!!
Now, if he could just name only a single gov't health care subsidy/program specifically targeted for men. He can't? The ongoing liberal war on men?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 1:10pm.
Yes, little Marty, you are ignorant.
How dimwitted does someone have to be to believe that the repubs actually want a “war against women”?
Seriously, how simple-minded does someone have to be to actually believe this media-generated nonsense?
Unfortunately dimwits such as these constitute about 60% of the population now, thanks to the dumbing down of the country over the last couple generations.
With Obama and his flunkies, it's all about the distraction of the week, and for good reason.
The country is ripe for the plucking.
Thanks, liberals!!
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Pure Venom
Submitted by giatn on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 4:55pm.
My revulsion at Bashir and his egregious mischaracterization of the news
makes me want to call INS to check his papers (as if they check anyone).
There is something particularly offensive about a foreigner professing to
have intimate knowledge of the American political scene. Wasn't his claim
to fame a vile interview with Michael Jackson? The only comforting
thing is how few even watch this man. The real war is not on women
but on the entire country waged by Obama's clueless economic
misadventures. While I am forced to admire the extraordinary skill of
Obama's propaganda machine to shift the focus from the $16 trillion
national debt to the mandate for the Catholic Church to provide "free"
contraceptives, I am horrified by how easily duped women have been.
Finally got one
Submitted by jimmc1952 on Sat, 04/28/2012 - 7:39pm.
BINGO!