{"id":4094,"date":"2013-11-29T02:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2013-11-29T02:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T02:47:55","slug":"alec-baldwin-gets-hosed-martin-bashird-survives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin gets hosed; Martin Bashir survives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’ve already declared my disgust with two MSNBC hosts, Alec Baldwin and Martin Bashir.<\/p>\n

Baldwin needed to get fired for his hideous outburst against a photographer in which he yelled a homophobic slur against the man. It was disgraceful, disgusting and thoroughly degrading. MSNBC decided to ax his 9 p.m. (CST) show that aired each Friday. So long, Alec.<\/p>\n

Then he fired back at the network for what he said is uneven treatment of his transgression and that of Martin Bashir, another MSNBC talking head.<\/p>\n

Bashir did something that also was vile and disgusting. While offering a comment one afternoon on his show, he referred to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a “world-class idiot,” and then said she should be degraded with feces and urine. Bashir challenged Palin’s assertion that the national debt is akin to slavery; he made some point about the kind of torture and degradation that slaves endured, which included being soiled with human feces and urine.<\/p>\n

Bashir went on the air shortly after his hideous rant and apologized. Palin said she accepted his apology.<\/p>\n

He’s still offering his commentary … on the air.<\/p>\n

Baldwin said the network is being unfair because it fired him for his spontaneous outburst, which occurred off camera, while keeping Bashir on the job for reciting a scripted critique of a one-time elected official.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t Baldwin have a point here? Martin Bashir’s ghastly rant, it could be argued, was more egregious, given that it was a pre-meditated act. <\/p>\n

Why, then, aren’t both men banished from the same network?<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve already declared my disgust with two MSNBC hosts, Alec Baldwin and Martin Bashir. Baldwin needed to get fired for his hideous outburst against a photographer in which he yelled a homophobic slur against the man. It was disgraceful, disgusting and thoroughly degrading. MSNBC decided to ax his 9 p.m. (CST) show that aired each … Continue reading Alec Baldwin gets hosed; Martin Bashir survives<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[247,2933,3155,4119],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alec-baldwin","tag-martin-bashir","tag-msnbc","tag-sarah-palin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}