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Palin was influential enough to get Bashir fired...

Steve

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the reality is Palin handled the comments with decency and obviously took the high road..

Sarah Palin on Thursday dismissed the attacks of former MSNBC host Martin Bashir, saying in her first comments since his resignation that she’s “used to it.”

“At this point, I’m used to it. That’s kind of a sad state of affairs to have to admit that I am used to it,”

She called attacks like Bashir’s “par for the course.”

When asked whether Bashir’s resignation was enough, Palin said she has to move past it.

“My role is to accept his apology and to [be] humble enough to accept it and move on,” Palin said, referring to Bashir’s on-air apology during his Nov. 18 broadcast.

Palin said five or six years ago, she would have been “personally hurt” but now acknowledges that “attacks will come your way”




on the other hand ol foot in mouth did call for the firing... .
Is there an anatomical limit to how many times someone can put their foot in their mouth?

Consider the case of CNN's Piers Morgan who on Twitter moments ago actually accused former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin of getting Martin Bashir fired by MSNBC:

With that as pretext, accusing Palin of driving out Bashir is absurd on several levels.

First off, Noah Rothman correctly observed Thursday:
Palin didn’t “drive” anyone out of MSNBC. The network determined that Bashir’s comments were so offensive that, in spite of the fact that their audience is trained to consume such commentary, he could no longer represent the network. In this case, she was a victim. To attack Palin as somehow being an instigator in that circumstance is nonsense.

This is from a November 26 discussion with a senior writer for The Hollywood Reporter about MSNBC firing Alec Baldwin for his homophobic rant:

PIERS MORGAN: I mean, you made an interesting point and I thought which is that Martin Bashir who's a fellow Brit who's on air at MSNBC, he got into hot water of a comment he made attacking Sarah Palin over her analogy of slavery to modern day issues. He's still on air, even though most people found his comments reprehensible including many people at MSNBC. Alec Baldwin said his comments in a street where a paparazzi was trying to take pictures of his new baby and, you know, he says, they're different situations, are they? Can you draw that distinction?

And this is from a December 2 discussion with a crisis manager:

MORGAN: Even though Martin Bashir, one of their cable guys, came out with a comment that many people believes or analogy about slavery and Sarah Palin and so on which many believe is much more offensive and yet he remained on air is there a hypocrisy there or double standard?

As such, Morgan from his CNN perch twice appeared to be calling on MSNBC to punish Bashir for his remarks in a similar fashion as they did Baldwin.

Yet he's pointing the finger at Palin - who was the target of Bashir's attack - for getting Bashir fired?

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

Of course, Morgan has stuck his foot in his mouth ridiculing Palin before.

As NewsBusters reported in October, Morgan linked to a fake news site to mock Palin.
 
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