{"id":3122,"date":"2013-11-20T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:05:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:05:38","slug":"martin-bashir-was-wrong-to-apologize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2013\/11\/20\/martin-bashir-was-wrong-to-apologize\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Bashir Was Wrong to Apologize"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MartinI want to be perfectly clear. Martin Bashir was wrong. He never should have apologized for his commentary about Sarah Palin last Friday. For one thing, what he said made perfect sense. I am so tired of this pretend outrage. Sarah Palin used slavery as an analogy for current deficit spending. What she said was not stupid by her standards because there are plenty of supposed smart people who agree. Think: Niall Ferguson. But what is truly vile is the conservative tendency to bring up slavery as though it were just a system of control—as though it had nothing to do with racism and the basest of reptilian brain desires to subjugate anyone you can.<\/p>\n

So Bashir was right on in his analysis of Palin’s terrible analogy. This stuff isn’t academic. Sarah Palin makes us a worse nation. She not only brings the level of discussion about current events to primordial levels, she carelessly abuses the history of this country and those who have suffered during it. I am fully aware that what Martin Bashir said was harsh. But I’m not at all sure that anything said could compete with the pernicious effect that Palin herself has had on our culture. And to say that maybe someone should defecate in her mouth strikes me as mild to what a traitor like her deserves.<\/p>\n

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