If you care about Martin Bashir, can you please write Phil Griffin/MSNBC?

[grasswire]

Griffin is the suit who has forced out so many of our voices.

Now Bashir has been forced out by the Teabaggers. He has resigned.

Are we going to let this one go, too?

Or are we going to roar?

Next they could come for Chris Hayes. Or Rachel. Or Ed again.

[e-mail]

He reads his own emails.

[tularetom]

1. I don't think I care anymore

I'm pissed off at Bashir for offering to resign. He should have refused to do it and forced them to fire him.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Rather have him back here in the UK.

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[loli phabay]

7. i knew the name sounded familiar, he used to host that show that harry secombe did

From various churches. Kept seeing posts about him and the name just sounded familiar.

[flamingdem]

31. We need him more! Please write to Phil Griffin

at least he needs to know he can't just fire people willy nilly without protest from viewers.

[DesertFlower]

3. i wrote him.

[GladRagDahl]

4. I never liked Bashir

I think he's sensationalistic and takes away from the credibility of MSNBC. I'm glad to see him go.

[Packerowner740]

5. I think Chris, Rachel and Ed all have more respect for women than to say anything like

What bashir said.

[Rockyj]

9. Hey Palin deserved it she's a disqusting opportunist

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BTW PALIN is poor excuse for a woman as SHE would sell your grandchild (your kids) to make a buck.

[TNNurse]

13. Also a woman

Your grandchild?? She would sell her own!

[Omaha Steve]

16. Ed Schultz suspended from MSNBC after calling Laura Ingraham a ‘right wing slut’

I wrote btw. What Ed said didn't bother me.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-05-26/lifestyle/35263461_1_ed-schultz-practice-misogyny-laura-ingraham

May 26, 2011

MSNBC suspended host Ed Schultz for a week on Wednesday after Schultz called rival pundit Laura Ingraham “a right-wing slut” during a radio broadcast teh day before. Paul Farhi reports:

Schultz apologized for the comment on his TV program, “The Ed Show,” on Wednesday night, saying he had used “vile and inappropriate language” in referring to Ingraham. “I am deeply sorry, and I apologize,” he said. “It was wrong, uncalled for, and I recognize the severity of what I said. I apologize to you, Laura, and ask for your forgiveness.”

Schultz’s slur was a response to Ingraham’s criticism of President Obama’s trip to Ireland. Ingraham had noted that Obama was touring Ireland while devastating tornadoes were hitting the United States, including one that killed 116 people in Joplin, Mo.

“President Obama is going to be visiting Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, but you know what [Republicans are] talking about, like this right-wing slut, what’s her name? Laura Ingraham?” Schultz said on the air. “Yeah, she’s a talk slut. You see, she was, back in the day, praising President Reagan when he was drinking a beer overseas. But now that Obama’s doing it, they’re working him over.”

FULL story at link.

[Packerowner740]

18. And Ed realized after the heat of the moment that he was above saying stuff like that.

[grasswire]

20. that's the third post from a newbie here using that meme.

Apparently the talking points have been issued!

[Packerowner740]

21. I don't know WTF you are mean by talking points being issued but

You can have your delusions or conspiracy theories or whatever it is you have. I didn't bring up Ed or what he may or may not have said, someone else did. And post counts don't make you right or any better than any other poster. It just means you don't have much else to do.

[Omaha Steve]

25. I'm a newbie?

Look at my post count since 2004 I believe. Then goggle my Ed posts. I'm true blue,

[Packerowner740]

29. Who said you were a newbie?

Certainly wasn't me. I don judge a person by how many posts they have or when their join date was. In fact I don't judge people, that would mean I would have to feel I am superior, that's not the way I am.

[flamingdem]

23. Martin is a man of color

What she said got to him more than it might with others

[Packerowner740]

24. Might have been.

I guess I just come from another time when you don't talk to or about other people like that, especially a woman. I address women as ma'am, hold doors and elevators for them, let them go before me and pull out chairs for them but that was just how I was raised.

[flamingdem]

27. I watched it live and thought it was over the top

so it was out of character but that happens to most humans now and then.

Agree it was inappropriate and gross.

[Packerowner740]

30. Agreed and well put, definately out of character.

[Polly Hennessey]

6. Martin Bashir

I wrote Phil. I love Martin and I am so going to miss him.

[Rockyj]

8. I changed some lyrics but the melody goes to an old Dion song that us hippies loved titled

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"Abraham, Martin & John"

Please don't get you panties in a bunch (or boxers), I know they haven't accomplished what Abraham, Martin & John have but all of these men have stood up against inequality, and for minorities and the poor.

"Keith, Martin & Cenk"

Has anybody here seen my old friend Keith
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He woke up a lot of people,
But it seems good he left MSNBC
You know, I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend Cenk?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He woke up lot of people,
But wouldn't sell out...I just looked around and he's gone.

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He woke up a lot of people,
But it seems good he didn't sell out too.
I just looked 'round and he's gone.

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, and it's a-gonna be one day ...

Anybody here seen my old friend Dylan?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
Thought I saw him hiring vets and organic farming,
perhaps someday with Keith, Martin and Cenk.

[maddiemom]

10. Well done. Don't forget Phil Donahue.

[maddiemom]

11. And the right wing loudmouths just go on and on.

[Rockyj]

12. Your right he was one of the first...

in the 21st century!

[Demoiselle]

14. I sent a note.

Fat lot of good it'll do.

[flamingdem]

22. Thanks, you never know

at least Martin may hear that people cared.

[SoCalDem]

15. to no avail..

MSNBC considers itself an upper-tier network, and crude remarks are not tolerated..

I believe that Martin's obvious left-leaning British upbringing, and some of the values he holds, were never in-line with MSNBC brass..and I think Martin preferred to leave rather than be on a leash, and be in permanent purgatory..

I hope he has some money stashed away though, because I know he has a young family.. Right now he is kind of radioactive and will have to lay low for a while..

If I were him, I would skedaddle back to the UK where there is a more civilized society..

They are more forgiving there too..

[Enthusiast]

26. If your values are in-line with MSNBC brass you have failed as a journalist.

Simple as that.

[flamingdem]

17. Thanks Grasswire I posted your email address

earlier. Let's hope something gets through to him. Remember that Ed was moved to the weekend but popular demand and his obvious talent brought him back to prime time.

I don't think we should accept this.

[TuxedoKat]

19. I sent one too

I hope they reconsider. I hate to see Martin Bashir leave.

[flamingdem]

28. Okay ya'll write a short note to PHIL GRIFFIN he needs to hear from us

about his cowardly firing of Martin Bashir.

Of course it's best to be polite but I don't buy for a second that Martin wanted out.


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