Martin Bashir: Stop Newt Gingrich's Food Stamp Talk Before Someone Gets Killed

Martin Bashir: Stop Newt Gingrich's Food Stamp Talk Before Someone Gets Killed: MSNBC's Martin Bashir on Friday offered an offensive, bewildering comparison, linking the murder of a black British teenager in 1993 to supposedly offensive comments by Republican presidential candidates in 2012. [MP3 audio here.]

After referencing the killing of Stephen Lawrence and a U.K. inquiry finding institutional racism in the British police force, Bashir played clips of Republicans, including Newt Gingrich saying this: " President Obama is the most effective food stamp president in American history." Shamelessly using the murder of a teenager to score political points, Bashir excoriated, "Let's cut out the food stamps rhetoric right now before things get any worse."



Bashir stretched the analogy beyond all logic. He sneered, "[The murder] also showed how political leaders could be responsible for either encouraging better race relations or making matters a whole lot worse by using cheap and nasty slurs."

The MSNBC anchor continued in his quest to link events that clearly have nothing to do with each other, adding, "But while sticks and stones may break your bones, the public inquiry into the life and death of Stephen Lawrence shows that words can and do cause irreparable damage to a culture and a society."




I have never seen a worse commentator than this man .. and that says a lot coming from MSNBC .. he plays games like none other. He will condemn someone for something that he will do himself on his very next segment.

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