I just watched it again. He actually said it. I'm in shock.
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 5, 2013
If we hadn’t seen it for ourselves, we might not have believed it. But this seriously happened:
On MSNBC, Martin Bashir just said that "IRS" is a new way of saying "n****r." The latest way of racially "attacking the president."
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 5, 2013
And it’s on video:
Video of Bashir saying that "IRS" is the new "N****r" here: http://t.co/oMuz8VX4M3
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 5, 2013
Transcript:
So this afternoon, we welcome the latest phrase in the lexicon of Republican attacks on this president: the IRS. Three letters that sound so innocent, but we know what you mean.
Pardon our French, but what the hell kind of garbage is that?
https://twitter.com/rightwingnavy74/status/342395320682037249
OMG. Martin Bashir has proclaimed that talking about the IRS is like calling Obama the n-word.
— Sunny McSunnyface (@sunnyright) June 5, 2013
This kind of idiocy is just begging to be mocked:
So stupid. Doesn't @BashirLive know that IRS is code for Jew?
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) June 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/342387843013939200
https://twitter.com/TomMcCammon/status/342388902948122624
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/342388381516443648
Martin Bashir is to political analysis what Ashley Judd is to acting.
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) June 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/342389965176582146
https://twitter.com/AgitpropNJ/status/342389452229984259
I don't know what the world in Martin Bashir's head looks like, but I suspect that Bull Connor would find it strangely welcoming.
— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) June 5, 2013
Hey @MSNBC I demand you bleep out all mentions of the word "IRS" as it's the worst racial epithet ever!!! #Bashired
— ¡El Sooopèrr! ن c137 (@SooperMexican) June 5, 2013
The real trick is to predict what word is next year's n****r. I think it's going to be "insurance premium."
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) June 5, 2013
BREAKING: Quentin Tarantino to redub "Django Unchained" with 107 uses of "IRS" to replace "n****r," since they mean the same thing
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) June 5, 2013
And once people picked their jaws up off the floor, they took Bashir straight to the woodshed:
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/342388438441537537
The brit twit, Marty Bashir just compared saying IRS with calling Obama the n-word. MSNBC needs to immediately fire this loser. #hardball
— #NeverTrump – LAKC (@StCloudVikings) June 5, 2013
What a fucking hero. RT @charlescwcooke On MSNBC, Martin Bashir just said that "IRS" is a new way of saying "n****r.""
— eric (@eriContrarian) June 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/342388059054153728
Show me a person who likes and/or agrees with Martin Bashir and I will show you a complete and utter idiot.
— Ori (@MrXphilly) June 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/LDoren/status/342391952140038144
BREAKING: Newly-discovered species of logical fallacy: Martin Bashir uses offensive, racist word that we don't use to prove..we're racists!
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) June 5, 2013
Abolish @BashirLive. #tcot #abolishtheIRS
— Jake Walker (@Jake_W) June 5, 2013
What a blinking idiot Martin Bashir is. No wonder less people are taking MSNBC seriously. #tcot #p2
— ???? (@KMBAussie) June 5, 2013
It seems Martin Bashir doesn't think a black president is capable of running a competent administration. Now THAT really is racist.
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) June 5, 2013
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/342387868985069568
https://twitter.com/Shan1419/status/342389985179205633
That would require self-awareness — and he doesn’t possess a single shred of it.
Pure, unadulterated scum.
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