Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called out MSNBC executives for their “hypocrisy” following host Martin Bashir’s attack against her during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Palin complained that MSNBC had given Alec Baldwin’s show the boot after he made anti-gay comments, but that it had done nothing to Bashir following his suggestion that someone should “defecate” in her mouth.
Bashir slammed Palin after she compared the national debt to foreign lenders to slavery a few weeks back.
“It’ll be like slavery. Given her well-established reputation as a world class idiot, it’s hardly surprising that she should choose to mention slavery in a way that is abominable to anyone who knows anything about its barbaric history,” Bashir said, referring to an 18th century overseer named Thomas Thistlewood. “In 1756, he records that “A slave named Darby catched eating canes; had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, s-h-i-t in his mouth.
“When Mrs. Palin invoked slavery, she doesn’t just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms that if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, then she would be the outstanding candidate.”
The former governor who is no stranger to bitter attacks from her critics said the MSNBC executives’ condoning of Bashir’s comments was not unexpected.
“When a conservative woman says something they that they take offense, they usually like poo-poo it and laugh it off as no big deal,” Palin said. “But personally, for taking shots like that … everybody in life takes shots.
“You have a decision to make when you make a shot. You have to decide if you are going to be bigger or better,” she continued. “In this case, I don’t have to accept his vile, evil comments, so it doesn’t have to affect me. So I move on and charge forth.”
She warned that if the media were to attack someone without a public platform like her such as a “vulnerable child” then a “Mama Grizzly” would come after them.
“In my case, I’m able to defend myself, and I can take it,”
