MSNBC Host Says Sarah Palin Should Eat Feces, And Then Apologizes

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MSNBC host Martin Bashir blasted Sarah Palin after she compared America’s deficit to slavery, and now Bashir is learning that two wrongs don’t make a right.

Our free stuff today is being paid for today by taking money from our children and borrowing from China,” she said. “When that money comes due and — this isn’t racist, so try it, try it anyway, this isn’t racist — but it’s going to be like slavery when that note is due. Right? We are going to be beholden to a foreign master.”

Bashir didn’t like the comments, calling her “America’s resident dunce” and a “world-class idiot” and saying that she should have a slave’s punishment for the comment by eating feces.

During his show on Friday, Bashir thought he’d give the governor a lesson on slavery by reading a passage from the writings of Thomas Thistlewood, who worked on a plantation in Jamaica.

In 1756, he records that a slave named Darby ‘catched eating kanes had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, sh-t in his mouth,'” Bashir read. “When Mrs. Palin invokes slavery, she doesn’t just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, she would be the outstanding candidate.”

Although Palin hadn’t responded to his criticism, he gave a formal apology to hear on the show, saying that he “wanted to take this opportunity to say sorry to Mrs. Palin and to also offer an unreserved apology.”