Cave-dweller Martin Bashir dangerously close to hitting a new low for MSNBC.
Via Mediaite:
On Martin Bashir’s afternoon MSNBC program, Salon Columnist Steve Kornacki, Democratic Strategist Karen Finney and Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson agreed that Republican commentators have been reduced to using racially coded terms in their description of President Obama’s rhetorical battle against the Supreme Court. Bashir concluded after the discussion of the GOP’s racially-biased motives that “they’re happy for him to have been involved in using his labor to build the White House, but for him to win an election and live in the White House, that’s just not acceptable.” […]
Professor Michael Eric Dyson agreed. “I think these are code words; wolf whistles, dog whistles,” said Dyson. “If you can’t accept Barack Obama in the presidency as an intelligent, articulate African American man going about trying to negotiate between competing claims and rival arguments about what is right and wrong, than you can’t accept anybody.”
“You’re almost suggesting, Professor Dyson, that he — they’re happy for him to have been involved in using his labor to build the White House, but for him to win an election and live in the White House, that’s just not acceptable,” said Bashir.