ANYONE WHO SAID THAT ABOUT MICHELLE OBAMA WOULD BE OUT OF A JOB — AND IN FEAR OF BEING LYNCHED: Martin Bashir apologizes for dirty, disgusting slam at Sarah Palin.

MSNBC once suspended Ed Schultz for calling Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut”; why on earth does it tolerate Bashir’s brand of bile?

Bashir once said that the NRA “deserves to be equated with Hitler,” so he’s practiced at incendiary comparisons.

What happened last week is that Bashir used his hatred of Palin—calling her the country’s “resident dunce” and a “world-class idiot”—to descend deeper into the gutter than I ever thought he’d go.

It’s MSNBC. They, and the bulk of their dedicated viewers, are awful, and awfully dumb, people, without even a trace of the moral and intellectual superiority they affect. That MSNBC’s audience is so minuscule is a very positive reflection on the America that Bashir despises.