Martin Bashir officially left MSNBC lately after backlash over his vulgar feedback about Sarah Palin, however this is not the first time Bashir’s faced this type of backlash. Fox Information media critic Howard Kurtz dug up every other instance, this one from Bashir’s previous at ABC Information.

Kurtz cites a 2008 record from New York Journal (though he doesn’t link to it), during which a Daily Intelligencer blog post takes particular word of his “tabloid shamelessness” and tells of an ungainly, embarrassing moment when Bashir addressed the Asian American Journalists Affiliation.

“I’m happy to be in the midst of so many Asian babes,” he mentioned onstage, with his 20/20 colleague Juju Chang nearby. “In truth, I’m satisfied that the podium covers me from the waist down.” He then referred to that a speech will have to be “like a gown on an attractive lady — long enough to duvet the essential components and short enough to keep your hobby — like my colleague Juju’s…. Some audience contributors booed. ABC wasn’t pleased.

Bashir ended up getting “quietly suspended,” as Kurtz places it, after that incident, and at the time he wrote a letter to the AJAA, apologizing and pronouncing, “I… hope that the continuing work of the organization will not be harmed or undermined by using my second of stupidity.”

In his remark as of late upon leaving MSNBC, Bashir made a similar remark, saying, “It’s my honest hope that all of my colleagues, at this unique network, will be allowed to center of attention on the issues that topic without the distraction of myself or my in poor health-judged comments.”

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