Sarah Palin hits back at Martin Bashir for crude remarks

Justin Hayworth

'I don't have to accept his words, his vile, evil comments, so they don't have to affect me,' Palin said on 'Fox News Sunday.'

Sarah Palin hit back at MSNBC host Martin Bashir Sunday for crass comments he made about the former governor last week.

'I don't have to accept his words, his vile, evil comments, so they don't have to affect me. I move on and I charge forth,' the 2008 vice presidential candidate said during an interview that aired on 'Fox News Sunday.'

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Last week Bashir called Palin a 'world class idiot,' after she compared the federal deficit to slavery, and crudely suggested the gaffe-prone pol should be punished for the comment by being forced to eat feces.

Bashir quickly apologized for the disgusting remarks but was not disciplined by the network - a move Palin called 'executive hypocrisy.'

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'That's the executive hypocrisy that is so prevalent in that media elite bubble, where it depends on the target of the vile rants, it doesn't depend on what their rant itself actually is and conservative women are a target of them,' Palin said Sunday.

Earlier this month, Palin came under widespread fire for a speech she made in Iowa in which she said the U.S. was 'beholden to a foreign master.'

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'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.'

An outraged Bashir criticized Palin for the comments on air with a bizarre reference to cruel form of punishment from a journal entry written by Thomas Thistlewood, an 18th-century plantation worker.

'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 said.

'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.'