TV host says someone should defecate in Sarah Palins mouth,apologises

In a commentary on Friday,Bashir called the former Alaska governor Americas resident dunce and a world class idiot.

He attacked Palin and her long-diseased mind after playing a video of a speech where she compared the United States potential indebtedness to China to slavery.

Bashir told the story of Thomas Thistlewood,a former overseer at a plantation who left detailed diaries that described his punishment of wayward slaves. In one case,Thistlewood ordered another slave to defecate in the mouth of the miscreant. In another case,someone urinated in the face of a slave who was being punished.

When Mrs. Palin invokes slavery,she doesnt just prove her rank ignorance,she confirms (that) if anyone truly qualifies for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood,then she would be the outstanding candidate, he said.

On Monday,Bashir said he deeply regretted what he said.

I wanted to take this opportunity to say sorry to Mrs Palin and offer an unreserved apology to her friends and family,our viewers and anyone else who might have heard what I said, said Bashir,who hosts an hour-long commentary programme on the cable TV networks afternoon schedule.

Bashirs commentary came on the same day that MSNBC suspended Alec Baldwins weekly talk show for two episodes after the actor was videotaped using an anti-gay slur against a photographer during a New York street encounter.