YOUNG: OK, so she compared not paying the debt to slavery to China. On his program on MSNBC, Bashir reached back to the diary of Thomas Thistlewood, this is an 18th-century slave owner. In these diaries, Thistlewood describes a pretty despicable punishment, a slave who was made to eat something that
MARTIN BASHIR: When Mrs. Palin invokes slavery, she doesn't just prove her rank ignorance, she confirms that if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, then she would be the outstanding candidate.