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We'll make it quick: MSNBC host Martin Bashir read a really graphic description of 18th-century British overseer Thomas Thistlewood's horrifying treatment of his slaves on the air last month, including eliminating bodily wastes of all kinds into the mouths of his fellow men, and then said that "if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, [Sarah Palin] would be the outstanding candidate."
He doesn't have a day job anymore.
The context doesn't really matter that much, so suffice it to say that Bashir was attempting to take issue with Palin's comparison of the upcoming requirements of the Affordable Care Act to the evils of slavery (she also said "this isn't racist" a few times in the midst of those remarks, which Bashir and others considered galling).
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