Martin Bashir Quotes
I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.
Bashir, Martin. Interview with Barbara Walters. 20/20, ABC, Feb. 2003.
When asked to campaign for his arch-rival James G. Blaine for the presidency: Conkling was the most important Republican in New York State. His Presidential ambitions had been thwarted and he left government to return to his New York law practice. When Blaine became the Republican Presidential candidate, New York Republicans wanted Conkling’s OK to campaign actively for Blaine. Conkling refused. New York State went for the Democrats and Blaine lost the election by a smaller margin than New York’s electoral votes. There are some historians who question whether the quotation is an accurate one or merely apocryphal.
This poster's distribution before the JFK murder, has fed numerous conspiracy theories that right wing extremists were behind the assassination.
Martin Henry Bashir is a British journalist and news anchor. He came to prominence on British television with his BBC interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, and then his fly-on-the-wall documentary with pop singer Michael Jackson on ITV. On 4 December 2013, Bashir resigned from his position at MSNBC after he made comments described as "ill-judged" about the former Governor of Alaska and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.