As The Blaze put it: Because Thursday evening’s haranguing of GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain by MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell wasn’t bad enough, the network’s other acerbic anchor, Martin Bashir, hopped on the conservative-bashwagon…again.

Bashir eulogized civil rights leader Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth by launching into an assault on Cain.

Until Wednesday, Mr. Shuttlesworth was the last surviving member of the big three. He’s seen here sitting between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy. They were the three founders at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the 1950s. Mr. Shuttlesworth was a godly and devout man of faith who trained for the Baptist ministry, but also braved beatings, bombings, and fire hosings in order to advance the cause of equality.

Mr. Shuttlesworth once said from the pulpit, “I’m answerable to God for he is the judge.” But as I read Herman Cain’s book, it’s hard not to conclude that he finds himself answerable only to those Republicans who will soon start electing their nominee for the White House, and as such, he probably feels obliged to reassure them that he’s no angry black man fighting for the rights of minorities. He wants to be known as one who stayed out of trouble. But he would be wise to remember that without the likes of the late Fred Shuttlesworth, Herman Cain wouldn’t even be able to vote let alone get the chance to run for the presidency.

Just one day earlier, Bashir used a Steve Jobs eulogy to bash Sarah Palin: