Sunday, October 9, 2011

MSNBC O'Donnell Backdraft

MSNBC's selectively harassing host Lawrence O'Donnell deserves one of MSNBC's notoriously ineffective suspensions for hammering Herman Cain Thursday on his 8p show "The Last Word." By all accounts Cain hoist O'Donnell on his own petard by refusing to bite the bait.

The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf: "O'Donnell goes to absurd lengths to use patriotism and jingoism as cudgels to attack his conservative guest, almost as if he is doing a Stephen Colbert style parody of the tactics he imagines a right-wing blowhard might employ. Does he realize he's becoming what he claims to abhor?"
Huff Post
O'Donnell chastised Cain (born 1945) for dodging the Vietnam era draft. I see no evidence of O'Donnell's military service (born 1951). But here's O'Donnell foaming on conservative Republican presidential candidate:
The Atlantic

What do you think?  Has limousine socialist O'Donnell, in that hackneyed phrase, jumped the shark? Suspension anyone?

9 comments:

  1. A suspension is to good.  Exile him to Current TV.

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  2. Well done Mr Cain!!

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  3. What?  Larry thinks Bill Clinton shouldn't have been allowed to be president?

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  4. I say this is nothing compared to the upcoming meltdown that is sure to happen. That man is a disgrace, of course that network is a disgrace, sad.

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  5. If Fox news fails as a network, It will not be becasue of lack of viewers.  Fox has over 3 times the viewers of the other cable networks.

    If Fox news fails, it will be because of big business refusing to pay for advertising at the viewer driven prices.  MSNBC stays afloat because of corporate sponsers, not viewer support.

    This is proof that conservatives & conservative Republicans are not the party of big business or big money brokers.

    The party of elite society and big business has been and remains the Democratic Party.

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  6. A suspension is fine. As long as it is at the end of a rope

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  7. Oooh, you're tough, Scott!

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  8. I'm against suspension, which would imply that O'Donnell does something productive the other 364 nights a year.

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