I actually had a better title in mind, but it’s too earthy for RedState. Anyway, watch this fascinating exercise in ‘speaking truth to power’ towards Marc Thiessen by O’Donnell:
If you conclude from that clip that ‘speaking truth to power’ is more or less equivalent to ‘throwing… feces’ [more earthy language, sorry] – well, you could be forgiven for that, given the evidence. Ed Morrissey calls it an ‘unhinged rant‘ – which I don’t agree with; speaking as a ranter myself, it’s not up to even minimal rhetorical standards – and wonders whether Joe Scarborough has had enough of this… there we go with the earthy language, again. O’Donnell has a genius for turning stuff into that sort of thing, it seems.
Moe Lane
PS: I haven’t actually read Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack, but if it’s getting this kind of incoherent primate screeching in response then there must be something to it.
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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Thiessen is a gift...and dead on accurate
fpete13527 (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 12:02PM EST (link)The rant by O’Donnell was pathetic, but revealing, as you say Moe, because they are getting out of control crazy….which means the information by Thiessen was perfectly accurate and hitting home. Scarborough actually had to stop that piece of feces O’Donnell!!
This is actually good news because although I like Scarborough, he is given marching orders form MSNBC to limit conservative speech and let the progressives go on forever. I think Scarborough has integrity and tries to not do that….but the fact he had to stop that moron and cut to break….clearly shows the left is imploding….I love it.
Truth Can Hurt
twomoon Friday, February 12th at 12:07PM EST (link)Thiessen has the history exactly right and O’Donnell doesn’t know what he is talking about.
Can O'Donnell possibly get a little more worked up...
qurys Friday, February 12th at 12:12PM EST (link)an unhinged rant…..probably.
A lunatic well suited to the broadcast asylum….probably.
Interesting Moe, that this is on RS the same day as the diabolical (just kidding) Debra Medina cooked her goose on 9/11 birther stuff with Glenn Beck. Maybe RS will out all of them.
Par for the course...
neoavatara (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 12:14PM EST (link)for good ole Larry.
Why does Scarborough put up with this kind of nonsense? Could you imagine if it was a right winger going off?
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I wonder what was in Lawrence O'Donnell's Cherrios that morning
Richard Mullins (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 12:14PM EST (link)Someone must have spit in his breakfast before he went on Camera. Leftist meltdowns are great to have and Marc Thiessan is good at creating them. I haven’t read it either but I think we have a RS member that is reading now. She should be able to make a book review on it.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Actually this is nothing unusual for O'Donnell
Right_Again (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 4:39PM EST (link)This is just the way he is. He regularly exhibts head-blowing rants.
As long as he shouts, nothing gets accomplished. That is his goal.
Usually an own goal.
There is nothing else to do with O'donnell except to laugh at him
RedBeard Friday, February 12th at 1:21PM EST (link)A shouting and spittle-flecked leftist is always entertaining to watch, particularly when he is otherwise totally irrelevant.
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
i WAS laughing...
jeremyz (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 1:30PM EST (link)First they shut off his microphone…
…when he decides to yell so that other microphones hear him Scarborough has to speak directly into his mic that they are “going to break” and that “he will interview Marc himself”…
…that is classic!!!
There is a reason he has been removed from all previous pundit shows i.e. the McLaughlin Group…and probably just lost his voice on Morning Joe. Good thing Rachel Maddow, Olbermann, and Matthews are still around. I worry about his future employment possibilities.
“He is no fool who gives up what can not keep to gain what he can not lose” -Jim Elliot
Liberals and facts based on logic do not mix
gemimail Friday, February 12th at 1:43PM EST (link)Liberals can score high on IQ tests but excelling at logic and logical analysis simply is not possible for them. It might as well be a genetic deficiency. In fact, liberals excel at the 12 logical fallacies better than any other definable subgroup of the population. Logic and liberalism are polar opposites since being one or having one immediately negates being or having the other.
It is like trying to use logic to convince an Islamic Jihadist that killing people who do not have his religious views is not something any rational God could ever approve of. Logic has nothing to do with it since we are talking about a belief system here and no such believer can be swayed by facts or logic. The same is true of liberals. They are absolutely emotionally invested in their various beliefs and are impervious to any logic or facts that show that they are mistaken. That is why it is pointless to argue with them. Like Jihadists if you do not believe what liberals believe then you may not be an infidel but you are obviously stupid to not see what is so completely obvious to them and everyone they know whom they respect.
This is what makes both Jihadists and liberals so dangerous. Because Jihadists are so physically dangerous just like a serial killer is because there is no hope of reforming them, all we can do is kill them in self defense. Fortunately liberals are not physically dangerous, just economically, socially and psychologically dangerous. We do not have to kill them, we just have to vote against them and never let them hold any public position to prevent them from irreparably damaging the body politic, our economy or influencing our children with their dangerous nonsense.
You just saw a preview of post-attack Dem talking points.
Section9 Friday, February 12th at 2:15PM EST (link)Trust me.
Attack Bush. It’s all they’ve got.
Jesus. Totally pathetic.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
Unhappy!
bballfan Friday, February 12th at 2:45PM EST (link)Just shows me how unhappy in life these people are!. The hate this man has in him. He carries this on a daily basis! Was enjoyable to watch!
O'Donnell is an interesting character.
sdsundevil (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 3:12PM EST (link)His knowledge of HillaryCare made him a great resource to MSNBC and helped me come to the conclusion that ObamaCare was on shakier ground than most people thought from the beginning. He also makes Countdown somewhat watchable when he takes over for Olby since he tends to focus more about how the political machine functions (AKA reality) than ideology. However, he’s prone to these incoherent rants where he asks a question and then doesn’t allow for a response.
This really does go to show how Bush Derangement Syndrome infected all the liberals. They have to throw mud as furiously as possible at anything and everything he did. Meanwhile, Obama’s foreign policy keeps taking more and more cues from the Bush Admin. They’re finding out that reality trumps ideology.
So Sad
lukematthews (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 3:25PM EST (link)That he is not alone, unique, or anything special. The far left wingnuts are absolutely convinced there was and is some kind of star chamber pulling strings and manipulating the American people. Truther philosophy comes spilling out along with his bile and lunacy. Simmering in a vat of shear viciousness for eight years turned perfectly reasonable people into raving hate-monsters. Along the way, Michael Moore and his ilk made millions off stoking that twisted thought process.
Sad they are forever changed and perverted by their own mindless anger.
Lawrence O'Donnell is a paid media hit man for the Left
peaceful Friday, February 12th at 4:27PM EST (link)This angry lie-ridden screeching attack is nothing new for O’Donnell. It is not an isolated emotional outburst spawned in the moment, but a carefully orchestrated attack designed to destroy the credibility of his target. The Leftists trot out O’Donnell by to launch one of his vein popping smear attacks when someone presents truthful and damming evidence revealing the insidious and dangerous anti-American deception of leftist Democrats. O’Donnell has employed this tactic against others including the Swift Boat group during an interview with the group’s spokesman on …wait for it…MSNBC’s Scarborough Country.
Two points to consider. One, we need to recognize the repeating pattern of the Leftist propaganda model, primarily based on Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which incorporates paid media hit men like Lawrence O’Donnell . In particular, O’Donnell employs Alinsky’s rules 5 and 11:
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.
Second, that Joe Scarborough has a history with O’Donnell and is well aware of his tactics. One must therefore ask why Joe has Lawrence on his show when he knows Lawrence is nothing more than a paid tool of the Leftists. Perhaps Joe is looking for “reality show” style controversy to boost his sagging ratings.
Michelle Malkin has details on O’Donnell’s screech attack against John O’Neill here: http://michellemalkin.com/2004/10/22/lawrence-odonnell-and-liberals-unhinged
Morning Joe is in danger of become Morning Keith
sdsundevil (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 5:02PM EST (link)I personally think Morning Joe’s sagging ratings are a products on MSNBC’s decline combined with the fact the show seems to have more liberals than conservatives on lately. I have to admit that I have watched regularly in a while. Is Pat Buchanan still a regular? He used to be on almost every day to combat the libs. At some point, they started bringing in Donny Deutche and a bunch of other hard leftists who add nothing to the debates but pure ideology. How about bringing in Krauthammer or some people from National Review who can present the conservative argument in a reasoned way?
Too bad. This show had a lot of potential to be a place where both sides could present their views in a civil manner. That model has obviously been abandoned in an attempt to cater to the core MSNBC hard-left audience. More’s the pity.
Larry O'Donnell is a frustrated and pathetic Marxist
mikenad (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 4:53PM EST (link)Larry O’Donnell how is that Hopey Changey stuff working out for you. O’Donnell is a pathetic Marxist shill and part of the Marxist takeover of the Democrat party. I would like to see Larry O’Donnell try to pull this crap face to face with someone like O’Reilly. I would expect nothing less from a lifelong left swing screwball.
Larry O'Donnell is a clown
mikenad (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 4:56PM EST (link)The way O’Donnell treated the woman from Pennsylvania that spoke at the Arlen Specter Townhall shows that he is a disrespectful clown.
Note Joe said from the start they wouldn't let Thiessen finish a sentance...
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 9:43PM EST (link)O’Donnell appeared to be disarmed for a few …and then it was on…He wouldn’t shut up and let Thiessen get a word in edge wise…
It’s common Leftist fare…and it’s the way the keep the fact that they don’t have a factual leg to stand on because no-one is ever allowed to hear the counter to their argument….they shout and continue talking so the it’s impossible to hear the other side.
The Transparent Defense Mechanism of a Shallow, Ignorant Morning Cable Pseudo-News Extra
ntrepid (Diary) Friday, February 12th at 10:07PM EST (link)Mr. O’Donnell knew he was about to get his clock cleaned so he got himself ejected immediately after the opening bell.
(Reference interview by Hugh Hewitt last May: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/05/28/hewitt-vs-odonnell/)
HH: What was the last book you read about terrorism?
LO’D: The last…I don’t think I’ve read a book about terrorism.
HH: Ever?
LO’D: No.
…
HH: Larry, you’ve never read a book about terrorism?
To be absolutely clear, I do not even know where MSNBC is on my cable dial…do all of their interviews begin with “No, I’m not a subject matter expert but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night”?
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