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MSNBC‘s Lawrence O’Donnell Admits On-Air: ‘I am a Socialist’
The Blaze ^ | 11/5/10 | Jonathon M. Seidl

Posted on 11/05/2010 3:51:25 PM PDT by FTJM

On Friday’s “Morning Joe” MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell made a startling admission: “I am a socialist.”

The statement from the regular host of “The Last Word” came as he was chiding contributor Glenn Greenwald from Salon.com for apparently being a liberal hiding behind the word “progressive.”

“I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals,” he said:

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 11/05/2010 3:51:26 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: FTJM

Fire Him!!!!!!!!


2 posted on 11/05/2010 3:52:42 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: FTJM

Yeah, a limousine socialist.


3 posted on 11/05/2010 3:53:26 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: FTJM

What a great week this has been: election victory, Olberman segmenting himself on Worst person in the world, and now an admission of the obvious.


4 posted on 11/05/2010 3:54:38 PM PDT by CommieCutter (A Centrist Democrat is now defined as: between Socialism and Communism.)
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To: FTJM
I'm about as surprised as I'd be if you told me that Matthews and Special Ed are nuts and Madcow is a lez.
5 posted on 11/05/2010 3:55:57 PM PDT by JPG (Memo to GOP: DO NOT GO WOBBLY...NO COMPROMISE...REJECT SOCIALISM.)
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To: FTJM

Like someone said on another thread, it’s time we start calling “Progressives” what they really are: Oppressives.


6 posted on 11/05/2010 3:56:53 PM PDT by library user
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To: FTJM

He does not use the word but Lawrence O’Donnell admits to being a fascist, a statist, one who would impose his preferences upon his own countrymen at the point of a gun. He is a fascist.


7 posted on 11/05/2010 3:58:11 PM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: FTJM

Any of PMSNBC’s 2 viewers who hadn’t figured out that ALL the talking heads over there were socialists are too stupid to be at large in the general population.

Of course, they had already proven their stupidity by WATCHING PMSNBC in the first place.


8 posted on 11/05/2010 3:58:29 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (11/2 was a good start. Let's finish the job in 2012. U Pubbies stay strong!!)
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To: FTJM

There now, Larry,

That wasn’t so hard, wasn’t it?


9 posted on 11/05/2010 3:58:44 PM PDT by re_tail20
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To: FTJM

There now, Larry,

That wasn’t so hard, wasn’t it?


10 posted on 11/05/2010 3:58:55 PM PDT by re_tail20
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To: JPG

Special Ed. ROTFL.


11 posted on 11/05/2010 4:00:02 PM PDT by library user
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To: FTJM

He sits in a pretty easy place from which to be one.


12 posted on 11/05/2010 4:00:27 PM PDT by n230099 ("When no one knows who is armed...everyone is.")
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To: JPG

Speaking of Ed, he’s been having some troubles of his own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfZsSjv2y9A


13 posted on 11/05/2010 4:00:41 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (11/2 was a good start. Let's finish the job in 2012. U Pubbies stay strong!!)
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To: FTJM

But since he didn’t make undisclosed political donations, the SOCIALIST can continue working on MSDNC.


14 posted on 11/05/2010 4:01:16 PM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: FTJM

Actually, if you can stomach the videos, O’Donnell is making some pretty good points and is being pretty honest.

He admits to being a socialist, and basically says most Americans just flat out disagree with him. He points out that only 38% think government should be bigger and do more.

Where he really gets it wrong, along with the guy he’s arguing with, is on the public option polling. While it is true that the public option did poll well so long as it was only referred to as a “public option”, the GOP would never have allowed that characterization to stand. Republicans were fully prepared to call it the “government option”, and polling already indicated that to be about as popular as a bad case of hemorrhoids.

But give O’Donnell credit for at least being honest about his radical left beliefs. Most socialists try to mask what they really are by calling themselves “progressive”, “green”, etc, etc.


15 posted on 11/05/2010 4:06:31 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: FTJM
Startling?

Oh, paleeze!

16 posted on 11/05/2010 4:06:43 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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If he’s a socialist, how come he’s wealthy?
Shouldn’t he be giving to those in need. Spread the wealth.


17 posted on 11/05/2010 4:08:26 PM PDT by jrg
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To: FTJM

I saw the video and it is bizarre to say the least. Looks like he lost it for a moment.


18 posted on 11/05/2010 4:09:30 PM PDT by devane617 (NEVER feed your cats canned Tuna fish. Mercury poisoning.)
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To: FTJM; dixiechick2000
This is terrible...while looking to see if Lawrence is really Irish...(he is)

I discovered he is married to one of the prettiest 70s actresses whom I used to swoon over as a college boy....Kathryn Harold from Virgina...married to a Yankee socialist...perish the thought..what has the world come to?


19 posted on 11/05/2010 4:14:50 PM PDT by wardaddy (diversity is only good if you are young and unmarried and chasing women)
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To: SandRat

NO! YOU COULD KNOCK ME OVER WITH A FEATHER!!!


20 posted on 11/05/2010 4:17:28 PM PDT by MissesBush (Stay angry--right through November)
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