Lawrence O’Donnell insists parent company NBC consider firing Donald Trump

Daily Caller ^ | 8 Apr 11 | Jeff Poor

[SquarePants]

They say you shouldn’t bite the hand feeds you, but that isn’t stopping MSNBC’s “The Last Word” host Lawrence O’Donnell.

In a brazen display of political loyalty trumping company loyalty, O’Donnell took to airwaves on his Thursday night program to suggest NBC “Celebrity Apprentice” host and potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is on his birther crusade in order to bolster his show’s ratings.

O’Donnell explained to his guest, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart, that since Trump has been making the media rounds discussing the birth certificate of President Barack Obama, there has been a jump in his NBC show’s ratings.

“Jonathan, I want you to take a look at the ratings chart for Donald Trump’s NBC show ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’” O’Donnell said. “It starts off below the 8 million-mark. It also starts off very low in the demo, in the audience 18 to 49, to 2.8. As it gets crazier, it goes straight up. He’s now above a 3 in the demo which is the number NBC cares about the most. He’s at a 3.1. He was at a 3.0 the week before. It used to be on NBC on prime time you could get a show canceled off of NBC prime time if you fell below the 3.0. I know it happened to me. But know that NBC is not the number one network, it desperately needs numbers like this. I have said all along this fake campaign is about these numbers. It’s the only way Trump could get attention to his show this time around. This was the way to pump up those numbers and his paycheck from NBC.”

[JIM O]

jealousy is an ugly thing

[screaminsunshine]

A good way to get rid of NBC would be to put him in charge of it.

[BushCountry]

And?

If phoney, smart move on his part. The problem for everyone is that there is a seed of truth to his allegations. Something hidden that a person is willing to pay millions of dollars to cover up.

[B.O. Plenty]

Odonnell:

...never kick a horse turd....he just may become your boss....heh heh

[240B]

Liberals are always the Party of Free Speech.

BUT, ONLY IF YOU AGREE WITH THEM.

Otherwise you should be executed.

Liberals are always the Party of Democracy and the will of the people.

BUT, ONLY IF THE VOTE GOES IN TO THEIR SIDE.

Otherwise the vote should be annulled.

Liberals are always the Party of Laws.

BUT, ONLY IF THE LAW SUPPORTS THEIR AGENDA.

Otherwise the Law is old, outdated, and stupid.

Liberals are exactly like children, and cannot cope when society rejects, contradicts, and challenges, their ‘enlightened’ agenda.

They throw a tantrum every time.

[digger48]

"That' a lie, John O'Neill. Keep lying. It's all you do."

"Lies. He doesn't justify anything."

"Which is not in John O'Neills book, because it's a lie."

That's a lie. It's another lie. That's a lie."

"Absolutely lie"

"You lie about documents endlessly. His name is not on the reports. You're just lying about it."

"You lied about it as long as you could until “The New York Times” found the wording of what was on the citation that you, as a lying writer, refused to put in your pack-of-lies book. "

"Disgusting, lying book"

"It's a pack of lies. You are unfit to publish"

"Lies".

"He just lies. He just spews out lies."

"Point to his name on the report, you liar. Point to his name, you liar."

"You just spew lies"

"I just hate the lies of John O'Neill"

"I hate lies"

"They're proven lies. Every single journalistic look at this book has ripped it apart, left it in shreds. O'Neill is a liar. He's been a liar for 35 years about this. And he found other liars to…"

"Everybody who was on that boat with Kerry says all of this stuff is a lie."

"They are lying somewhere"

"Just tell me the initials, you liar"

"Creepy liar"

"liar who makes things up. "

"No, because you want the lie. "

[maggief]

I say we start a anti-boycott campaign by tuning our TV’s to “The Celebrity Apprentice”.

Perhaps a live thread?

http://www.nbc.com/the-apprentice/

Sundays 9/8c

(It’s not my cup of “tea” but I’m willing to support The Donald as he takes on “Birther” issues.)

[listenhillary]

Who is Lawrence Odonnell? Is he a news reader?

[onyx]

Good enough, but I am still spitting mad that Fox News weenied-out on Glenn Beck.

We are at WAR with the lamestream.

[junta]

Trump has one thing going for him, he can speak like a man, none of that she-male tone that the rest of the politicians use.

[maggief]

I hear you. I can count on one hand the number of prime time TV shows I follow ... two actually. I am willing to add a third to counter-balance any boycotts.

[Logical me]

Trump, just buy NBC and kick the rats out. Make it the new conservative prime time network.

[Trajan88]

Q: When paste-eating Larry speaks does anyone listen?

A: No.

[butterdezillion]

And what a terrible thing O’Donnell has discovered: that people will tune in to somebody who actually doesn’t ridicule their concern. That respecting your customers is financially beneficial.

Marvel idea, I know.

If the media actually respected their audience this nation would be in a heckuva lot better shape. But these people will be paid by Soros even if they are too dishonest to be able to thrive in the free market, so that is who they serve.

[Mozilla]

I insist NBC end MSNBC.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Liberals are always the Party of...

LOL. Very good. And very true.

[VeeP22]

Poor phaggy Larry is having a meltdown. As Bill Clinton once said, “put some ice on it, honey”.Bwaaaaaaahh!!!

[Tex-Con-Man]

So Larry is saying that the Donald is using his presidential bid to successfully increase Trump's ratings on his NBC show, and Larry is telling NBC to fire him?

O'Donnell should be the in-house economist for the NYTimes.

[Always Independent]

It would be funny if Trump would buy NBC and fire him!