Ordinarily would never watch MSNBC, but was flipping through the channel guide and saw Deborah Norville listed. I didn't even know she was back on the toob (or had forgotten), and wanted to see what she looked like these days (face was well made up, but is getting a chicken-neck), and how much of lib she is.
There was a teaser for Scarborough Country, and my ears perked up a) because it sounded like Buchanan's distinctive rasp and b) because I thought he mentioned O'Neill.
Sure enough, it was Buchanan filling in, with O'Neill, and some guy I'd never heard of, Lawrence O'Donnell.
I swear, I had just finished reading the line from the book "At a loss whenever anyone argues back, liberals have a number of stratagems to prevent conservatives from talking. They shout conservatives down;...", when that LUNATIC O'Donnell start SCREAMING like a donkey with a steaming-hot boiled potato up it's rectum (Billy Connolly line)
Every other scream from O'Donnell was some form of the word "lie". Lie, Liar, Lying, Liers, Lied, and whatever other forms there are, all at the top of his lungs. Someone needs to count 'em up 'cause he's surely headed for the Guiness record. I watched for as long as I could.
O'Neill was completely serene throughout, and answered calmly (when you could actually hear him). I guess when you've actual bullets fired at you in wartime(not the sKerry make-believe kind), things like a raving lunatics seem inconsequential.
Even Buchanan got in a good stomp on O'Donnell, but let him rant way too long.
O'Donnell needs check into the nearest available Tourettes Treatment Center, yesterday. He needs to refill his 'scripts pronto. And double the Thorazine dose. And up the voltage on the electroshock therapy. And have that boiling potato removed...
Can you believe this mental defective served in our government? From MSNBC's website:
"Prior to joining MSNBC, O’Donnell served as Chief of Staff to the Senate Finance Committee from 1993-1995. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over legislation involving taxation, international trade, health care, Social Security, welfare and other income security programs."
Who would hire such a demented whack job? Oh, 1993-1995, NEVERMIND!
This crew has been using the same tactic since their days in the Vietnam war era pro communist movement. They're just reliving, and justifying, their misspent youth.
The most telling feature, in this regard, of O'Donnell's rant was "the Illegal War" comment, and his turning on Nixon when it was pointed out that it was Kennedy and Johnson who got us into the war and that Nixon is the one who brought the troops home, half of them before John Kerry began his pro communist "protests".