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".
I just listened to both audio clips (O'Donnell LIE count now up to 40), which contained the entire 2 part interview.
I too loved Buchanan's response when O'Donnell said "illegal American war in Vietnam". O'Donnell really stepped on one of Buchanan's trip wires and got "blowed up real gud" as a result.
I think Buchanan showed considerable restraint while O'Donnell kept asking O'Neill what he did to end the war.
Buchanan let it slide for a while...but I'm guessing he was flipping the safety off, powering up, going to "ARMED" status, and lining up the bombsight.
"Illegal American war in Vietnam" was the trigger phrase, and Buchanan dropped a MOAB on him. And guess what? He had his facts straight.
I wish I had the video portion of that, I want to see if O'Donnell's tic-like rapid eye blinking increased and if he went to full-on facial spasms.
I really do think O'Donnell could have Tourettes Syndrome. From the "tourette syndrome association, inc." website, http://www.tsa-usa.org/:
"The most common first symptom is a facial tic such as rapidly blinking eyes or twitches of the mouth."
I just figured out I'm going to have to re-calculate O'Donnell's Lie/Sec ratio to only include the time O'Donnell is actually exhaling excrement through his larynx, not the entire interview length. It's going to be a lot higher 8.125 "Lie" per Second.
Yikes, it's noon already, I have a ton of stuff I have to do today. I'll have to do it tonight, with a six pack, so I can laugh myself senseless at the same time. Have to remember to find my stop watch and unpack the hi-fi powered speakers too.