Posted on 10/23/2004 6:26:32 PM PDT by mek1959
Many readers have emailed us to say that on tonight's Scarborough Country, MSNBC "Senior Political Analyst" Lawrence O'Donnell went more or less insane. John O'Neill was on the program, and Pat Buchanan was subbing for Scarborough. Apparently O'Donnell went completely nuts, screaming "Liar! Liar!" at O'Neill, who kept his temper despite O'Donnell's raving. Our readers say it was the most bizarre incident in a frequently surreal campaign season.
The transcript is not yet available on the Scarborough site, but we'll link to it when it comes up, which should be tomorrow.
UPDATE: The Daikly Recycler has the video. It's unbelievable. And it pretty well sums up the attitude of the mainstream media and the Democratic Party toward the Vietnam vets who have opposed Kerry.
I particularly loved his "if Bush did pray (before going into Iraq) then his prayers weren't answered since we didn't find any WMDs." What a narrow-minded, humanistic assessment he has of the most powerful Being in the universe!
Yes, this was straight out of the playbook of vicious scumbags like Carville and Begala. In fact, it imitated Carville's own scandalous performance when John O'Neill was on 'Crossfire' some weeks back. The 'Rats all got the same memo (probably written by Carville) telling them to smear O'Neill and the Swiftees at every opportunity. Keep them off the air if you can, refer to them as 'discredited' when you must speak of them, and smear them loudly and often if you cannot avoid giving them a little air time. People like Carville and O'Donnell are not worth one of John O'Neill's toenail clippings.
It says "Lawerence O'Donnell Has Meltdown," it's after the spiel on the recent weird show happenings.
The site is:
I invite ya'll to the website, please sign the guestbook and voice your concerns about this craziness! I have sent my email and posted on my website to let my thoughts be known, in a nice, calm way.
What I wouldn't have given to have JOE refereeing that mess!! He would have NEVER allowed O'Donnell to carry on like that. Pat did try, but he wasn't very successful. Joe knows how to handle his guests, and he would not tolerate rudeness like that. I hope his back improves soon, and I am praying for him.
It's possible he didn't even decide to have O'Donnell on so many times, I have seen some say in threads that producers make the decisions about all that. Who knows. MSNBC wanted good TV, at any costs, I think.
There IS a good side, think about this...
On the flip side, if it were actually Joe making all the decisions about who is on, there could be a rationale. Joe is much smarter than many give him credit for. Go with me here.
O'Donnell marks himself as loose cannon with lesbian sex and strange God comments. It's obvious that he's digging himself a hole, they think he has they potential to be milked. This is MSNBC's token conservative show, a liberal meltdown is riveting TV for us.
So they have him on again, further escalating his craziness, and even let him host to keep him happy and playing along, with Joe giving him a good talking to beforehand. Might even cause some Democrats surfing by to tune in. Maybe they do and they are intrigued. All setting him up for the big one.
The bomb doesn't go off the next night, but there's a new Swift Boat ad campaign...we'll have O'Neill on, perfect, that'll put Larry over the edge. Put that with a rehash of the religion, gay, and more Liberal Larry hot button issues...and it could be the final exposing of the combative, rude, twisted true nature of the liberals.
And it works, it happens, right before our eyes a stunning display of insanity, like you pulled the mask off the Democratic party...while Pat plays the high road letting the hanging continue a bit. The right is incensed and we are spurred to get out the word, get out the video, we're posting on the Internet about the crazy liberals who are "unfit" to run our country.
O'Donnell is now forever branded as not just a crazy liberal, but a certifiable lunatic who can't be taken seriously, and people thinking about voting for his party have a rude awakening. And Joe laughs "mwa-ha-ha-ha," rubbing his hands together, plotting his triumphant return. Another SCORE for truth and decency in O'Neill, great publicity for the Swiftees, and horrendo shame for the liberals. And lots of $$$ for Swift Boat ads! Cool.
Ehh...yeah, probably not likely, but hey, one can dream. You never know...
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