[gop_gene]

I remember O'Donnell being an "okay" liberal a while ago, he seemed reasonable and cool-headed enough to me. But I noticed that as the election came closer, something happened to him--he became so overtly partisan to the point of losing all sanity and manners. It was creepy and unnerving.

[ChicagoRighty]

Yes, same here. Now you can count on him getting the other guests to sort of shake their heads at what he is saying. More and more radical. More and more off the deep end.

[what's up]

I remember seeing him shortly before the Swiftees story came out. A question was fed him about Vietnam and he acted real weird. I think he felt that an anti-Vietnam story was about to come out and he self-righteously believed that he would be a hero in the fight.

Loser.

[MichelleWSC]

"I remember O'Donnell being an "okay" liberal a while ago"


---I use to think he was okay too. In 2000, he was very fair and balanced but lately he has gone way over the edge. I'm wondering if he isn't on drugs

[x]

He was more moderate when he was in Washington. Now he's based in LA and influenced by the Hollywood crowd. Thus he's lost his bearings in the political world. I suppose that someone who stayed on the Washington scene and had to cope with it every day would have a better fix on things and wouldn't get so manic or paranoid or agitated when discussing politics.

His cousin, Kirk O'Donnell, was a bigtime Democrat and law partner of former DNC Chairman Bob Strauss. Larry O'Donnell worked for Moynihan years ago, and then went off to LA. It's said that he had an uncle high up in the Kennedy administration (Kenny O'Donnell? Larry O'Brien?), but I haven't seen any hard confirmation of that.