Posted on 01/11/2008 12:03:36 PM PST by jdm
NBC correspondent Lawrence O'Donnell has been losing it for the last four years, but he usually restricts his extreme bombast for Republicans. He wouldn't allow John O'Neill (actually a Democrat) speak in a 2004 television appearance, screaming "Creepy liar" over him whenever O'Neill tried to respond. Just recently he let loose a barrage of anti-Mormon bigotry when discussing Mitt Romney. Now, however, O'Donnell aims his strange ire at John Edwards, whom he accuses of racism for staying in the primaries:
John Edwards is a loser. He has won exactly two elections in his life and lost 31. Only one of his wins and all of his losses were in presidential primaries and caucuses. He remains perfectly positioned to continue to lose with a Kucinich-like consistency. Nothing but egomania keeps Edwards in the race now. All presidential candidates are egomaniacs but some of them have party status worth preserving that forces them to drop out when they hit the wall. A loser like Edwards has no status or dignity to lose. Campaigning and losing is his life. So, he will continue his simple-minded, losing campaign and deny Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the one-on-one contest they deserve.
If John Edwards stays in the race, he might, in the end, become nothing other than the Southern white man who stood in the way of the black man. And for that, he would deserve a lifetime of liberal condemnation.
Wow. Just ... wow. I hold no brief for John Edwards, and think he's a political loser myself, as O'Donnell labels him. He's not going to win the nomination, and his continued presence in the race exemplifies his self-involvement more than anything else.
But to suggest that Edwards' failure to withdraw constitutes racism as O'Donnell clearly implies is nothing short of insane. Does O'Donnell believe that Obama's presence in the primaries requires all other candidates to withdraw to prove that they're not racist? In fact, isn't the suggestion that Obama can't win this on his own without people throwing the election a racist notion in and of itself? At the very least, it's offensively paternalistic.
Jane Smiley, also at the HuffPo, offers O'Donnell some sage advice: shut up, Larry. She should have added: seek some help.
Get a load of this!
“load” - yep, ya pretty well nailed it...
The PMSM is really showing its naked biases this week. Will anyone notice?
Larry O’Donnell also moonlights playing a Mormon lawyer to a bigamist in “Big Love”.
I disagree. Liberals are by definition racist. They believe black people can only succeed with liberal "assistance".
Shades of Dorian Gray - Edwards keeps getting prettier but the picture gets older./Just Asking - seoul62........
Man..MSNBC doesn’t even try to hide bias these days. Not even kind of sorta maybe hinting towards their opinions.
Hillary will not like this one bit!
Exactly
I love Ayn but this would require SEVERAL pages in one of her novels.
Captain Ed nails O'Donnell.
Regards,
TS
You're 50% correct. By this logic, Hillary is both racist and sexist!
Nice to see Larry spreading his lunacy around instead of just dumping it on conservatives. Also funny that the huffpost woman claims he’s a Karl Rove plant. These people remind me of the Stalinist USSR, with everybody claiming everybody else is an enemy spy.
Surely this is not just the first time you've noticed this. Right? { 8^)
Very interesting.
EDS???
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