Posted on 04/09/2013 8:57:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell delivered an unexpectedly laudatory eulogy for Margaret Thatcher on The Last Word Monday night, but it was not one that many of her Republican admirers would appreciate. While conservative columnist George Will credited Thatcher for helping to “bury socialism as a doctrine of governance” in his tribute to the former British prime minister in The Washington Post, O’Donnell praised her for upholding the “good socialism” that still exists in Britain.
“What do you call a person who gets rid of bad socialism and keeps good socialism?” O’Donnell asked. “I call that person a good socialist, like Margaret Thatcher.” He then played a compendium of some of Thatcher’s most liberal public pronouncements, mostly having to do with Britain’s national health system and Social Security equivalent. As O’Donnell explained, these are essentially “socialist” programs that Thatcher fought to preserve despite her Reaganesque reputation.
And while conservatives praise Thatcher for being a “tax cutter,” the reality is that she cut the top tax rate from 83% to 60%, hardly a figure that American conservatives, let alone many liberals, could get behind. “British conservatives aren’t as conservative as American conservatives,” O’Donnell remarked, and they are “more liberal than American liberals.” He added that by those standards, President Obama is “half the taxer” and “half the socialist” that Margaret Thatcher was. “But Republicans call Barack Obama a socialist as if it is an epithet, and call Margaret Thatcher a hero.”
For good measure, O’Donnell condemned some of Thatcher’s more socially conservative views, like her opposition to gay rights. But the overall picture left of the right’s “hero” was far more favorable than anything else said about her on MSNBC today. “Ignorance is the first requirement for Republicans’ adoration of Margaret Thatcher,” O’Donnell concluded. “Margaret Thatcher the socialist is gone. But Margaret Thatcher the socialist was forgotten long before she was gone.”
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Has Larry had work done? His face looks like something from Tourist Trap?
Tune into PMSNBC to be MIS-informed by Stalinist revisionists.
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" - MT
Hey, you cut my price on a Mountain Dew 83% to 60% and I’ll be your new best friend.
Is it still 60%? That seems, despite my acknowledging of Krugman as a genius though certainly not in economics but he did an impressive snow job to get his Nobel prize) kind of excessive.
Holy projection Batman!
I have to admit Larry is a subject matter expert regarding ignorance.
Wake me when its rope & lamp post time.
If ignorance is bliss....Lawrence O’Donnell must be orgasmic.
Sure, you have to be a genius to support a 1930’s communist economy.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Never have gotten tired of his famous meltdown over John O'Neill. Starts at 4:20 minute mark.
Lawrence O'Donnell Screams at Swift Boat Veteran, Calls Him A 'Creepy Liar'
Thank You. That looked like fun!
That’s how he got his nickname “Mad Dog O’Donnell”.
The UK was going down the road of serfdom. All could not have been reformed.
‘Conservatives think that Liberals are wrong. Liberals think that Conservatives are evil.’
It’s becoming increasingly difficult not to hate the Left but I fear what my mother says will come true...’You become just like that which you despise’.
As the Iron Lady pointed out .....
“Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.” — Margaret Thatcher, P. 427, Statecraft
Taxes are now “revenue” and spending is now “investments” and liberals are now “progressives”.
More evidence MSNBC is an insane asylum with a TV production studio.
Thatcher led the most conservative government, conservative by any British or American standard, and fought and called out socialist scum more than any politician has done in the UK since. To say she was a socialist of any kind, is beyond belief and laughable.....if there is one thing she knew and spoke up on, it is there is no such thing as a ‘good socialist’.
Ahem. “privatize”, not “nationalize health care” - “privatize health care”.
My mistake, thinking one - wrote the other.
Larry, what do you call it when Obama spoke of the Madives?
-PJ
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