On Friday evening we discussed the latest Swift Boat ad buy with "Unfit for Command" author John O'Neill and MSNBC Senior Political Analyst Lawrence O'Donell.
As you know, we often have heated discussions on Scarborough Country and we welcome a vigorous, but respectfuld, debate.
Lawrence O'Donnell is and has been a valued contributor. However, the manner in which he expressed his disagreement crossed the line.
MSNBC believes he was disrespectful to you the viewer and that his insults did nothing to forward the debate or the understanding of a very critical issue. We're spoken to Lawrence O'Donnell and he agrees.
We can assure you that this will not happen again on this program.
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No apology from O'D to the viewers or to O'N and no statement from him that he won't do it again. Maybe he'll just do it on another show.
O'Donnell is a disgrace who should be fired.
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Subject: Lawrence O'Donnell unhinged and unapologectic
Having seen O'Donnell's disgraceful performance on Friday night's Scarborough Country and having watched Pat Buchanan's Monday night statement from MSNBC about it, I'm very disappointed in your network.
On Friday, O'Donnell continuously shouted down John O'Neill on the show and denied viewers the chance to hear a real debate with O'Neill's answers.
That happened a day or two after O'Donnell outrageously kept saying on the Scarborough show that Mary Cheney has lesbian sex, she has lesbian sex, has lesbian sex, ad infinitum ad naseum. That was so far over the top and would have been recognized as trying to encourage homophobia if Mary Cheney wasn't a Republican. Even if she were a heterosexual, would it be O'Donell's place to discourage voters for her father by repeatedly saying "she has sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, did I mention that she has sexual intercourse?" Repeat that more to get the effect of O'Donnell's rantings.
It was more than disgusting for O'Donnell to discuss Ms. Cheney's private life, which is none of his business, in such a repetitive and lurid manner.
O'Donnell should be made to give a sincere apology on-air to John O'Neill, Mary Cheney, and the viewers. Failing that, he should be fired.
I have a remote control and I know how to use it! Please consider taking the requested action lest my remote control take it's toll on your network.
That's not good enough, IMO. He owes O'Neill an apology.
It's one of the many lies that the book advances. To me the most interesting lie, John O'Neill, that I would submit to you that you should answer, is, you make a lying claim that John Kerry's antiwar activity prolonged the amount of time that prisoners of war were held in Vietnam. . . . That's a lie, John O'Neill! Keep lying, it's all you do! . . . Lies! . . . Which is not in John O'Neill's book, 'cause it's a lie! . . . That's a lie! It's another lie! That's a lie! Absolute lie! You lie in that book endlessly! . . . You lie about documents endlessly! . . . You're just lying about it! And you lied about Thurlow's Bronze Star! You lied about it as long as you could until the New York Times found the wording of what was on the citation that you as a lying writer refused to put in your pack of lies! . . . Disgusting, lying book! . . . You have no standards, John O'Neill, as an author, and you know it! It's a pack of lies! You are unfit to publish! . . . He just lied to you! He spews out this filth! Point to his name on the report, you liar! Point to his name, you liar! . . . You just spew lies! . . .
I just hate the lies of John O'Neill. I hate lies. It's not an argument; they're proven lies. . . . O'Neill's a liar, he's been a liar for 35 years about this, and he's found other liars [unintelligible]. . . . They lied! . . . They're lying somewhere! . . . Lies! Just tell me the initials, you liar! Creepy liar! . . . You are a liar who makes things up! . . . You want the lies! That's how you make your living, on lies!