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NBC Fires Employee Who Leaked Lawrence O’Donnell ‘Stop the Hammering’ Meltdown
free beacon ^ | Oct 2017 | Cawthorne

Posted on 10/16/2017 11:07:40 AM PDT by doug from upland

October 16, 2017 12:45 pm

NBC has tracked down and fired the employee responsible for leaking the video of MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell's infamous meltdown, during which he cursed at his crew and yelled about hearing random noises in his earpiece during a live broadcast of his show.

Multiple sources said a male editor for the "Today" show compiled and leaked the eight-minute video to Mediaite last month of O'Donnell yelling at his staff during the Aug. 29 broadcast of his show, "The Last Word," according to Page Six.

In the clip, an increasingly perturbed O’Donnell slams his fist on his desk, rants about "insanity in the control room," and demands someone "stop the hammering!" and what he calls "f—king out-of-control s—t."

The video was slipped to Mediaite as a broadcast-quality digital clip, and so only a handful of people are believed to be capable of accessing and transmitting such a file, sources connected with the leak told Page Six. The leaker, whose name has not been released, left a clear digital trail that allowed NBC to track him down.

NBC declined to comment to Page Six.

O'Donnell has not mentioned on his show that the leaker had been caught, but he did tweet, shortly after the video went viral, that "a better anchorman and a better person would’ve had a better reaction to technical difficulties."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hammering; meltdown; nbc; odonnell
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To: doug from upland
O'Donnell's infamous meltdown, during which he cursed at his crew and yelled about hearing random noises in his earpiece head...

fixed.
21 posted on 10/16/2017 11:33:12 AM PDT by stylin19a (Lynch & Clinton - Snakes on a Plane)
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To: doug from upland

Yeah, good job, NBC. Fire the guy that had to put up with this idiot instead of firing the idiot himself.


22 posted on 10/16/2017 11:35:01 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: kevcol

Jeez, that was nothing. Just a bad day at the office. I was expecting a real meltdown, not eight minutes of a guy being pissed off about some jabbering in his earpiece and off set hammering.


23 posted on 10/16/2017 11:56:22 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: kevcol

Thanks!


24 posted on 10/16/2017 1:06:34 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: doug from upland
Having worked in network news, I can tell you that there are two types of news anchors: those who can remain calm even if an earthquake happens during their newscast, and those who are throw off by every little thing, cursing and freaking out at the crew. No one is immune to an occasional bad day. Sometimes, things happen to the best of them, even Casey Kasem
25 posted on 10/16/2017 1:29:39 PM PDT by Gigantor (Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
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To: doug from upland

Anyone who hasn’t seen it needs to. It’s both hilarious and highly disturbing, but provides a priceless window on the pathology of the liberal mind.


26 posted on 10/16/2017 3:35:47 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: sauropod

“”I still remember what you did to John O’Neill live on the air.””

Was that the O’Neill who was killed in the Twin Towers on 9/11/01 - the retired FBI guy?


27 posted on 10/16/2017 6:02:00 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: doug from upland

Lawrence, don’t bother with the fake contrition and humility, nobody believes you.

Not only are you “an @sshole, but you’re also one hundred percent a d*ck.”

(....a version of my favorite line from Guardians of the Galaxy, fits crazy Lawrence perfectly)


28 posted on 10/16/2017 6:14:37 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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29 posted on 10/16/2017 7:26:39 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stand and honor the flag --- locking arms BS doesn't cut it)
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To: PROCON

You went ghetto for a sec. Ghettypo.


30 posted on 10/16/2017 7:29:15 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: doug from upland

Pity. He should have covered his tracks better.


31 posted on 10/16/2017 8:31:45 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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