1 Never go full retard.

2 BDS/PDS +100. It's the lefty standard and there is a precedence.

3 with people like O'Donnell cheering you on, who needs enemies?

4 O'Donnell should fight for healthcare

5

If we could weaponize the stupidity oozing from these people, we wouldn't need nukes.

O'Donnell and that chick that wrote the Vajayjay Monologues alone would be planet killers.

6 It's always amazed me how empty-headed libs think that simply screaming over someone is an effective style of debate.

7 I would have a beer with Chris Matthews. We would eventually get into a political argument and yell at each other for a while. Then we would simply brush it off get back to drinking beer and eating bar snacks. But if it were Larry O'Donnell it would end with me punching him in the throat.

8 1 Never go full retard Biden.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at February 12, 2010 11:51 AM (wgLRl)

FTFY.

9 There's a saying in law school:  When you have the law on your side, argue the law; when you have the facts on your side, argue the facts; when you have neither, just object a lot and hope for the best.  I think it is pretty clear where O'Donnell is.

As to Johnny Douche or whatever his name is - it's kind of cute that he is so dumb that he basically made Marc's point for him, though Marc's follow-up could have been stronger - maybe ask Douche if he thinks that all administrations should have a 9-11 before they can develop an effective terror policy?  As to Richard Reid - since when do Dems cite the Bush Admin as the Gold Standard for anything?

10 Larry brings teh crazee.   But what in the hell does Mika offer?  What an empty-headed goof.

11 Queef gets cancelled, I am going to need a big batch of pudding.

12 "6 It's always amazed me how empty-headed libs think that simply screaming over someone is an effective style of debate." SO NOW YOU GOT SOMETHING AGAINST SCREAMING, "WISERFACE?" HUH? HUH?

13 Larry's rage is better than any poll.  The madder he gets the more the libs are losing. 

14 I would have a beer with Chris Matthews. We would eventually get into a political argument and yell at each other for a while. Then we would simply brush it off get back to drinking beer and eating bar snacks.
But if it were Larry O'Donnell it would end with me punching him in the throat.

FTFY

15 If this is what happens on MSDNC in public, imagine what happens behind the scenes.

16 I think O'Donnell has a good chance at out shouting Death, so there's that.

17 @ 9

The way we used to say that was if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts.  If the law is on your side, pound on the law.  If neither the facts nor the law is on your side, pound on the podium.

18

Larry is, and here's the key, cheaper crazy than Olbermann.

Comcast may not mind MSNBC's politics, but they hate their bottom line.

19
So - O'Donnell is just your standard democrat 9/11 truther.

check.

20 O'Donnell describes himself as a "practical European Socialist".

There is ZERO chance he will ever lose his job with NBC.

21 You obviously can't have too much crazy at MSNBC.

22 Those prison documentaries are great though.  The one where they had the top 10 most dangerous inmates they had met was must see.  The guy that ate his mother's brain still seemed more rational than O'Donnell or Olbermann. 

23 MSDNC definitely has a lock on the psycho crazies.  It must be a requirement to go off your meds in order to go on-air.  I fully expect Ed Schultz to explode on air any day.  I'll have my popcorn ready.  And Larry?  He's going to end up on the roof at Rockefeller Center with a rifle.

24 Scarborough confirmed that O'Donnell was doing his act (and make no mistake, it's an act). Now Scarborough has an obligation to MSNBC's romper room of viewers to call Loony Larry out and expose the fraud. Scarborough won't, of course, because of MSNBC's standing order not to critique the help, but a legit news organization would cut O'Donnell loose. This of course explains why O'Donnell will be on yet again.

MSNBC's a trainwreck even rubberneckers now avoid.

25

Isn't Lawrence O'Donnell that same jackhole that went off on Romney for being a Mormon, but said he would not criticize Islam out of fear for his own life?

Yes, yes it is the same douche.

26 the aggression and vindictiveness odonnell and deutch display has a knee jerk hyper-sensitivity that brings me back to that travesty, the 9-11 commission, a witch-hunt to heap blame on the bush administration and most importantly a defensive cover for clinton. after 8 years in office and numerous attacks, to which clinton lamely responded, the congressional democrats shone a glaring klieg light on bush's 8 months. shameful & outrageous. as i said in the 90's there's gonna be a lot of blood on clinton's hands, and i didn't mean just rwanda..

27  5

If we could weaponize the stupidity oozing from these people, we wouldn't need nukes.

O'Donnell and that chick that wrote the Vajayjay Monologues alone would be planet killers.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2010 11:56 AM (B+qrE)

 

Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

28 Christ I hate these shows. I don't care if I'm in agreement or not. I'll read opinions all day, but when you have three people shouting to be heard above each other it's like nails on chalkboard to me.

29 MSNBC, the professional wrestling of cable news.

30 Queef gets cancelled, I am going to need a big batch of pudding.

They're going to have to have security escort him out as soon as they tell him.  Imagine if they let him give a scheduled final broadcast.

31 The Larry is off his meds, or not balancing his meds, remark was pretty funny.

32 by which i mean to say, o'donnell's and deutch's venomous aggressive posture springs from the 9-11 commission circus. a full accounting of the clinton years has yet to be made to my knowledge.

33

leoncaruthers made the greatest comment ever about guys like O'Donnell at the Hostages yesterday (speaking about someone else):

He’s the only person that ever truly made me wish that FireFox had a “Slap that guy” plug-in.

 

34 the aggression and vindictiveness odonnell and deutch display has a knee jerk hyper-sensitivity that brings me back to that travesty, the 9-11 commission, a witch-hunt to heap blame on the bush administration

W was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.

35 They're going to have to have security escort him out as soon as they tell him.  Imagine if they let him give a scheduled final broadcast.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at February 12, 2010 12:14 PM (mR7mk)

That is one broadcast that I would actually watch!

36 Might have to DVR the prison documentaries if they are that good.  I didn't think there was anything worth watching on PMSNBC.

37

In another time, this behavior would get you hospitalized.

Now it gets you a gig on MSNBC.

38 what's really dismaying is that there are a lot of people out there who react as those 2 idiot logs do, poisoned by that political inquisition on capitol hill.

39 Man this video is really making the rounds today.  I've seen it all over the place.

40 That's the problem with setting someone up to be attacked from all sides... a circular firing squad has it's own issues.

41 Someone is going to get fired at MSNBC for allowing the presentation of a rational point of view about terrorism.

42 I watched a little of NBS Squawk Box this morning, getting ready to switch to FOX.  Then one of the finical Obamabots says "the economy is turning around, we have had 3 straight months of strong increases in temporary jobs..."  That was all I could take.

43 They're going to have to have security escort him out as soon as they tell him.  Imagine if they let him give a scheduled final broadcast.


Comcast will wait until Queef takes a vacation or a sick day. Easier to keep him from entering the building than to drag him out by his short-hairs.

Of course, it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining....

44

Would I be going too far in calling O'Donnell a traitor?

I mean, he knows everything about the Republic's security, and he's not working for teh government keeping out nation safe. Wouldn't you think that the second smartest man in the world be serving his country in these trying times?

45

Larry1 calm down right this minute!

Now I'm afraid your going to have to come with me....here, put this jacket on. We have a treatment for the overstimulated.....

46 the problem with the 9-11 comm. wasn't just that bush was blamed, but that clinton was given cover. you couldn't even mention clinton's name at those hearings. for the sake of providing that political cover, a chance to glean a true picture of the policy failings was lost. it'll all be sorted out in another 20-30 years.

47 ... but i digress. & with that willful digression, another couple of billion photons are wasted. wasted.

48

He’s the only person that ever truly made me wish that FireFox had a “Slap that guy” plug-in.

That is effing brilliant.

49 forgive me for my wanton & profligate use of photons.

50 "Never go full retard."

I lol'ed. Boy, did I lol.

51

What always disturbs me about these conversations on Intelligence with the Leftys is . Why don't they remember their shrill screams after 9-11, "when did Bush know and   when did he know it.why didn't he stop it"

direct link to intelligence services  and their reponse. so they gut our intelligence services now and say it's a good thing?

seriously they drive me crazy with their thinking.

52 wiki left out noted douchebag: Lawrence Francis O'Donnell, Jr. (born November 7,[1] 1955) is a political analyst for the American cable news channel MSNBC who has appeared on The McLaughlin Group and The Al Franken Show. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer and writer for the NBC series The West Wing and creator and executive producer of the NBC series, Mister Sterling. He appears as a recurring supporting character on the HBO series Big Love, portraying an attorney. He also frequently fills in for Keith Olbermann, hosting the Countdown with Keith Olbermann news commentary show on MSNBC when Olbermann is absent.

53

Imagine if they let him give a scheduled final broadcast.

Maybe Keith would do his R. Bud Dwyer impression for us.

54 I'll be filling my bathtub!

55 The ONLY way they know to fight FACT is to throw a tantrum.  FACT and TRUTH are always on the side of good (right).  Lies and deceit are on the other side (wrong).

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool ALL of the people ALL of the time.  They're trying to fool all of us all the time and the media is helping, sad.

56 G_d forgive me but I do so hate these Nationalsozialistische Amerika Arbeiterpartei members.

57 From National Review Online:

Oh, and lest you think O'Donnell's outburst rose up from some deeply-seated conviction, witness this tweet from Scarborough:

The best part of Lawrence O' Donnell's. rant is that when we went to break, Lawrence broke out in a huge smile. "It's what I do best."

58 I love O'Donnell's "Yeah, but you are a spoiled ultra-rich guy" response.  Class envy, the last bastion of a brain dead liberal.

59

Wow!

Theissen kicked some Ass on that one. It is amazing to me that, right on que, O'Donnel uses his "Rules For Radicals" training and attacked Theissen personally in his only 30 second response, instead of using the proper Ethos, Mythos & Dianoia Debating Technique, which would have been much more effective.

But it goes to show that not only O'Donnel, but the entire left, has nothing but hate, and deep down side they know they have already lost the debate, and their 40 year grand scheme of destroying Capitalism and shifting the entire world to a One World Communistic Totalitarian Government is coming to close.....

Thank God! 

60 I've suspected for awhile that MSNBC is just kabuki for the left wing nutbars, but sometimes I wonder ... can you really fake this type of lunacy?

Here's a question: Is it worse if these clowns are true believers or if they're just a bunch of scummy, moneygrubbing cynics who will say or do anything to keep those paychecks rolling in?

61 I'm wondering if someone in charge at MSLSD told the boys to take their insane ranting up a few more notches as a last ditch attempt to improve ratings.

62 I'd never heard of O'Donnell, but I've seen plenty of a**holes like that before. (Matter of fact, I had a flock ram once who was so.... long story). So, I looked him up in another browser tab. I learned he went to Harvard and married an actress who played Lauren Bacall in some "Bogie" production. No apparent military service. OK, I figure, it figures he's a crazy lib. Imagine my surprise when in his big moment at the end he accuses (accuse: le bon mot) Thiessen of being a preppie, a Vassar grad, and not a veteran. Without going all psychological, does anyone else think that's weird?
What an unpleasant geek act!

63 Comcast may not mind MSNBC's politics, but they hate their bottom line.

I sound like a filthy republican saying it, but God bless big bidness.  Hell, I'll go on the air pretending to be a raving, frothing moonbat for a tenth of what they have to pay Keefie.

(Don't worry part of my long term plan is to have an on-air meltdown and then "come to my senses" as a sane, staid conservative.  I bet I quadruple the ratings right there.)

64

seriously they drive me crazy with their thinking.

Posted by: willow at February 12, 2010 12:31 PM (7FgWm)

Your first mistake is crediting thinking as the source of whatever stupidity comes out of their mouths from day today.

What they do is emote.

Think of it this way and you won't waste anymore energy trying to figure out the logical underpinnings of the positions they take. There are none.

65 Who's the crazed psycho who tries to develop acute laryngitis while live, on air... you know, that guy? No, not Olbermann. He's always on. No, you know, that guy?

That's Lawrence O'Donnell. That guy.

66 ahh, o'donnell was a producer & writer for "the west wing". so i was right, there is a clinton connection. no fury knows the rage of a clinton attack dog.

67 from the corner: "Oh, and lest you think O'Donnell's outburst rose up from some deeply-seated conviction, witness this tweet from Scarborough:

The best part of Lawrence O' Donnell's. rant is that when we went to break, Lawrence broke out in a huge smile. "It's what I do best.""

____

Stupid effen attention whore. 

68

It's always amazed me how empty-headed libs think that simply screaming over someone is an effective style of debate.

It's because you can't punch someone out anymore without going to jail for assault. In any rational society, one could give guys like O'Donnell a beating, and they might learn to be civil. Now, people can be complete disfunctional assholes with no repercussions.

69 11 Queef gets cancelled, I am going to need a big batch of pudding.

Posted by: real joe at February 12, 2010 12:04 PM (IAOAn)

Dude, me too.

70 @68
Absolutely right! As Dr. Johnson put it, "Freedom of the press, yes, but also freedom of the cudgel!"
They made duels illegal, but even so I'd bet a lot of insults were answered by a Derringer from the boot.

71 I'm always asking if it's still illegal to throatpunch liberal assholes.

sadly, I'm informed it still is

72 Runners-up for the Miss Crazy contest will be Richard Wolffe and Chris Hayes. Y'ever seen those girls? Their hairdos look like built-in tiaras.

73 I have nothing but contempt for Scarborough.

For one thing, he didn't follow through on tossing O'Donnell out of the interview.  When they came back from the commercial, Scary Larry was still there and did another 30 seconds of over-the-top ranting.

Then, Scarborough went on Twitter to piously bleat that everybody, Right and Left, should stop being so crazy, and finished off the morning by having the two of them on his radio show for a repeat of the debacle.

Scarborough is clown shoes.

74 I thought they were going to replace Olbermann with that show about pedophiles, but then isn't Olbermann a... No, too easy.

75 Oh yeah, and Scarborough also Twittered about how awesome O'Donnell is because of his ranting.

Not even in spite of.  Because of.

Worthless.

76 Based on the NRO's report of Joe's tweet, this was a totally planned shout-down. Allowing PMS-NBC to claim they have people with opposing viewpoints on, while at the same time, preventing those opinions from actually being airedÂ… Pathetic

77 #70, you may be right, but the "planned" part was more of an ambush. Coward journalism.

78

Folks, don't get too mad, it's Kabuki theater.

79 Six months ago I was on the Florida West Coast talking to one of Joe's friends, a consultant friend of mine who lives around those parts. He said that Joe had a lot of potential. I'm just not seeing it. I think he's burning bridges to the Base.

80 Lawrence O'Donnell is a dick AND a pussy, which makes him a hermaphrodite. Dear Larry: do what that suggests, and go fuck yourself.

81

#31:

Yeah - that line got my attention - and it seems that the woman was agreeing with that.  The 'oh, we're on the air' part was funny also.  Looks like the control room guys decided to get their hits in also.

82 I want the five minutes of my life back I just wasted watching that televised tardfest.

83 I'm not clicking on that link. I refuse to subsidize a staged meltdown. I already watched Andy Kaufman do something similar on that crappy SNL ripoff Fridays show years ago (remember that?); it was dumb then and it's dumb now.

84 Wow!

Just... WOW

Mr. Odonnel is  FUCKING NUTS!

85

Scarborough is the ultimate go along to get along guy.  I'm sure the top of his resume contains something along the lines of 'lefties like me'.  He's Scott McLellan on a permanent book tour.

O'Donnell's been nuts since I first saw him on McLaughlin, which must be a decade ago.  It's only from watching that show that I can confirm that Eleanor Clift and O'Donnell are in fact different people.

 

86

Hey, it's what I do.  I totally took all the oxygen away from Theissen's points. 

Notice how no one is disucssing anything he said?  I succeeded in making sure that, while his argument is perfctly valid, no one hears it and the entire converstaion is about me.

Must block all attempts to make Bush look right whenever possible.  It's what I do. 

 

87

I also spell like Asian people drive.

It's something else I do.

88 At least crazy Larry has a type of entertainment value.  What is the point of Donny Deutsch?  Does he pay MSNBC to appear?  Seriously, is there a demographic that clamors for Donny Deutsch?

89 Donny Douche is even more useless and stupid than O'Donnell (Rosie or Lawrence - take your pick) and Marc Thiessen handed him his ass after taking a huge bite out of it. Isn't he an advertising agent? What the fuck does he know about anything? And I gotta tell you, I don't like the name Lawrence. Only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence. Holy shit, I wanted to launch a fist right into his suckhole. What a nasty little piece of ignorant shit. Thiessen handled up on him, though. "What are my qualifications, Lawrence? I had a top secret clearance and got my info from the source, while you were reading fucking Ted Rall cartoons to inform yourself about current events. And if you interrupt me again, I'm going to stab my cock right through your teeth and out the back of your skull. Now, buh-bye."

90 It's because you can't punch someone out anymore without going to jail for assault. In any rational society, one could give guys like O'Donnell a beating, and they might learn to be civil. Now, people can be complete disfunctional assholes with no repercussions. Yeah, but it always amuses me when people have always assumed the fear of prison would allow them to get away with whatever they wanted in front of whomever they pleased. Two Christmases ago, my piece of shit brother-in-law got fucking stomped because he was running his dicksucker to a guy who said, "Ninety days in jail for beating the fuck out of you? That's fair." His swollen, purple and misshapen (even more than usual) face was the best (and only) Christmas present I've ever gotten from him.

91

Look, let's admit it: all of us would rather be arguing politics at the bar. MADD closed the bars, so we come and poke each other here. In TV-land, the culture has devolved to where we watch other people do our drunken name-calling for us. Enough porno leaves one impotent. Have to be nice all day? Come home and watch Simon Cowell snark some teenager to tears. I blame Carson.

Of course he'd get his lights punched out if he behaved like that in public. But he's not in public, and he never will be. Apparently, American politics was just so dull and even-handed in the days of Ike and Adlai that the succeeding generations have a need to see their notions and moods acted out in this kind of kabuki karaoke. Hit the mute, put your warpaint on, and scream along.

It bothers me on Fox, too. Fair and...unbalanced.  

92

Lawrence O'Donnell, PUNKED by fact and reason.

The people at this network actually believe that whoever spouts the most hate and flings the most spittle wins the argument.

That's why they call it PMSNBC.

93

I like the title 'MSLSD'.

Fits.

94

OMG, Uncle Larry was hot out of a cannon!! HEHE I love how he resorted to calling out Thiesson on his privilidged upbringing...typical Salynsky handbook stuff.

 

 

95 My sentiments are expressed well here about Odumbnell and Douchebag Donny (God is he an idiot) who made his money because he connects with the lowest common denominator of the American consumer.

BUT WTF is Theissen doing going on a show like this with these interviewers? I can see going one on one (and a third), with Scarborough and (Mika), but you can't let them talk like that to you. Have some dignity, Man! You are not going to sell any books to people watching this show. This is where Republican preppies fail. I was going to buy this book but not now. This guy is probably interesting but I'm not going to fuel his media strategy.

And while we are on the subject of unearned privelege. Does Larry have anything to say about Mika and her background?

96 MSNBC serves a marginally useful purpose.  The rest of the ole skule media, and the current administration both look more objectively professional by comparison.  Professorial, even. (I know, thats a racist word, professorial) Contrasted with Olbermann, et al. ANY liberal talking head appears reasoned and thoughtful.  Thats no easy task. Think Howard Dean. "Republican Party...they  just don't believe in science anymore."  That is an exhibition of some serious Reason. I'm not saying he said it on MSNBC, I'm jus' sayin' the fact that he could say something like that anywhere, is because compared to any given moment on MSNBC, he could have said, "Republicans, any Conservatives really, are a degenerative DNA condition, that leads to end of life insanity, its a medical fact, I'm a doctor, and the death panels have a plan for dealing with that in our excellent Health Care Reform. We will use them to slow the melting glaciers, because Conservatives, and Republicans are so cold-blooded.(insert Howard Dean screech)"...and, see how reasonable that sounds?  Ok, maybe not the screech part.