Anyone frustrated? Disgusted? Angry? Well, you have nuthin’ on Lawrence O’Donnell. Today he said what many of us wish we could have said on National TV.
And Andrea fed him more ammunition.
And Buchanan? He’s the kid saying, "got that?", after his bully buddy walks away. With a bloody nose. Right, Pat.
Maybe Buchanan needed to get the last word in because he is still smarting from the beating O’Donnell gave to him last month when Buchanan insisted on eviscerating facts and misrepresenting history, just as quickly and cheaply as Cheney does. Lawrence was right there, to keep on the record just how incorrect and manipulative they both are. I believe the word is ‘liars’.
But Lawrence says it better than I ever could.
Wow. Just Wow.
Thanks Lawrence, what kind of cookies do you want sent to your office? Lifetime supply, no problem. I think you already have a copy of The Constitution.
Thanks, TPM, I looked all over the MSNBC site for this, should have known you would have it posted.
(Edited it-I posted the link in a hurry and added to it later, after I found last month’s link.)



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Cheney the Dick.
Dmac, thank you for posting this. I do hope that Lawrence finds some time to relax and decompress. I’m worried that he’ll have an aneurysm on national television. (and oh, the day he subbed for Ed, on the “Ed Show” on MSNBC, is the day I fell in love with himi)
Ahh, remember that day well. Felt like expecting to be given a beer and being handed a bottle of $100. champagne instead. *G*
Sorry I missed his live performance and can’t watch vids due to dial-up. If anyone runs across a transcript, pleeeeeeeeeze let me know.
O’Donnell is the one they need in the 10 PM slot….for now I’d settle for seeing him designated the “auto-sub” anything Ed, Keith and Rachel are not there.
Like Roger Clemens, Dick Cheney is a lying sack of shit.
Thank you for posting this clip. I had missed it…
Wonderful passion…
Once again Mr Lawrence”pit bull”O’Donnell,tells it like it is,Grrrrrrrrr!!!
Heres your transcript:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30686644
hey, pups!
lawrence certainly made me feel better today!
‘wacc-a-maw’, is that the same as ‘whack-a-mole’?
look up the phrase ‘eviscerate with nimble elegance’ and you see ‘lawrence o’donnell’…true. really. just wanted to use the words treacle and eviscerate together.
here’s his wiki–
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…..17;Donnell
here’s the transcript for the show i linked from april..he wins at whack-a-mole. against buckanan. pretty good.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30153028/
i’ll put today’s transcript here when they release it, if they release it it will be under special programming, on this page–
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3719710/
and on the msnbc blogs many are calling for him to have his own show. a few thank you letters might help him out.
edit–it just occurred to me, i spent quite a while earlier trying to find a ‘contact us’ thing on msnbc’s site…and i thought, next time jane or someone posts something about any of this i will just ’spotlight’ the post to msnbc through there….with a note….well, am going to do it with this one! so, send lawrence some love, and msnbc some feedback.
well, well, well, O Donnell used to strike me as far too centrist and DLC’ish – apparently I was either not paying close enough attention or he has had a come to justice moment – have really been enjoying his commentary of late.
thanks for the ‘tube dmac
yer welcome mah deahah…..and i sent letters through spotlight…hope they read them. mentioned brainiac lawrence and brainiac marcy would make a scary team. the ratings would go through the roof with those two fact-checkers. guests would actually have to know what they are talking about to keep up. the minah birds would’t last long!
said if they couldn’t get out of their contracts with the dancin’jo-jo’s in the morning, then put him on at 10pm. 10pm would be better anyway, that way people who want to be informed about what went on in politics that day, can be.
and i remember we had an o’donnell discussion once. think it was him, anyway..
dial up issues -
techno busboy suggested go ahead, click on the tube, but hit PAUSE immediately. Then, wait until the red progress bar has reached the end of the video before playing it. worked for me in the past allowing me to view them without stops/interruptions :D
Finally got around to checking in with wiki on that phrase (which I’ve never liked, for some visceral reason) ……applies to cheeeeeeeeney; not me.
O’Donnell on tweety w/buchanan right now
edit: and PTL! it’s two against buchanan today.
Thankee! I’ll give that a try.
Pat Pukecanan is awful!
I notice that Cheney is again using the “I know the truth and it’s documented in a place you can’t see, so trust me”.
He never provides the proof. Never. He only claims there is proof. What a liar.
yeah, me too..cuz it’s such an exercise in futility, but i was thinkin’ it after watching Lawrence play it with such skill, again, today.
and that dial-up trick cbl said, that works…i was on dial-up a long time…i would open the youtube in its own separate tab, pause it, let it build, then listen/watch…separate tab, that way i wasn’t tying up my screen the entire time.
It isn’t like cheeeeney didn’t have a chance to declassify any littl’ ol’ thing his heart desired for the last long endless misery of years……including the identity of a covert CIA agent. May his soul rot in whatever place such POS’s go after death.
Yes,O’Donnell was somewhat reserved but he has changed his approach.I like the confrontaional O’Donnell.It would be nice to see O’Donnell get his own show where he confronts the wingnutters directly in debate as “opposed” to “interview”.I suggest we let MSNBC know that you would support an O’Donnell show.On the other hand leave it to Pat Buchanan echoing Dick Cheney to make no sense: “US Taxpayers are gonna have to pay if GITMO detainees are brought to the US”.I guess the french is paying now to keep ‘em detainees at GITMO now.Just wow!(lol)
“Because I said so”.
Daddy Syndrome.
He uses a lot of definitive adverbs.
And ‘one rule for me, another for you-cuz i know better’….daddy….His speech was over 30 minutes, and slammed Obama about his length…Musta thought he was the ‘keynote’ speaker today.
Noone is mentioning how peeved he must have been to have to wait until the President was done…bet that soured him a little. and then probably had to do revisions as Obama’s speech went on…Woulda loved to have been in that Green Room..that would explain his off-beat rhythm today. cuz it was ’slung’ together. a man that ‘crafts’ his message like he does probably didn’t like that too much.
Going to listen to it again, and obama’s, and see if it’s pieced together. sounded disjointed but i thought it was because he was trying to get out so many messages at once. Now i’m thinking it’s because it was last minute changes. yep.
I used the ’spotlight’ function up above, at the end of the post. not to promote me, but to promote Lawrence with an embedded example of why he should have his own show.
He should, and Marcy should be his ‘ana marie cox’, except that Marcy is queen of the brainiacs when it comes to facts. hands down.
I wish more people “in the Village” would express outrage.
wtg O’Donnell.
Now that was a thing of beauty. Thanks, dmac.
Listened to Cheney’s speech “9/11,9/11.9/11,9/11″ wish I would have counted how many times he said “9/11″
the Bush administration failed miserably all the way around and their are buckets of blood in the streets of Iraq to prove it.
Thank you Lawrence you ripped right to the truth “has to lie from beginning to end”
Failed miserably. If Obama stands in the way of prosecutions and accountability we should throw him out on his ass in 2012
dmac -
Do you know if Rachel and cox are personal friends? That’s the only explanation at which I can arrive because cox sure adds a big zip zero nada nuttin’ to the quality of RM’s show.
yer welcome, loo….
make sure to watch the other link, it was during the ’should he or shouldn’t he speak at notre dame’ debate.
visceral.
One of the blogs has the actual number listed but I can’t remember which one now.
don’t know the story on that one.except that it provides time to go to the kitchen or the bathroom or to let the cats and dog in or out. sorry, ana fans, but i usually drift away when she is on. tried to watch her, no meat. and insight isn’t very deep or lengthy. short recap kinda logic. puzzle with 4 pieces kind of thing.
Dmac Thank you for reminding me about the Spotlight feature, I completely forgot about it. I sent this along to some of the producers over at MSNBC.
–Beard5 (wow, 2 posts in a thread that isn’t Late, Late Night, or Pull up a chair. Duuuude)
If you find it please link
Will go try to find….sorry, slow on dial-up. Don’t go away. *G*
woaaaahhhhh dewwwwwwwwwd, slllow dowwwwwwn, maaannn, not too faaaaaast. yer maakin’ a spiiiinnnnn.
you know what they said about that butterfly flappin’ its wings, right?
: )
(glad to see ya)
Per headline over at Josh’s place: 9/11 = 25X
Sorry, forgot to pick up the linky but it’s above the fold a few minutes ago.
” The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.
The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. While the butterfly does not cause the tornado, the flap of its wings is an essential part of the initial conditions resulting in a tornado.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
O’Course Pat thought that we should have supported the Nazis in WW2….so his threshold on accepting torture is pretty low. And given that he thought “Hitlers speeches worked” on him…wouldn’t he say that Cheney’s did?
BTW Dicky Poo says that we only water boarded three detainees. But there is actual evidence that more than that were water boarded. And we tortured children of 7 and 9 years of age. KSM’s two sons were given the ol’ Johnny “crush their testicle’s in a vise” Yoo’s “insects in a stress position box” technique in order to scare them into disclosing their fathers location. Of course the insects were not lethal…maybe something innocuous, like a destinged scorpion…or a caterpillar (which is highly allergic).
And where are these kids? One would think that they’d be out there on videos talking about their abuse. Al Qaida or the Taliban would see them a valuable commodity in that regard. But they are nowhere to be found. One wonders if what happened to them required them to be placed away in the “Tower of London”.
I knew it had to be over 20. Really like one of Chris Matthews comments about Cheney “when will he take his 19% approval rating and go home”
Heh…..Ed just ran a montage of cheeeeeeney’s 9/11’s and claims it was 24. Very effective.
Laura is on Ed right now.
yep, funny, now we’ll get into what the ‘ant can’t’ do. and the ‘ram can’t’ do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
rofl.
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/f…..55241.html
lyrics are pasted from lyricsfreak–don’t have time to fix the typos.
High Hopes
Writer(s): cahn/van heusen
Next time your found, with your chin on the ground
There a lot to be learned, so look around
Just what makes that little old ant
Think hell move that rubber tree plant
Anyone knows an ant, cant
Move a rubber tree plant
But hes got high hopes, hes got high hopes
Hes got high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your gettin low
stead of lettin go
Just remember that ant
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant
When troubles call, and your backs to the wall
There a lot to be learned, that wall could fall
Once there was a silly old ram
Thought hed punch a hole in a dam
No one could make that ram, scram
He kept buttin that dam
cause he had high hopes, he had high hopes
He had high apple pie, in the sky hopes
So any time your feelin bad
stead of feelin sad
Just remember that ram
Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam
All problems just a toy balloon
Theyll be bursted soon
Theyre just bound to go pop
Oops there goes another problem kerplop
===
Now that was a blast from the past. I liked that song when I was a kid. Now the tune is rattling around in my brain..yeech; still remember it after all these years. We had a large rubber plant in our living room, so the song was extra funny at the time.
yes, it’s an ‘ear worm’, but always leaves ‘castings’ to plant a seed.
oh, look, professor yoo’s been spotted in philadelphia already–one of his coworkers spotted the evidence-
http://www.examiner.com/x-8528…..m-castings
oh good, someone is helping him put his life to good use, oh wait, he already puts out ‘castings’ for a living, darn.
http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
hope they got him before the sun hit him. sunlight kills worms and vampires.
: )
Yes, but apparently Marcy is learning how to write dirty, so she might fit the bill.
Kinda scary when you think about it: a brainiac who writes dirty (by accident). And, she can provide a detailed time-line of events which would make ya puke and then scream with rage against *them*.
I’m glad there’s a great variety of people who entertain, inform and spark us to action.
yeah, i meant that marcy is more of a brainiac than ana. (i wouldn’t call ana one.)
and in my experience, a true brainiac can cover/defend any turf.
i have no doubt her steel balls can stand up to anyone’s package.
Isn’t that the dude who had a raging fit about Mormons when Mitt Romney was running for office? I think it was on McLaugh-in Group — absolute metaphysical certitude!
yep, lemme find the right clip, the one i just posted is the short one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related
with noonan and buchanan and the ever-creepy crowley.
couldn’t find a clip that is complete.
pop some popcorn, get a beverage and enter ‘lawrence o’donnell’ into the youtube search box and have a party!!
firedoglake’s youtube channel has some, too.