Media Bias
If there is a more objectionable person, posing as an unbiased member of the media, than Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC, I'll be a Deaniac if I know who it is.
Last night on "Scarborough Country" with guest host Pat Buchanan, I got my first, and with luck last, look and listen to O'Donnell. Also joining the discussion was Bob Zelnick, former ABC News Pentagon correspondent and presently the chairman of the Journalism Department at Boston University.
I have always liked Zelnick and considered him an honest broker of the truth in his years at ABC. I assumed it would be a fairly straightforward discussion about the final debate.
You can read the transcript by using the link above and scrolling down, so I won't bother with a blow by blow description. Instead here are some of O'Donnell's most absurd words for your perusal. Keep in mind that O'Donnell is billed as "MSNBC SR. POLITICAL ANALYST".
The following comments are regarding John Kerry's "Mary" answer Wednesday night.
Totally Unbiased Major Media Guy Lawrence O'Donnell:
"I don't think he crossed the line.
There's a Gallup poll that indicates that his win in the third debate was just about the same size as his win in the first debate, enormous win, 52-39. Now, that's who is judging the debate. It doesn't matter what we think.
.....that line did not seem to jar the public, who gave a huge win to Kerry in the polling on this debate."
In response to a question about Lynne Cheney's angry-mom comments:
"That's a 100 percent political reaction, 100 percent. She was sent out there to say that, and she did it. "
"Her response has no substance."
And then this incredible exchange:
BUCHANAN: She does not think her daughter's sexuality ought to be brought up by a presidential candidate in a national debate.
O'DONNELL: It wasn't brought up by a presidential candidate.
(CROSSTALK) .
O'DONNELL: It was brought up by Bob Schieffer.
A barefaced lie pure and simple.
And then O'Donnell crawls inside the brain of George W. Bush:
O'DONNELL: "It's pretty clear that this president has never had a conversation with any gay American anywhere on the question of, is this a choice? "
So for the President to have a valid opinion he first must have "a conversation with a gay on the question of is this a choice"? What a clueless twit.
Maureen Dowd of all people, says in today's New York Times:
"Mr. Kerry showed the bite in his overwhitened, overeager "I'm smarter than you but I'm trying not to show it" grin when he strategically dragged Dick Cheney's gay daughter back into the debate, a dead-wrong thing to do."
Irrefutable evidence that someone farther removed from reality than Miss Dowd actually exists.
Other than the absurdity of his words, the most striking thing about O'Donnell was his almost zombie like appearance and delivery. If he had been hypnotized and instructed to defend Kerry no matter the cost, he would not have looked differently. He hardly even reacted to Zelnick's comments (which were pitched almost perfectly in my opinion) but stuck to the line that essentially equaled "Kerry Good, Bush Bad".
And people wonder why Fox clobbers MSNBC every night.
