I'm Not a Socialist, But I Play One TV

Get Lawrence O’Donnell off the air, immediately. The man is a walking wax cliché of a tapioca New England liberal, a megalomaniacal blowhard who comes off just as ridiculously as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O’Reilly. MSNBC’s ad blasts make O’Donnell out to be a progressive Christ-like figure, imparting wisdom and prophesy to chronic chin-strokers across America. Does anyone actually enjoy watching this asshole?





RAWWwwwrr. Okay, Lawrence. You’re almost as loud as your commercials. Orly Taitz may be an idiot but allowing her to ramble would’ve been enough to make his point. It’s red meat for Fox’s Alternate Reality just as Beck’s autistic antics were for Keith Olbermann. As far as interrupting and imposing himself on his guests, O’Donnell fits right in with that right-wing triumvirate of idiocy. O’Donnell’s aggressively arrogant and combative tone just make him completely unlikable, even though his views are slightly more realistic than talk radio. Pundits like this are to blame for the obstinate and childish stalemate in Washington right now, and if MSNBC really wants to become the people’s network, they need to can O’Donnell and simpatico dumbass Ed Schultz. (Watch Lawrence lean forward and fall flat on his face.)

Unbelievably, Grover Norquist comes off as the sanest man in the room, while Lawrence foams at the mouth and very awkwardly reads a tweet someone sent him asking him to punch Norquist in the face. What a prick. Who are you crusading for other than yourself? Dylan Ratigan and Rachel Maddow (sometimes) are MSNBC’s only watchable/personable/reasonable hosts, bright spots of straightforwardness among a morass of self-righteous and whiny blowhards like Martin Bashir, Cenk Uygur, Chris Matthews (he needs medication), and Al Sharpton. Ratigan and Maddow stand above their peers because they’re willing to admit they’re wrong, something you’ll never see from Lawrence “I passed the biggest tax increase EVER in 1993” O’Donnell.